linux-kernel - Re: [git-pull -tip] x86: cleanup patches

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Date:	Sat, 14 Mar 2009 23:32:00 +0530
From:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [git-pull -tip] x86: cleanup patches

On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 18:03 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> > The following changes since commit 4cca0345b9c1ee3573bcd0ea5feb3b44caa7930c:
> >   Ingo Molnar (1):
> >         Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace'
> > 
> > are available in the git repository at:
> > 
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaswinder/linux-2.6-tiptop.git master
> > 
> > Jaswinder Singh Rajput (9):
> >       x86: cpu/intel.c cleanup
> >       x86: i8237.c cleanup
> >       x86: topology.c cleanup
> >       x86: kdebugfs.c cleanup
> >       x86: i8253 cleanup
> >       x86: pci-nommu.c cleanup
> >       x86: io_delay.c cleanup
> >       x86: rtc.c cleanup
> >       x86: trampoline.c cleanup
> > 
> >  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c  |  186 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> >  arch/x86/kernel/i8237.c      |    5 +-
> >  arch/x86/kernel/i8253.c      |   25 +++---
> >  arch/x86/kernel/io_delay.c   |    6 +-
> >  arch/x86/kernel/kdebugfs.c   |   35 +++++---
> >  arch/x86/kernel/pci-nommu.c  |   29 ++++--
> >  arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c        |   22 +++--
> >  arch/x86/kernel/topology.c   |   10 ++-
> >  arch/x86/kernel/trampoline.c |    3 +-
> >  9 files changed, 175 insertions(+), 146 deletions(-)
> 
> Hm, most of these files need deeper cleanups than just surface 
> polishing. Are you willing to do those cleanups if someone goes 
> through those files and comes up with a few suggestions?
> 

OK.

> Which reminds me, i suggested a few structural and code flow 
> cleanups wrt. smp_read_mpc() in the past and those didnt seem to 
> have happened either. See the attached mail below - most of the 
> code flow suggetions i made in it went unaddressed AFAICS.
> 

I have almost completed what you suggested me only few things was left
and as I remembered I also prepared the final patches but I do not have
any multiple processor machines to test it, and then I was busy in
another threads like headers-check, perf-counters, cpu_debug.

I will again search those patches and send to you for final testing.

Thanks for reminding :-)

--
JSR

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