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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Subject: [uml-devel] Re: [PATCH 4/9] UML - Mark SMP on UML/x86_64 as broken
Date: 30 Aug 2005 22:42:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73vf1nqhqw.fsf@verdi.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200508292007.j7TK72Or029927@ccure.user-mode-linux.org>

Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> writes:

> Noticed by Al Viro - SMP on x86_64 is fundamentally broken due to
> UML's reuse of the host arch's percpu stuff.  This is OK on x86, but
> the x86_64 pda stuff just won't work for UML.

The generic one should work too, it's just less efficient.
So you can probably easily replace them.

-Andi


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-30 20:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-29 20:07 [uml-devel] [PATCH 4/9] UML - Mark SMP on UML/x86_64 as broken Jeff Dike
2005-08-30 20:42 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-08-30 21:28   ` [uml-devel] " Jeff Dike

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