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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Code clean up for percpu_xxx() functions
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On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, Alex,Shi wrote:

> > I think its good to have it all in a single patch.
> >
>
> I thought over your requirements, but it is difficult for me to know
> lots of fields in kernel, like for xen/kvm/network etc. So, to avoid
> introduce bugs here, could we do this blind changes, and then change
> each of fields and get owner's ack separately.

Well do the obvious (where you can see that interrupts or preemption are
disabled in the function or in a calling function). Leave the rest as is
and provide separate patches for them?