Re: [PATCH] 2.5.8 fix for percpu area

Dipankar Sarma (dipankar@in.ibm.com)
Wed, 17 Apr 2002 12:45:59 +0530

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 04:57:44PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote:
> In message <20020416125716.A31123@in.ibm.com> you write:
> > The percpu area stuff is broken in two places -
> >
> > Missing stub for setup_per_cpu_areas() in the UP case
> > and missing definition of __per_cpu_data attribute in percpu.h.
> > Here is a patch that fixes these. Please apply.
>
> You should be including "linux/percpu.h" which defines __per_cpu_data
> for UP.

I didn't know that existed. This works.

>
> The other fix is to move the whole #ifdef __GENERIC_PER_CPU
> ... setup_per_cpu_areas(void) { ...#endif out from inside the #ifdef
> CONFIG_SMP block (patch sent).

Ok. I will make a new patch for my own use until you fix gets included.

Thanks

-- 
Dipankar Sarma  <dipankar@in.ibm.com> http://lse.sourceforge.net
Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India.
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