linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET x86:core/percpu] percpu: move PDA fields to percpu

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Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:43:43 +0900
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
CC:	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET x86:core/percpu] percpu: move PDA fields to percpu

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> 
>> * Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello, Ingo, Brian.
>>>
>>> Brian Gerst wrote:
>>>> Here are the remaining patches rebased on top of these.
>>> Ingo, here's git tree for kill-pda patches.
>>>
>>>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git tj-percpu
>>>
>>> I dropped early irq_stack_ptr relocation from 0004.  I'll post updated 
>>> patch as reply to the original patch.  If you think it's still 
>>> necessary, please feel free to discuss it.  I also added a patch to kill 
>>> PERCPU_VADDR_PREALLOC().  Will post the patch as a reply to 0005.
>> Pulled these commit into tip/core/percpu:
> 
> hm, actually - the stackprotector impact is getting quite nasty. So i 
> think we are better off by merging the stackprotector fixes into 
> core/percpu, and then rebasing these commits on top of that. I pushed out 
> a new core/percpu branch with that done - and stackprotector works in that 
> lineup.
> 
> Would you mind to redo these commits on top of that? I tried the conflict 
> resolution but it looks quite complex and non-obvious - it would be 
> cleaner to have it this way.

Sure, will rebase and repost.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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