linux-kernel - Re: upcoming percpu changes

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Message-ID: <20100205072931.GD9320@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 5 Feb 2010 08:29:31 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	Linus <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Fr??d??ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Subject: Re: upcoming percpu changes


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

> Hello, Ingo.
> 
> On 02/05/2010 04:09 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Has the review feedback from Frederic and hpa been addressed? (and have they 
> > acked the solution?) That was the only controversial bit i remember.
> 
> Al Viro said that, until sparse is improved, the only solution would be to 
> work around in the rather ugly way as posted in the original patches.  As 
> Frederic and hpa preferred not having the workaround and there were only 
> three instances in the kernel tree, I just left them alone so sparse 
> warning will trigger spuriously on those three locations.
> 
> Thanks.

Ok, good!

	Ingo
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