linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH/RFT] finish i386 and x86-64 sysdata conversion

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Date:	Tue, 07 Aug 2007 20:43:48 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@...ibm.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	riku.seppala@...p.net, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFT] finish i386 and x86-64 sysdata conversion

Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 03:49:11PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
>> I am sooooooo tired of this thing.  Andi, someone, can we for heaven's
>> sake please just get it all sorted out?
> 
> With regards to the sysdata conversion: Riku says he cannot test new
> kernel. I haven't heard anything from Andy Whitcroft. It passes all of
> my tests and what we have now is obviously broken... I think we should
> put the fix in.

Strongly agreed.  It overall fixes bugs that existing _before_ the 
sysdata stuff went in.

It was clear the NUMA node was /not initialized/ in all cases, and I 
think it's quite unfair to revert the sysdata stuff because of 
pre-existing bugs (that we are fixing right now anyway).

	Jeff



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