Re: [RFC 00/15] x86_64: Optimize percpu accesses

[H. Peter Anvin]

Mike Travis wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > Did the suspected linker bug issue ever get resolved?
> > I don't believe so.  I think Mike is getting very early crashes
> > depending on some combination of gcc, linker and kernel config.  Or
> > something.
>
> Yes and unfortunately since SGI does not do it's own compilers any
> more (they were MIPS compilers), there's no one here that really
> understands the internals of the compile tools.

A bummer, too, since that compiler lives on as the Pathscale compiler...

	-hpa

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