linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 31/48] uv: Replace __get_cpu

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Date:	Wed, 5 Mar 2014 15:57:28 -0600 (CST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, akpm@...uxfoundation.org,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Hedi Berriche <hedi@....com>, Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
	Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 31/48] uv: Replace __get_cpu_var

The driver seems to use local64_t to define a single static instance of a
counter and then seems to think that it is safe to increment the counter
from multiple processors using local64_inc and friends. Common
misunderstanding and a reason why I wanted the this_cpu operations.

The counters seem to be exported via module parameters.. So I guess we
need to define these per cpu and then sum them up when they need to be
displayed.

Dimitri?

Maybe lets move this outside of this patchset.

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