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author | Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> | 2013-06-19 14:53:51 -0400 |
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committer | Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> | 2013-07-14 19:36:59 -0400 |
commit | 0db0628d90125193280eabb501c94feaf48fa9ab (patch) | |
tree | 0e0ef0c4eac101d25a3bd125c4a9200ac4d294c0 /Documentation | |
parent | 49fb4c6290c70c418a5c25eee996d6b55ea132d6 (diff) | |
download | lwn-0db0628d90125193280eabb501c94feaf48fa9ab.tar.gz lwn-0db0628d90125193280eabb501c94feaf48fa9ab.zip |
kernel: delete __cpuinit usage from all core kernel files
The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.
After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.
This removes all the uses of the __cpuinit macros from C files in
the core kernel directories (kernel, init, lib, mm, and include)
that don't really have a specific maintainer.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt index edd4b4df3932..786dc82f98ce 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt @@ -267,8 +267,8 @@ Q: If i have some kernel code that needs to be aware of CPU arrival and A: This is what you would need in your kernel code to receive notifications. #include <linux/cpu.h> - static int __cpuinit foobar_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb, - unsigned long action, void *hcpu) + static int foobar_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb, + unsigned long action, void *hcpu) { unsigned int cpu = (unsigned long)hcpu; @@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ A: This is what you would need in your kernel code to receive notifications. return NOTIFY_OK; } - static struct notifier_block __cpuinitdata foobar_cpu_notifer = + static struct notifier_block foobar_cpu_notifer = { .notifier_call = foobar_cpu_callback, }; |