From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760529Ab2ILQ6I (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:58:08 -0400 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.153]:49197 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753122Ab2ILQ6E (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:58:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:57:21 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Josh Triplett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, darren@dvhart.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, sbw@mit.edu, patches@linaro.org, "Paul E. McKenney" , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/15] rcu: Permit RCU_NONIDLE() to be used from interrupt context Message-ID: <20120912165721.GR4257@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20120906185402.GB5738@jtriplet-mobl1> <1346961244.1680.46.camel@gandalf.local.home> <20120907060940.GA21166@leaf> <20120907142441.GD2462@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20120907144717.GA22059@leaf> <1347030967.8178.15.camel@gandalf.local.home> <20120912010720.GM4257@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1347459210.10751.48.camel@gandalf.local.home> <20120912150328.GN4257@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1347463120.10751.63.camel@gandalf.local.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1347463120.10751.63.camel@gandalf.local.home> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 12091216-6148-0000-0000-000009962CD6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:18:40AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > [ Added Linus to verify what I'm talking about ] > > On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 08:03 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > Doesn't Fengguang pull branches individually? And won't that mean > > that as soon as I push my export-removal commit, that he will see > > build failures? > > > > Or are you suggesting that we both send both commits? > > No, what I could do is to push the branch out to my repository on > kernel.org (I'm currently running it under my test suite), and then both > you and Ingo can pull from it. > > It is based off of v3.6-rc5 and only has Josh's change in it. This way, > when Ingo pulls it into the perf/core branch, I can work against that, > and you could either pull the same branch directly from me (as you need > it to work too), or you could have Ingo pull it into the rcu branches in > tip, and you could work against that. > > The trick is that the branch I push is against Linus's tree (something > that we all should be working against) and contains only the one change. > Then everyone that needs this change can just pull it directly, and git > will sort it all out without any conflicts. This is the method that > Linus was talking about at Kernel Summit. Works for me! Thanx, Paul