linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] percpu + mutex fixes

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Date:	Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:21:42 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
	Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] percpu + mutex fixes

On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 09:40:55PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:
> 
> > Now i understand the rush ...
> > 
> > Yes, moving the APIs to the generic header should properly expose 
> > the wrapped default implementations. I'll test your patch in a 
> > minute.
> 
> Alpha builds fine with your patch:
> 
>   LD      .tmp_vmlinux2
>   KSYM    .tmp_kallsyms2.S
>   AS      .tmp_kallsyms2.o
>   LD      vmlinux
>   SYSMAP  System.map
> 
> Linus,
> 
> If that patch is OK to you too, please pull the latest 
> core-fixes-for-linus git tree from:
> 
>    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git core-fixes-for-linus
> 
> it includes this fix and a pending mutex fixlet.

(Belated) ACK.  As for unification of that stuff, I'll gladly leave that
as SEP...
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