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Date:	Mon, 3 Aug 2009 08:16:08 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] x86: Add 'percpu_read_stable()' interface for
	cacheable accesses


* H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>> * Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>>> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>>> Tejun Heo wrote:
>>>>> Ingo, these patches might as well go through x86 tree.  If you think
>>>>> that would be better, please let me know.
>>>>>
>>>> Makes sense to me.  I'll pull them into x86/percpu.
>>> Cool, dropping from my tree then.
>>
>> We can delegate the contents of x86/percpu to you (the topic branch  
>> contains no patches over mainline right now) - i.e. we can pull those 
>> bits from you and they could also be in your tree to keep your testing 
>> & integration consistent.
>>
>
> I just pushed out these branches into tip:x86/percpu.

Thanks! (I'll test it and push it out into -tip:master.)

> [...]  We can zap those if there is a tree head you'd rather use.

It's fine this way i think.

Tejun: in the future you might want to offer up new x86-only bits 
based on tip:x86/percpu as git pulls.

	Ingo
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