From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: davidm@hpl.hp.com
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
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: Tue, 4 May 2004 10:56:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200405041056.43748.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16534.53723.524354.936428@napali.hpl.hp.com>
On Tuesday 04 May 2004 01:12, David Mosberger wrote:
> Why not use a GCC attribute? Perhaps it's a bit of a stretch, but if
> you interpret "model(small)" as indicating "small positive/negative
> _absolute_ address", you could even use the same attribute name.
Yes, that might solve it for gcc-3.5, but not for any older compiler
that does not support this, so it's not an option. Besides, it
would probably mean less efficient code (three loads to get to
a per-cpu variable instead of the current two).
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-04 8:58 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
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 [this message]
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
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2004-05-05 17:42 Martin Schwidefsky
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