Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 13 May 2008 08:23:13 -0700 | | From | Andrew Morton <> | | Subject | Re: oprofile BUG() in current kernel. | |
On Tue, 13 May 2008 12:25:26 +0200 Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> wrote:
> Current module loader only allocates percpu room by examining
> ".data.percpu" section and should be augmented to also look at
> ".data.percpu.shared_aligned"
> Or, change DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED() for modules (to use
> ".data.percpu" only)
Well that's a little landmine. Seems that this was the first attempt to
use DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED from within a module.
> Anyway, with the per_cpu conversion of cpu_buffer, we dont need to
> request cache_line alignment anymore
>
> [PATCH] oprofile: Dont request cache line alignment for cpu_buffer
Thanks. Silly me for looking at the nearly-one-year-old
DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED and assuming that it worked :(
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