Re: [PATCH v2 9/9] net: batman-adv: use per_cpu_add helper

Shan Wei
2012-11-03T04:58:45Z

Sven Eckelmann said, at 2012/11/3 1:55:
> On Saturday 03 November 2012 00:02:06 Shan Wei wrote:
>> From: Shan Wei <davidshan-1Nz4purKYjRBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
>>
>> As Christoph Lameter said:
>>> In addition, following usage of per_cpu_ptr can be replaced by
>>> this_cpu_read.
>>>
>>> cpu=get_cpu()
>>> ....
>>> *per_cpu_ptr(p,cpu)
>>> ....
>>> ....
>>> put_cpu()
>>
>> Right.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan-1Nz4purKYjRBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
>> ---
>
> Is this really supposed to be the commit message?

Maybe it's ok when Linus said this. :-)

Christoph is the maintainer of per-cpu.
So........

PER-CPU MEMORY ALLOCATOR
M: Tejun Heo <tj-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
M: Christoph Lameter <cl-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
T: git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu.git
S: Maintained
F: include/linux/percpu*.h
F: mm/percpu*.c
F: arch/*/include/asm/percpu.h

>
> Kind regards,
> Sven
>