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On Wed, 7 Apr 2010, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> Oh, sorry, I think it's actually '____cacheline_aligned_in_smp' (with four
> underscores) for per-cpu data. Confusing...

This does not particulary help to clarify the situation since we are
dealing with data that can either be allocated via the percpu allocator or
be statically present (kmalloc bootstrap situation).