Re: [PATCH v6 7/8] mm: only IPI CPUs to drain local pages if theyexist

[Michal Nazarewicz]

> 2012/1/9 Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > This is initialised in setup_per_cpu_pageset() so it needs to be file
> > scoped.

On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:43:21 +0100, Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes. The cpumask_var_t abstraction is convenient and all but it does
> make the allocation very non obvious when it does not happen in
> proximity to the variable use - it doesn't *look* like a pointer.

You can say that about any file scoped variable that needs non-const
initialisation, not only pointers.

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