Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [crash, bisected] Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86_64: Fold pda into per cpu area | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:11:43 +0200 |
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ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes: > > Has anyone investigated using the technique gcc uses for thread local storage?
I investigated a long time ago (given when the binutils/gcc support was much more primitive) and my conclusion back then was that doing the same for kernel module (negative addresses) would need new relocation types. And the pain of a binutils change didn't seem worth it.
-Andi
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