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Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:23:55 +0200
From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/05] percpu i386 linker script update
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On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 05:19:33PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Add .data.percpu_offset section into arch/i386
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.17-rc1/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.17-rc1.orig/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2006-04-14 15:43:49.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux-2.6.17-rc1/arch/i386/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S	2006-04-14 15:58:08.000000000 -0400
> @@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ SECTIONS
>    /* rarely changed data like cpu maps */
>    . = ALIGN(32);
>    .data.read_mostly : AT(ADDR(.data.read_mostly) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.data.read_mostly) }
> +  __per_cpu_offset_start = .;
> +  .data.percpu_offset  : AT(ADDR(.data.percpu_offset) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.data.percpu_offset) }
> +  __per_cpu_offset_end = .;
>    _edata = .;			/* End of data section */
>  
>    . = ALIGN(THREAD_SIZE);	/* init_task */

Can we please have this definition in:
include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h

At least it looks to make sense for other arch's than just i386.

Something like
#define PERCPU_OFFSET \
...

	Sam