Re: [PULL] cpumask offstack finalization

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Feb 10 2011 - 14:34:47 EST


On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hm, could we get rid of the obsolete percpu APIs once and for all? The fact that
> they are still around cause the leakage into new code to begin with.

Yes please.

And please don't expect it to be merged until the 39 merge window
unless this also fixes some serious bugs (I assume - without having
looked at the patch - that none of these are actually on-stack and
relevant for any thousand+ cpu machines?)

Linus
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