Re: [PATCH 3/6] sparc64: Use generic percpu linux-2.6.git

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Jan 30 2008 - 20:03:00 EST


From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:52:23 +0100

>
> * travis@xxxxxxx <travis@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Sparc64 has a way of providing the base address for the per cpu area
> > of the currently executing processor in a global register.
> >
> > Sparc64 also provides a way to calculate the address of a per cpu area
> > from a base address instead of performing an array lookup.
>
> has this been booted on SPARC64 and does David ACK this conversion?

Conceptually I'm fine with the changes.

I had these for testing in my backlog right before I came to
LCA08 and I won't be able to do any real testing until I get back
home on Feb 4th.
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