From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756272Ab0BLNQq (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:16:46 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:54927 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755790Ab0BLNQp (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:16:45 -0500 Message-ID: <4B755656.7000904@kernel.org> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:23:34 +0900 From: Tejun Heo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091130 SUSE/3.0.0-1.1.1 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Rothwell CC: Linus , Andrew Morton , linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Rusty Russell , Christoph Lameter , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: upcoming percpu changes References: <20100205161648.086375b9.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <4B750F80.2030902@kernel.org> <20100212221058.37b7c6e6.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> In-Reply-To: <20100212221058.37b7c6e6.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.3 (hera.kernel.org [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:16:07 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, On 02/12/2010 08:10 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > A good start would be commit d3f5fa4075414c7754126fbdc7c8fbd3906db7c8 > ("percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to net"). You would need to > rebase it on top of net-next and note that "struct macvlan_dev" has been > moved to include/linux/if_macvlan.h. Then just send it to DaveM. > > You could also send commit e20b68160144bcacbde008b9cf7df4e1544b2507 > ("percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to net drivers") along with it. > > Commit 949c49c93a02b62278a63457d0d3192d66e55105 ("percpu: add __percpu > sparse annotations to x86") can just go to the x86 guys and commit > 0b6dd45041220083a3692edae5253c35d19bcb2b ("percpu: add __percpu sparse > annotations to hw_breakpoint") to Frederic Weisbecker. > > Commit eeb721be6bc03fe37755e69ab5c3ba2fe9897fd9 ("percpu: add __percpu > sparse annotations to trace") needs rebasing onto the tip perf/core > branch and then could be sent to Steve and co. > > That takes care of most of it and the rest, as you say, we can sort out > if it becomes a problem. The changes being basically trivial, it doesn't seem to bring much benefit but yeah sure I can send those chunks to the maintainers. Thanks. -- tejun