2024年4月1日 19:40,Alan Huang <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 2024年4月1日 00:16,Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 7:10 PM Joel Fernandes <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Mar 28, 2024, at 1:20 PM, Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> From: Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]>
>>>> 
>>>> Prepare for arch-specific-defined rcu_preempt_depth_set().
>>>> 
>>>> No functionality change intended, but it has to be defined as a macro
>>>> as rcupdate.h is a very low level header included from areas that don't
>>>> even know about the task struct "current".
>>> 
>>> Sorry I did not follow changelog. If some rcupdate.h includers do not know
>>> about task_struct, how does adding a macro that uses current help?
>>> 
>> 
>> Hello
>> 
>> This is how macro works and it expands blindly based on tokens on the
>> usage-sites.
> 
> But ‘current’ still needs to be expanded at last, it seems to me that it only 
> affects 
> the including order of the header files?
> 
> Or what am I missing?

Get the missing part: if the user don’t need to use rcu_preempt_depth() 
and rcu_preempt_depth_set() but other parts of rcupdate.h, then the two
has to be defined as a macro to avoid including linux/sched.h.

Sorry for the bother.

> 
>> 
>> And rcu_preempt_depth() & rcu_preempt_depth_set() are not universally
>> used wrappers, the user can simply also include linux/sched.h to make
>> they work.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Lai



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