Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/10] percpu: use dynamic percpu allocator as the default percpu allocator | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:47:55 -0500 |
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On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 15:45 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > This patch makes most !CONFIG_HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA archs use > dynamic percpu allocator. The first chunk is allocated using > embedding helper and 8k is reserved for modules. This ensures that > the new allocator behaves almost identically to the original allocator > as long as static percpu variables are concerned, so it shouldn't > introduce much breakage. > > s390 and alpha use custom SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR() to work around addressing > range limit the addressing model imposes. Unfortunately, this breaks > if the address is specified using a variable, so for now, the two > archs aren't converted. > > The following architectures are affected by this change. > > * sh > * arm > * cris > * mips > * sparc(32) > * blackfin > * avr32 > * parisc (broken, under investigation)
OK, I thought I'd investigate this. Unfortunately, your git tree doesn't build when pulled into head ... could you update?
mm/percpu.c: In function 'setup_per_cpu_areas': mm/percpu.c:2007: error: too many arguments to function 'pcpu_embed_first_chunk'
James
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