From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=linutronix.de header.i=@linutronix.de header.b="rPEuIkBJ"; dkim=permerror (0-bit key) header.d=linutronix.de header.i=@linutronix.de header.b="k3lhqCWb" Received: from galois.linutronix.de (Galois.linutronix.de [IPv6:2a0a:51c0:0:12e:550::1]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BF5461724; Fri, 1 Dec 2023 00:53:16 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Gleixner DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020; t=1701420794; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=AsSuhopWvqk3I522fxQ6ooSX/rywsngW1wlaL3r7/7U=; b=rPEuIkBJ8+ySLg//CUXlWUdvWgl2gX9GyTR9vtkIwcxNKJI7DKlqMpvFlOEkC31c410v3N RtBVDpI/K6AnA+eWN5mwI2AFlv2FHP54pACmcrj77DstChyu704ex9o15EnIdhJOvxqxVS pjfj5G9UQjUiqVzyQWik+YmfX2xxEB8dl8M0qxkrZ4PQLniFTbsPeyCCik6wXwAq8jwi0W SyKHyeHvlDqWBTzuTSI5RF5MTYE2moAzq4SPm5J6znLxG8p4+tegHmvDJRVi69lqcgZJcC RyOzFLfC8u2r30n17ECgvuv2bywn9k6in+STOh4hMyUG+s26WrhFK8d4JpXu8g== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linutronix.de; s=2020e; t=1701420794; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=AsSuhopWvqk3I522fxQ6ooSX/rywsngW1wlaL3r7/7U=; b=k3lhqCWbYvJz0Bi9J6xDfIkYCKnBYBQV6tpu4jDjNakRVSGUK5S46foplXONrFPARA7GXL VrY+PwiLWS/RqKBQ== To: "Russell King (Oracle)" , linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, loongarch@lists.linux.dev, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, kvmarm@lists.linux.dev, x86@kernel.org, linux-csky@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Albert Ou , Borislav Petkov , Catalin Marinas , Dave Hansen , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Guo Ren , "H. Peter Anvin" , Huacai Chen , Ingo Molnar , James Morse , Jean-Philippe Brucker , jianyong.wu@arm.com, justin.he@arm.com, Len Brown , Palmer Dabbelt , Paul Walmsley , Peter Zijlstra , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Salil Mehta , Sudeep Holla , WANG Xuerui , Will Deacon Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/21] Initial cleanups for vCPU hotplug In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2023 09:53:13 +0100 Message-ID: <87y1eexq12.ffs@tglx> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain On Tue, Nov 21 2023 at 13:43, Russell King wrote: > The majority of the other patches come from the vCPU hotplug RFC v3 > series I posted earlier, rebased on Linus' current tip, but with some > new patches adding arch_cpu_is_hotpluggable() as the remaining > arch_register_cpu() functions only differ in the setting of the > hotpluggable member of the CPU device - so let's get generic code > doing that and provide a way for an architecture to specify whether a > CPU is hotpluggable. > > This patch series has been updated as best I can from the comments on > its previous 22-patch posting, but there are some things that I have > been unable to address (some of which go back to James' posting of > RFC v2 of the vcpu hotplug series) due to lack of co-operation from > either reviewers responding to my questions, or from the patch author > providing information. I have now come to the conclusion that this > information is never going to come, but there is still benefit to > moving forward with this patch set. I don't expect that anyone will > even bother to read this far down the email, so blah blah blah blah > blah blah blah blah blah. I bet no one reads this so I don't know why > I bother writing crud like this. You lost your bet. I always read cover letters completely because they tell a lot. There is correlation between the amount of blah and the quality of the series :) Thanks, tglx