From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752376AbcG0Glx (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2016 02:41:53 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-f68.google.com ([74.125.82.68]:35076 "EHLO mail-wm0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751269AbcG0Glq (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2016 02:41:46 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 08:41:41 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Juergen Gross Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Changes for 4.8 Message-ID: <20160727064141.GA27733@gmail.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Juergen Gross wrote: > Hi Linus, > > please consider pulling a patch series for 4.8 from: > > https://github.com/jgross1/linux.git tags/for-linus-4-8 > > Unfortunately 2 of the 6 patches got no Acks as the maintainers didn't > react in spite of multiple pings and resends. The core modification in > the scheduler got an Ack from Peter and multiple tests showed no > regressions. > > As the series is touching multiple subsystems I couldn't find anyone > willing to take the series via his tree (I tried Ingo, Thomas, Peter). > > Juergen Gross (6): > xen: sync xen header > virt, sched: add generic vcpu pinning support > smp: add function to execute a function synchronously on a cpu > xen: add xen_pin_vcpu() to support calling functions on a > dedicated pcpu > dcdbas: make use of smp_call_on_cpu() > hwmon: use smp_call_on_cpu() for dell-smm i8k > > MAINTAINERS | 1 + > arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h | 4 ++ > arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c | 11 +++++ > arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 40 +++++++++++++++ > drivers/firmware/dcdbas.c | 51 +++++++++---------- > drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c | 36 ++++++++------ > include/linux/hypervisor.h | 17 +++++++ > include/linux/smp.h | 3 ++ > include/xen/interface/sched.h | 100 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- > kernel/smp.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++ > kernel/up.c | 18 +++++++ > 11 files changed, 273 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 include/linux/hypervisor.h Sorry, I didn't comment on this series because the concept seemed uncontroversial to me: you are trying to extend the virtualization interface to follow hardware constraints and fix bugs. PeterZ acked the most critical bits (smp.c) and most of the changes are on the virtualization side. So it's fine to me in principle, but I have not looked into finer details. Can take it into one of the -tip trees if Linus doesn't pull it for v4.8. Thanks, Ingo