From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752882AbcG0GqD (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2016 02:46:03 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:57872 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751041AbcG0Gp4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Jul 2016 02:45:56 -0400 Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Changes for 4.8 To: Ingo Molnar References: <20160727064141.GA27733@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner From: Juergen Gross Message-ID: <516b45bb-d8c2-6433-8582-dc3206c03f0b@suse.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 08:45:53 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160727064141.GA27733@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 27/07/16 08:41, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Juergen Gross 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