From: Rusty Russell Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:19:47 +0000 (+1030) Subject: cpumask: remove dangerous CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR, &CPU_MASK_ALL.: x86 X-Git-Tag: v2.6.30-rc1~3^2~6^2~10^2~19 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=101aaca1f32d9923331ddc63a7a72b3a7f934c02;p=pandora-kernel.git cpumask: remove dangerous CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR, &CPU_MASK_ALL.: x86 Impact: cleanup (Thanks to Al Viro for reminding me of this, via Ingo) CPU_MASK_ALL is the (deprecated) "all bits set" cpumask, defined as so: #define CPU_MASK_ALL (cpumask_t) { { ... } } Taking the address of such a temporary is questionable at best, unfortunately 321a8e9d (cpumask: add CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR macro) added CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR: #define CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR (&CPU_MASK_ALL) Which formalizes this practice. One day gcc could bite us over this usage (though we seem to have gotten away with it so far). So replace everywhere which used &CPU_MASK_ALL or CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR with the modern "cpu_all_mask" (a real const struct cpumask *), and remove CPU_MASK_ALL_PTR altogether. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Reported-by: Al Viro Cc: Mike Travis --- Reading git-diff-tree failed