Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:32:47 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/8] percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to net | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:22:10 +0900
> Add __percpu sparse annotations to net. > > These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be > in a different address space and warn if accessed without going > through percpu accessors. This patch doesn't affect normal builds. > > The macro and type tricks around snmp stats make things a bit > interesting. DEFINE/DECLARE_SNMP_STAT() macros mark the target field > as __percpu and SNMP_UPD_PO_STATS() macro is updated accordingly. All > snmp_mib_*() users which used to cast the argument to (void **) are > updated to cast it to (void __percpu **). > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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