From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Important per-cpu fix.
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 19:56:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D75766F.1ED7257D@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20020904023535.73D922C12D@lists.samba.org
Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> Frankly, I'm amazed the kernel worked for long without this.
>
> Every linker script thinks the section is called .data.percpu.
> Without this patch, every CPU ends up sharing the same "per-cpu"
> variable.
>
wow. Either this was working by fluke, or Bill's softirq problem
just got solved.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-09-04 2:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-04 2:35 [PATCH] Important per-cpu fix Rusty Russell
2002-09-04 2:54 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 4:04 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-04 4:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-09-09 8:06 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-09 8:16 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 5:05 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 5:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-09-04 5:12 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 6:00 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-04 6:06 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 6:19 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 7:38 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-06 9:57 ` Pavel Machek
2002-09-09 3:45 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-09 6:13 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-09 8:17 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-09 8:15 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-09 20:58 ` Alan Cox
2002-09-09 21:06 ` Andrew Morton
2002-09-10 9:41 ` Rusty Russell
2002-09-04 15:44 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-09-04 23:18 ` David S. Miller
2002-09-04 2:56 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-09-04 2:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-04 3:42 ` William Lee Irwin III
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-09-05 9:10 Dipankar Sarma
2002-09-05 9:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-05 19:08 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-09-05 19:11 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-09-09 12:17 Matthew Wilcox
2002-09-09 23:24 ` Rusty Russell
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