Re: [PATCH 0/3] stop_machine enhancements and simplifications

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Tue Jul 08 2008 - 23:29:57 EST


* Jason Baron (jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 05:50:55PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here are the three stop_machine patches I've queued for the next merge
> > window. The first two are pretty well tested via linux-next, the last is
> > recent but fairly straightforward.
> >
> > I'm assuming that Jason and/or Mathieu have need for the ALL_CPUS mod,
> > but it can be removed by the last of these patches (left in to reduce
> > transition breakage).
>
> hi,
>
> I added the 'ALL_CPUS' feature to support the architecture independent immediate
> code that Mathieu wrote. So, if Mathieu needs it great, otherwise I have no
> other code depending on it.
>
> thanks,
>
> -Jason

Hi Rusty,

The immediate values implementation (the 'simple' version) uses this
patch. If we include your simplification, I'll have to modify the
immediate values patch a little bit so we deal with concurrent execution
of all the threads, as I pointed out in my earlier email.

Mathieu


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