Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86: __ref / __refdata cleanup

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>]

* Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> wrote:

> This series drops quite a few -- relatively speaking -- __ref /
> __refdata annotations in the x86 code. They used to be needed in
> __cpuinit times but those are long gone. Now those annotations may
> only serve as an additional error source, hiding legitimate section
> mismatches. So we better get rid of them.
> 
> Please apply.
> 
> 
> Mathias Krause (5):
>   x86, ACPI: Get rid of the acpi_map_cpu() wrapper
>   x86, apic: Drop bogus __refdata annotation of cpu notifier
>   x86, cpuid: Drop bogus __refdata annotation of cpu notifier
>   x86, smpboot: Drop bogus __ref annotation from remove_cpu_from_maps()
>   x86, topology: Drop bogus __ref annotations
> 
>  arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c           |    8 +-------
>  arch/x86/kernel/apic/x2apic_cluster.c |    2 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpuid.c               |    2 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c             |    2 +-
>  arch/x86/kernel/topology.c            |    4 ++--
>  5 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

Please send a single patch - there's absolutely zero reason to use 5 patches.

Thanks,

	Ingo