| From: |
| Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> |
| To: |
| Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> |
| Subject: |
| [RFC local_t removal V1 0/4] Remove local_t |
| Date: |
| Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:04:17 -0600 |
| Message-ID: |
| <20100105220417.400092933@quilx.com> |
| Cc: |
| Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
| Archive-link: |
| Article, Thread
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Current -next has only the trace subsystem left as a user of local_t
Tracing uses local_t for per cpu safe atomic operations in the form
of cmpxchg and additions. We already have a cmpxchg_local but no "local"
form of addition.
The patchset introduces a similar local primitive add_local() and then
uses cmpxchg_local() and add_local() to remove local_t use from the
trace subsystem.
The last patch removes local_t support from the kernel tree.
The support for add_local() is pretty basic. We can add more
fancy inc/dec variants and more optimization in the next
revision of the patchset.
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