Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/8] cpumask: convert kernel time functions | Date | Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:59:52 +1030 |
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On Saturday 20 December 2008 02:31:47 Mike Travis wrote: > Impact: Reduce stack usage, use new cpumask API. > > Convert kernel/time functions to use struct cpumask *. > > Note the ugly bitmap declarations in tick-broadcast.c. These should > be cpumask_var_t, but there was no obvious initialization function to > put the alloc_cpumask_var() calls in. This was safe.
I still would like see those bitmaps turned into real cpumask_var_t. It should be easy for someone who knows the code well, or has time to spend making sure the initialization is early enough.
Cheers, Rusty.
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