Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763145AbYBWT67 (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:58:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757092AbYBWT6q (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:58:46 -0500 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.181]:4270 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762080AbYBWT6i (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:58:38 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:references:in-reply-to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:thread-index:content-language; b=ptDTEaQooJPcbZSkBrNOLgwOnloar8Dl4zDlAqzPTPZqFM1rhYEQgeJjlebcSkzDu63vLFW0IiDcg9DO+OGxpDn8+a6zwPP25SJyaNGIh3YUmyUm2SZSVuwsjKRRjFVTi1WFMKpEHtJM1sveBU6BqkpAX+yTH87ks/T4VVX1n/Y= From: "Hua Zhong" To: "'Andrew Morton'" , "'Andi Kleen'" Cc: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?'Ilpo_J=E4rvinen'?=" , , , "'David Miller'" , "'Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo'" References: <1203515238-22848-1-git-send-email-ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> <20080223000220.e9229c99.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080223105517.4d706511.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080223105517.4d706511.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH 0/8]: uninline & uninline Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:58:30 -0800 Message-ID: <00ac01c87656$777c02a0$667407e0$@com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: Ach2TiA2SKUARlY2TeGDpaIOhzNQLQABzqXg Content-Language: en-us Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1369 Lines: 32 > > Is there any reason they couldn't just be merged to mainline? > > > > I think it's a useful facility. > > ummm, now why did we made that decision... I think we decided that > it's the sort of thing which one person can run once per few months > and that will deliver its full value. I can maintain it in -mm and > we're happy - no need to add it to mainline. No strong feelings > either way really. Apparently nobody has been doing it for a while. :-) Last time I did it it was around the submission time and I actually patched it into mainline kernel to do so. Not particularly hard to do, but sitting in mm-only does make it a bit harder, and there are the vdso problem you just mentioned that one has to fix for himself if it exists in mainline. > It does have the downside that the kernel explodes if someone adds > unlikely or likely to the vdso code and I need to occasionally hunt > down new additions and revert them in that patch. That makes it a > bit of a maintenance burden. Is it possible to catch this automatically, like, by re-defining likely/unlikely to the raw form in specific file(s)? Hua -- 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/