linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET percpu/for-3.17] percpu: clean up percpu accessor and operation definitions

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Message-ID: <20140617232202.GD8838@mtj.dyndns.org>
Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 2014 19:22:02 -0400
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	cl@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET percpu/for-3.17] percpu: clean up percpu accessor and
 operation definitions

Hello,

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 12:23:17PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Percpu accessor and operation definitions are very difficult to
> follow.  Things are scattered around different header files without
> specific reasons.  Definitions of different types are mixed and the
> ordering sometimes is conventional.  Different definitions use
> different styles and sometimes lack visual consistency for no good
> reason.
...
> This patchset is on top of
> 
>   linus master c31c24b8251f ("Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux")
> + [1] [PATCH RFC] percpu: add data dependency barrier in percpu accessors and operations

Omitted the data dependency barrier and applied the series to
percpu/for-3.17.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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