Re: [patch v4 1/2] stop_machine: enable __stop_machine() to becalled from the cpu online path

[Ingo Molnar]

* Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 13:49 -0700, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 12:56 -0700, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > * Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > 
> > > >  include/linux/stop_machine.h |   11 +++--
> > > >  kernel/stop_machine.c        |   91 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> > > >  2 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > Btw., this is *way* too risky for a -stable backport.
> > > 
> > 
> > Ingo, we can have a smaller patch (appended) for the -stable. How do you
> > want to go ahead? Take this small patch for both mainline and -stable
> > and the two code cleanup/consolidation patches for -tip (to go into
> > 3.1?). Thanks.
> 
> oops. sent it too soon. fixed a !CONFIG_SMP compilation issue. 
> Updated simple patch appended.

See? It's by definition not a "simple" patch.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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