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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	virtualization <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] Use %gs for per-cpu sections in kernel
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:25:40 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45177664.3060103@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1159164232.26986.59.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Rusty Russell wrote:
> I don't think so.  There's *never* address subtraction, there's
> sometimes 32 bit wrap (glibc uses this to effect subtraction, sure).
> But there's no wrap here.
>   
Hm, I guess, so long as you assume the kernel data segment is always 
below the kernel heap.

> To test, I changed the following:
>
> --- smpboot.c.~8~	2006-09-25 15:51:50.000000000 +1000
> +++ smpboot.c	2006-09-25 16:00:36.000000000 +1000
> @@ -926,8 +926,9 @@
>  					      unsigned long per_cpu_off)
>  {
>  	unsigned limit, flags;
> +	extern char __per_cpu_end[];
>  
> -	limit = (1 << 20);
> +	limit = PAGE_ALIGN((long)__per_cpu_end) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
>   
limit is a size, rather than the end address, so this isn't quite right.

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-25  6:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-22 11:51 [PATCH 0/7] Using %gs for per-cpu areas on x86 Rusty Russell
2006-09-22 11:53 ` [PATCH 1/7] Use per-cpu GDT tables from early in boot Rusty Russell
2006-09-22 11:55   ` [PATCH 2/7] Rusty Russell
2006-09-22 11:56     ` [PATCH 3/7] Update sys_vm86 to cope with changed pt_regs and %gs usage Rusty Russell
2006-09-22 11:58       ` [PATCH 4/7] Fix places where using %gs changes the usermode ABI Rusty Russell
2006-09-22 11:59         ` [PATCH 5/7] Use %gs for per-cpu sections in kernel Rusty Russell
2006-09-22 12:00           ` [PATCH 6/7] (Optional) implement smp_processor_id() as a per-cpu var Rusty Russell
2006-09-22 12:01             ` [PATCH 7/7] (Optional) implement current " Rusty Russell
2006-09-25  5:29               ` Rusty Russell
2006-09-25  5:27             ` [PATCH 6/7] (Optional) implement smp_processor_id() " Rusty Russell
2006-09-22 12:32           ` [PATCH 5/7] Use %gs for per-cpu sections in kernel Andi Kleen
2006-09-22 12:32             ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-22 22:43             ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-22 23:52               ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-23  4:51             ` Rusty Russell
2006-09-23  8:17               ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-23  8:55                 ` Rusty Russell
2006-09-22 22:39           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-23  4:31             ` Rusty Russell
2006-09-25  1:03               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-25  1:16                 ` Rusty Russell
2006-09-25  1:36                   ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-25  2:51                     ` Rusty Russell
2006-09-25  5:25                       ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-25  6:03                         ` Rusty Russell
2006-09-25  6:25                           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2006-09-25 23:33                             ` Rusty Russell
2006-09-23  8:13             ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-25  1:07               ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-25  1:07                 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-25  1:20                 ` Rusty Russell
2006-09-25  5:26                   ` Rusty Russell
2006-09-22 22:24     ` [PATCH 2/7] Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-09-23  4:36       ` Rusty Russell

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