Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 3 Sep 2002 19:46:30 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Important per-cpu fix. |
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Rusty Russell wrote: >> Frankly, I'm amazed the kernel worked for long without this. >> Every linker script thinks the section is called .data.percpu. >> Without this patch, every CPU ends up sharing the same "per-cpu" >> variable.
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 07:56:47PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > wow. Either this was working by fluke, or Bill's softirq problem > just got solved.
It's pretty easy to find out, my machines don't get past execve("/sbin/init", argv_init, envp_init); without some kind of softirq fix. The boot cycle is not swift though... in progress.
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