Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator

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From: Christoph Lameter

Subject: Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator

Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 11:28 am

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Eric Dumazet wrote:

quoted text> Well, MODULE is not CONFIG_MODULES :)
> 
> If compiling an object that is going to be statically linked to kernel, MODULE
> is not defined, so we have shared objects.
> 
> When compiling a module, we cannot *yet* use .data.percpu.shared_aligned
> section, since module loader wont handle this section.
> 
> Alternative is to change modules linking for all arches to merge
> .data.percpu{*} subsections correctly, or tell module loader to take into
> account all .data.percpu sections.
> 
> AFAIK no module uses DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED() yet...

Ahhh. Makes sense. Add a comment to explain this?

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[patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Christoph Lameter, (Thu May 29, 8:56 pm)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Andrew Morton, (Thu May 29, 9:58 pm)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Eric Dumazet, (Thu May 29, 10:04 pm)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Christoph Lameter, (Thu May 29, 10:10 pm)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Christoph Lameter, (Thu May 29, 10:20 pm)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Andrew Morton, (Thu May 29, 10:31 pm)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Rusty Russell, (Thu May 29, 10:46 pm)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Rusty Russell, (Thu May 29, 10:52 pm)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Eric Dumazet, (Thu May 29, 10:54 pm)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki, (Thu May 29, 10:56 pm)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Christoph Lameter, (Thu May 29, 11:16 pm)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Pavel Machek, (Sat May 31, 1:58 pm)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Paul Jackson, (Mon Jun 2, 2:29 am)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Mike Travis, (Wed Jun 4, 7:48 am)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Mike Travis, (Wed Jun 4, 7:58 am)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Mike Travis, (Wed Jun 4, 8:04 am)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Eric Dumazet, (Wed Jun 4, 8:11 am)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Mike Travis, (Wed Jun 4, 8:30 am)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Rusty Russell, (Thu Jun 5, 4:48 pm)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Rusty Russell, (Thu Jun 5, 5:32 pm)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Christoph Lameter, (Tue Jun 10, 10:33 am)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Christoph Lameter, (Tue Jun 10, 10:34 am)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Eric Dumazet, (Tue Jun 10, 11:05 am)

Re: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator, Christoph Lameter, (Tue Jun 10, 11:28 am)