linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] sparc64: Use generic percpu linux-2.6.git

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Message-Id: <20080130.170306.174974383.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:03:06 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	mingo@...e.hu
Cc:	travis@....com, Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	clameter@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] sparc64: Use generic percpu linux-2.6.git

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:52:23 +0100

> 
> * travis@....com <travis@....com> wrote:
> 
> > Sparc64 has a way of providing the base address for the per cpu area 
> > of the currently executing processor in a global register.
> > 
> > Sparc64 also provides a way to calculate the address of a per cpu area 
> > from a base address instead of performing an array lookup.
> 
> has this been booted on SPARC64 and does David ACK this conversion?

Conceptually I'm fine with the changes.

I had these for testing in my backlog right before I came to
LCA08 and I won't be able to do any real testing until I get back
home on Feb 4th.
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