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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [x86-64] align per-cpu section to configured cache bytes
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 04:03:10 +0100
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On Friday 27 January 2006 23:02, Zach Brown wrote:
> [x86-64] align per-cpu section to configured cache bytes
> 
> Align the start of the per-cpu section to the configured number of bytes in a
> cache line.  This stops a BUG_ON() from triggering in load_module() when
> DEFINE_PER_CPU() is used in a module and the section isn't cacheline-aligned.
> Rusty also found this and sent a patch in a while ago
> (http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/19/17), I don't know what came of that.

Added. 

-Andi