Re: [PATCH 4/9] UML - Mark SMP on UML/x86_64 as broken

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Aug 30 2005 - 15:42:49 EST


Jeff Dike <jdike@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Noticed by Al Viro - SMP on x86_64 is fundamentally broken due to
> UML's reuse of the host arch's percpu stuff. This is OK on x86, but
> the x86_64 pda stuff just won't work for UML.

The generic one should work too, it's just less efficient.
So you can probably easily replace them.

-Andi
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