Re: [GIT RFC] percpu: use dynamic percpu allocator as the default percpu allocator

Martin Schwidefsky
2009-03-25T13:26:21Z

On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:21:03 +0900
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:

> Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> >> Martin's original patch should do the trick although it would be
> >> slower for static symbols. I'll merge it and post the tree.
> >
> > No, my original patch doesn't work. It will break modules that use
> > static per-cpu variables.
>
> Oops. Even with the default offset adding macros? Heh... I think it
> would be best to wait for your fix then.

We could use HAVE_LEGACY_PER_CPU_AREA for the time being.

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Martin.

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