netdev - Re: [PATCH] core: fix the use of this_cpu

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Message-ID: <1364484976.15753.45.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Thu, 28 Mar 2013 08:36:16 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	roy.qing.li@...il.com, Shan Wei <davidshan@...cent.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] core: fix the use of this_cpu_ptr

On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 14:38 +0000, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Mar 2013, Eric Dumazet wrote:

> 
> > Christoph, could this kind of error be detected by the compiler or
> > sparse ?
> 
> The per cpu variables are marked with __percpu. This should be detected by
> sparse.

make C=2 net/core/flow.o

  CHECK   net/core/flow.c

No warning.



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