linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -next-20080709] fixup stop

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Message-Id: <200807111643.30233.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:43:29 +1000
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Milton Miller <miltonm@....com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-next@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next-20080709] fixup stop_machine use cpu mask vs ftrace

On Friday 11 July 2008 07:07:57 Milton Miller wrote:
> Hi Rusty, Ingo.
>
> Rusty's patch [PATCH 3/3] stop_machine: use cpu mask rather than magic
> numbers didn't find kernel/trace/ftrace.c in -next, causing an immediate
> almost NULL pointer dereference in ftrace_dynamic_init.

Yes, I'm switching the patches around, so it does the transition correctly. 
Introduces a new stop_machine() fn with the new interface and deprecates the 
old stop_machine_run().  We can remove stop_machine_run() after everyone is 
switched.

Thanks,
Rusty.
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