Re: [PATCH v2] mm: expland documentation over __read_mostly

2020-05-06 Thread Luis Chamberlain
On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 12:19 PM Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > __read_mostly can easily be misused by folks, its not meant for > just read-only data. There are performance reasons for using it, but > we also don't provide any guidance about its use. Provide a bit more > guidance over it use. > >

[PATCH v2] mm: expland documentation over __read_mostly

2018-05-08 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
__read_mostly can easily be misused by folks, its not meant for just read-only data. There are performance reasons for using it, but we also don't provide any guidance about its use. Provide a bit more guidance over it use. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Luis R.

[PATCH v2] mm: expland documentation over __read_mostly

2018-05-08 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
__read_mostly can easily be misused by folks, its not meant for just read-only data. There are performance reasons for using it, but we also don't provide any guidance about its use. Provide a bit more guidance over it use. Acked-by: Christoph Lameter Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez ---