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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Important per-cpu fix.
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Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> Frankly, I'm amazed the kernel worked for long without this.
> 
> Every linker script thinks the section is called .data.percpu.
> Without this patch, every CPU ends up sharing the same "per-cpu"
> variable.
> 

wow.  Either this was working by fluke, or Bill's softirq problem
just got solved.
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