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From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] voyager: fix up for moving the generic smp call func to pointers
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:59:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1233341963.3248.48.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090130185411.GA9984@elte.hu>

On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 19:54 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> James,
> 
> * James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
> 
> > commit e7986739a76cde5079da08809d8bbc6878387ae0
> > Author: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
> > Date:   Tue Dec 16 17:33:52 2008 -0800
> > 
> >     x86 smp: modify send_IPI_mask interface to accept cpumask_t pointers
> > 
> > Changed all the IPI ops to take pointers, but didn't update voyager,
> > which is now broken.  Make the changes in voyager as well.
> 
> Note: earlier this week i've rearchitectured the x86 subarchitecture and 
> APIC code - so there's a whole lot more to be done on the Voyager side 
> than just the cpumask conversion.

Not for 2.6.29 there isn't.

> The x86/Voyager subarch is not fully ported yet (i cleaned up its Kconfig 
> impact already) and hence it is disabled for the time being. It ought to 
> be relatively straightforward to port it to the new code - if you are 
> interested in doing that.
> 
> You can find the latest code in tip/master at:
> 
>    http://people.redhat.com/mingo/tip.git/README
> 
> it's tentatively aimed for v2.6.30.

Right, and I'll fix the rest for 2.6.30.  However, this patch is needed
now to get 2.6.29-rc3 to boot.

James



  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-30 18:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-30 18:35 [PATCH] voyager: fix up for moving the generic smp call func to pointers James Bottomley
2009-01-30 18:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-30 18:59   ` James Bottomley [this message]
2009-01-30 19:38     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-30 19:41       ` James Bottomley
2009-01-31 19:05         ` [PATCH] x86/Voyager: make it build and boot Ingo Molnar
2009-02-01 15:16           ` James Bottomley
2009-02-01 17:04             ` Ingo Molnar

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