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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	JBeulich@novell.com, andi@firstfloor.org, mingo@elte.hu,
	hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	x86@kernel.org, ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru, rth@twiddle.net,
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	cooloney@kernel.org, starvik@axis.com, jesper.nilsson@axis.com,
	dhowells@redhat.com, ysato@users.sourceforge.jp,
	tony.luck@intel.com, takata@linux-m32r.org, geert@linux-m68k.org,
	monstr@monstr.eu, ralf@linux-mips.org, kyle@mcmartin.ca,
	paulus@samba.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com,
	heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, lethal@linux-sh.org,
	jdike@addtoit.com, chris@zankel.net, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
	jens.axboe@oracle.com, davej@redhat.com, jeremy@xensource.com,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] percpu: clean up percpu variable definitions
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:25:30 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A289E3A.30000@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1243919336.5308.32.camel@pasglop>

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 20:36 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>> Whether the volatile is actually needed or not, it's bad to have this
>>> kind of potential behavior changing nugget hidden in this seemingly
>>> inocuous change.  Especially if you're the poor soul who ends up
>>> having to debug it :-/
>> You're right.  Aieee... how do I feed volatile to the DEFINE macro.
>> I'll think of something.
> 
> Or better, work with the cris maintainer to figure out whether it's
> needed (it probably isn't) and have a pre-requisite patch that removes
> it before your series :-)

Yeap, that's worth giving a shot.

Mikael Starvik, can you please enlighten us why volatile is necessary
there?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-05  4:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-01  8:58 [GIT PATCH core/percpu] percpu: convert most archs to dynamic percpu, take#2 Tejun Heo
2009-06-01  8:58 ` [PATCH 1/7] percpu: use dynamic percpu allocator as the default percpu allocator Tejun Heo
2009-06-01  8:58 ` [PATCH 2/7] percpu: cleanup percpu array definitions Tejun Heo
2009-06-01  8:58 ` [PATCH 3/7] percpu: clean up percpu variable definitions Tejun Heo
2009-06-01  9:40   ` David Miller
2009-06-01 11:36     ` Tejun Heo
2009-06-02  5:08       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-05  4:25         ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2009-06-10 18:30     ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-06-01  8:58 ` [PATCH 4/7] percpu: enforce global definition Tejun Heo
2009-06-01  8:58 ` [PATCH 5/7] alpha: kill unnecessary __used attribute in PER_CPU_ATTRIBUTES Tejun Heo
2009-06-01  8:58 ` [PATCH 6/7] alpha: switch to dynamic percpu allocator Tejun Heo
2009-06-01  8:58 ` [PATCH 7/7] s390: " Tejun Heo
2009-06-01 16:10 ` [GIT PATCH core/percpu] percpu: convert most archs to dynamic percpu, take#2 Kyle McMartin
2009-06-01 19:51   ` Kyle McMartin
2009-06-05  4:24     ` Tejun Heo
2009-06-02  6:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-20  7:37 [PATCHSET core/percpu] percpu: convert most archs to dynamic percpu Tejun Heo
2009-05-20  7:37 ` [PATCH 3/7] percpu: clean up percpu variable definitions Tejun Heo
2009-05-20  9:17   ` Jens Axboe
2009-05-25  6:07   ` Rusty Russell
2009-05-25 16:07     ` Tejun Heo

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