Subject: Re: [powerpc changes] Re: x86/non-x86: percpu, node ids, apic ids x86.git fixup

From: Olof Johansson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:39:26 -0600

On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 10:25:58PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Olof Johansson <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > > could you try the full patchset that Travis has just sent and which 
> > > i've put into x86.git, you can pull it from:
> > 
> > Looks ok for powerpc so far, I haven't gotten through all defconfigs 
> > yet but the first ones that failed before build now. pasemi_defconfig 
> > boots as well.
> 
> could the PowerPC maintainers please Ack the following patch (attached 
> below):
> 
>   Subject: POWERPC: use generic per cpu
>   From: [email-masked]
> 
> so that we can push this fix upstream ASAP?

> Subject: POWERPC: use generic per cpu
> From: [email-masked]
> 
> Powerpc has a way to determine the address of the per cpu area of the
> currently executing processor via the paca and the array of per cpu
> offsets is avoided by looking up the per cpu area from the remote
> paca's (copying x86_64).
> 
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email-masked]>

Paul is at LCA, I'm not sure if he's reading email. Looks good to me so:

Acked-by: Olof Johansson <[email-masked]>

-Olof