From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761601AbYAaBC5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:02:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754178AbYAaBCs (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:02:48 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:60585 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756829AbYAaBCr (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:02:47 -0500 Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:03:06 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20080130.170306.174974383.davem@davemloft.net> To: mingo@elte.hu Cc: travis@sgi.com, Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, tglx@linutronix.de, clameter@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] sparc64: Use generic percpu linux-2.6.git From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080130215223.GB28242@elte.hu> References: <20080130180940.022172000@sgi.com> <20080130180940.506256000@sgi.com> <20080130215223.GB28242@elte.hu> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ingo Molnar Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:52:23 +0100 > > * travis@sgi.com wrote: > > > Sparc64 has a way of providing the base address for the per cpu area > > of the currently executing processor in a global register. > > > > Sparc64 also provides a way to calculate the address of a per cpu area > > from a base address instead of performing an array lookup. > > has this been booted on SPARC64 and does David ACK this conversion? Conceptually I'm fine with the changes. I had these for testing in my backlog right before I came to LCA08 and I won't be able to do any real testing until I get back home on Feb 4th.