Re: [patch 0/3] Per cpu relocation to ZERO and x86_32 percpu opson x86_64

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Nov 30 2007 - 13:42:04 EST



* Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> > you mean this single patch:
> >
> > modules-fold-percpu_modcopy-into-modulec-and-get-rid-of-the-macro-from-hell.patch
> >
> > that's the only patch i missed AFAICS.
>
> That is a pretty uncritical one. Then there is the fix of the zero
> address handling in modules.c, [...]

modules-handle-symbols-that-have-a-zero-value.patch

> [...] the fixup for the use of __per_cpu_xx variables in modules.c.
> [...]

modules-include-sectionsh-to-avoid-defining-linker-variables.patch

> etc.

such as? I guess these two:

mm-prevent-dereferencing-non-allocated-per_cpu-variables.patch
mm-prevent-dereferencing-non-allocated-per_cpu-variables-fix.patch

would be needed too?

Ingo
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