On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 03:30:34PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
> some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
> do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in
> commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
> is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
> with improper use of the various __init prefixes.
>
> After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
> the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone,
> we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.
>
> This removes all the drivers/rcu uses of the __cpuinit macros
> from all C files.
>
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589
>
> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Josh Triplett <j...@freedesktop.org>
> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipan...@in.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortma...@windriver.com>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org>
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