From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 6 May 2002 08:47:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 6 May 2002 08:47:10 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com ([204.127.198.38]:48382 "EHLO rwcrmhc51.attbi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 6 May 2002 08:47:08 -0400 Message-ID: <3CD67A98.40205@didntduck.org> Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 08:44:08 -0400 From: Brian Gerst User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: Linus Torvalds , Dave Jones , Linux-Kernel , Rusty Russell Subject: Re: [PATCH] percpu updates In-Reply-To: <3CD06ACE.1090402@didntduck.org> <3CD4B042.A4355FD3@zip.com.au> <3CD55FF0.2030909@didntduck.org> <3CD64562.9AB4D3D7@zip.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton wrote: > Brian Gerst wrote: > >>Andrew Morton wrote: >> >>>Brian Gerst wrote: >>> >>> >>>>These patches convert some of the existing arrays based on NR_CPUS to >>>>use the new per cpu code. >>>> >>> >>... >>Andrew, could you try this patch? I suspect something in setup_arch() >>is touching the per cpu area before it gets copied for the other cpus. >>This patch makes certain the boot cpu area is setup ASAP. > > > This little recidivist is still using gcc-2.91.66. It is not > placing the percpu data in the correct section. It is not > entirely obvious why. > > I downgraded to 2.95.3 (build time went from 2:45 to 3:15, giving > nothing in return) and Brian's patch worked OK. > > ho hum. So. 2.91.66, rest in peace. I shall miss you. Aha. I was starting to wonder about the compiler. -- Brian Gerst