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

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Message-ID: <57C9024A16AD2D4C97DC78E552063EA3E337D94C@orsmsx505.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:	Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:24:53 -0700
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
CC:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@...e.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Yu, Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
	"linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Commit 34d76c41 causes linker errors on ia64 with NR_CPUS=4096

> Tony, is the change that will eventually have to be made to ia64 pagefault 
> handler too intrusive for -rc6, and should we rather go with my workaround 
> instead, and try to find something proper for 2.6.33?

Using __alloc_percpu() rather than static declaration looks to be
the right fix here.  Not a "workaround".

-Tony
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