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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	torvalds@transmeta.com, davej@suse.de, andrea@suse.de,
	paul.mckenney@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [BKPATCH] Read-Copy Update 2.5
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 23:11:57 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020826.231157.10296323.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020827114152.A2072@in.ibm.com>

   From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
   Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 11:41:52 +0530

   On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:24:30AM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
   > > +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
   > > +/* Fake initialization to work around compiler breakage */
   > > +DEFINE_PER_CPU(atomic_t[2], rcu_preempt_cntr) = 
   > > +			{ATOMIC_INIT(0), ATOMIC_INIT(0)};
   > > +DEFINE_PER_CPU(atomic_t, *curr_preempt_cntr) = NULL;
   > > +DEFINE_PER_CPU(atomic_t, *next_preempt_cntr) = NULL;
   > 
   > Also static I assume?
   
   So, only statics are broken by gcc 2.95, right ?

I think it gets both static and non-static wrong.

Why don't we just specify that DEFINE_PER_CPU()'s must
have explicit initializers then we never need to think
about this ever again.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-27  6:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-26 20:52 [BKPATCH] Read-Copy Update 2.5 Dipankar Sarma
2002-08-27  0:24 ` Rusty Russell
2002-08-27  6:11   ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-08-27  6:11     ` David S. Miller [this message]
2002-08-27  6:23       ` readsw/writesw readsl/writesl Andre Hedrick
2002-08-27  6:43         ` David S. Miller
2002-08-27  6:55           ` Andre Hedrick
2002-08-27  7:30         ` David S. Miller
2002-08-27  6:46           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-08-27  6:49             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2002-08-27 17:25           ` Alan Cox
2002-08-27 21:31             ` David S. Miller
2002-08-27 13:58       ` [BKPATCH] Read-Copy Update 2.5 Dipankar Sarma

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