Re: [PATCH 5/6] powerpc: Use generic per cpu linux-2.6.git

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Jan 30 2008 - 13:28:56 EST



* travis@xxxxxxx <travis@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Powerpc has a way to determine the address of the per cpu area of the
> currently executing processor via the paca and the array of per cpu
> offsets is avoided by looking up the per cpu area from the remote
> paca's (copying x86_64).

i needed the fix below to get my powerpc crosscompile build to succeed.

Ingo

-------------->
Subject: powerpc: percpu build fix
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
---
include/asm-powerpc/percpu.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-x86.q/include/asm-powerpc/percpu.h
===================================================================
--- linux-x86.q.orig/include/asm-powerpc/percpu.h
+++ linux-x86.q/include/asm-powerpc/percpu.h
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
#include <asm/paca.h>

#define __per_cpu_offset(cpu) (paca[cpu].data_offset)
-#define __my_cpu_offset() get_paca()->data_offset
+#define __my_cpu_offset get_paca()->data_offset
#define per_cpu_offset(x) (__per_cpu_offset(x))

#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
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