28 Mar
2015
28 Mar
'15
4:28 a.m.
On 27 March 2015 at 17:32, Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org wrote:
What's not clear to me is why that thing is allocated at all, AFAICT something like:
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct tvec_base, tvec_bases);
Should do the right thing and be much simpler.
Does this comment from timers.c answers your query ?
/* * This is for the boot CPU - we use compile-time * static initialisation because per-cpu memory isn't * ready yet and because the memory allocators are not * initialised either. */