Re: [PATCH] per-cpu patch 1/3

Andrew Morton (akpm@zip.com.au)
Sun, 21 Jul 2002 20:00:02 -0700


Rusty Russell wrote:
>
> Name: Export __per_cpu_offset so modules can use per-cpu data.

ie: so modules can access per-cpu data which is defined in
vmlinux. afaik, modules cannot define percpu.h-style per-cpu
storage of their own, yes?

That's rather a trap. It would be nice to ensure that any
attempt to define per-cpu data in a module fails reliably
at compile-time, please.

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