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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: davidm@hpl.hp.com
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, epasch@de.ibm.com, hare@suse.de
Subject: Re: static DEFINE_PER_CPU vs. modules
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 11:01:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040503180156.GA10981@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16534.34396.940596.361864@napali.hpl.hp.com>

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 10:50:20AM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> Seems to me this is a gcc bug if it
> generates code that is unable to reach all possible addresses.

Nope.  There are multiple memory models for amd64.  The default
assumes a 32-bit local data segment, since that makes for the
most efficient code generation and works virtually all of the time.

No different than assuming a 22-bit small-data section by default
for ia64...


r~

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-03 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-03 15:41 static DEFINE_PER_CPU vs. modules Arnd Bergmann
2004-05-03 17:50 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-03 18:01   ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2004-05-03 18:37     ` David Mosberger
2004-05-03 22:24       ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-05-03 23:12         ` David Mosberger
2004-05-04  8:56           ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-05-04  2:38 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-04 14:17   ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-05-04 16:29     ` David Mosberger
2004-05-04 19:03       ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-04 19:15         ` David Mosberger
2004-05-04 19:23           ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-04 19:45             ` David Mosberger
2004-05-05  8:21               ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-05-05  8:29                 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-05  9:24                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-05-05  9:33                 ` Rusty Russell
2004-05-05 16:17                 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-05  3:18         ` Richard Henderson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-05 17:42 Martin Schwidefsky

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