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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:17:24 +0900
From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
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To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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Subject: Re: unified percpu stuff
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Hello,

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> I'm really pleased to see the unified percpu stuff in the kernel, but
> unfortunately its breaking Xen at the moment.
> It looks like this is just a matter of initializing %gs properly in
> xen_start_kernel.  Is there any problem with me doing a load_gs_base(0)
> somewhere early in xen_start_kernel (arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c)?

No, not at all.  Patches welcome.  :-)

> Is the initial percpu are and offset for cpu0 all set up?  Do I need
> to make it #ifdef CONFIG_SMP?
>
> Do I need to do anything for 32-bit? (I haven't tested that yet.)

The current tj-percpu[1] contains Brian's commit which consolidates
load_gs_base() into switch_to_new_gdt(), so you'll either need to call
it instead or call wrmsrl() or loadsegment() directly if that doesn't
fit the bill (but I think it will).

The initial offset is different between 32 and 64.  Please take a look
at BOOT_PERCPU_OFFSET definition in setup_percpu.c.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

[1] git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git tj-percpu
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