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Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 10:46:26 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Vlad Zolotarov <vlad@scalemp.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
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        Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] x86: Define early read-mostly per-cpu macros
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* Vlad Zolotarov <vlad@scalemp.com> wrote:

> Some read-mostly per-cpu data may need to be declared or defined early,
> so it can be initialized and accessed before per_cpu areas are
> allocated.
> 
> Only the data that resides in the per_cpu areas should be read-mostly,
> as there is little benefit in optimizing cache lines on initialization.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Zolotarov <vlad@scalemp.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ido Yariv <ido@wizery.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalemp.com>

That's not a valid signoff chain. If you send me a patch then 
you should be the last SOB - but as the author you should be the 
first SOB as well. I edited the two SOBs to be Acked-by's.

Thanks,

	Ingo