From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758020AbXIGH3U (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Sep 2007 03:29:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757311AbXIGH3N (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Sep 2007 03:29:13 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:39886 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757089AbXIGH3M (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Sep 2007 03:29:12 -0400 From: Andi Kleen To: travis@sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] core: fix build error when referencing arch specific structures Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 08:28:05 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Andrew Morton , Christoph Lameter , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20070907040943.467530005@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20070907040943.467530005@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709070828.05730.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 07 September 2007 05:09, travis@sgi.com wrote: > Since the core kernel routines need to reference cpu_sibling_map, > whether it be a static array or a per_cpu data variable, an access > function has been defined. > > In addition, changes have been made to the ia64 and ppc64 arch's to > move the cpu_sibling_map from a static cpumask_t array [NR_CPUS] to > be per_cpu cpumask_t arrays. > > Note that I do not have the ability to build or test patch 3/3, the > ppc64 changes. > > Patches are referenced against 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 . It would be better if you could redo the patches with the original patches reverted, not incremental changes. In the end we'll need a full patch set with full changelog anyways, not a series of incremental fixes. Also I guess some powerpc testers would be needed. Perhaps cc the maintainers? -Andi