[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 08/12] IB/ehca: Replace get_paca()->paca_index by the more portable smp_processor_id()

Joachim Fenkes fenkes at de.ibm.com
Wed Sep 12 07:42:50 PDT 2007


On Tuesday 11 September 2007 16:51, Nathan Lynch wrote:

> > -				   get_paca()->paca_index, __FUNCTION__, \
> > +				   smp_processor_id(), __FUNCTION__, \
> 
> I think I see these macros used in preemptible code (e.g. ehca_probe),
> where smp_processor_id() will print a warning when
> CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y.  Probably better to use raw_smp_processor_id.

You're right, man. The processor id doesn't need to be preemption-safe in this
context, so that would be a bogus warning. Thanks for pointing this out. I'll
post a new version of this patch.

Joachim




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