(cc'ing Rusty, hi!)
Hello, Li.
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 06:20:11PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> On 2012/11/29 5:34, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > cpuset_can_attach() prepare global variables cpus_attach and
> > cpuset_attach_nodemask_{to|from} which are used by cpuset_attach().
> > There is no reason to prepare in cpuset_can_attach(). The same
> > information can be accessed from cpuset_attach().
> >
> > Move the prepartion logic from cpuset_can_attach() to cpuset_attach()
> > and make the global variables static ones inside cpuset_attach().
> >
> > While at it, convert cpus_attach to cpumask_t from cpumask_var_t.
> > There's no reason to mess with dynamic allocation on a static buffer.
> >
>
> But Rusty had been deprecating the use of cpumask_t. I don't know why
> the final deprecation hasn't been completed yet.
Hmmm? cpumask_t can't be used for stack but other than that I don't
see how it would be deprecated completely. Rusty, can you please
chime in?
Thanks.
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tejun
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