linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/3] add new macros to make percpu readmostly section correctly align

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Date:	Thu, 16 Dec 2010 10:50:38 +0100
From:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>
To:	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>
CC:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"hpa@...or.com" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"eric.dumazet@...il.com" <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] add new macros to make percpu readmostly section
 correctly align

Hello, Shaohua.

On 12/16/2010 06:56 AM, Shaohua Li wrote:
>>>>> -#include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
>>>>>  #include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
>>>>>  #include <asm/thread_info.h>
>>>>>  #include <asm/page_types.h>
>>>>>  #include <asm/cache.h>
>>>>> +#include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
>>>>>  #include <asm/boot.h>
>>>>
>>>> Why do we need this chunk?
>>> the cache size is defined in cache.h, so I need move vmlinux.lds.h after
>>> cache.h
>>
>> The right fix is to move the inclusion of cache.h to
>> asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h.  A quick audit only found sparc that
>> failed to guard non assembler stuff.
>
> with this, we need check every arch, at least doing a compile. I'm
> afraid I can't, sorry.

Not being able to cross build every arch is okay but you at least need
to make an effort to make things easily applicable to other archs and
avoid adding subtle ugliness like the above.  Please at least try to
look at other arch codes and see how things can be made to work across
different archs.  Setting up cross compilers for the major archs, for
example, sparc, power and ia64 isn't that difficult either.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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