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

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Nov 30 2007 - 13:35:46 EST



* Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Ingo Molnar 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, the fixup for the use of __per_cpu_xx
> variables in modules.c. etc.

you again talk about modules.c but my test kernel that crashes has no
modules at all.

> It would be best to test against mm since there are core changes here
> that will have to wait to the next merge period.

if you treat testing and review efforts like that they might have to
wait even longer :-( "My stuff is there somewhere amongst 1415 -mm
patches. Thank you for your interest and buzz off already."

Ingo
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