linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/10] percpu: kill percpu

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:47:18 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	tglx@...utronix.de, x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	hpa@...or.com, jeremy@...p.org, cpw@....com, mingo@...e.hu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/10] percpu: kill percpu_alloc() and friends

On Wednesday 18 February 2009 22:34:32 Tejun Heo wrote:
> Impact: kill unused functions
> 
> percpu_alloc() and its friends never saw much action.  It was supposed
> to replace the cpu-mask unaware __alloc_percpu() but it never happened
> and in fact __percpu_alloc_mask() itself never really grew proper
> up/down handling interface either (no exported interface for
> populate/depopulate).
> 
> percpu allocation is about to go through major reimplementation and
> there's no reason to carry this unused interface around.  Replace it
> with __alloc_percpu() and free_percpu().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>

Nice patch.  FWIW, Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>

(Oh, and your other mods were acked as well, for the record).

Thanks!
Rusty.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/