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

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:

> 32bit sign extension for what? Absolute data references? The addressing 
> that I have seen was IP relative. Thus I thought that the kernel could be 
> moved lower.

Argh. This is all depending on a special gcc option to compile the 
kernel and that option limits the kernel to the upper 2GB. So I guess for 
CPU_PTR we need to explicitly load the address as a constant, use that as 
a base and then add the offset and the smp_id shifted to it in the 
instruction. The CPU_INC/DEC stuff using gs is not affected.


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