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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: Use linker to offset symbols by __per_cpu_load
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 10:29:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090209092951.GB7930@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1234105120-19731-2-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>


* Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com> wrote:

> Impact: cleanup and bug fix
> 
> Use the linker to create symbols for certain per-cpu variables
> that are offset by __per_cpu_load.  This allows the removal of
> the runtime fixup of the GDT pointer, which fixes a bug with
> resume reported by Jiri Slaby.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h    |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h |    2 ++
>  arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c     |    6 +-----
>  arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S        |   21 ++-------------------
>  arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S |    8 ++++++++
>  5 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

applied to tip/core/percpu, thanks!

Also added these tags:

Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-09  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-08 14:58 [PATCH 1/3] percpu: Make PER_CPU_BASE_SECTION overridable by arches Brian Gerst
2009-02-08 14:58 ` [PATCH 2/3] x86: Use linker to offset symbols by __per_cpu_load Brian Gerst
2009-02-09  9:29   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-02-11 22:53     ` Jiri Slaby
2009-02-08 14:58 ` [PATCH 3/3] x86: Fix abuse of per_cpu_offset Brian Gerst
2009-02-09  9:31   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-09  9:29 ` [PATCH 1/3] percpu: Make PER_CPU_BASE_SECTION overridable by arches Ingo Molnar

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