> Hello,
>
> On 02/05/2010 02:16 PM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > The percpu tree currently in linux-next
> > (git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu.git#for-next)
> > contains a patch to remove the "per_cpu_" prefix from percpu variables
> > followed by a set of patches to annotate all the percpu variables (and
> > accessing variables) with a __percpu tag to put them into a separate
> > sparse name space. These latter patches are causing some merge conflicts
> > with a couple of trees (and will most likely cause more before the merge
> > window). A solution to this is for you to accept the patch below into
> > your tree now and then the annotating patches can be sent to the
> > respective maintainers directly.
> >
> > Of course, this assumes that you will accept the percpu changes during
> > the next merge window (and they are not completely without controversy)
> > and the proponents actually submit them :-).
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> > Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2010 16:09:11 +1100
> > Subject: [PATCH] percpu: add __percpu for sparse
> >
> > This is to make the annotation of percpu variables during the next merge
> > window less painfull.
> >
> > Extracted from a patch by Rusty Russell.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
>
> I agree that this would be the cleanest way to integrate things.
> Thanks for doing this. If this gets in, I'll send individual patches
> to respective maintainers.
>
> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
>
> For reference, the thread which contains the annoation patches is
>
>
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/25/107
>
> Thanks.
