Re: [patch] add optimized generic percpu accessors

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > Is there any interim tree for us to pull into -tip? I'd rather not let 
> > this grow too big, it will be harder and harder to debug any regressions. 
> > Gradual progress is a lot more debuggable. Your initial patchset is 
> > fantastic already (gives a ~0.2% kernel image size saving for defconfig), 
> > so it's a very good start.
> 
> Sans the last patch (I'm still working on it), the git tree is at...
> 
>   http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git;a=shortlog;h=x86-percpu-zerobased
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git x86-percpu-zerobased
> 
> And this happens to be the third time I wrote the above addresses in 
> this thread.  :-)

You know the drill: you have to explicitly ask for stuff to be pulled :-)

( Otherwise if i just pull it and you rebased it or were unhappy about it 
  in some fashion we all add stress that could have been avoided. )

So i've picked up these commits from you:

 d060676: x86_64: misc clean up after the percpu update
 6d459d9: x86_64: convert pda ops to wrappers around x86 percpu accessors
 d7051ef: x86_64: make pda a percpu variable
 4fe7fdf: x86_64: merge 64 and 32 SMP percpu handling
 44f5fbd: x86_64: fold pda into percpu area on SMP
 cc1d354: x86_64: use static _cpu_pda array
 c701268: x86_64: load pointer to pda into %gs while brining up a CPU
 7e36da9: x86_64: make percpu symbols zerobased on SMP
 3fc860d: x86_32: make vmlinux_32.lds.S use PERCPU() macro
 bc497c7: x86_64: Cleanup early setup_percpu references
 769d780: x86: make early_per_cpu() a lvalue and use it
 66cbc8e: x86_64: fix pda_to_op()

into tip/x86/percpu.

I did the following small reorganizations:

 - i rebased them on top of tip/cpus4096, tip/x86/cleanups and 
   tip/x86/urgent - that is a stable base.

 - i resolved the conflicts that arose due to recent cpumask and upstream 
   changes.

 - i standardized the commit logs to the usual x86 style and added 
   Original-From: Mike Travis tags to those patches that were derived from 
   Mike's patches.

If they pass testing they'll be stable commits from that point on, and you 
can base your git trees on that topic branch.

Could you please have a look at the end result? Here are the Git 
coordinates for it:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git x86/percpu

If we are happy with it then these commits can be stable commits from now 
on, and you can base your future changes on this Git tree, and i can pull 
updates from you without having to rebase them.

Does that workflow sound OK to you?

	Ingo