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Re: [Xen-devel] benign changes to common Linux files


  • To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 17:11:34 +0100
  • Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Delivery-date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 09:12:06 -0700
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xensource.com>
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  • Thread-topic: [Xen-devel] benign changes to common Linux files



On 7/8/06 4:48 pm, "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> What tree are you diffing against? The two \n->\t changes in spinlock.h seem
>> to make sense, but the additional \n in __raw_spin_trylock isn't present in
>> my vanilla 2.6.16.13 sources. And the line you change in system.h has no
>> direct equivalent in the vanilla sources since they don't have SMP
>> alternatives.
> 
> I diff-ed a 2.6.16.13 tree with patches/linux-2.6.16.13/* applied against a
> fully
> overlaid one. If some of the differences don't apply, then some cleanup of the
> pre-
> patches might be needed, too.

There'll be a sync with the smp alternatives support in upstream when we
move from 2.6.16 in xen-unstable after 3.0.3, so this probably isn't worth
the effort right now.

 -- Keir



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