+ generic-ipi-fix-misleading-smp_call_function_any-description.patch added to -mm tree

+ generic-ipi-fix-misleading-smp_call_function_any-description.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

Subject: + generic-ipi-fix-misleading-smp_call_function_any-description.patch added to -mm tree
To: xiexiuqi@huawei.com,a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,jens.axboe@oracle.com,rusty@rustcorp.com.au,sheng@linux.intel.com
From: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2013 14:35:59 -0700


The patch titled
     Subject: generic-ipi: fix misleading smp_call_function_any() description
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     generic-ipi-fix-misleading-smp_call_function_any-description.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/generic-ipi-fix-misleading-smp_call_function_any-description.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/generic-ipi-fix-misleading-smp_call_function_any-description.patch

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From: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
Subject: generic-ipi: fix misleading smp_call_function_any() description

After 8969a5ede0f9e1 ("generic-ipi: remove kmalloc()"), wait = 0 can be
guaranteed.

Signed-off-by: Xie XiuQi <xiexiuqi@huawei.com>
Cc: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 kernel/smp.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN kernel/smp.c~generic-ipi-fix-misleading-smp_call_function_any-description kernel/smp.c
--- a/kernel/smp.c~generic-ipi-fix-misleading-smp_call_function_any-description
+++ a/kernel/smp.c
@@ -281,8 +281,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(smp_call_function_single);
  * @wait: If true, wait until function has completed.
  *
  * Returns 0 on success, else a negative status code (if no cpus were online).
- * Note that @wait will be implicitly turned on in case of allocation failures,
- * since we fall back to on-stack allocation.
  *
  * Selection preference:
  *	1) current cpu if in @mask
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from xiexiuqi@huawei.com are

generic-ipi-fix-misleading-smp_call_function_any-description.patch
linux-next.patch