linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/3] Per cpu relocation to ZERO and x86_32 percpu ops on x86

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Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:41:14 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] Per cpu relocation to ZERO and x86_32 percpu ops
	on x86_64


* Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com> wrote:

> > you mean this single patch:
> > 
> >  modules-fold-percpu_modcopy-into-modulec-and-get-rid-of-the-macro-from-hell.patch
> > 
> > that's the only patch i missed AFAICS.
> 
> That is a pretty uncritical one. Then there is the fix of the zero 
> address handling in modules.c, [...]

modules-handle-symbols-that-have-a-zero-value.patch

> [...] the fixup for the use of __per_cpu_xx variables in modules.c. 
> [...]

modules-include-sectionsh-to-avoid-defining-linker-variables.patch

> etc.

such as? I guess these two:

mm-prevent-dereferencing-non-allocated-per_cpu-variables.patch
mm-prevent-dereferencing-non-allocated-per_cpu-variables-fix.patch

would be needed too?

	Ingo
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