Re: [PATCH 0/4 v3] smp_call_function_many issues from review

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Mar 16 2011 - 14:14:13 EST


On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 10:55 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Milton Miller <miltonm@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Looking forward, I would suggest 1 and 2 are required for stable, 3 may
> > be suitable as it fixes races that otherwise requires cpumask copies
> > as in 75c1c91cb92806f960fcd6e53d2a0c21f343081c ([IA64] eliminate race
> > condition in smp_flush_tlb_mm). By contrast 4 is just comments except
> > for the %pS to %pf change.
>
> Ok, who should I expect to take this series from? I think the last
> batch came through Andrew. The kernel/smp.c file seems to be one of
> those "unclear maintenance rules" one. The git statistics for the last
> 12 months seem to be
>
> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:4/9=44%)
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:2/9=22%)
> Milton Miller <miltonm@xxxxxxx> (commit_signer:2/9=22%)
> Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> (commit_signer:2/9=22%)
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> (commit_signer:2/9=22%)
>
> according to get_maintainer.pl. Should I just take these directly?

I'm fine with that, if people want a maintainer I can volunteer, but as
Jens wrote most of it I'd prefer him to sign off on that ;-)
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