linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86_64: Fold pda into per cpu area

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0802151442440.16270@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date:	Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:43:34 -0800 (PST)
From:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
cc:	travis@....com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86_64: Fold pda into per cpu area

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 
> * travis@....com <travis@....com> wrote:
> 
> >  include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h |    2 +
> >  include/linux/percpu.h            |    9 ++++-
> 
> couldnt these two generic bits be done separately (perhaps a preparatory 
> but otherwise NOP patch pushed upstream straight away) to make 
> subsequent patches only touch x86 architecture files?

Yes those modifications could be folded into the generic patch for zero 
based percpu configurations.
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