linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] x86: merge nmi

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Date:	Sun, 18 May 2008 21:08:11 +0300
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>,
	Tom Spink <tspink@...il.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] x86: merge nmi_32-64 to nmi.c

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 08:25:38AM +0100, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> Definitely, but we should do it at the Kconfig level which allows us
>> to have integer defines as well, so we end up with something like:
>>
>> static inline unsigned int get_nmi_count(int cpu)
>> {
>>       return CONFIG_X86_64 ? cpu_pda(cpu)->__nmi_count : nmi_count(cpu);
>> }
>>   
>
> Unfortunately that doesn't work because when CONFIG_X86_64 isn't defined  
> it doesn't expand to 0.  It would be nice if CONFIG_* expanded to 0/1,  
> but we'd need to change all the #ifdef CONFIG_* to #if CONFIG_*...

Even more important:
How do you want to handle kconfig variables set to "m"?

Expand them to 0.5 ?  ;-)

>    J

cu
Adrian

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