Re: [PATCH for 5.1 0/3] Restartable Sequences updates for 5.1

From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH for 5.1 0/3] Restartable Sequences updates for 5.1
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2019 08:42:08 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <161476507.73.1555677728159.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190419104123.GB111210@gmail.com>

----- On Apr 19, 2019, at 6:41 AM, Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org wrote:

> * Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> wrote:
> 
>> Those changes aiming at 5.1 include one comment cleanup, the removal of
>> the rseq_len field from the task struct which serves no purpose
>> considering that the struct size is fixed by the ABI, and a selftest
>> improvement adapting the number of threads to the number of detected
>> CPUs, which is nicer for smaller systems.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Mathieu
>> 
>> Mathieu Desnoyers (3):
>>   rseq: cleanup: Reflect removal of event counter in comments
>>   rseq: cleanup: remove rseq_len from task_struct
>>   rseq/selftests: Adapt number of threads to the number of detected cpus
>> 
>>  arch/arm/kernel/signal.c                       | 3 +--
>>  arch/x86/kernel/signal.c                       | 5 +----
>>  include/linux/sched.h                          | 4 ----
>>  kernel/rseq.c                                  | 9 +++------
>>  tools/testing/selftests/rseq/run_param_test.sh | 7 +++++--
>>  5 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> 
> Looks good, I've applied these to tip:core/rseq to make sure they don't
> miss the v5.2 merge window.
> 
> (Let me know if you wanted to handle this differently.)

That's fine by me!

Thanks,

Mathieu

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Ingo

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