Re: [PATCH v2 08/31] arm64: CPU support

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Mon Aug 20 2012 - 16:47:07 EST


On Monday 20 August 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/proc-syms.c
> ...
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cpuc_flush_kern_all);
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cpuc_flush_user_all);
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cpuc_flush_user_range);
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cpuc_coherent_kern_range);
> > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cpuc_flush_dcache_area);
> >
> > See comment on other email about putting function pointers in a struct
> > instead.
>
> There is no need to support multiple CPU architectures with different
> implementations, so allowing these functions to be called without
> indirection is better.

What is the __cpuc prefix about then? Could you just drop it?

Arnd
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