+ stop_machine-make-stop_machine-safe-and-efficient-to-call-early-v3.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: stop_machine-make-stop_machine-safe-and-efficient-to-call-early-v3.
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     stop_machine-make-stop_machine-safe-and-efficient-to-call-early-v3.patch

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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: stop_machine-make-stop_machine-safe-and-efficient-to-call-early-v3.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

 kernel/stop_machine.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN kernel/stop_machine.c~stop_machine-make-stop_machine-safe-and-efficient-to-call-early-v3 kernel/stop_machine.c
--- a/kernel/stop_machine.c~stop_machine-make-stop_machine-safe-and-efficient-to-call-early-v3
+++ a/kernel/stop_machine.c
@@ -490,8 +490,9 @@ int __stop_machine(int (*fn)(void *), vo
 
 	if (!stop_machine_initialized) {
 		/*
-		 * Handle the case where stop_machine() is called early in boot
-		 * before SMP startup.
+		 * Handle the case where stop_machine() is called
+		 * early in boot before stop_machine() has been
+		 * initialized.
 		 */
  		unsigned long flags;
 		int ret;
_
Subject: Subject: stop_machine-make-stop_machine-safe-and-efficient-to-call-early-v3.

Patches currently in -mm which might be from jeremy.fitzhardinge@xxxxxxxxxx are

origin.patch
linux-next.patch
x86-paravirt-pte-updates-in-kunmap_atomic-need-to-be-synchronous-regardless-of-lazy_mmu-mode.patch
mm-avoid-null-pointer-access-in-vm_struct-via-proc-vmallocinfo.patch
stop_machine-make-stop_machine-safe-and-efficient-to-call-early.patch
stop_machine-make-stop_machine-safe-and-efficient-to-call-early-v3.patch

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