Re: [patch v4 1/2] stop_machine: enable __stop_machine() to be called from the cpu online path

Ingo Molnar
2011-06-14T08:09:36Z

* Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 13:49 -0700, Suresh Siddha wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 12:56 -0700, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > * Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > include/linux/stop_machine.h | 11 +++--
> > > > kernel/stop_machine.c | 91 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> > > > 2 files changed, 93 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > Btw., this is *way* too risky for a -stable backport.
> > >
> >
> > Ingo, we can have a smaller patch (appended) for the -stable. How do you
> > want to go ahead? Take this small patch for both mainline and -stable
> > and the two code cleanup/consolidation patches for -tip (to go into
> > 3.1?). Thanks.
>
> oops. sent it too soon. fixed a !CONFIG_SMP compilation issue.
> Updated simple patch appended.

See? It's by definition not a "simple" patch.

Thanks,

Ingo