Re: [rfc 08/45] cpu alloc: x86 support

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> But you wouldn't actually *use* this address space.  It's just for the linker
> to know what address to tag the references with; it gets relocated by gs_base
> down into proper kernel space.  The linker can stash the initialized reference
> copy at any address (LMA) which can be different from what it will be used at
> (VMA); that is not an issue.

That is already provided by this patchset. The cpu area starts at absolute 
0.
 
> To use %rip references, though, which are more efficient, you probably want to
> use offsets that are just below .text (at -2 GB); presumably
> -2 GB-[max size of percpu section].  Again, however, no CPU actually needs to
> have its data stashed in that particular location; it's just an offset.

Right. That is what we are discussion in another thread.

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