The patch titled i386: avoid checking for cpu gone when CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU not defined has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is i386-avoid-checking-for-cpu-gone-when-config_hotplug_cpu-not-defined.patch *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: i386: avoid checking for cpu gone when CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU not defined From: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@xxxxxxxxx> Avoid checking for cpu gone in mm hot path when CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is not defined. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/i386/kernel/smp.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/smp.c~i386-avoid-checking-for-cpu-gone-when-config_hotplug_cpu-not-defined arch/i386/kernel/smp.c --- a/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c~i386-avoid-checking-for-cpu-gone-when-config_hotplug_cpu-not-defined +++ a/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c @@ -366,10 +366,12 @@ static void flush_tlb_others(cpumask_t c BUG_ON(cpu_isset(smp_processor_id(), cpumask)); BUG_ON(!mm); +#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU /* If a CPU which we ran on has gone down, OK. */ cpus_and(cpumask, cpumask, cpu_online_map); - if (cpus_empty(cpumask)) + if (unlikely(cpus_empty(cpumask))) return; +#endif /* * i'm not happy about this global shared spinlock in the _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from anil.s.keshavamurthy@xxxxxxxxx are i386-avoid-checking-for-cpu-gone-when-config_hotplug_cpu-not-defined.patch kprobes-print-details-of-kretprobe-on-assertion-failure.patch kprobes-use-hlist_for_each_entry.patch kprobes-codingstyle-cleanups.patch kprobes-kretprobes-simplifcations.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html