Re: [PATCH 24/32] clocksource+irqchip: delete __cpuinit usage fromall related files

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Mon Jun 24 2013 - 15:56:39 EST


On Mon, 24 Jun 2013, Paul Gortmaker wrote:

> The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
> some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
> do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in
> commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
> is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
> with improper use of the various __init prefixes.
>
> After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
> the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone,
> we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.
>
> This removes all the drivers/clocksource and drivers/irqchip uses of
> the __cpuinit macros from all C files.
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589
>
> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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