From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761217AbYA3VxG (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:53:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754539AbYA3Vws (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:52:48 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:37486 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754427AbYA3Vwq (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:52:46 -0500 Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:52:23 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: travis@sgi.com Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner , Christoph Lameter , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] sparc64: Use generic percpu linux-2.6.git Message-ID: <20080130215223.GB28242@elte.hu> References: <20080130180940.022172000@sgi.com> <20080130180940.506256000@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080130180940.506256000@sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * 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? Ingo