Commit 14c3f855 authored by Andi Kleen's avatar Andi Kleen Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] x86_64: Let impossible CPUs point to reference per cpu data

Hack for 2.6.16. In 2.6.17 all code that uses NR_CPUs should
be audited and changed to only touch possible CPUs.

Don't mark the reference per cpu data init data (so it stays
around after boot) and point all impossible CPUs to it. This way
they reference some valid - although shared memory. Usually
this is only initialization like INIT_LIST_HEADs and there
won't be races because these CPUs never run. Still somewhat hackish.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 3777a959
......@@ -172,13 +172,15 @@ SECTIONS
. = ALIGN(4096);
__initramfs_start = .;
.init.ramfs : AT(ADDR(.init.ramfs) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.init.ramfs) }
__initramfs_end = .;
__initramfs_end = .;
/* temporary here to work around NR_CPUS. If you see this comment in 2.6.17+
complain */
. = ALIGN(4096);
__init_end = .;
. = ALIGN(CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES);
__per_cpu_start = .;
.data.percpu : AT(ADDR(.data.percpu) - LOAD_OFFSET) { *(.data.percpu) }
__per_cpu_end = .;
. = ALIGN(4096);
__init_end = .;
. = ALIGN(4096);
__nosave_begin = .;
......
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