Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754367AbZCFH36 (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 02:29:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751406AbZCFH3t (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 02:29:49 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:44332 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750728AbZCFH3s (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Mar 2009 02:29:48 -0500 X-Authenticated: #14349625 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+6d/c15zu6mwChvcYDH//m9YIxZ5zxq/cm+2J8S8 5tfnxbwTOKA6gs Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86, percpu: implement and use reserved percpu alloc From: Mike Galbraith To: Tejun Heo Cc: mingo@elte.hu, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, tglx@linutronix.de, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, jaswinder@kernel.org, cooloney@kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1236321988-19457-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> References: <1236321988-19457-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:29:42 +0100 Message-Id: <1236324582.5968.4.camel@marge.simson.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.68 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 819 Lines: 22 On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 15:46 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > Please pull from the following git vector. > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git tj-percpu > > This patchset implements reserved percpu alloc from the first chunk > and uses it for static perpcu variables in modules on x86_64. This is > necessary because x86_64 expects symbols to be relocatable using 32bit > relocations but dynamic percpu allocation does not guarantee it > leading to relocation overflow during module load. Tested, my module loading woes are cured. -Mike -- 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/