Re: s390(64) per_cpu in modules (ipv6)

[Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>]

On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 16:35, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> Hi, Martin,
> 
> I tried to build ipv6 as a module in 2.6.7, and it bombs, producing a
> module which wants per_cpu____icmpv6_socket (obviously, undefined).
> 
> The problem appears to be caused by this:
> 
> #define __get_got_cpu_var(var,offset) \
>   (*({ unsigned long *__ptr; \
>        asm ( "larl %0,per_cpu__"#var"@GOTENT" : "=a" (__ptr) ); \
>        ((typeof(&per_cpu__##var))((*__ptr) + offset)); \
>     }))


Heh, I ran into the same problem trying to do this trick for PPC64.  You
really need to use __thread and make GCC do the work, AFAICT.

The worse problem is that a (static) per-cpu var declared *inside* a
function gets renamed by gcc; IIRC some generic code used to do this.

Rusty.
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