Re: [bug] SLUB + mm/slab.c boot crash in -rc9

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > static DEFINE_PER_CPU(char, dummy)[10000];
> 
> what's the guarantee that it's at the end of the section? I'd like to 
> pad the per cpu areas at their end. (doubling their size is a good way 
> to achieve that)

No guarantee. Its up to the linker. Sorry. We could add a new percpu.last 
section but that requires a number of changes to linking.

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