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

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Message-ID: <20080518073804.GB6948@cvg>
Date:	Sun, 18 May 2008 11:38:04 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>,
	Tom Spink <tspink@...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

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge - Sun, May 18, 2008 at 08:25:38AM +0100]
> 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_*...
>
>    J
>

I think I would prefer Maciej's advice then but with capital
letters (to easy distinguish them and point an attention) like

#ifdef CONFG_X86_64
#define CPU_64 1
#else
#define CPU_64 0
#endif

		- Cyrill -
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