Re: [RFC PATCH 06/17] ARM: kernel: save/restore generic infrastructure

2011-07-28 Thread Lorenzo Pieralisi
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 05:22:38PM +0100, Amit Kachhap wrote: > On 7 July 2011 21:20, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote: > > > > This patch provides the code infrastructure needed to maintain > > a generic per-cpu architecture implementation of idle code. > > > > sr_platform.c : > >- code manages pa

Re: [RFC PATCH 06/17] ARM: kernel: save/restore generic infrastructure

2011-07-28 Thread Amit Kachhap
On 7 July 2011 21:20, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote: > > This patch provides the code infrastructure needed to maintain > a generic per-cpu architecture implementation of idle code. > > sr_platform.c : >        - code manages patchset initialization and memory management > > sr_context.c: >        - cod

Re: [RFC PATCH 06/17] ARM: kernel: save/restore generic infrastructure

2011-07-11 Thread Lorenzo Pieralisi
On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 11:01:23AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > The idea of splitting a large patch up into smaller patches is to do > it in a logical way so that: > > 1. Each patch is self-contained, adding a single new - and where possible >complete - feature or bug fix. > 2. Eas

Re: [RFC PATCH 06/17] ARM: kernel: save/restore generic infrastructure

2011-07-09 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
The idea of splitting a large patch up into smaller patches is to do it in a logical way so that: 1. Each patch is self-contained, adding a single new - and where possible complete - feature or bug fix. 2. Ease of review. Carving your big patch up by file does not do either of this, because al

Re: [RFC PATCH 06/17] ARM: kernel: save/restore generic infrastructure

2011-07-08 Thread Lorenzo Pieralisi
On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 02:58:19AM +0100, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: > On 7/7/2011 8:50 AM, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote: > > This patch provides the code infrastructure needed to maintain > > a generic per-cpu architecture implementation of idle code. > > > > sr_platform.c : > > - code manages patchs

Re: [RFC PATCH 06/17] ARM: kernel: save/restore generic infrastructure

2011-07-07 Thread Santosh Shilimkar
On 7/7/2011 8:50 AM, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote: This patch provides the code infrastructure needed to maintain a generic per-cpu architecture implementation of idle code. sr_platform.c : - code manages patchset initialization and memory management sr_context.c: - code initializes

[RFC PATCH 06/17] ARM: kernel: save/restore generic infrastructure

2011-07-07 Thread Lorenzo Pieralisi
This patch provides the code infrastructure needed to maintain a generic per-cpu architecture implementation of idle code. sr_platform.c : - code manages patchset initialization and memory management sr_context.c: - code initializes run-time context save/restore generic