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Message-ID: <1292479000.2323.468.camel@sli10-conroe>
Date:	Thu, 16 Dec 2010 13:56:40 +0800
From:	Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@...el.com>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"hpa@...or.com" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"eric.dumazet@...il.com" <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] add new macros to make percpu readmostly section
 correctly align

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 13:46 +0800, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 08:53:37AM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 22:08 +0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > On 12/15/2010 02:57 AM, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > > > How about this one?
> > > 
> > > Much better.  :-)
> > > 
> > > > +#ifdef INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES
> > > > +#define INTERNODE_CACHEALIGNED						\
> > > > +	. = ALIGN(INTERNODE_CACHE_BYTES);
> > > > +#else
> > > > +#define INTERNODE_CACHEALIGNED
> > > > +#endif
> > > 
> > > Yeah, this looks good.
> > > 
> > > > Index: linux/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> > > > ===================================================================
> > > > --- linux.orig/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2010-12-15 09:37:01.000000000 +0800
> > > > +++ linux/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2010-12-15 09:37:06.000000000 +0800
> > > > @@ -20,11 +20,11 @@
> > > >  #define LOAD_OFFSET __START_KERNEL_map
> > > >  #endif
> > > >  
> > > > -#include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
> > > >  #include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
> > > >  #include <asm/thread_info.h>
> > > >  #include <asm/page_types.h>
> > > >  #include <asm/cache.h>
> > > > +#include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
> > > >  #include <asm/boot.h>
> > > 
> > > Why do we need this chunk?
> > the cache size is defined in cache.h, so I need move vmlinux.lds.h after
> > cache.h
> 
> The right fix is to move the inclusion of cache.h to asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h.
> A quick audit only found sparc that failed to guard non assembler stuff.
with this, we need check every arch, at least doing a compile. I'm
afraid I can't, sorry.

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