Messages in this thread | | | From | Rusty Russell <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHSET x86/core/percpu] improve the first percpu chunk allocation | Date | Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:10:26 +1030 |
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On Wednesday 25 February 2009 07:46:59 Ingo Molnar wrote: > kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c: In function ‘graph_trace_close’: > kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c:836: error: implicit declaration of function ‘percpu_free’ > > that's free_percpu() now, right? > > Btw., why was this rename done? We generally standardize on > hierarchical names, going from the more general to the more > specific names, left to right.
Agreed, but we had both, doing identical things, and free_percpu outnumbered percpu_free by a significant factor (about 40 to 5 IIRC).
Simple pragmatism, and it matches alloc_percpu. Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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