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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next-20080709] fixup stop_machine use cpu mask vs ftrace
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:43:29 +1000
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On Friday 11 July 2008 07:07:57 Milton Miller wrote:
> Hi Rusty, Ingo.
>
> Rusty's patch [PATCH 3/3] stop_machine: use cpu mask rather than magic
> numbers didn't find kernel/trace/ftrace.c in -next, causing an immediate
> almost NULL pointer dereference in ftrace_dynamic_init.

Yes, I'm switching the patches around, so it does the transition correctly. 
Introduces a new stop_machine() fn with the new interface and deprecates the 
old stop_machine_run().  We can remove stop_machine_run() after everyone is 
switched.

Thanks,
Rusty.