Re: [PATCHSET x86/core/percpu] improve the first percpu chunk allocation

[Rusty Russell]

On Wednesday 25 February 2009 07:46:59 Ingo Molnar wrote:
>  kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c: In function âgraph_trace_closeâ:
>  kernel/trace/trace_functions_graph.c:836: error: implicit declaration of function âpercpu_freeâ
> 
> 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.
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