Re: [PATCH 00/48] percpu: Consistent per cpu operations V4

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2014, Andrew Morton wrote:

> This series is structured as
>
> [patch 1]: make changes whcih trigger lots of runtime warnings
> [patch 2-n]: fix up those warnings
>
> yes?

Nope. The warning causing things are eliminated before the checks are
introduced. The first patch adds new functionality. The following patches
fix warnings that will otherwise spew over the logs and then we add the
checks.

> So we're proposing adding a 48-patch bisection hole in which scary
> warnings will be emitted.

That is not the case.

What could occur is that there could be kernel configurations which
trigger warnings that so far have not been tested.


> In linux-next arch/arm/mach-msm/timer.c gets moved to
> drivers/clocksource/qcom-timer.c, which I fixed up.  Apart from that it
> all still merges OK...

Great.

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