linux-kernel - Re: [patch 03/10] percpu: Make the asm-generic/percpu.h more "generic"

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711300915460.32253@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:17:20 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 03/10] percpu: Make the asm-generic/percpu.h more "generic"

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > This is a core change against Andrew's tree. It needs to go into mm 
> > and not into the x86 tree. It is no surprise that this does not apply 
> > cleanly to the x86 tree.
> 
> well since they affect the x86 tree quite heavily (and a dependent 
> patchset you sent is basically for x86 only), it looked quite plausible 
> to check how they fare.

Yes that can be done by downloading 2.6.24-rc3-mm2 and 
applying the patches on top of it. There are various earlier cleanup 
patches in mm that fix various core issues that make all of this possible.

It would be great if you could review the patches and test them.



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