linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] irq_work: unhide irq_work_queue

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Date:	Wed, 10 Feb 2016 18:10:15 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Lists linaro-kernel <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	"Gautham R. Shenoy" <ego@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	kernel-build-reports@...ts.linaro.org,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	"linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] irq_work: unhide irq_work_queue_on declaration on non-SMP

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 04:27:42PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> > +#else
> > +static inline bool irq_work_queue_on(struct irq_work *work, int cpu)
> > +{
> > +       return irq_work_queue(work);
> > +}
> >  #endif

> I was thinking about this too, but then cpufreq will be the only user of it.

> In any case can do it at any time later. :-)

Well, there's currently only two other users of irq_work_queue_on()
anyway so that's a third of the userbase and it does seem the obvious
way to support any other future users that want to scale down to !SMP
cases painlessly.

Reviwed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>

FWIW.

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