On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 09:52:56PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Each architecture implements its own cpu_idle() code, which is more or > less the same on all architectures (plus/minus a few bugs and a few > missing extra functionalities, instrumentation ...). That also forces > everyone who is interested in idle related features to add new > functionality to every architecture. What a waste. > > Aside of that pointless code duplicaiton the ongoing quest to > consolidate the cpu hotplug code needs a common entry point for the > non boot cpus. > > The following series implements a generic idle function and converts > most architectures over. I left out SPARC (it involves sparc asm) and > UM (it made me barf). If we can move those architectures as well, we > can get rid of the extra config switch and have everything > consolidated. > > I spent a lot of time to make sure that the conversion preserved the > non obvious differences of the architecture implementations, but I > really need help from the affected maintainers to prove the > correctness. Hi Thomas. Where can I find the git tree with the latest patches? Or do you plan to submit a v2 soon? Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
