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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] per-cpu patch 1/3
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 20:00:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D3B7532.96B78172@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020718042221.8E1DA421D@lists.samba.org

Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> Name: Export __per_cpu_offset so modules can use per-cpu data.

ie: so modules can access per-cpu data which is defined in
vmlinux.  afaik, modules cannot define percpu.h-style per-cpu
storage of their own, yes?

That's rather a trap.  It would be nice to ensure that any
attempt to define per-cpu data in a module fails reliably
at compile-time, please.

-

  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-22  2:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-18  3:46 [PATCH] per-cpu patch 1/3 Rusty Russell
2002-07-22  3:00 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-07-22  5:14   ` Rusty Russell

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