Re: [PATCH 6/6] percpu: Add preemption checks to __this_cpu ops

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:25:37 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 
> But yes, the way its set-up an arch could indeed provide __this_cup_$op
> itself -- without providing the _$n variants; in which case the
> raw_cpu_$op provided by you is broken.
> 
> Can't we have a 'simple' coccinelle script rename the entire __this_cpu*
> implementation over to raw_cpu* and then provide generic __this_cpu* ->
> raw_cpu maps?
> 

Perhaps we should match the way spinlocks are.


this_cpu*() be the normal use.

raw_this_cpu() could perhaps not do the checks?

arch_this_cpu() be the architecture specific version of this_cpu*


-- Steve
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