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

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Message-ID: <20091021061109.GA27195@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:11:09 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>
Cc:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	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


* Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com> wrote:

> This version fixes a build issue (__alignof__(unsigned long)) and 
> fixes the percpu lookup to be usd = percpu array pointer, usd[i] = 
> actual variable.

Before applying this part-workaround i'd like to see confirmation that 
the IA64 limitation is being fixed. It would be bad for such bugs to pop 
up again and again in the future, with a 2 months bug fixing latency.

	Ingo
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