Re: [PATCH V2 5/6] cpuidle/powerpc: Backend-powerpc idle driver forpowernv and pseries.

From: Deepthi Dharwar
Date: Mon Aug 19 2013 - 00:44:21 EST


On 08/07/2013 05:11 AM, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-08-07 at 09:30 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 18:08 -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
>>> Here's another example. get_lppaca() will only build on book3s -- and
>>> yet we get requests for e500 code to use this file.
>>
>> Indeed, Besides there is already accessors afaik for lppaca that compile
>> to nothing on E (and if not they would be trivial to add).
>
> I don't see such an accessor, but if there were, what would happen when
> the caller goes on to dereference that nothing?
>
> There is an accessor for shared_proc specifically (in the spinlock code)
> -- not that it would be much help on booke to just compile away that
> check and always select one of the pseries state tables over the other.
>
> -Scott

Thanks a lot Scott and Ben for the review.
I have addressed the issues in V3 of this patch series which I have just
posted out.

Regards,
Deepthi


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