Message-Id: <20120215183204.7928884a.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:32:04 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@...gle.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>,
	Mike Travis <travis@....com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paul.mckenney@...aro.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] arch/ia64: remove references to cpu_*_map.

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:40:49 +1030 Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:02:40 -0800, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:23:34 +0530
> > "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > This patch ought to go along with the patchsets that do cleanups in other
> > > architectures as well.. And it looks like Rusty's patchset[1] is a superset of
> > > Venki's patchset[2].. So, Rusty, would you kindly take this patch into your
> > > patchset? (It should come before the 11/12 in your patchset. This should apply
> > > at that point easily, because I have modified it to suit your 11/12 which also
> > > touches ia64).
> > 
> > OK, I'm officially all confused.  I think I'll drop everything and wait
> > until it settles down.  Please, someone prepare a single patch series.
> > 
> > The cpumask-related patches whcih I'm currently holding are:
> > 
> > smp-introduce-a-generic-on_each_cpu_mask-function.patch
> > #arm-move-arm-over-to-generic-on_each_cpu_mask.patch: fold
> > arm-move-arm-over-to-generic-on_each_cpu_mask.patch
> > #tile-move-tile-to-use-generic-on_each_cpu_mask.patch: fold
> > tile-move-tile-to-use-generic-on_each_cpu_mask.patch
> > smp-add-func-to-ipi-cpus-based-on-parameter-func.patch
> > smp-add-func-to-ipi-cpus-based-on-parameter-func-fix.patch
> > smp-add-func-to-ipi-cpus-based-on-parameter-func-update.patch
> > smp-add-func-to-ipi-cpus-based-on-parameter-func-update-fix.patch
> > smp-add-func-to-ipi-cpus-based-on-parameter-func-v9.patch
> > smp-add-func-to-ipi-cpus-based-on-parameter-func-v9-fix.patch
> > slub-only-ipi-cpus-that-have-per-cpu-obj-to-flush.patch
> > fs-only-send-ipi-to-invalidate-lru-bh-when-needed.patch
> > mm-only-ipi-cpus-to-drain-local-pages-if-they-exist.patch
> > mm-only-ipi-cpus-to-drain-local-pages-if-they-exist-update.patch
> > mm-only-ipi-cpus-to-drain-local-pages-if-they-exist-v9.patch
> > #
> > arch-ia64-remove-references-to-cpu__map.patch
> > cpumask-avoid-mask-based-num_possible_cpus-and-num_online_cpus.patch
> > 
> > So I'm thinking the thing to do is to drop just the final two?
> 
> Keep them all, I'll rebase on top of linux-next, and send you a few
> patches.  I'm not going to break down by arch, that was just in the hope
> that the arch maintainers themselves would take them...

This stuff probably isn't all in linux-next yet.  I tried to get an
update going today but failed.  I'll try again tomorrow, but it depends
on how many additional oopses and build breakages our team of top-notch
engineers chooses to add overnight.
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