Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Nov 2014 11:45:51 -0800 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 00/11] drivers: cacheinfo support |
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On Fri, Nov 07, 2014 at 07:40:51PM +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote: > > > On 07/11/14 19:23, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 10:26:05AM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote: > >>Hi Greg, > >> > >>On 20/10/14 19:49, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > >>>On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 07:46:19PM +0100, Sudeep Holla wrote: > >>>>Hi Greg, > >>>> > >>>>On 30/09/14 14:48, Sudeep Holla wrote: > >>>>>This series adds a generic cacheinfo support similar to topology. The > >>>>>implementation is based on x86 cacheinfo support. Currently x86, powerpc, > >>>>>ia64 and s390 have their own implementations. While adding similar support > >>>>>to ARM and ARM64, here is the attempt to make it generic quite similar to > >>>>>topology info support. It also adds the missing ABI documentation for > >>>>>the cacheinfo sysfs which is already being used. > >>>>> > >>>>>It moves all the existing different implementations on x86, ia64, powerpc > >>>>>and s390 to use the generic cacheinfo infrastructure introduced here. > >>>>>These changes on non-ARM platforms are only compile tested and tested on x86. > >>>>> > >>>>>This series also adds support for ARM and ARM64 architectures based on > >>>>>the generic support. > >>>>> > >>>>>The code can be fetched from: > >>>>> git://linux-arm.org/linux-skn cacheinfo > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>>I am hoping to target this for v3.19 if possible, it would be good if > >>>>you can review and provide feedback. > >>> > >>>3.18-rc1 just came out a few _hours_ ago, and now we can start worrying > >>>about what goes into 3.19. I have 1257 emails in my "to-review" queue > >>>for 3.19, please give me a chance to catch up in a few weeks to get to > >>>this code. > >>> > >> > >>I completely understand and I am sorry if that was a noise. > >>I just wanted to ensure it's not lost, thanks for letting me know it's > >>in your list. > > > >Do you want me to take this through my tree? If so, I will, otherwise, > >feel free to add: > > I have not got it tested on AMD, IA64 and PPC. Probably they were > waiting for the core driver to settle down. I have only tested on > ARM{32,64} and x86. Heiko Carstens tested on s390 long back some > previous version. > > If it fine with you, I would like to break the first 4 patches and > target it for v3.19, and take up the arch-specific patches (i.e.5-11) > after that, so that I can get them tested on all architectures. > > > > >Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > > >to the series. > > Thanks, I will rebase on v3.18-rc4 and repost first 4 patches on Monday > which you can take it through your tree *iff you agree with me* on above > flow.
I've just taken the first 4 patches in my tree now, no need to repost them. Let's see what breaks with them :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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