Re: [PATCH] Important per-cpu fix.

From: Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 23:04:22 EST

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In message <20020903.195455.117344683.davem@redhat.com> you write:
> From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 12:35:41 +1000
>
> This might explain the wierd per-cpu problem reports from Andrew and
> Dave, and also that nagging feeling that I'm an idiot...
>
> Verifying... no without the explicit initializers the per-cpu stuff
> still ends up in the BSS with egcs-2.9X, even with your fix applied.

OK. I really hate working around wierd toolchain bugs (I use 2.95.4
here and it's fine), and adding an initializer to the macro is ugly.

If you're not going to upgrade your compiler, will you accept a gcc
patch to fix this? If so, where can I get the source to your exact
version?

Thanks,
Rusty.

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