Re: [PATCH v5 0/5] x86: Cleanup and simplify cpu-specific data

[Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:37:36PM -0300, Kevin Winchester wrote:
> Alright, my git/make skills must be lacking.  I just checked out
> 3.4-rc4 to a new branch, and then git cherry-picked my 5 patches onto
> that branch.

FWIW,

you probably would need to rediff them again because they don't apply
cleanly on current linus (v3.4-rc4-308-gf7b006931751):

x86: Move per cpu cpu_llc_id to a field in struct cpuinfo_x86

This simplifies the various code paths using this field as it
groups the per-cpu data together.

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
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Apply? [y]es/[n]o/[e]dit/[v]iew patch/[a]ccept all y
Applying: x86: Move per cpu cpu_llc_id to a field in struct cpuinfo_x86
error: patch failed: arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_numachip.c:208
error: arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_numachip.c: patch does not apply
error: patch failed: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c:350
error: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c: patch does not apply
Patch failed at 0002 x86: Move per cpu cpu_llc_id to a field in struct cpuinfo_x86
When you have resolved this problem run "git am --resolved".
If you would prefer to skip this patch, instead run "git am --skip".
To restore the original branch and stop patching run "git am --abort".

Or it could be due to fuzz which git cannot stomach but patch can.

Anyway, applying the mbox of your 5 patches on -rc4 got me further but
choked on the last patch:

Applying: x86: Remove #ifdef CONFIG_SMP sections by moving smp_num_siblings into common.c
error: patch failed: arch/x86/kernel/process.c:17
error: arch/x86/kernel/process.c: patch does not apply
Patch failed at 0005 x86: Remove #ifdef CONFIG_SMP sections by moving smp_num_siblings into common.c
When you have resolved this problem run "git am --resolved".
If you would prefer to skip this patch, instead run "git am --skip".
To restore the original branch and stop patching run "git am --abort".

Applying it with patch worked though, probably due to fuzziness.

> Then I ran:
> 
> $ make ARCH=i386 allnoconfig
> $ make ARCH=i386
> 
> And the build completed without warnings or errors.  Should that be
> equivalent to what you did to build i386 allnoconfig?  If so, then I
> wonder why I would not see those problems.
> 
> Can anyone offer any advice?

Other than that, i386 all{no,yes,mod}config seem to build fine here.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.