Re: [PATCH] percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t -fix

From: David Rientjes
Date: Mon Sep 08 2014 - 20:21:48 EST


On Mon, 8 Sep 2014, Mel Gorman wrote:

> A commit in linux-next was causing boot to fail and bisection identified
> the patch "percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_".
> The commit ID is worthless as it's a linux-next commit. One of the changes
> in that patch looks very suspicious. Reverting the full patch fixes boot
> as does this fixlet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>

I assume that since this is ipi_mask_ptr that the boot hangs instead of
doing anything else.

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
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