linux-kernel - Re: [thiscpuops upgrade 03/10] percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_add,sub,dec,inc

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Date:	Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:31:36 +0100
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Subject: Re: [thiscpuops upgrade 03/10] percpu: Generic support for this_cpu_add,sub,dec,inc_return

On 11/24/2010 12:51 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Introduce generic support for this_cpu_add_return etc.
> 
> The fallback is to realize these operations with __this_cpu_ops.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
> 
> ---
>  include/linux/percpu.h |   70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 70 insertions(+)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/percpu.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/percpu.h	2010-11-23 17:29:46.000000000 -0600
> +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/percpu.h	2010-11-23 17:31:14.000000000 -0600
> @@ -240,6 +240,20 @@ extern void __bad_size_call_parameter(vo
>  	pscr_ret__;							\
>  })
>  
> +#define __pcpu_size_call_return2(stem, variable, ...)			\
> +({	typeof(variable) pscr_ret__;					\
> +	__verify_pcpu_ptr(&(variable));					\
> +	switch(sizeof(variable)) {					\
> +	case 1: pscr_ret__ = stem##1(variable, __VA_ARGS__);break;	\
> +	case 2: pscr_ret__ = stem##2(variable, __VA_ARGS__);break;	\
> +	case 4: pscr_ret__ = stem##4(variable, __VA_ARGS__);break;	\
> +	case 8: pscr_ret__ = stem##8(variable, __VA_ARGS__);break;	\
> +	default:							\
> +		__bad_size_call_parameter();break;			\
> +	}								\
> +	pscr_ret__;							\
> +})

If we're gonna do __VA_ARGS__, can't we just replace
__pcpu_size_call_return()?  Other than that, looks good to me.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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