Re: A problem with percpu variable cpu_number

[Tao Jiang]

Hi Cong Wang:

I read the file vmlinux.lds.S in arch/x86/kernel
section .data..percpu is between .init.data and .init.end
Is that means these percpu variables will be freed after init?

Thank you.


2012/2/20 Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On 02/20/2012 07:04 PM, Tao Jiang wrote:
>>
>>
>> I read the macor DEFINE_PER_CPU
>> it's decorated by some percpu attributes
>> it will be put in section .data..percpu in init section
>
>
> .data..percpu is not .init section, the .init sections should all have
> ".init.*" names.
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