Re: [PATCH 2/11] x86: convert to generic helpers for IPI functioncalls

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
> > This converts x86 and x86-64 to use the new helpers for 
> > smp_call_function() and friends, and adds support for 
> > smp_call_function_single().
> >     
>
> nice stuff. The x86 and generic bits:
>
>  Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
>
> this has been brewing for months, what is the testing/confidence status 
> of it? Could we still merge it into v2.6.26? (i think we should)
>   

I commented on an earlier version of this patch, but it looks like it 
will break Xen.  If you enable CONFIG_XEN, it will try to define both 
native and Xen versions of arch_send_call_function[_single]_ipi().  It 
needs to vector them via smp_ops.

   J
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