linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 7/8] mm: only IPI CPUs to drain local pages if they exist

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Date:	Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:48:56 +0100
From:	"Michal Nazarewicz" <mina86@...a86.com>
To:	"Gilad Ben-Yossef" <gilad@...yossef.com>
Cc:	"Christoph Lameter" <cl@...ux.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Chris Metcalf" <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	"Frederic Weisbecker" <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	"Russell King" <linux@....linux.org.uk>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...nel.org>,
	"Matt Mackall" <mpm@...enic.com>,
	"Sasha Levin" <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	"Rik van Riel" <riel@...hat.com>,
	"Andi Kleen" <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Alexander Viro" <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, "Avi Kivity" <avi@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 7/8] mm: only IPI CPUs to drain local pages if they
 exist

> 2012/1/9 Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@...a86.com>:
>> This is initialised in setup_per_cpu_pageset() so it needs to be file
>> scoped.

On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:43:21 +0100, Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com> wrote:
> Yes. The cpumask_var_t abstraction is convenient and all but it does
> make the allocation very non obvious when it does not happen in
> proximity to the variable use - it doesn't *look* like a pointer.

You can say that about any file scoped variable that needs non-const
initialisation, not only pointers.

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