On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 06:10:46PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> 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>
Queued for 3.12 with Josh's Reviewed-by. Thank you both!
Thanx, Paul
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