Re: [patch 2/3] add new macros to make percpu readmostly sectioncorrectly align

[Shaohua Li]

On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 17:47 +0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 12/13/2010 01:41 AM, Shaohua Li wrote:
> >> Why add another set of macros?  Can't you just make the default one
> >> aligned?
> > how to do it without changing all arch code? There isn't cache line size
> > macro for all arch which could be used in vmlinux.lds.h, IIRC.
> 
> Can't we get around that with some ifdefferies?  And even if we'll
> have to change lds on every arch, I think we better do it that way.
I don't understand what you mean. defining a cachine line size macro for
all archs? There is such macro, but using it in vmlinux.ld.h always
report error. There is some other defines which can't be included in a
link script.
> It's not like the problem exists only on x86, right?
yes, though currently only x86 has it.

Thanks,
Shaohua

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