RE: [PATCH 2/5] percpu: Refactor percpu.h

[Luck, Tony]

> Why does IA64 still have a special percpu section on UP?  Is there a
> particular reason why it can't degenerate to regular .data like every
> other arch?

There are a few per-cpu variables that are accessed in the machine
check handlers with MMU turned off[1], so access is in physical mode.
We handle this with the GET_THIS_PADDR() macro which computes the
address of percpu objects based on offsets from a special register
(ar.k3) that has the base physical address of the .data.percpu
section for this processor.  The addressing mode used here has
a limited offset, so if percpu variables are scattered throughout
.data we get link errors.

-Tony

[1] The MMU may have been the cause of the machine check.

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