Messages in this thread | | | From | Rasmus Villemoes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] kernel/cpu.c: eliminate some indirection | Date | Mon, 28 Sep 2015 08:21:22 +0200 |
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On Sun, Sep 27 2015, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> But to be clear, it has outlived its usefulness, but it was not useless. > > In particular, there used to be a debug config where 'struct cpumask' > wasn't defined, so we could catch people declaring 'struct cpumask' on > the stack (or passing by value). > > There was a plan to remove CONFIG_NR_CPUS (ie. having no compile-time > cpu limit), but it seemed overkill and was abandoned. But avoiding > 'struct cpumask' (not struct cpumask *) in the core wherever possible > was a step towards it. > > Hope that clarifies,
It does, thanks! Should some of that be edited into one of the changelogs?
Rasmus
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