Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161027AbaKNNOx (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2014 08:14:53 -0500 Received: from mail-qa0-f49.google.com ([209.85.216.49]:38030 "EHLO mail-qa0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933960AbaKNNOw (ORCPT ); Fri, 14 Nov 2014 08:14:52 -0500 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 08:14:48 -0500 From: Tejun Heo To: Pranith Kumar Cc: Christoph Lameter , open list , paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/16] percpu: Replace smp_read_barrier_depends() with lockless_dereference() Message-ID: <20141114131448.GC21209@htj.dyndns.org> References: <1415906662-4576-1-git-send-email-bobby.prani@gmail.com> <1415906662-4576-10-git-send-email-bobby.prani@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1415906662-4576-10-git-send-email-bobby.prani@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 02:24:15PM -0500, Pranith Kumar wrote: > Recently lockless_dereference() was added which can be used in place of > hard-coding smp_read_barrier_depends(). The following PATCH makes the change. > > Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar How should this be routed? There's a pending change on the same region of code and if this patch is routed outside percpu tree it'd cause a conflict and I can't route this as lockless_dereference() isn't in the mainline yet. Maybe expose a git branch which contaisn lockless_dereference() so that percpu can pull it in? Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/