linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 04/33] drivers/base/cacheinfo.c: Export some cacheinfo functions for others to use

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1609081008250.5647@nanos>
Date:   Thu, 8 Sep 2016 10:21:34 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
cc:     "H. Peter Anvin" <h.peter.anvin@...el.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
        Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
        David Carrillo-Cisneros <davidcc@...gle.com>,
        Shaohua Li <shli@...com>,
        Ravi V Shankar <ravi.v.shankar@...el.com>,
        Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@...ux.intel.com>,
        Sai Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/33] drivers/base/cacheinfo.c: Export some cacheinfo
 functions for others to use

On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Fenghua Yu wrote:

> From: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>
> 
> We use ci_cpu_cacheinfo in CAT. Export this function for CAT to reuse.

So ci_cpu_cacheinfo is a function? AFAICT it's a struct.
 
> +#define ci_cacheinfo(cpu)       (&per_cpu(ci_cpu_cacheinfo, cpu))

Why a define and not an inline? &per_cpu should be per_cpu_ptr ....

And a define is not a function either and certainly that whole thing has
nothing to do with an export.

Furthermore $subject talks about some functions. I still have to see one.

It's an art to get a onliner patch screwed up in more than one way so
badly.

No bisquit!

	tglx