Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755851AbZCaVQT (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:16:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753130AbZCaVQB (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:16:01 -0400 Received: from smtp.ultrahosting.com ([74.213.174.254]:57799 "EHLO smtp.ultrahosting.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756842AbZCaVQA (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:16:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:10:40 -0400 (EDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: cl@qirst.com To: Martin Schwidefsky cc: Tejun Heo , Ingo Molnar , rusty@rustcorp.com.au, tglx@linutronix.de, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hpa@zytor.com, Paul Mundt , rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, starvik@axis.com, ralf@linux-mips.org, davem@davemloft.net, cooloney@kernel.org, kyle@mcmartin.ca, matthew@wil.cx, grundler@parisc-linux.org, takata@linux-m32r.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org, rth@twiddle.net, ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com Subject: Re: [GIT RFC] percpu: use dynamic percpu allocator as the default percpu allocator In-Reply-To: <20090331221847.50ea3356@skybase> Message-ID: References: <1236671631-9305-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <20090316190132.7965a49a@skybase> <49C300D8.5080204@kernel.org> <49C8FAC4.6060508@kernel.org> <20090325122738.42d105b7@skybase> <49CA1AC3.9080908@kernel.org> <20090325122241.GE11571@elte.hu> <49CA2345.70204@kernel.org> <20090325141330.2717dc97@skybase> <49CA2FBF.9000207@kernel.org> <20090325142525.2d31c522@skybase> <49CA32F6.2030408@kernel.org> <20090331185431.72ff1707@skybase> <20090331221847.50ea3356@skybase> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (DEB 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 746 Lines: 22 On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > Please include the patch inline next time. > > What do you mean by "inline"? That the patch should not be the last > thing in the mail? The patch needs to show up when I press reply and not vanish. I guess this was an attachment. > I don't see how changes to the initial per cpu segment should help with > access to per cpu symbols. Can you convince the linker to place the per cpu segment > 4G away from the code? Its a virtual address right? -- 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/