linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] drivers: base: move mutex lock out of add_memory

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Date:	Wed, 21 Aug 2013 11:50:51 -0700
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>,
	Nathan Fontenot <nfont@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Cody P Schafer <cody@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Wanpeng Li <liwanp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] drivers: base: move mutex lock out of
 add_memory_section()

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:24:45PM -0500, Seth Jennings wrote:
> Gah! Forgot the cover letter.

No worries, I barely read them anyway :)

> This patchset just seeks to clean up and refactor some things in
> memory.c for better understanding and possibly better performance due do
> a decrease in mutex acquisitions and refcount churn at boot time.  No
> functional change is intended by this set!

All looks good, thanks for breaking it up into reviewable patches.  Now
applied.

greg k-h
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