From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754750AbYGRGwx (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:52:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752855AbYGRGwq (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:52:46 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:37581 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752831AbYGRGwp (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:52:45 -0400 Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:52:24 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Mike Travis Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge , "Eric W. Biederman" , Christoph Lameter , "H. Peter Anvin" , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC 0/5] percpu: Optimize percpu accesses Message-ID: <20080718065224.GA6875@elte.hu> References: <20080701121634.865966000@polaris-admin.engr.sgi.com> <20080701145417.GB18522@elte.hu> <20080701150313.GA30476@elte.hu> <486A483B.2090804@sgi.com> <486B8AD3.70007@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <486B8AD3.70007@sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Mike Travis wrote: > Mike Travis wrote: > > Ingo Molnar wrote: > >> * Ingo Molnar wrote: > >> > >>>> This patchset provides the following: > >>>> > >>>> * Cleanup: Fix early references to cpumask_of_cpu(0) > >>>> * Generic: Percpu infrastructure to rebase the per cpu area to zero > >>>> * x86_64: Fold pda into per cpu area > >>>> * x86_64: Rebase per cpu variables to zero > >>> thanks Mike - i've started testing it in -tip. One small merge fallout > >>> fix is below. (it's for the new generic-ipi topic that was not in > >>> tip/master yet when you merged percpu-zerobased to it) > >> ok, -tip testing found an early boot crash caused by your patchset, on > >> 64-bit x86: > > Hi Ingo, > > Which gcc version are you using? vanilla gcc-4.2.3 (unpatched). Ingo