linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix __percpu annotation in asm-generic

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Date:   Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:53:50 -0500
From:   Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>
To:     Christopher Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:     Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>,
        Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>,
        Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk>,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix __percpu annotation in asm-generic

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 03:55:19PM +0000, Christopher Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2019, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
> 
> > So, fix the declaration of the 'pcp' variable to its correct type:
> > the plain (non-percpu) pointer corresponding to its address.
> > Same for raw_cpu_generic_xchg(), raw_cpu_generic_cmpxchg() &
> > raw_cpu_generic_cmpxchg_double().
> 
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
> 
> Maybe a better fix is to come up with a typeof_strip_percu() or so
> macro for all the places where this needs to be done?

I like the idea of typeof_strip_percpu(). Luc do you mind spinning v2
with a macro for this instead?

Thanks,
Dennis