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SubjectRe: [Uclinux-dist-devel] [RFC PATCH] percpu: always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE
Hello,

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 02:46:01AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:06, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > The linker script macros PERCPU_VADDR() and PERCPU() are used to
> > define this output section and the latter takes @align parameter.
> > Several architectures are using @align smaller than PAGE_SIZE breaking
> > percpu memory alignment.
>
> hmm, i just pushed through a fix in the Blackfin tree as we hit a boot
> failure otherwise:
> - PERCPU(4)
> + PERCPU(PAGE_SIZE)
>
> > This patch removes @align parameter from PERCPU(), renames it to
> > PERCPU_SECTION and makes it always align to PAGE_SIZE.  While at it,
> > add PCPU_SETUP_BUG_ON() checks such that alignment problems are
> > reliably detected and remove percpu alignment comment recently added
> > in workqueue.c as the condition would trigger BUG way before reaching
> > there.
>
> seems this still hasnt made it to mainline. has it stalled or
> something ? feel free for the Blackfin bits:
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

Heh, I just forgot. I'll queue it with your Acked-by added.

Thanks.

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tejun
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