From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] Use %gs for per-cpu sections in kernel Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:25:40 -0700 Message-ID: <45177664.3060103@goop.org> References: <1158925861.26261.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1158925997.26261.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1158926106.26261.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1158926215.26261.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1158926308.26261.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1158926386.26261.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4514663E.5050707@goop.org> <1158985882.26261.60.camel@localhost.localdomain> <45172AC8.2070701@goop.org> <1159146974.26986.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> <45173287.8070204@goop.org> <1159152678.26986.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> <45176865.7020300@goop.org> <1159164232.26986.59.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1159164232.26986.59.camel@localhost.localdomain> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.osdl.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.osdl.org To: Rusty Russell Cc: Andi Kleen , lkml - Kernel Mailing List , virtualization List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org Rusty Russell wrote: > I don't think so. There's *never* address subtraction, there's > sometimes 32 bit wrap (glibc uses this to effect subtraction, sure). > But there's no wrap here. > = Hm, I guess, so long as you assume the kernel data segment is always = below the kernel heap. > To test, I changed the following: > > --- smpboot.c.~8~ 2006-09-25 15:51:50.000000000 +1000 > +++ smpboot.c 2006-09-25 16:00:36.000000000 +1000 > @@ -926,8 +926,9 @@ > unsigned long per_cpu_off) > { > unsigned limit, flags; > + extern char __per_cpu_end[]; > = > - limit =3D (1 << 20); > + limit =3D PAGE_ALIGN((long)__per_cpu_end) >> PAGE_SHIFT; > = limit is a size, rather than the end address, so this isn't quite right. J