From: "Alexander van Heukelum" <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
To: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: reduce back the alignment of the per-CPU data section
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:47:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1297241252.30625.1419727165@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D525CE60200007800030EE5@vpn.id2.novell.com>
Hi Jan,
This is indeed a leftover. Thanks.
This was once done to fix i386-UP, because the irq stacks were part of the percpu area. The stacks are now allocated dynamically.
Acked-by: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Greetings,
Alexander
On Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:22 +0000, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@novell.com> wrote:
> This complements commit 47f19a0814e80e1d4e5c17d61b70fca85ea09162,
> reverting one leftover of fe8e0c25cad28e8858ecfa5863333c70685a6811.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
> Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
>
> ---
> arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> --- 2.6.38-rc4/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> +++ 2.6.38-rc4-x86-percpu-align/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ SECTIONS
> }
>
> #if !defined(CONFIG_X86_64) || !defined(CONFIG_SMP)
> - PERCPU(THREAD_SIZE)
> + PERCPU(PAGE_SIZE)
> #endif
>
> . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
>
>
>
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2011-02-09 8:22 Jan Beulich
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