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    SubjectRe: [patch 02/41] cpu alloc: The allocator
    On Tue, 10 Jun 2008, Eric Dumazet wrote:

    > Well, MODULE is not CONFIG_MODULES :)
    >
    > If compiling an object that is going to be statically linked to kernel, MODULE
    > is not defined, so we have shared objects.
    >
    > When compiling a module, we cannot *yet* use .data.percpu.shared_aligned
    > section, since module loader wont handle this section.
    >
    > Alternative is to change modules linking for all arches to merge
    > .data.percpu{*} subsections correctly, or tell module loader to take into
    > account all .data.percpu sections.
    >
    > AFAIK no module uses DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED() yet...

    Ahhh. Makes sense. Add a comment to explain this?



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