linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] nohz: Convert tick dependency mask to atomic

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Date:	Thu, 31 Mar 2016 15:18:35 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] nohz: Convert tick dependency mask to atomic_t


* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 08:54:19AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Sounds good to me! I also volunteer the x86 architecture to be the guinea pig to 
> > convert thread_info::flags to atomic_t ;-) [*]
> 
> So I'm not sure we can do this one arch at a time; all the TIF
> manipulators live in include/linux/thread_info.h and are shared across
> all archs.

So my thinking was that we'd #ifdef the variants.

Thanks,

	Ingo