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SubjectRe: [RFC 00/15] x86_64: Optimize percpu accesses
Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> writes:
>
>>> Which means that my idea of using the technique we use on x86_32 will not
>> work.
>>
>> No, the compiler memory model we use guarantees that everything will be within
>> 2G of each other. The linker will spew loudly if that's not the case.
>
> The per cpu area is at least theoretically dynamically allocated. And we
> really want to put it in cpu local memory. Which means on any reasonable
> NUMA machine the per cpu areas should be all over the box.
>
> So there is no guarantee that with an arbitrary 64bit address in %gs of anything.
>

That doesn't matter in the slightest.

> Grr. Except you are correct. We have to guarantee that the offsets we have
> chosen at compile time still work. And we know all of the compile time offsets
> will be in the -2G range. So they are all 32bit numbers. Negative 32bit
> numbers to be sure. That trivially leaves us with everything working except
> the nasty hard coded decimal 40.

The *offsets* have to be in the proper range, but the %gs_base is an
arbitrary 64-bit number.

-hpa



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