Re: [PATCH v4 7/7] x86/vdso: Move out the CPU number store

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Jun 25 2018 - 14:03:30 EST


On 06/25/18 08:40, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2018, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 11:02 AM Bae, Chang Seok
>> <chang.seok.bae@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Still setup_cpu_number() sucks.
>>>
>>> How about setup_cpu_and_node_number()?
>>
>> setup_fast_cpu_node_nr()? setup_cpunr_regs()? I don't have any
>> brilliant ideas. Thomas?
>
> It's really hard to find a good one. setup_cpu_node_cache() might work, but
> it's not brilliant either.
>

Since this applies to the getcpu(2) system call (in addition to the
kernel usage), perhaps setup_getcpu()?

-hpa