Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 5 Sep 2002 14:40:23 +0530 | From | Dipankar Sarma <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Important per-cpu fix. |
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In article <20020904023535.73D922C12D@lists.samba.org> 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.
> This might explain the wierd per-cpu problem reports from Andrew and > Dave, and also that nagging feeling that I'm an idiot...
Not only does this fix the tasklet BUG with 2.5.32 but it also fixes a serial console hang with my 2.5.32 version of Ingo/Davem/Alexey's scalable timers code that I have been debugging for the last two days. I use a per-cpu tasklet to run the timers, so it was probably killing me there.
Thanks -- Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> http://lse.sourceforge.net Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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