Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4 v3] smp_call_function_many issues from review
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
        Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>, xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com,
        mingo@elte.hu, jaxboe@fusionio.com, npiggin@gmail.com,
        rusty@rustcorp.com.au, efault@gmx.de,
        Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>, Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
        benh@kernel.crashing.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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On Wed, 2011-03-16 at 10:55 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> wrote:
> >
> > Looking forward, I would suggest 1 and 2 are required for stable, 3 may
> > be suitable as it fixes races that otherwise requires cpumask copies
> > as in 75c1c91cb92806f960fcd6e53d2a0c21f343081c ([IA64] eliminate race
> > condition in smp_flush_tlb_mm).  By contrast 4 is just comments except
> > for the %pS to %pf change.
> 
> Ok, who should I expect to take this series from? I think the last
> batch came through Andrew. The kernel/smp.c file seems to be one of
> those "unclear maintenance rules" one. The git statistics for the last
> 12 months seem to be
> 
>   Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> (commit_signer:4/9=44%)
>   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> (commit_signer:2/9=22%)
>   Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> (commit_signer:2/9=22%)
>   Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> (commit_signer:2/9=22%)
>   Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> (commit_signer:2/9=22%)
> 
> according to get_maintainer.pl. Should I just take these directly?

I'm fine with that, if people want a maintainer I can volunteer, but as
Jens wrote most of it I'd prefer him to sign off on that ;-)
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