Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:58:24 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 00/15] x86_64: Optimize percpu accesses |
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Christoph Lameter wrote: > Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > > >> What other trouble? It works fine. >> > > Somehow you performed a mind wipe to get rid of all memory of the earlier messages? >
Percpu on i386 hasn't been a point of discussion. It works fine, and has been working fine for a long time. The same mechanism would work fine on x86-64. Its only "issue" is that it doesn't support the broken gcc abi for stack-protector.
The problem is all zero-based percpu on x86-64.
J
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