linux-kernel - Re: [guv 00/16] [RFC] percpu: Replace __get_cpu

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Message-ID: <00000140c06e3bb2-08a0bbe9-d7dd-4130-a65e-283f36ffb6f0-000000@email.amazonses.com>
Date:	Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:39:46 +0000
From:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, akpm@...uxfoundation.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [guv 00/16] [RFC] percpu: Replace __get_cpu_var uses throughout
 the kernel

On Tue, 27 Aug 2013, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Hi Christoph,
>
> On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 19:01:56 +0000 Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com> wrote:
> >
> > At the end of the patchset all uses of __get_cpu_var have been removed so the macro is removed too.
>
> However you get these to Linus, please do not do this last step until the
> following merge window.  I can pretty much guarantee that new usages will
> be added between the generation of the patch set and their integration.

Ok then lets hold this particular patch until 3.13.

> Its also helpful (to me, at least) if these can be routed via various
> subsystem trees to lower the number of conflicts ...

Ok will do.

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