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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 4/5] printk: Have wake_up_klogd() use __this_cpu_write()
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> Note, just because something is always in a location that preemption is
> disabled, does not mean it should use the __this_cpu*() variants.

Why not? If preemption is disabled then the process cannot be migrated to
another processor. And thus doing the address calculations and operations
on variables step by step is okay.

> Because if things change, it may become a problem later on.

What things may change? Someone calls the function with preemption
enabled?


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