Re: [PATCH UPDATED] percpu: use dynamic percpu allocator as thedefault percpu allocator

[Martin Schwidefsky]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:07:44 +0900
Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Okay, this should keep s390 and alpha working till proper solution is
> found.  Martin, can you please verify?  Ingo, please feel free to push
> this upstream (or -next) once Martin acks.

Looks good, everything compiles and the static per-cpu variables are
resolved via GOTENT:

Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx>

For the proper solution, the easiest fix is imho to define a
variant of SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR. The macro is currently used for dynamic
pointers and for per-cpu symbols. We only want to use the GOTENT
indirection for per-cpu symbols. So why don't we split it into
1) SHIFT_PERCPU_SYMBOL for per-cpu symbols and
2) SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR for dynamically allocated pointers?
For s390 the first would be the current SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR macro, the
second would be a simple RELOC_HIDE. The patch would be really
short ..

-- 
blue skies,
   Martin.

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.

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