Re: Re[3]: PS3 platform is broken on Linux 3.7.0

["Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Phileas Fogg <phileas-fogg@mail.ru> writes:

>  Please ignore the previous patch to fix the PACA issue on PS3 arch.
> This is the correct one:
>
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c	2013-02-10 13:56:12.803855673 +0100
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c	2013-02-10 14:07:22.870561322 +0100
> @@ -186,6 +186,9 @@
>  	initialise_paca(&boot_paca, 0);
>  	setup_paca(&boot_paca);
>  
> +	/* Allow percpu accesses to "work" until we setup percpu data */
> +	boot_paca.data_offset = 0;
> +
>  	/* Initialize lockdep early or else spinlocks will blow */
>  	lockdep_init();
>  
>

commit 466921c5a4669f4315528a25f9afd66601ce2c04 is done to fix the
lockdep related issue on ppc64. So this may need little bit more
explanation. So if we explicitly use boot_paca, do we still need the
changes in the above commit ?

-aneesh