Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Dec 2014 11:40:24 -0500 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: Final per cpu consistency patch for -next or late in 3.19 merge period |
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Hello, Christoph.
On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 12:31:22PM -0600, Christoph Lameter wrote: > This is the final patch to remove __get_cpu_var. I checked -next and there > are no remaining uses of __get_cpu_var. So either merge this to -next or > wait until 3.19 late. > > However, if we wait till 3.19 then I may have to do another pass if > people add more uses of __get_cpu_var and submit another patch. > > From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> > Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 16:09:54 -0500 > Subject: [PATCH] Remove __get_cpu_var and __raw_get_cpu_var macros > > No user is left in the kernel source tree. Therefore we can > drop the definitions. > > This is the final merge of the transition away from __get_cpu_var. > After this patch the kernel will not build if anyone uses __get_cpu_var.
Can you please update Documentation/local_ops.txt and comments which contain __get_cpu_var() and send the updated patch to Andrew?
Andrew, this is removal of the two deprecated per-cpu accessors. All the existing users are gone from the devel branches and thus from -mm. Can you please route this once Christoph posts an updated version?
Thanks.
-- tejun
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