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Subject: Re: [PATCH] voyager: fix up for moving the generic smp call func
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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 19:54 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> James,
> 
> * James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
> 
> > commit e7986739a76cde5079da08809d8bbc6878387ae0
> > Author: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
> > Date:   Tue Dec 16 17:33:52 2008 -0800
> > 
> >     x86 smp: modify send_IPI_mask interface to accept cpumask_t pointers
> > 
> > Changed all the IPI ops to take pointers, but didn't update voyager,
> > which is now broken.  Make the changes in voyager as well.
> 
> Note: earlier this week i've rearchitectured the x86 subarchitecture and 
> APIC code - so there's a whole lot more to be done on the Voyager side 
> than just the cpumask conversion.

Not for 2.6.29 there isn't.

> The x86/Voyager subarch is not fully ported yet (i cleaned up its Kconfig 
> impact already) and hence it is disabled for the time being. It ought to 
> be relatively straightforward to port it to the new code - if you are 
> interested in doing that.
> 
> You can find the latest code in tip/master at:
> 
>    http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README
> 
> it's tentatively aimed for v2.6.30.

Right, and I'll fix the rest for 2.6.30.  However, this patch is needed
now to get 2.6.29-rc3 to boot.

James