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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Important per-cpu fix.
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    Followup to:  <20020904042036.816A62C1B6@lists.samba.org>
    By author: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
    In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
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    > In message <20020903.195455.117344683.davem@redhat.com> you write:
    > > From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
    > > Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 12:35:41 +1000
    > >
    > > This might explain the wierd per-cpu problem reports from Andrew and
    > > Dave, and also that nagging feeling that I'm an idiot...
    > >
    > > Verifying... no without the explicit initializers the per-cpu stuff
    > > still ends up in the BSS with egcs-2.9X, even with your fix applied.
    >
    > OK. I really hate working around wierd toolchain bugs (I use 2.95.4
    > here and it's fine), and adding an initializer to the macro is ugly.
    >
    > If you're not going to upgrade your compiler, will you accept a gcc
    > patch to fix this? If so, where can I get the source to your exact
    > version?
    >

    gcc puts all uninitialized variables in .bss, and it apparently can't
    be overridden. This seems to be a side effect of the way gcc handles
    common variables.

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