----- On Nov 15, 2017, at 10:00 AM, Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > ----- On Nov 15, 2017, at 9:48 AM, Stephen Rothwell sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> Hi Ingo, >> >> On Wed, 15 Nov 2017 09:07:12 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> There's absolutely no way such invasive x86 changes should be done outside the >>> x86 >>> tree and be merged into linux-next. >>> >>> linux-next should be for the regular maintenance flow, for changes pushed by >>> maintainers and part of the regular maintenance process - not for >>> work-in-progress >>> features that may or may not be merged upstream in that form ... >> >> Sure. I was given the impression that Linus was going to be asked to >> merge this tree during this merge window, so I assumed that it had been >> seen by the appropriate people. Most of these patches include you, >> Linus and Andrew (among others) on their cc's and they seem to have >> gone through several revisions. >> >> I guess Mathieu has jumped the gun. > > The membarrier core serializing command has been developed in the open > since Aug. 27, 2017 [1]. That's one full development cycle. On Sept 28, > 2017, I started CCing Ingo when I noticed I would have to add documentation > to each architecture return-to-usermode paths [2]. I have never heard feedback > from him until now. > > I am open to remove the x86-specific membarrier core serializing patch from > my tree and hand it to the x86 maintainers after the generic code makes it > into Linus' tree, if this is seen as the appropriate way forward. Hi Stephen, fyi, I removed the core serializing membarrier commits from the linux-rseq rseq/for-next branch. That work will indeed be postponed to the 4.16 queue. Thanks, Mathieu > > Thanks, > > Mathieu > > [1] > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170827195404.22171-2-mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx > [2] > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/911707916.20840.1506605496314.JavaMail.zimbra@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > >> >> I'll drop it again tomorrow. >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> Stephen Rothwell > > -- > Mathieu Desnoyers > EfficiOS Inc. > http://www.efficios.com -- Mathieu Desnoyers EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
