linux-kernel - Re: [patch 07/13] Initialize per cpu lowcores on cpu hotplug.

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Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:13:55 +0100
From:	Bastian Blank <bastian@...di.eu.org>
To:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 07/13] Initialize per cpu lowcores on cpu hotplug.

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 03:40:54PM +0100, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> +	/*
> +	 * Only need to copy the first 512 bytes from address 0. But since
> +	 * the compiler emits a warning if src == NULL for memcpy use copy_page
> +	 * instead. Copies more than needed but this code is not performance
> +	 * critical.
> +	 */
> +	copy_page(lowcore, &S390_lowcore);

Boah, workaround alert. Why do you not fix the compiler?

Bastian

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