linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH percpu/for-3.18-consistent-ops] Revert "powerpc: Replace __get_cpu

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Date:	Thu, 28 Aug 2014 07:49:37 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-next@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH percpu/for-3.18-consistent-ops] Revert "powerpc: Replace
 __get_cpu_var uses"

Hi Christoph,

On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 10:56:27 -0500 (CDT) Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2014, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 
> > Chrisoph, let's route the updated patch through powerpc tree.
> 
> Ok. Once I figure out what went wrong. This went through Feng's build
> system and I though he did a powerpc build. So it must be a difference
> configuration on powerpc.

Were the patches tested on top of v3.17-rc1?  My build was a powerpc
ppc64_defconfig.  It is possible that some other change interacted with
this, but there are not many other arch/powerpc changes after v3.17-rc1
and none seem obvious.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au

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