Re: [PATCH RFC V3 2/8] stop_machine: make stop_machine safe andefficient to call early

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Oct 12 2011 - 03:36:13 EST



* Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 10/10/2011 12:34 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 4 Oct 2011 12:18:03 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>> From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>> Make stop_machine() safe to call early in boot, before stop_machine()
> >>> has been set up, by simply calling the callback function directly if
> >>> there's only one CPU online.
> >> Not that you need this, since it's >90% Tejun's code now, but:
> >>
> >> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > hey, extra review is always useful.
> >
> > Jeremy, Tejun, what's the expected merge path of these changes?
>
> Andrew has already picked up the stop_machine patch, I think. But it's
> pretty settled now, so it shouldn't cause any problem if it gets via
> multiple paths.
>
> What about the jump-label stuff? Has that been going via tip.git in the
> past, or by some other path?

If it has Jason's and PeterZ's ack then it can go via any other tree
in this cycle - we are not carrying jump label patches right now.

But those acks are very much desired.

Thanks,

Ingo
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