Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:29:13 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [patch 04/41] cpu ops: Core piece for generic atomic per cpu operations |
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On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > The ia64 hook could simply return the address of percpu area that > > was reserved when the per node memory layout was generated (which happens > > very early during node bootstrap). > > Apologies, this time I read the code. I thought IA64 used the pinned TLB area > to access per-cpu vars under some circumstances, but they only do that via an > arch-specific macro. > > So creating new congruent mappings to expand the percpu area(s) is our main > concern now?
The concern here was just consolidating the setup code for the per cpu areas.
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