linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var

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Date:	Mon, 8 Sep 2014 17:21:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>
cc:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t
 -fix

On Mon, 8 Sep 2014, Mel Gorman wrote:

> A commit in linux-next was causing boot to fail and bisection identified
> the patch "percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_".
> The commit ID is worthless as it's a linux-next commit. One of the changes
> in that patch looks very suspicious. Reverting the full patch fixes boot
> as does this fixlet.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>

I assume that since this is ipi_mask_ptr that the boot hangs instead of 
doing anything else.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
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