Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Jan 2008 14:41:46 -0800 | From | Mike Travis <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/6] percpu: Per cpu code simplification fixup |
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Hi Andrew,
My automatic scripts accidentally sent this mail prematurely. Please hold off applying yet.
Thanks, Mike
travis@sgi.com wrote: > This patchset simplifies the code that arches need to maintain to support > per cpu functionality. Most of the code is moved into arch independent > code. Only a minimal set of definitions is kept for each arch. > > The patch also unifies the x86 arch so that there is only a single > asm-x86/percpu.h > > Based on: 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 > > Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> > Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> > --- > > fixup: > > - rebased from 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 to 2.6.24-rc8-mm1 > (removed changes that are in the git-x86.patch) > - added back in missing fold-percpu_modcopy pieces > > V3->V4: > - rebased patchset on 2.6.24-rc6-mm1 > (removes the percpu_modcopy changes that are already in.) > - change config ARCH_SETS_UP_PER_CPU_AREA to a global var > and use select HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA to specify. > > V2->V3: > - fix x86_64 non-SMP case > - change SHIFT_PTR to SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR > - fix various percpu_modcopy()'s to reference correct per_cpu_offset() > - s390 has a special way to determine the pointer to a per cpu area > > V1->V2: > - Add support for specifying attributes for per cpu declarations (preserves > IA64 model(small) attribute). > - Drop first patch that removes the model(small) attribute for IA64 > - Missing #endif in powerpc generic config / Wrong Kconfig > - Follow Randy's suggestions on how to do the Kconfig settings >
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