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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/5] Introduce checks for preemptable code for this_cpu_read/write()
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On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:08:56 CDT, Christoph Lameter said:

> That is obviously a use case in which this_cpu_xx ops could not be used
> since we must stay on the same cpu.

Wow.  I don't think I've ever seen a single sentence scream quite so much
"totally broken API" in as few words.


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