linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/8] Allow per-cpu variables to be page-aligned

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Date:	Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:29:10 +1100
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	lkml - Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...source.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] Allow per-cpu variables to be page-aligned

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 10:17 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Rusty Russell wrote:
> > diff -r 213b1ec27001 arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> > --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	Tue Mar 06 19:01:59 2007 +1100
> > +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	Tue Mar 06 19:02:03 2007 +1100
> > @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ SECTIONS
> >    . = ALIGN(8);
> >    SECURITY_INIT
> >  
> > -  . = ALIGN(64);
> > +  . = ALIGN(8192);
> >   
> 
> Isn't there a PAGE_SIZE we can use here?  PAGE_SIZE_asm?
> (ditto all archs)

Probably, but I carefully copied the style from other parts of the same
file for the same arch.  So, that cleanup would be another patch 8)

Rusty.


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