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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Gianni Tedesco <gxt@cs.nott.ac.uk>,
	arges@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	oprofile-list@lists.sourceforge.net, Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: oprofile BUG() in current kernel.
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 08:23:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080513082313.cbbe81af.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48296C96.8060000@cosmosbay.com>

On Tue, 13 May 2008 12:25:26 +0200 Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> wrote:

> Current module loader only allocates percpu room by examining 
> ".data.percpu" section and should be augmented to also look at 
> ".data.percpu.shared_aligned"
> Or, change DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED() for modules (to use 
> ".data.percpu" only)

Well that's a little landmine.  Seems that this was the first attempt to
use DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED from within a module.

> Anyway, with the per_cpu conversion of cpu_buffer, we dont need to 
> request cache_line alignment anymore
>
> [PATCH] oprofile: Dont request cache line alignment for cpu_buffer

Thanks.  Silly me for looking at the nearly-one-year-old
DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED and assuming that it worked :(



  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-13 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-12 12:02 oprofile BUG() in current kernel Gianni Tedesco
2008-05-12 12:19 ` Vegard Nossum
2008-05-12 13:31   ` Gianni Tedesco
2008-05-12 14:11     ` Maynard Johnson
2008-05-12 16:38       ` Chris J Arges
2008-05-13  8:40         ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-13  9:01           ` Vegard Nossum
2008-05-13  9:41           ` Gianni Tedesco
2008-05-13 10:25             ` Eric Dumazet
2008-05-13 10:59               ` Gianni Tedesco
     [not found]                 ` <482986B3.1090601@cosmosbay.com>
2008-05-13 14:38                   ` Gianni Tedesco
2008-05-13 15:23               ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-05-13 15:12             ` [PATCH] per_cpu: fix DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED for modules Eric Dumazet
2008-05-14  5:18               ` Eric Dumazet

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