linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86_64: Fold pda into per cpu area

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Message-ID: <20080215201640.GA6200@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:16:40 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	travis@....com
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86_64: Fold pda into per cpu area


* travis@....com <travis@....com> wrote:

>  include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h |    2 +
>  include/linux/percpu.h            |    9 ++++-

couldnt these two generic bits be done separately (perhaps a preparatory 
but otherwise NOP patch pushed upstream straight away) to make 
subsequent patches only touch x86 architecture files?

	Ingo
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