linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] FRV: Fix the section attribute on UP DECLARE_PER

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Date:	Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:19:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
cc:	tj@...nel.org, mingo@...e.hu, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] FRV: Fix the section attribute on UP DECLARE_PER_CPU()

On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, David Howells wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hmm. Why not move it all above the '#include <asm/percpu.h>'?
> 
> There are circular dependencies between the x86 arch headers that both use
> this and are used to implement this, and it's a bit fragile.

Grr. Indeed it seems to be. Nasty. Header files seem to want that 
DECLARE_PER_CPU() thing without all the other baggage that is implied by 
including all of <linux/percpu.h>, so they just include <asm/percpu.h> 
directly instead.

What a mess.

So maybe we could move DEFINE_PER_CPU in there too? It's less than 
perfect, but at least we'd have things together rather than split in 
really odd ways.

		Linus
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