One case of using __get_cpu_var in the get_cpu_var macro for address calculation. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter Index: linux/include/linux/percpu.h =================================================================== --- linux.orig/include/linux/percpu.h 2013-12-02 16:07:46.904713849 -0600 +++ linux/include/linux/percpu.h 2013-12-02 16:09:23.000000000 -0600 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ */ #define get_cpu_var(var) (*({ \ preempt_disable(); \ - &__get_cpu_var(var); })) + this_cpu_ptr(&var); })) /* * The weird & is necessary because sparse considers (void)(var) to be