linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Generic entry for ARM

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Message-ID: <87ecz2zelf.ffs@tglx>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 12:13:32 +0100
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>, Russell King
 <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, Arnd Bergmann
 <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "Paul E.
 McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Generic entry for ARM

On Fri, Feb 28 2025 at 13:49, Linus Walleij wrote:
> please consider pulling the following git branch for generic entry,
> see below.
>
> This branch was just harvested from my own v5 patch series on
> lore with b4 am -t 20250225-arm-generic-entry-v5-0-2f02313653e5@...aro.org
> then git am on top of v6.14-rc1, so you can do the same if you
> prefer.
>
> It's possible to squash patches, even all of them into one
> big all-or-nothing patch, given the not very gradual nature generic
> entry conversion seems to have.
>
> Main upsides and downsides are in the signed tag.
>
> I don't know who the most important stakeholders are, but I guess
> the context tracker maintainer (Paul McKenney) and the people working
> on generic entry (tglx) could have a say on how important this is, or isn't.
>
> I think it's pretty neat.

It's valuable to consolidate these common functionalities across
architectures as it reduces maintainence costs.

I read through the patches and did not find anything offending there.

Thanks for doing that!

Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>