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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] Consolidate redundant register/stack access code
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 10:45:26 +0100
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, David Long <dave.long@linaro.org>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, "chengang@emindsoft.com.cn" <chengang@emindsoft.com.cn>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>, Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>, Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>, David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>, Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>, Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>, Rashmica Gupta <rashmicy@gmail.com>, Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>, Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>, Russell King <linux@arm.l>


* Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote:

> On Tue, 2016-02-09 at 00:38 -0500, David Long wrote:
> 
> > From: "David A. Long" <dave.long@linaro.org>
> >
> > Move duplicate and functionally equivalent code for accessing registers
> > and stack (CONFIG_HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API) from arch subdirs into
> > common kernel files.
> >
> > I'm sending this out again (with updated distribution list) because v2
> > just never got pulled in, even though I don't think there were any
> > outstanding issues.
> 
> A big cross arch patch like this would often get taken by Andrew Morton, but
> AFAICS you didn't CC him - so I just added him, perhaps he'll pick it up for
> us :D

The other problem is that the second patch is commingling changes to 6 separate 
architectures:

 16 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 343 deletions(-)

that should probably be 6 separate patches. Easier to review, easier to bisect to, 
easier to revert, etc.

Thanks,

	Ingo