On 3/19/15 7:55 PM, David Miller wrote:
I wonder why I coded it this way, maybe long ago in the past the caller didn't do this.
short answer: I know 2.6.39 does not need this, so it changed somewhere between 2.6.39 and 3.18.
From what I can tell you used the x86 perf code as the template for sparc. That was roughly 2009 or 2010. The x86 code has changed a lot over the years; the sparc code not so much.
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