On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 07:44:01PM -0400, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Guenter Roeck
> <guenter.roeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 09:02:57AM -0400, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> >> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > * Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> >> >> +#endif
> >> >> +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> >> >> +#endif
> >> >
> >> > Hm, this tickles my uglo-meter. Is there no cleaner way, preferably one
> >> > that doesnt involve preprocessor directives?
> >>
> >> Implement cpu_sibling_mask() on UP so that the loop goes away?
> >
> > So what is the take ? Looks like Linus won't accept my patch without someone
> > else signing off on it. If the uglo-meter prevents it from being accepted,
> > I'll be happy to submit the SMP cleanup patch instead. As I mentioned
> > before, I would prefer that to go into -next.
>
> I'd _much_ rather see cpu_sibling_mask() on UP, and just have the loop go away.
>
> But that would be a generic change. Something like the (UNTESTED!)
Which is why I didn't do it...
> attached. It returns a NULL, since it would always be a bug to
> actually _use_ the (nonexistent) mask. And that's fine for things like
> for_each_cpu() that will then happily ignore the mask.
>
> Ingo, does this make those randconfig things work? I think it's
> prettier than the horrible "sprinkle #ifdef CONFIG_SMP around in
> random places".
>
> Linus
> include/linux/smp.h | 2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/smp.h b/include/linux/smp.h
> index cfa2d20..ad48077 100644
> --- a/include/linux/smp.h
> +++ b/include/linux/smp.h
> @@ -149,6 +149,8 @@ smp_call_function_any(const struct cpumask *mask, void (*func)(void *info),
> return smp_call_function_single(0, func, info, wait);
> }
>
> +static inline const struct cpumask *cpu_sibling_mask(int cpu) { return NULL; }
> +
> #endif /* !SMP */
>
That works. Every other use of cpu_sibling_mask() is either in smp code
or surrounded with #ifdef CONFIG_SMP.
Ok, I'll submit another version of the patch with the generic change after
some more testing.
Guenter
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