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We can therefore check that >>>>>> state when switching to the new task, instead of using a separate >>>>>> TIF flag. >>>>>> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky >>>>>> --- >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Looks ok to me, but I hope we get some confirmation from x86 / xen >>>>> folks. >>>> >>>> >>>> I know tglx has shouted at me in the past for precisely this reminder, >>>> but you know you can test Xen guests under QEMU/KVM now and don't need >>>> to actually run Xen? Has this been boot tested? >>> >>> And after that, boot-testing sparc as well? :D >> >> Also not that hard in QEMU, I believe. Although I do have some SPARC >> boxes in the shed... > > Please have people test kernel changes on SPARC on real hardware. QEMU does not > emulate sun4v, for example, and therefore testing in QEMU does not cover all > of SPARC hardware. > > There are plenty of people on the debian-sparc, gentoo-sparc and sparclinux > LKML mailing lists that can test kernel patches for SPARC. If SPARC-relevant > changes need to be tested, please ask there and don't bury such things in a > deeply nested thread in a discussion which doesn't even have SPARC in the > mail subject. Hi Adrian, out of curiosity, do people monitor sparclinux@ for changes to actively offer testing when required -- like would it be sufficient to CC relevant maintainers+list (like done here) and raise in the cover letter that some testing help would be appreciated? -- Cheers David / dhildenb