linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] Reinstate irq alloc/dealloc locking patch

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Date:   Wed, 24 Aug 2016 18:46:06 +0100
From:   David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
To:     Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        <david.vrabel@...rix.com>, <jgross@...e.com>
CC:     <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/2] Reinstate irq alloc/dealloc locking
 patch

On 03/08/16 18:22, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> Original version of that patch (commit a89941816726) had to be reverted
> due to Xen allocating irqs in its cpu_up ops.
> 
> The first patch moves allocations into hotplug notifiers and the second
> one restores the original patch (with minor adjustments to new hotplug
> framework)
> 
> This originally went through tip tree but after a couple of failures
> reportedby kbuild robot (due to various combinations of CONFIG_SMP and
> CONFIG_XEN_PVH) I decided to take it through Xen tree (with config problems
> hopefully finally fixed).

Applied to for-linus-4.9, thanks.

David