From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757075Ab1BJVSx (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:18:53 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:33346 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750917Ab1BJVSw (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:18:52 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:18:18 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Rusty Russell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, anton@samba.org, Mike Travis , Andrew Morton , Thomas Gleixner , Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PULL] cpumask offstack finalization Message-ID: <20110210211818.GA19463@elte.hu> References: <201102091608.59448.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> <20110210124416.GE26094@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -2.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-2.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 -2.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 4:44 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > Hm, could we get rid of the obsolete percpu APIs once and for all? The fact that > > they are still around cause the leakage into new code to begin with. > > Yes please. > > And please don't expect it to be merged until the 39 merge window unless this also > fixes some serious bugs (I assume - without having looked at the patch - that none > of these are actually on-stack and relevant for any thousand+ cpu machines?) Yeah, i considered it strictly .39 material. Thanks, Ingo