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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711201257580.27235@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:58:34 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
travis@....com, Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rfc 08/45] cpu alloc: x86 support
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > This limitation shouldn't apply to the percpu area, since gs_base can be
> > pointed anywhere in the address space -- in effect we're always indirect.
>
> The initial reference copy of the percpu area has to be addressed by
> the linker.
Right that is important for the percpu references that can be folded by
the linker in order to avoid address calculations.
> Hmm, in theory since it is not actually used by itself I suppose you could
> move it into positive space.
But the positive space is reserved for a processes memory.
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