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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:11:09 +0000
Subject: Re: Commit 34d76c41 causes linker errors on ia64 with NR_CPUS=4096
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To: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org


* Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> wrote:

> This version fixes a build issue (__alignof__(unsigned long)) and 
> fixes the percpu lookup to be usd = percpu array pointer, usd[i] = 
> actual variable.

Before applying this part-workaround i'd like to see confirmation that 
the IA64 limitation is being fixed. It would be bad for such bugs to pop 
up again and again in the future, with a 2 months bug fixing latency.

	Ingo