Re: [GIT PULL] x86, percpu: implement and use reserved percpu alloc

Mike Galbraith
2009-03-06T07:29:58Z

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 15:46 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please pull from the following git vector.
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git tj-percpu
>
> This patchset implements reserved percpu alloc from the first chunk
> and uses it for static perpcu variables in modules on x86_64. This is
> necessary because x86_64 expects symbols to be relocatable using 32bit
> relocations but dynamic percpu allocation does not guarantee it
> leading to relocation overflow during module load.

Tested, my module loading woes are cured.

-Mike