Re: [RFC 02/15] x86_64: Fold pda into per cpu area

[Mike Travis]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
>> Given that we have not yet understood the weird failure case.  This patch needs
>> to be split in two.  
>> - make the current per cpu variable section zero based.
>> - Move the pda into the per cpu variable section.
>>
>> There are too many variables at present the reported failure cases to
>> guess what is really going on.
>>
>> We can not optimize the per cpu variable accesses until the pda moves
>> but we can easily test for linker and tool chain bugs with zero
>> based pda segment itself.
> 
> agreed, a patch of this gravity and with a diffstat:
> 
>  12 files changed, 112 insertions(+), 142 deletions(-)
> 
> is indeed too large. Test failures that get bisected to this patch will 
> still cause people to guess about which aspect of the large patch caused 
> the problem.
> 
> 	Ingo

That split has been done and I've sent it to Jeremy and Peter for further
review.

Thanks,
Mike

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