2006-02-08 06:48:50

by Chris Wright

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Subject: [PATCH 17/23] [PATCH] x86_64: Let impossible CPUs point to reference per cpu data

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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Don't mark the reference per cpu data init data (so it stays
around after boot) and point all impossible CPUs to it. This way
they reference some valid - although shared memory. Usually
this is only initialization like INIT_LIST_HEADs and there
won't be races because these CPUs never run. Still somewhat hackish.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[email protected]>
---

arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 10 ++++++----
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.15.3/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.15.3.orig/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
+++ linux-2.6.15.3/arch/x86_64/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
@@ -170,13 +170,15 @@ SECTIONS
. = ALIGN(4096);
__initramfs_start = .;
.init.ramfs : AT(ADDR(.init.ramfs) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.init.ramfs) }
- __initramfs_end = .;
- . = ALIGN(32);
+ __initramfs_end = .;
+ /* temporary here to work around NR_CPUS. If you see this comment in 2.6.17+
+ complain */
+ . = ALIGN(4096);
+ __init_end = .;
+ . = ALIGN(128);
__per_cpu_start = .;
.data.percpu : AT(ADDR(.data.percpu) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.data.percpu) }
__per_cpu_end = .;
- . = ALIGN(4096);
- __init_end = .;

. = ALIGN(4096);
__nosave_begin = .;

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