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    Merge branch 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu · 0429fbc0
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull percpu consistent-ops changes from Tejun Heo:
     "Way back, before the current percpu allocator was implemented, static
      and dynamic percpu memory areas were allocated and handled separately
      and had their own accessors.  The distinction has been gone for many
      years now; however, the now duplicate two sets of accessors remained
      with the pointer based ones - this_cpu_*() - evolving various other
      operations over time.  During the process, we also accumulated other
      inconsistent operations.
    
      This pull request contains Christoph's patches to clean up the
      duplicate accessor situation.  __get_cpu_var() uses are replaced with
      with this_cpu_ptr() and __this_cpu_ptr() with raw_cpu_ptr().
    
      Unfortunately, the former sometimes is tricky thanks to C being a bit
      messy with the distinction between lvalues and pointers, which led to
      a rather ugly solution for cpumask_var_t involving the introduction of
      this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr().
    
      This converts most of the uses but not all.  Christoph will follow up
      with the remaining conversions in this merge window and hopefully
      remove the obsolete accessors"
    
    * 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (38 commits)
      irqchip: Properly fetch the per cpu offset
      percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t -fix
      ia64: sn_nodepda cannot be assigned to after this_cpu conversion. Use __this_cpu_write.
      percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t
      Revert "powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses"
      percpu: Remove __this_cpu_ptr
      clocksource: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr
      sparc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
      avr32: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_write
      blackfin: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
      tile: Use this_cpu_ptr() for hardware counters
      tile: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
      powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
      alpha: Replace __get_cpu_var
      ia64: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
      s390: cio driver &__get_cpu_var replacements
      s390: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
      mips: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
      MIPS: Replace __get_cpu_var uses in FPU emulator.
      arm: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr
      ...
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