- To: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] arch/ia64: remove references to cpu_*_map.
- From: Venki Pallipadi <venki@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:58:07 -0800
- Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@xxxxxxxxx>, linux-ia64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxx>, Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx>, "Paul E. McKenney" <paul.mckenney@xxxxxxxxxx>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx>, Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:02:40 -0800, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:23:34 +0530
>> "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > This patch ought to go along with the patchsets that do cleanups in other
>> > architectures as well.. And it looks like Rusty's patchset[1] is a superset of
>> > Venki's patchset[2].. So, Rusty, would you kindly take this patch into your
>> > patchset? (It should come before the 11/12 in your patchset. This should apply
>> > at that point easily, because I have modified it to suit your 11/12 which also
>> > touches ia64).
>>
>> OK, I'm officially all confused. I think I'll drop everything and wait
>> until it settles down. Please, someone prepare a single patch series.
>>
>> The cpumask-related patches whcih I'm currently holding are:
>>
>> smp-introduce-a-generic-on_each_cpu_mask-function.patch
>> #arm-move-arm-over-to-generic-on_each_cpu_mask.patch: fold
>> arm-move-arm-over-to-generic-on_each_cpu_mask.patch
>> #tile-move-tile-to-use-generic-on_each_cpu_mask.patch: fold
>> tile-move-tile-to-use-generic-on_each_cpu_mask.patch
>> smp-add-func-to-ipi-cpus-based-on-parameter-func.patch
>> smp-add-func-to-ipi-cpus-based-on-parameter-func-fix.patch
>> smp-add-func-to-ipi-cpus-based-on-parameter-func-update.patch
>> smp-add-func-to-ipi-cpus-based-on-parameter-func-update-fix.patch
>> smp-add-func-to-ipi-cpus-based-on-parameter-func-v9.patch
>> smp-add-func-to-ipi-cpus-based-on-parameter-func-v9-fix.patch
>> slub-only-ipi-cpus-that-have-per-cpu-obj-to-flush.patch
>> fs-only-send-ipi-to-invalidate-lru-bh-when-needed.patch
>> mm-only-ipi-cpus-to-drain-local-pages-if-they-exist.patch
>> mm-only-ipi-cpus-to-drain-local-pages-if-they-exist-update.patch
>> mm-only-ipi-cpus-to-drain-local-pages-if-they-exist-v9.patch
>> #
>> arch-ia64-remove-references-to-cpu__map.patch
>> cpumask-avoid-mask-based-num_possible_cpus-and-num_online_cpus.patch
>>
>> So I'm thinking the thing to do is to drop just the final two?
>
> Keep them all, I'll rebase on top of linux-next, and send you a few
> patches. I'm not going to break down by arch, that was just in the hope
> that the arch maintainers themselves would take them...
>
Rusty,
Can you include
cpumask-avoid-mask-based-num_possible_cpus-and-num_online_cpus.patch
from akpm's list as last patch in your series and with Andrew dropping
it. That will make sure things doesn't break in some intermediate
state.
Thanks,
Venki
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