Re: [PATCH 06/13] cpuset: cleanup cpuset[_can]_attach()

[Tejun Heo]

Hello, Rusty.

On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 03:12:15PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Hmmm?  cpumask_t can't be used for stack but other than that I don't
> > see how it would be deprecated completely.  Rusty, can you please
> > chime in?
> 
> The long-never-quite-complete-plan was for struct cpumask to be
> undefined when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y.  That means noone can declare
> them, or pass them on the stack, since they'll get a compiler error.
> 
> Now, there are some cases where it really is a reason to use a static
> bitmap, and 1/2 a K of wasted space be damned.  There's a
> deliberately-ugly way of doing that: declare a bitmap and use
> to_cpumask().  Of course, if we ever really want to remove NR_CPUS and
> make it completely generic, we have to kill all these too, but noone is
> serious about that.

So, I guess this currently is caught in a place which isn't here or
there.  I'm pretty skeptical whether it makes sense to bother about
static usages tho.  Can I keep them for static ones?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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