From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.8 V2 00/10] Use jump label for cpu/mmu_has_feature
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 15:22:01 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160725152201.03788ccb@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1469265163-1491-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 14:42:33 +0530
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Changes from V1:
> * Update "powerpc/mm: Convert early cpu/mmu feature check to use the
> new helpers" based on resend code changes in this area.
>
> We now do feature fixup early and hence we can reduce the usage of
> __cpu/__mmu_has_feature.
Is there a particular reason for for-4.8?
I've only just started following this development so it might be
obvious, but if you could add some small justifications for why
a patch or series is done, it would be of great help to me.
Thanks,
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-25 5:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-23 9:12 [PATCH for-4.8 V2 00/10] Use jump label for cpu/mmu_has_feature Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-07-23 9:12 ` [PATCH for-4.8 V2 01/10] powerpc/mm: Add __cpu/__mmu_has_feature Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-07-25 5:26 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-07-23 9:12 ` [PATCH for-4.8 V2 02/10] powerpc/mm: Convert early cpu/mmu feature check to use the new helpers Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-07-23 9:12 ` [PATCH for-4.8 V2 03/10] powerpc/mm/radix: Add radix_set_pte to use in early init Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-07-25 6:23 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-07-25 8:33 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-07-25 8:36 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-07-25 8:56 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-07-23 9:12 ` [PATCH for-4.8 V2 04/10] jump_label: make it possible for the archs to invoke jump_label_init() much earlier Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-07-23 9:12 ` [PATCH for-4.8 V2 05/10] powerpc: Call jump_label_init early Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-07-23 9:12 ` [PATCH for-4.8 V2 06/10] powerpc: kill mfvtb() Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-07-23 9:12 ` [PATCH for-4.8 V2 07/10] powerpc: move the cpu_has_feature to a separate file Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-07-23 9:12 ` [PATCH for-4.8 V2 08/10] powerpc: use the jump label for cpu_has_feature Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-07-25 6:28 ` Nicholas Piggin
2016-07-25 11:30 ` Kevin Hao
2016-07-23 9:12 ` [PATCH for-4.8 V2 09/10] powerpc: use jump label for mmu_has_feature Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-07-23 9:12 ` [PATCH for-4.8 V2 10/10] powerpc/mm: Catch the usage of cpu/mmu_has_feature before jump label init Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-07-25 5:22 ` Nicholas Piggin [this message]
2016-07-25 6:25 ` [PATCH for-4.8 V2 00/10] Use jump label for cpu/mmu_has_feature Aneesh Kumar K.V
2016-07-25 6:37 ` Nicholas Piggin
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