linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] percpu: Introduce PERCPU

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Message-ID: <0348bc63-d396-b261-9131-3dad51cac108@gentwo.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 09:42:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Christoph Lameter (Ampere)" <cl@...two.org>
To: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@...il.com>
cc: linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
    Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, 
    Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] percpu: Introduce PERCPU_PTR() macro

On Mon, 21 Oct 2024, Uros Bizjak wrote:

> Also remove common knowledge from SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR() comment,
> "weird cast" is just a standard way to inform sparse of a cast
> from the percpu address space to a generic address space.

Ok. Thanks for enlightening my ignorance after all these years.

Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>