From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
virtualization <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix CONFIG_PARAVIRT for 2.6.19-rc5-mm1
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 23:50:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061108235002.1db03804.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061109073158.GB11760@muc.de>
On 9 Nov 2006 08:31:58 +0100
Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 05:20:14PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:01:42 +1100
> > Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > > OK, at least two patches got dropped on the way from the mm tree to
> > > Andi's tree: the desc.h cleanup, and the processor.h rearrangement.
> > > Merging into Andi's tree without these patches must have been a
> > > nightmare 8(
> > >
> > > Andi then tried to fix it with x86_64-mm-paravirt-compile.patch but then
> > > it didn't boot so he disabled it in x86_64-mm-paravirt-broken.patch
> > >
> > > This patch undoes those two patches and rearranges processor.h correctly
> > > so the kernel compiles and boots with CONFIG_PARAVIRT. Andi's
> > > "paravirt-compile" patch also cleans up the spinlock header, which is
> > > good but should probably be patched separately.
> >
> > Fun. Andi, I have a mountain of fixes against your tree. Whatever you
> > do, don't change anything! I'll get it all sent over later today.
>
> I think for the paravirt ops stuff it would be best to respin it -- e.g.
> let Rusty submit a new clean patchkit. That's much better than trying
> to add lots of fixup patches.
That's what I'm doing.
> I'll go through the other patches.
OK. Please drop all the paravirt patches, publish a new tree then let us
know when it's there.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-09 7:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-09 1:01 [PATCH] Fix CONFIG_PARAVIRT for 2.6.19-rc5-mm1 Rusty Russell
2006-11-09 1:20 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-09 7:31 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-09 7:50 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-11-09 7:12 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-09 7:39 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-09 8:09 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-09 14:11 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-09 17:13 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-09 17:14 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-11 4:34 ` Rusty Russell
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