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Message-ID: <499356CF.2060706@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:53:03 +0100 From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com> To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> CC: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] x86: Use linker to offset symbols by __per_cpu_load On 02/09/2009 10:29 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com> wrote: > >> Impact: cleanup and bug fix >> >> Use the linker to create symbols for certain per-cpu variables >> that are offset by __per_cpu_load. This allows the removal of >> the runtime fixup of the GDT pointer, which fixes a bug with >> resume reported by Jiri Slaby. >> >> Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com> >> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com> >> --- >> arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ >> arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h | 2 ++ >> arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 6 +----- >> arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S | 21 ++------------------- >> arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_64.lds.S | 8 ++++++++ >> 5 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) > > applied to tip/core/percpu, thanks! > > Also added these tags: > > Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com> > Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com> Ok, fixes the problem for me, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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