linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.1-rc9

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Message-ID: <20111018092030.4d55ccfc@de.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 18 Oct 2011 09:20:30 +0200
From:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Simon Kirby <sim@...tway.ca>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.1-rc9

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:48:33 -0700
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> wrote:

> On 10/17/2011 12:55 AM, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> > 
> > I introduced those macros to find all the places in the kernel operating
> > on a cputime value. The additional debug patch defined cputime_t as a
> > struct which contained a single u64. That way I got a compiler error
> > for every place I missed.
> > 
> 
> And was there a reason that that structure thingy didn't get merged?

Oh yes, it is fragile, hackish and ugly as hell.

-- 
blue skies,
   Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.

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