linux-kernel - Re: Commit 34d76c41 causes linker errors on ia64 with NR

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Date:	Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:21:14 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Commit 34d76c41 causes linker errors on ia64 with NR_CPUS=4096

On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 08:15 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> Seems like an IA64 bug to me. It's _very_ easy to get more than 64K of 
> percpu data - i'm wondering why IA64 only triggered it now? Sure 
> lockdep/lockstat must have triggered it before.

I seem to remember people wanting to make lockstat data dynamically
allocated because of this.

But then, I'm not sure ia64 actually has lockdep support.

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