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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:36:13 +0000
Subject: Re: Commit 34d76c41 causes linker errors on ia64 with NR_CPUS=4096
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To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>, 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

Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 
>> Extending the first chunk size shouldn't be difficult on ia64 but other 
>> than this, there still is a lot of room left with the current 64k limit, 
>> so I think we should be safe for a while.  BTW, I also am curious how 
>> lockdep has been coping with the limit.
> 
> There is no lockdep on ia64, and we don't have such restriction on .percpu 
> section on any other architecture which supports lockdep, right?

Yeap, the restriction is only on ia64.

-- 
tejun