[PATCH v2 08/31] arm64: CPU support

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Aug 21 05:50:51 EDT 2012


On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 09:47:07PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 20 August 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> > > > --- /dev/null
> > > > +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/proc-syms.c
> > ...
> > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cpuc_flush_kern_all);
> > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cpuc_flush_user_all);
> > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cpuc_flush_user_range);
> > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cpuc_coherent_kern_range);
> > > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cpuc_flush_dcache_area);
> > > 
> > > See comment on other email about putting function pointers in a struct
> > > instead.
> > 
> > There is no need to support multiple CPU architectures with different
> > implementations, so allowing these functions to be called without
> > indirection is better.
> 
> What is the __cpuc prefix about then? Could you just drop it?

It can be dropped indeed.

-- 
Catalin



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