From: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86, percpu: implement and use reserved percpu alloc
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:29:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1236324582.5968.4.camel@marge.simson.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1236321988-19457-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-06 7:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-06 6:46 [GIT PULL] x86, percpu: implement and use reserved percpu alloc Tejun Heo
2009-03-06 6:46 ` [PATCH 1/8] percpu: clean up percpu constants Tejun Heo
2009-03-08 5:01 ` Bryan Wu
2009-03-06 6:46 ` [PATCH 2/8] percpu: cosmetic renames in pcpu_setup_first_chunk() Tejun Heo
2009-03-06 6:46 ` [PATCH 3/8] percpu: improve first chunk initial area map handling Tejun Heo
2009-03-06 6:46 ` [PATCH 4/8] percpu: use negative for auto for pcpu_setup_first_chunk() arguments Tejun Heo
2009-03-06 6:46 ` [PATCH 5/8] x86: make embedding percpu allocator return excessive free space Tejun Heo
2009-03-06 6:46 ` [PATCH 6/8] percpu: add an indirection ptr for chunk page map access Tejun Heo
2009-03-06 6:46 ` [PATCH 7/8] percpu, module: implement reserved allocation and use it for module percpu variables Tejun Heo
2009-03-06 6:46 ` [PATCH 8/8] x86, percpu: setup reserved percpu area for x86_64 Tejun Heo
2009-03-06 7:29 ` Mike Galbraith [this message]
2009-03-06 8:06 ` [GIT PULL] x86, percpu: implement and use reserved percpu alloc Ingo Molnar
2009-03-08 4:37 ` Bryan Wu
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