linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] Implement per-processor data areas for i386.

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Message-ID: <44F88510.1070603@goop.org>
Date:	Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:08:00 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@...puserve.com>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Implement per-processor data areas for i386.

Andi Kleen wrote:
>>> There unfortunately were still quite a lot of rejects because -mm* 
>>> is too different from mainline, but I fixed them all.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Thanks.  Were there more conflicts than entry.S?
>>     
>
> Yes ptrace-abi.h doesn't exist 

That's a bit of a surprise.  I've been working against -mm, so I hadn't 
noticed that it wasn't in mainline.  I had assumed the name was old and 
historical given how inaccurate it is.  I wonder what patch it's part of...

> and the ""s in the Subject of your last patch caused 
> quilt to freak out. I think there was one other too.
>
> I hope everything still works. At least one of my test machines 
> is currently completely unhappy on i386 with random hangs (even before 
> your patches), still bisecting it.
>   

Good luck.  The PDA/CPU startup stuff is all very touchy (I took your 
advice and had good success debugging it with simnow), but once you're 
past that it either works or it doesn't.

    J

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