On Wednesday 18 February 2009 22:34:32 Tejun Heo wrote:
> Impact: kill unused functions
> 
> percpu_alloc() and its friends never saw much action.  It was supposed
> to replace the cpu-mask unaware __alloc_percpu() but it never happened
> and in fact __percpu_alloc_mask() itself never really grew proper
> up/down handling interface either (no exported interface for
> populate/depopulate).
> 
> percpu allocation is about to go through major reimplementation and
> there's no reason to carry this unused interface around.  Replace it
> with __alloc_percpu() and free_percpu().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Nice patch.  FWIW, Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

(Oh, and your other mods were acked as well, for the record).

Thanks!
Rusty.