From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geoff Levand Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:56:54 +0000 Subject: Re: [powerpc changes] Re: x86/non-x86: percpu, node ids, apic ids Message-Id: <47A0F2A6.9090908@am.sony.com> List-Id: References: <200801301414.m0UEEgCC006371@hera.kernel.org> <47A09F8A.3000309@sgi.com> <20080130161036.GA12293@elte.hu> <1FE6DD409037234FAB833C420AA843EC757C72@orsmsx424.amr.corp.intel.com> <20080130180623.GA24881@elte.hu> <1FE6DD409037234FAB833C420AA843EC757DEA@orsmsx424.amr.corp.intel.com> <20080130184920.GA32212@elte.hu> <20080130191302.GA20008@lixom.net> <20080130212558.GA12409@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20080130212558.GA12409@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Olof Johansson , Paul Mackerras , anton@samba.org, Geert Uytterhoeven , "Luck, Tony" , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Development , Mike Travis , Linux/PPC Development , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Linus Torvalds Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Olof Johansson wrote: > >> > could you try the full patchset that Travis has just sent and which >> > i've put into x86.git, you can pull it from: >> >> Looks ok for powerpc so far, I haven't gotten through all defconfigs >> yet but the first ones that failed before build now. pasemi_defconfig >> boots as well. > > could the PowerPC maintainers please Ack the following patch (attached > below): > > Subject: POWERPC: use generic per cpu > From: travis@sgi.com > > so that we can push this fix upstream ASAP? > > Ingo > > ---------------> > Subject: POWERPC: use generic per cpu > From: travis@sgi.com > > Powerpc has a way to determine the address of the per cpu area of the > currently executing processor via the paca and the array of per cpu > offsets is avoided by looking up the per cpu area from the remote > paca's (copying x86_64). > > Cc: Paul Mackerras > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven > Signed-off-by: Mike Travis > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar > --- > include/asm-powerpc/percpu.h | 22 +++------------------- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) Tested on PS3 with ps3_defconfig and works OK. Acked-by: Geoff Levand