linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] timers: Allocate per-cpu tvec

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Message-ID: <20150330102726.GS23123@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Mon, 30 Mar 2015 12:27:26 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Linaro Kernel Mailman List <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] timers: Allocate per-cpu tvec_base's statically

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 03:25:36PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> On 30 March 2015 at 13:48, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> > I did the below on top; I'll sit on these patches for a wee while in the
> > hope of the blackfin maintainer explaining his reasons for wrecking
> > ____cacheline_aligned.
> 
> Two things I wanted to mention:
> 
> 1.) We may need to drop the patch 2/3 as that breaks build for xtensa and tile.
> 
>    kernel/time/timer.c: In function 'init_timers_cpu':
>    kernel/time/timer.c:1539:1: error: section attribute cannot be
> specified for local variables

> Can these be fixed somehow ?

Hmm, is your xtensa/tile compiler different from your others? But no,
I think we need to move it back to global scope. Lemme go do that.
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