Subject: Re: linux-next: current pending merge fix patches

From: Pekka Enberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:17:02 +0200

Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> 4) The slab[7] tree adds a percpu variable usage case (commit
> 9dfc6e68bfe6ee452efb1a4e9ca26a9007f2b864 "SLUB: Use this_cpu operations in
> slub"), but the percpu[8] tree removes the prefixing of percpu variables
> (commit dd17c8f72993f9461e9c19250e3f155d6d99df22 "percpu: remove per_cpu__
> prefix"), thus the fooling patch after mergeing these trees:
> 
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index 6e34309..9e86e6b 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -2071,7 +2071,7 @@ static inline int alloc_kmem_cache_cpus(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t flags)
>  		 * Boot time creation of the kmalloc array. Use static per cpu data
>  		 * since the per cpu allocator is not available yet.
>  		 */
> -		s->cpu_slab = per_cpu_var(kmalloc_percpu) + (s - kmalloc_caches);
> +		s->cpu_slab = kmalloc_percpu + (s - kmalloc_caches);
>  	else
>  		s->cpu_slab =  alloc_percpu(struct kmem_cache_cpu);

Thanks for the reminder Stephen! I'll add this to slab.git as soon as 
the per-cpu changes land into Linus' tree.

			Pekka