Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755118AbaDNQU1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:20:27 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:47678 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754887AbaDNQUT (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:20:19 -0400 Message-ID: <534C0AB8.7050209@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 09:20:08 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Chen, Gong" , tony.luck@intel.com CC: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86, MCE: Cleanup macro __get_cpu_var References: <1397464777-25451-1-git-send-email-gong.chen@linux.intel.com> <1397464777-25451-2-git-send-email-gong.chen@linux.intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1397464777-25451-2-git-send-email-gong.chen@linux.intel.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/14/2014 01:39 AM, Chen, Gong wrote: > @@ -1287,14 +1287,14 @@ static unsigned long (*mce_adjust_timer)(unsigned long interval) = > > static int cmc_error_seen(void) > { > - unsigned long *v = &__get_cpu_var(mce_polled_error); > + unsigned long *v = this_cpu_ptr(&mce_polled_error); > > - return test_and_clear_bit(0, v); > + return this_cpu_xchg(*v, 0); > } > Here you produce a pointer and *then* passing it through a this_cpu_ function... this is actively wrong. It should simply be: return this_cpu_xchg(mce_polled_error, 0); -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/