Re: [PATCH 2/6] percpu: Change Kconfig to HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREAlinux-2.6.git

From: Mike Travis
Date: Wed Jan 30 2008 - 16:57:50 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * travis@xxxxxxx <travis@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Change:
>> config ARCH_SETS_UP_PER_CPU_AREA
>> to:
>> config HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA
>
> undocumented change:
>
>> config ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
>> --- a/init/main.c
>> +++ b/init/main.c
>> @@ -380,6 +380,8 @@ static void __init setup_per_cpu_areas(v
>>
>> /* Copy section for each CPU (we discard the original) */
>> size = ALIGN(PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM, PAGE_SIZE);
>> + printk(KERN_INFO
>> + "PERCPU: Allocating %lu bytes of per cpu data (main)\n", size);
>> ptr = alloc_bootmem_pages(size * nr_possible_cpus);
>
> but looks fine to me.
>
> Ingo

Sorry, I should have noted this. The primary reason I put this in, is
that if the HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA is not set when it should be, then
the incorrect (generic) setup_per_cpu_areas() is used and weird things
happen later on. The above line documents that PERCPU has been allocated
by init/main.c version of this function in the startup messages.
(Since it's a static function, there is no "duplicate label" error in
the linker.)

Thanks,
Mike
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