linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 07/16] x86: Remove custom apic->cpu_to_logical

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Date:	Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:12:34 +0100
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
	x86@...nel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com, yinghai@...nel.org,
	brgerst@...il.com, gorcunov@...il.com, penberg@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/16] x86: Remove custom apic->cpu_to_logical_apicid()
 implementations

Hello, Thomas.

On 12/09/2010 10:28 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> After the previous patch, apic->cpu_to_logical_apicid() is no longer
>> used.  The callback will be repurposed.  Remove all the custom
> 
> That's a very bad idea. You remove the callbacks from the esoteric
> platforms, but you keep the other implementation in the tree.
>
> It's not longer used now, so remove all incarnations and get rid of
> all those useless = NULL initializations at the same time. Then
> implement a new callback with a different name.

Yeah, that would be cleaner.  I wasn't very sure about clearing
unimplemented apic ops.  Currently the rule seems to be always setting
them to NULL and I didn't want to re-do that with a new callback.

> It's slightly more work and code churn, but it makes the change
> entirely clear. It'd be also nice to annotate in the function name
> that this is 32bit only or even make it 32bit dependent if it's not
> too much ifdeffery

Yeah, sure, if the silly NULL assignments aren't necessary, I don't
think it would be much more churn anyway.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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