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Date:	Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:18:34 -0400
From:	Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] x86: Do not differentiate between x86_64 and i386
 with init_per_cpu

Even though 32-bit doesn't currently use these macros, please keep the
current define, since only 64-bit SMP is special in this regard.
64-bit SMP uses a zero-based percpu segment, which requires the linker
fixup for statically initialized percpu pointers.  This fixup isn't
needed on 32-bit SMP (or UP).

--
Brian Gerst

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
>
> There's nothing different between the way x86_64 and x86_32
> treate init_per_cpu.
>
> Although only x86_64 uses INIT_PER_CPU_VAR() in the head.S file,
> there is still no reason to keep the macro x86_64 only.
>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> ---
>  arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h |    4 ++--
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
> index a0a9779..ab86813 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h
> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
>  #define PER_CPU_VAR(var)       var
>  #endif /* SMP */
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64_SMP
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>  #define INIT_PER_CPU_VAR(var)  init_per_cpu__##var
>  #else
>  #define INIT_PER_CPU_VAR(var)  var
> @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
>  #define DECLARE_INIT_PER_CPU(var) \
>        extern typeof(var) init_per_cpu_var(var)
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64_SMP
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>  #define init_per_cpu_var(var)  init_per_cpu__##var
>  #else
>  #define init_per_cpu_var(var)  var
> --
> 1.7.5.4
>
>
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