Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] kernel/cpu.c: eliminate some indirection | Date | Tue, 29 Sep 2015 07:14:49 +0930 |
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Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> writes: > On Sun, Sep 27 2015, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote: > >> But to be clear, it has outlived its usefulness, but it was not useless. >> >> In particular, there used to be a debug config where 'struct cpumask' >> wasn't defined, so we could catch people declaring 'struct cpumask' on >> the stack (or passing by value). >> >> There was a plan to remove CONFIG_NR_CPUS (ie. having no compile-time >> cpu limit), but it seemed overkill and was abandoned. But avoiding >> 'struct cpumask' (not struct cpumask *) in the core wherever possible >> was a step towards it. >> >> Hope that clarifies, > > It does, thanks! Should some of that be edited into one of the > changelogs?
Well, you could describe it as "now-useless", since it looks like you've got another rev coming anyway?
Cheers, Rusty.
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