From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pa0-x22b.google.com (mail-pa0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c03::22b]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3ryV4M5xyDzDqYb for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2016 15:22:11 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-pa0-x22b.google.com with SMTP id fi15so57592140pac.1 for ; Sun, 24 Jul 2016 22:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 15:22:01 +1000 From: Nicholas Piggin To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, mpe@ellerman.id.au, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH for-4.8 V2 00/10] Use jump label for cpu/mmu_has_feature Message-ID: <20160725152201.03788ccb@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1469265163-1491-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1469265163-1491-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Sat, 23 Jul 2016 14:42:33 +0530 "Aneesh Kumar K.V" wrote: > Changes from V1: > * Update "powerpc/mm: Convert early cpu/mmu feature check to use the > new helpers" based on resend code changes in this area. > > We now do feature fixup early and hence we can reduce the usage of > __cpu/__mmu_has_feature. Is there a particular reason for for-4.8? I've only just started following this development so it might be obvious, but if you could add some small justifications for why a patch or series is done, it would be of great help to me. Thanks, Nick