On 15 April 2014 04:58, Frederic Weisbecker fweisbec@gmail.com wrote:
OTOH nohz_full_buf can have a big size and moving it to a local variable will result in big increase in kernel stack consumption.
Keeping it static is safer.
Also it's already __initdata so it's released after bootup. No issue of concurrent use either, so keeping it as is is fine.
Okay, this patch is dropped.