Re: [Uclinux-dist-devel] [RFC PATCH] percpu: always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

Hello,

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 02:46:01AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:06, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > The linker script macros PERCPU_VADDR() and PERCPU() are used to
> > define this output section and the latter takes @align parameter.
> > Several architectures are using @align smaller than PAGE_SIZE breaking
> > percpu memory alignment.
> 
> hmm, i just pushed through a fix in the Blackfin tree as we hit a boot
> failure otherwise:
> -   PERCPU(4)
> +   PERCPU(PAGE_SIZE)
> 
> > This patch removes @align parameter from PERCPU(), renames it to
> > PERCPU_SECTION and makes it always align to PAGE_SIZE.  While at it,
> > add PCPU_SETUP_BUG_ON() checks such that alignment problems are
> > reliably detected and remove percpu alignment comment recently added
> > in workqueue.c as the condition would trigger BUG way before reaching
> > there.
> 
> seems this still hasnt made it to mainline.  has it stalled or
> something ?  feel free for the Blackfin bits:
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

Heh, I just forgot.  I'll queue it with your Acked-by added.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun