linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix smp generic helper voyager breakage

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Date:	Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:20:32 -0600
From:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <Jens.Axboe@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix smp generic helper voyager breakage

On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 10:35 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
> > Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:53:06 -0500
> > Subject: [VOYAGER] fix generic smp helpers non compile
> 
> hm, i reported a bug to you with this patch on Oct 30.
> 
> > commit 3d4422332711ef48ef0f132f1fcbfcbd56c7f3d1
> > Author: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
> > Date:   Thu Jun 26 11:21:34 2008 +0200
> > 
> >     Add generic helpers for arch IPI function calls
> > 
> > didn't wire up the voyager smp call function correctly, so do that
> > here.  Also make CONFIG_USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS a def_bool y again,
> > since we now use the generic helpers for every x86 architecture.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/Kconfig                    |    5 ++++-
> >  arch/x86/mach-voyager/voyager_smp.c |   16 ++++++++++++++--
> >  2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> no indication in the changelog whether that bug i reported got fixed - 
> did it? (i suspect it did, but not sure)

Yes ... that would be why this was a reply to the discussion email with
the report.

James


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