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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: npiggin@suse.de, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] MM: slqb, fix per_cpu access
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:24:30 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AEEF9AE.1090904@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257151763-11507-1-git-send-email-jirislaby@gmail.com>

2009년 11월 02일 17:49, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> We cannot use the same local variable name as the declared per_cpu
> variable since commit "percpu: remove per_cpu__ prefix."
> 
> Otherwise we would see crashes like:
> general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
> last sysfs file:
> CPU 1
> Modules linked in:
> Pid: 1, comm: swapper Tainted: G        W  2.6.32-rc5-mm1_64 #860
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8142ff94>]  [<ffffffff8142ff94>] start_cpu_timer+0x2b/0x87
> ...
> 
> Use slqb_ prefix for the global variable so that we don't collide
> even with the rest of the kernel (s390 and alpha need this).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: npiggin@suse.de, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] MM: slqb, fix per_cpu access
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:24:30 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AEEF9AE.1090904@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1257151763-11507-1-git-send-email-jirislaby@gmail.com>

2009e?? 11i?? 02i? 1/4  17:49, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> We cannot use the same local variable name as the declared per_cpu
> variable since commit "percpu: remove per_cpu__ prefix."
> 
> Otherwise we would see crashes like:
> general protection fault: 0000 [#1] SMP
> last sysfs file:
> CPU 1
> Modules linked in:
> Pid: 1, comm: swapper Tainted: G        W  2.6.32-rc5-mm1_64 #860
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8142ff94>]  [<ffffffff8142ff94>] start_cpu_timer+0x2b/0x87
> ...
> 
> Use slqb_ prefix for the global variable so that we don't collide
> even with the rest of the kernel (s390 and alpha need this).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-11-02 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-01 22:12 [PATCH 1/1] MM: slqb, fix per_cpu access Jiri Slaby
2009-11-01 22:12 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-11-02  4:22 ` Tejun Heo
2009-11-02  4:22   ` Tejun Heo
2009-11-02  8:49   ` Jiri Slaby
2009-11-02  8:49     ` Jiri Slaby
2009-11-02 11:48     ` Dave Young
2009-11-02 11:48       ` Dave Young
2009-11-02 15:24     ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2009-11-02 15:24       ` Tejun Heo
2009-11-02 16:24     ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-02 16:24       ` Christoph Lameter
2009-11-02 13:23 ` Rusty Russell
2009-11-02 13:23   ` Rusty Russell
2009-11-02 15:31   ` Jiri Slaby
2009-11-02 15:31     ` Jiri Slaby
2009-11-04  7:45     ` Rusty Russell
2009-11-04  7:45       ` Rusty Russell

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