linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND][PATCH v2 0/9] x86: remove cpu_**

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1505191515500.4225@nanos>
Date:	Tue, 19 May 2015 15:17:57 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	Benoit Cousson <bcousson@...libre.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND][PATCH v2 0/9] x86: remove cpu_**_mask() functions

On Tue, 19 May 2015, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:

> Two functions defined in asm/smp.h: cpu_sibling_mask() and cpu_core_mask(),
> have the same functionality as macros defined in linux/topology.h:
> topology_thread_cpumask() and topology_core_cpumask() respectively.
> 
> They are not documented and are architecture specific. Also: different
> naming for the same functionality (in case of cpu_sibling_mask() and
> topology_thread_cpumask()) is a bit misleading.
> 
> This series makes all the callers switch to using the topology.h macros
> and removes their smp.h counterparts. While we're at it: rename
> topology_thread_cpumask() to topology_sibling_cpumask() to be
> consistent with the term used in the scheduler.
> 
> The same duplication exists on powerpc.
> 
> NOTE: patch 2/9 had been already submitted separately but didn't
> receive any attention, so I'm attaching it to this series.

As this touches the world and some more, I think it should go through
Andrews mm tree.

Andrew, can you please pick that up?

For the x86 parts: Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

Thanks,

	tglx
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