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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Important per-cpu fix.
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 19:46:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020904024630.GU888@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D75766F.1ED7257D@zip.com.au>

Rusty Russell wrote:
>> Frankly, I'm amazed the kernel worked for long without this.
>> Every linker script thinks the section is called .data.percpu.
>> Without this patch, every CPU ends up sharing the same "per-cpu"
>> variable.

On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 07:56:47PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> wow.  Either this was working by fluke, or Bill's softirq problem
> just got solved.

It's pretty easy to find out, my machines don't get past
execve("/sbin/init", argv_init, envp_init); without some kind of softirq
fix. The boot cycle is not swift though... in progress.


Cheers,
Bill

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-04  2:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-04  2:35 [PATCH] Important per-cpu fix Rusty Russell
2002-09-04  2:54 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04  4:04   ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-04  4:52     ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-09-09  8:06       ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-09  8:16         ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04  5:05     ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04  5:17       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-04  5:12         ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04  6:00       ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-04  6:06         ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04  6:19           ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04  7:38             ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-06  9:57               ` Pavel Machek
2002-09-09  3:45                 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-09  6:13                   ` David S. Miller
2002-09-09  8:17                     ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-09  8:15                       ` David S. Miller
2002-09-09 20:58                         ` Alan Cox
2002-09-09 21:06                           ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-10  9:41                         ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-04 15:44       ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-04 23:18         ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04  2:56 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-04  2:46   ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-09-04  3:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-05  9:10 Dipankar Sarma
2002-09-05  9:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-05 19:08   ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-09-05 19:11     ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-09 12:17 Matthew Wilcox
2002-09-09 23:24 ` Rusty Russell

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