From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933772Ab2HWJmH (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:42:07 -0400 Received: from smtp.eu.citrix.com ([62.200.22.115]:24741 "EHLO SMTP.EU.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933425Ab2HWJmF (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2012 05:42:05 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.80,299,1344211200"; d="scan'208";a="14142447" Message-ID: <5035F7BD.6090205@citrix.com> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:28:29 +0100 From: Attilio Rao User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20111110 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Gleixner CC: "x86@kernel.org" , Ian Campbell , Stefano Stabellini , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "mingo@redhat.com" , "hpa@zytor.com" , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] X86/XEN: Merge x86_init.paging.pagetable_setup_start and x86_init.paging.pagetable_setup_done setup functions and document its semantic References: <1345580561-8506-1-git-send-email-attilio.rao@citrix.com> <20120822135753.GA30964@phenom.dumpdata.com> <5034F0FD.8040902@citrix.com> In-Reply-To: <5034F0FD.8040902@citrix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 22/08/12 15:47, Attilio Rao wrote: > On 22/08/12 15:19, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > >> On Wed, 22 Aug 2012, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: >> >> >>> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:22:03PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Attilio Rao wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Differences with v1: >>>>> - The patch serie is re-arranged in a way that it helps reviews, following >>>>> a plan by Thomas Gleixner >>>>> - The PVOPS nomenclature is not used as it is not correct >>>>> - The front-end message is adjusted with feedback by Thomas Gleixner, >>>>> Stefano Stabellini and Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk >>>>> >>>>> >>>> This is much simpler to read and review. Just have a look at the >>>> diffstats of the two series: >>>> >>>> 6 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) >>>> 6 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) >>>> 5 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >>>> 6 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-) >>>> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) >>>> >>>> versus >>>> >>>> 6 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) >>>> 6 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) >>>> 5 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) >>>> 6 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) >>>> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) >>>> >>>> The overall result is basically the same, but it's way simpler to look >>>> at obvious and well done patches than checking whether a subtle copy >>>> and paste bug happened in 3/5 of the first version. Copy and paste is >>>> the #1 cause for subtle bugs. :) >>>> >>>> I'm waiting for the ack of Xen folks before taking it into tip. >>>> >>>> >>> I've some extra patches that modify the new "paginig_init" in the Xen >>> code that I am going to propose for v3.7 - so will have some merge >>> conflicts. Let me figure that out and also run this set of patches >>> (and also the previous one .. which I think you didn't have a >>> chance to look since you were on vacation?) on an overnight >>> >>> >> Which previous one ? >> >> > This one: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/21/369 > > but I would like to repost the patch serie skipping the referral to > PVOPS in the commit logs, I will do so right now, so please wait for > another patch serie. > For your convenience: http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/8/22/450 Attilio