linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: UV fix uv_flush_send_and

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Message-ID: <20090130152448.GE27549@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:24:48 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Cliff Wickman <cpw@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: UV fix uv_flush_send_and_wait


* Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Cliff Wickman <cpw@....com> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Cliff Wickman <cpw@....com>
> >>
> >> uv_flush_send_and_wait() should return a pointer if the broadcast
> >> remote tlb shootdown requests fail. That causes the conventional IPI
> >> method of shootdown to be used.
> >>
> >> Diffed against 2.6.29-rc2
> >>   (Ingo's tree)
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@....com>
> >> ---
> >>  arch/x86/kernel/tlb_uv.c |    2 +-
> >>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > Applied to tip/x86/urgnet, thanks Cliff!
> 
> Ingo, this patch shouldn't go into x86/urgent.  This patch is to fix a 
> bug introduced by a patch in the percpu branch and not applicable to 
> x86/urgent.

ah, indeed, the UV cleanup you did. Please pick up this fix then too into 
your tree - the two should go together. I dropped it from x86/urgent.

	Ingo
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