Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760739AbYFIXaf (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:30:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754876AbYFIXa1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:30:27 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:56625 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753263AbYFIXa0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jun 2008 19:30:26 -0400 Message-ID: <484DBCE7.9030008@goop.org> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:29:43 +0100 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Lameter CC: Mike Travis , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , David Miller , Eric Dumazet , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] x86: Replace xxx_pda() operations with x86_xx_percpu(). References: <20080604003018.538497000@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com> <20080604003019.711845000@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com> <20080609130302.GA20943@elte.hu> <484D6A05.7010508@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 657 Lines: 18 Christoph Lameter wrote: > Paravirt support is on. We have seen an issue with that in the past. Why > was that again? > I'm not aware of any paravirt-related percpu bugs (other than the fact that the last major revision of per-cpu variables was done under the aegis of paravirt-ops). But booting on bare hardware with pvops enabled should be exactly the same as non-pvops with respect to percpu. J -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/