linux-kernel - Re: [patch 00/18] SMP: Boot and CPU hotplug refactoring

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Message-ID: <20120424184436.GA14929@phenom.dumpdata.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:44:36 -0400
From:	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Nikunj A Dadhania <nikunj@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/18] SMP: Boot and CPU hotplug refactoring - Part 1

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 04:18:04PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Srivatsa S. Bhat wrote:
> > > This first part moves the idle thread management for non-boot cpus
> > > into the core. fork_idle() is called in a workqueue as it is
> > > implemented in a few architectures already. This is necessary when not
> > > all cpus are brought up by the early boot code as otherwise we would
> > > take a ref on the user task VM of the thread which brings the cpu up
> > > via the sysfs interface.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > Do you have a git tree where you have made these patches available?
> > That would be pretty useful, so that we can build on whatever you have
> 
> Not yet, but I'll stick that into a tip/ branch.

Looking at the patch from the Xen side it looks OK. But would like to test
to make sure - is there a git branch I could pull to run this?
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