linux-kernel - Re: [powerpc changes] Re: x86/non-x86: percpu, node ids, apic ids x86.git fixup

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Date:	Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:39:26 -0600
From:	Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, anton@...ba.org,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
	Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@...abs.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [powerpc changes] Re: x86/non-x86: percpu, node ids, apic ids
	x86.git fixup

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:25:58PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net> wrote:
> 
> > > could you try the full patchset that Travis has just sent and which 
> > > i've put into x86.git, you can pull it from:
> > 
> > Looks ok for powerpc so far, I haven't gotten through all defconfigs 
> > yet but the first ones that failed before build now. pasemi_defconfig 
> > boots as well.
> 
> could the PowerPC maintainers please Ack the following patch (attached 
> below):
> 
>   Subject: POWERPC: use generic per cpu
>   From: travis@....com
> 
> so that we can push this fix upstream ASAP?

> Subject: POWERPC: use generic per cpu
> From: travis@....com
> 
> Powerpc has a way to determine the address of the per cpu area of the
> currently executing processor via the paca and the array of per cpu
> offsets is avoided by looking up the per cpu area from the remote
> paca's (copying x86_64).
> 
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>

Paul is at LCA, I'm not sure if he's reading email. Looks good to me so:

Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@...om.net>


-Olof
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