From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Kacur Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] BKL not necessary in cpuid_open Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 23:58:20 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: <20091007201338.GE5903@nowhere> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Frederic Weisbecker , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org, Clark Williams To: Thomas Gleixner Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-rt-users.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > Hmm, I'm discovering that in tip:rt/kill-the-bkl > > > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git;a=commitdiff;h=55968ede164ae523692f00717f50cd926f1382a0 > > > > Looks like we have overlaped. > > > > Thomas it would be nice to post these patches on LKML (or I missed > > them?) and may be to merge them into tip:master, so that they are > > visible and then we lower the risk of any duplicate works in this area. > > Now guess why I mentioned this branch sevaral times at the rt summit > last week. It's even documented in Jonathans excellent meeting > minutes on lwn.net :) > Well, the overlap is unfortunate but I did do a git diff with tip/core/kill-the-BKL BEFORE I posted. not sure what the difference is between tip/kill-the-BKL and tip/core/kill-the-BKL btw Also git describe 55968ede164ae523692f00717f50cd926f1382a0 v2.6.31-rc6-4-g55968ed Not sure what to make of that either, since my patch was against the latest linus updated this morning. Frederic: what was your method to discover that patch from Thomas?