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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:15:56 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: cpu_active vs pcrypt & padata
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:13:08 +0100
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> Also, wth is all this kernel/padata.c stuff? There's next to no useful
> comment in there and the only consumer seems to be pcrypt, does that
> really need to be in kernel/ ?

FWIW I wrote that stuff up when it went in...

	https://lwn.net/Articles/382257/

Might be helpful in case anybody else thinks they might want to use this
facility.  Maybe.

jon