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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] percpu: add percpu_variable_ptr()
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:22:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C21E07E.40003@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C21DFDD.9030107@cn.fujitsu.com>

Hello,

On 06/23/2010 12:20 PM, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
>> Why not just use &name?
> 
> I remember the real variable name is hidden.
> We can't expose the inner details of percpu, so I add a macro for it.

Yeah, the whole point was unifying static and dynamic ones into the
same name / address space.  &name is now guaranteed to work, so no
need for indirection layer.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

      reply	other threads:[~2010-06-23 10:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-23 10:04 [PATCH 1/2] percpu: add percpu_variable_ptr() Lai Jiangshan
2010-06-23 10:07 ` Tejun Heo
2010-06-23 10:20   ` Lai Jiangshan
2010-06-23 10:22     ` Tejun Heo [this message]

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