From: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: fix text_poke Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:56:03 +0200 Message-ID: <20080425185603.GA22261@elte.hu> References: <20080425162215.GA16273@elte.hu> <20080425164509.GB19962@elte.hu> <20080425170237.GA24472@elte.hu> <20080425175333.GA25276@elte.hu> <20080425181924.GA6076@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andi Kleen , Jiri Slaby , David Miller , zdenek.kabelac@gmail.com, rjw@sisk.pl, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, clameter@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mathieu Desnoyers , pageexec@freemail.hu, "H. Peter Anvin" , Jeremy Fitzhardinge To: Linus Torvalds Return-path: Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:35738 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932265AbYDYS5K (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:57:10 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080425181924.GA6076@elte.hu> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: * Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Ok, fair enough. Without the IPI, I don't think there's a big deal. > > And you have the numbers to prove it. Consider me convinced. > > great - i've lined up all the fixes into this git tree which you can > pull from: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-x86-fixes4.git for-linus > > this has Jiri's fix followed by Mathieu's vmap logic cleanups, plus a > bit of extra checks and the API extensions for set_fixmap (we didnt > end up using them but they make sense nevertheless). > > Lightly tested though, so even if you agree with the changes you might > want to wait an hour with the pull just in case some trivial build > issue slipped in. Shortlog and diff below. ok, it's better tested now - 10 random bootups, amongst them 64/32-bit allyesconfig bootups, and some targeted testing as well with offlining/onlining CPUs and no problems found so far. Please pull. Ingo