linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/7] [RFC] SLUB: Improve allocpercpu to reduce per cpu access overhead

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Message-Id: <20071031.222751.25467933.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:27:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	clameter@....com
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca,
	penberg@...helsinki.fi
Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] [RFC] SLUB: Improve allocpercpu to reduce per cpu
 access overhead

From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:21:02 -0700 (PDT)

> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, David Miller wrote:
> 
> > From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
> > Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:12:11 -0700 (PDT)
> > 
> > > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, David Miller wrote:
> > > 
> > > > All I can do now is bisect and then try to figure out what about the
> > > > guilty change might cause the problem.
> > > 
> > > Reverting the 7th patch should avoid using the sparc register that caches 
> > > the per cpu area offset? (I though so, does it?)
> > 
> > Yes, that's right, %g5 holds the local cpu's per-cpu offset.
> 
> And if I add the address of a percpu variable then I get to the variable 
> for this cpu right?

Right.

I bisected the crash down to:

	[PATCH] newallocpercpu
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