Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:19:45 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: Commit 34d76c41 causes linker errors on ia64 with NR_CPUS=4096 |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> wrote: > >> This version fixes a build issue (__alignof__(unsigned long)) and >> fixes the percpu lookup to be usd = percpu array pointer, usd[i] = >> actual variable. > > Before applying this part-workaround i'd like to see confirmation that > the IA64 limitation is being fixed. It would be bad for such bugs to pop > up again and again in the future, with a 2 months bug fixing latency.
I talked with Christoph earlier and he basically said that the constant can just be bumped up without any ill effect (it would be great if Tony Luck can confirm this). So, it's an annoying thing and in the long term removing would be a good idea but I don't think it's anything major as long as it blows up during build not runtime.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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