From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932402AbbJMNuP (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:50:15 -0400 Received: from www.linutronix.de ([62.245.132.108]:50116 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932190AbbJMNuK (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2015 09:50:10 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 15:49:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Qais Yousef cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jason@lakedaemon.net, marc.zyngier@arm.com, jiang.liu@linux.intel.com, ralf@linux-mips.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [RFC v2 PATCH 10/14] MIPS: make smp CMP, CPS and MT use the new generic IPI functions In-Reply-To: <1444731382-19313-11-git-send-email-qais.yousef@imgtec.com> Message-ID: References: <1444731382-19313-1-git-send-email-qais.yousef@imgtec.com> <1444731382-19313-11-git-send-email-qais.yousef@imgtec.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Linutronix-Spam-Score: -1.0 X-Linutronix-Spam-Level: - X-Linutronix-Spam-Status: No , -1.0 points, 5.0 required, ALL_TRUSTED=-1,SHORTCIRCUIT=-0.0001 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 13 Oct 2015, Qais Yousef wrote: > Only the SMP variants that use GIC were converted as it's the only irqchip that > will have the support for generic IPI for now which will be introduced in > the following patches. You break bisectability. Introduce the new gic magic first and then switch it over. Thanks, tglx