Inter-revision diff: cover letter

Comparing v1 (message) to v2 (message)

--- v1
+++ v2
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+Changes in v2:
+	* Add 2 new patches that create smp_shutdown_nonboot_cpus() to be used
+	  in machine_shutdown() in ia64, arm and arm64
+	* Use proper kernel-doc for the newly introduced functions
+	* Renamed a function
+	* Removed a stale comment in a function
+	* Rebased on top of 5.4-rc8
+
+	git clone git://linux-arm.org/linux-qy.git -b cpu-hp-cleanup-v2
+
 Using cpu_up/down directly to bring cpus online/offline loses synchronization
 with sysfs and could suffer from a race similar to what is described in
 commit a6717c01ddc2 ("powerpc/rtas: use device model APIs and serialization
@@ -13,10 +23,6 @@
 converts the remaining users and hides cpu_up/down from internal users at the
 end.
 
-I still need to update the documentation to remove references to cpu_up/down
-and advocate for device_online/offline instead if this series will make its way
-through.
-
 I noticed this problem while working on a hack to disable offlining
 a particular CPU but noticed that setting the offline_disabled attribute in the
 device struct isn't enough because users can easily bypass the device core.
@@ -24,11 +30,10 @@
 the way cpus are being onlined/offlined and this attempt hopefully improves on
 this.
 
-The first 6 patches fixes arch users.
+The first 8 patches fix arch users.
 
-The next 5 patches fixes generic code users. Particularly creating a new
+The remaining 6 patches fix generic code users. Particularly creating a new
 special exported API for the device core to use instead of cpu_up/down.
-Maybe we can do something more restrictive than that.
 
 The last patch removes cpu_up/down from cpu.h and unexport the functions.
 
@@ -36,8 +41,9 @@
 the logic in a higher level - special purposed function; and converted the code
 to use that instead.
 
-I did run the rcu torture, lock torture and psci checker tests and no problem
-was noticed. I did perform build tests on all arch affected except for parisc.
+I did re-run the rcu torture, lock torture and psci checker tests and no
+problem was noticed. I did perform build tests on all arch affected except for
+parisc.
 
 Hopefully I got the CC list right for all the patches. Apologies in advance if
 some people were omitted from some patches but they should have been CCed.
@@ -77,6 +83,7 @@
 CC: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
 CC: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
 CC: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com>
+CC: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
 CC: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
 CC: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
 CC: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
@@ -95,11 +102,13 @@
 CC: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
 
 
-Qais Yousef (12):
+Qais Yousef (14):
+  smp: create a new function to shutdown nonboot cpus
+  ia64: Replace cpu_down with smp_shutdown_nonboot_cpus()
+  arm: arm64: Don't use disable_nonboot_cpus()
   arm64: hibernate.c: create a new function to handle cpu_up(sleep_cpu)
   x86: Replace cpu_up/down with devcie_online/offline
   powerpc: Replace cpu_up/down with device_online/offline
-  ia64: Replace cpu_down with freeze_secondary_cpus
   sparc: Replace cpu_up/down with device_online/offline
   parisc: Replace cpu_up/down with device_online/offline
   driver: base: cpu: export device_online/offline
@@ -109,23 +118,25 @@
   smp: Create a new function to bringup nonboot cpus online
   cpu: Hide cpu_up/down
 
- arch/arm64/kernel/hibernate.c          | 13 +++----
- arch/ia64/kernel/process.c             |  8 +---
+ arch/arm/kernel/reboot.c               |  4 +-
+ arch/arm64/kernel/hibernate.c          | 13 ++--
+ arch/arm64/kernel/process.c            |  4 +-
+ arch/ia64/kernel/process.c             |  8 +--
  arch/parisc/kernel/processor.c         |  4 +-
  arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c |  4 +-
- arch/sparc/kernel/ds.c                 |  8 +++-
+ arch/sparc/kernel/ds.c                 |  8 ++-
  arch/x86/kernel/topology.c             |  4 +-
- arch/x86/mm/mmio-mod.c                 |  8 +++-
+ arch/x86/mm/mmio-mod.c                 |  8 ++-
  arch/x86/xen/smp.c                     |  4 +-
  drivers/base/core.c                    |  4 ++
  drivers/base/cpu.c                     |  4 +-
- drivers/firmware/psci/psci_checker.c   |  6 ++-
+ drivers/firmware/psci/psci_checker.c   |  6 +-
  drivers/xen/cpu_hotplug.c              |  2 +-
- include/linux/cpu.h                    |  6 ++-
- kernel/cpu.c                           | 53 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
- kernel/smp.c                           |  9 +----
- kernel/torture.c                       | 15 ++++++--
- 16 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 46 deletions(-)
+ include/linux/cpu.h                    |  8 ++-
+ kernel/cpu.c                           | 85 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--
+ kernel/smp.c                           |  9 +--
+ kernel/torture.c                       | 15 +++--
+ 18 files changed, 143 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
 
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