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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Move llc_shared_map out of cpu_info
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On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 06:29:44PM -0500, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> cpu_info is already with per_cpu, We can take llc_shared_map out of cpu_info,
> and declare it as per_cpu variable directly.
> 
> So later referencing could be simple and directly instead of diving to find
> cpu_info at first.
> 
> Also could make smp_store_cpu_info() much simple to avoid to do save and restore trick.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>

Yep, it's only natural to do that.

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>

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