Re: [powerpc changes] Re: x86/non-x86: percpu, node ids, apic ids x86.git fixup

Geoff Levand
2008-01-30T21:58:16Z

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> wrote:
>
>> > could you try the full patchset that Travis has just sent and which
>> > i've put into x86.git, you can pull it from:
>>
>> Looks ok for powerpc so far, I haven't gotten through all defconfigs
>> yet but the first ones that failed before build now. pasemi_defconfig
>> boots as well.
>
> could the PowerPC maintainers please Ack the following patch (attached
> below):
>
> Subject: POWERPC: use generic per cpu
> From: travis@sgi.com
>
> so that we can push this fix upstream ASAP?
>
> Ingo
>
> --------------->
> Subject: POWERPC: use generic per cpu
> From: travis@sgi.com
>
> Powerpc has a way to determine the address of the per cpu area of the
> currently executing processor via the paca and the array of per cpu
> offsets is avoided by looking up the per cpu area from the remote
> paca's (copying x86_64).
>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> ---
> include/asm-powerpc/percpu.h | 22 +++-------------------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)

Tested on PS3 with ps3_defconfig and works OK.

Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>