linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] stop_machine enhancements and simplifications

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Date:	Tue, 8 Jul 2008 23:29:43 -0400
From:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
To:	Jason Baron <jbaron@...hat.com>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Max Krasnyansky <maxk@...lcomm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] stop_machine enhancements and simplifications

* Jason Baron (jbaron@...hat.com) wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 05:50:55PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> >    Here are the three stop_machine patches I've queued for the next merge
> > window.  The first two are pretty well tested via linux-next, the last is
> > recent but fairly straightforward.
> > 
> >    I'm assuming that Jason and/or Mathieu have need for the ALL_CPUS mod,
> > but it can be removed by the last of these patches (left in to reduce
> > transition breakage).
> 
> hi,
> 
> I added the 'ALL_CPUS' feature to support the architecture independent immediate 
> code that Mathieu wrote. So, if Mathieu needs it great, otherwise I have no 
> other code depending on it.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> -Jason 

Hi Rusty,

The immediate values implementation (the 'simple' version) uses this
patch. If we include your simplification, I'll have to modify the
immediate values patch a little bit so we deal with concurrent execution
of all the threads, as I pointed out in my earlier email.

Mathieu


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