From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] per-cpu patch 1/3
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:14:04 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020722053036.5A26B419C@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Jul 2002 20:00:02 MST." <3D3B7532.96B78172@zip.com.au>
In message <3D3B7532.96B78172@zip.com.au> you write:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> >
> > Name: Export __per_cpu_offset so modules can use per-cpu data.
>
> ie: so modules can access per-cpu data which is defined in
> vmlinux. afaik, modules cannot define percpu.h-style per-cpu
> storage of their own, yes?
>
> That's rather a trap. It would be nice to ensure that any
> attempt to define per-cpu data in a module fails reliably
> at compile-time, please.
See patch 3/3.
Cheers!
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-22 5:26 UTC|newest]
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2002-07-18 3:46 [PATCH] per-cpu patch 1/3 Rusty Russell
2002-07-22 3:00 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-22 5:14 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
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