Re: [cpuops cmpxchg double V3 3/5] Generic support forthis_cpu_cmpxchg_double

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Feb 25 2011 - 15:58:13 EST


On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> I was thinking that if these are per_cpu then they would be global and
> thus constant. But those are done at link time, which is too late.

Well per_cpu data can also be dynamically allocated via alloc_percpu.
Which is the use case here.

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