Re: [GIT PULL] Changes for 4.8

[Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>]

On 27/07/16 08:41, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Linus,
>>
>> please consider pulling a patch series for 4.8 from:
>>
>>   https://github.com/jgross1/linux.git tags/for-linus-4-8
>>
>> Unfortunately 2 of the 6 patches got no Acks as the maintainers didn't
>> react in spite of multiple pings and resends. The core modification in
>> the scheduler got an Ack from Peter and multiple tests showed no
>> regressions.
>>
>> As the series is touching multiple subsystems I couldn't find anyone
>> willing to take the series via his tree (I tried Ingo, Thomas, Peter).
>>
>> Juergen Gross (6):
>>       xen: sync xen header
>>       virt, sched: add generic vcpu pinning support
>>       smp: add function to execute a function synchronously on a cpu
>>       xen: add xen_pin_vcpu() to support calling functions on a
>> dedicated pcpu
>>       dcdbas: make use of smp_call_on_cpu()
>>       hwmon: use smp_call_on_cpu() for dell-smm i8k
>>
>>  MAINTAINERS                       |   1 +
>>  arch/x86/include/asm/hypervisor.h |   4 ++
>>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/hypervisor.c  |  11 +++++
>>  arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c          |  40 +++++++++++++++
>>  drivers/firmware/dcdbas.c         |  51 +++++++++----------
>>  drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c    |  36 ++++++++------
>>  include/linux/hypervisor.h        |  17 +++++++
>>  include/linux/smp.h               |   3 ++
>>  include/xen/interface/sched.h     | 100 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>>  kernel/smp.c                      |  51 +++++++++++++++++++
>>  kernel/up.c                       |  18 +++++++
>>  11 files changed, 273 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
>>  create mode 100644 include/linux/hypervisor.h
> 
> Sorry, I didn't comment on this series because the concept seemed
> uncontroversial to me: you are trying to extend the virtualization
> interface to follow hardware constraints and fix bugs.
> 
> PeterZ acked the most critical bits (smp.c) and most of the changes
> are on the virtualization side.
> 
> So it's fine to me in principle, but I have not looked into finer
> details. Can take it into one of the -tip trees if Linus doesn't
> pull it for v4.8.

Thanks. I'd appreciate that.


Juergen