linux-kernel - Re: Further percpu/pda unification?

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Date:	Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:28:35 -0700
From:	Mike Travis <travis@....com>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: Further percpu/pda unification?

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> I notice that there's now a unified asm-x86/percpu.h, and the pda is now
> a per-cpu variable.  But I also see that most of the stuff in percpu.h
> is 32-bit only: all the accessor macros, x86_read/write_percpu, etc.  Is
> there some reason why that can't be made common, or is it just that
> nobody has got around to it yet?
> 
> Thanks,
>    J

Hi Jeremy,

I'll have a further unification patch shortly, just doing final testing now.

Thanks,
Mike
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