Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Aug 2013 10:44:06 +0200 | Subject | Re: [guv v2 20/31] powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote: > __get_cpu_var() is used for multiple purposes in the kernel source. One of them is > address calculation via the form &__get_cpu_var(x). This calculates the address for > the instance of the percpu variable of the current processor based on an offset. > > Others usage cases are for storing and retrieving data from the current processors percpu area.
use cases
> __get_cpu_var() always only does a address determination. However, store and retrieve operations
an address
> This patch converts __get_cpu_var into either and explicit address calculation using this_cpu_ptr()
an explicit
> 4. Retrieve the content of a percpu struct > > DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mystruct, y); > struct mystruct x = __get_cpu_var(y); > > Converts to > > memcpy(this_cpu_ptr(&y), x, sizeof(x));
Let's hope the actual code copies in the other direction ;-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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