Re: Unnecessary Relocation Hiding?

[Christoph Lameter]

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, Dong Feng wrote:

> I have a question. Why shall we need a RELOC_HIDE() macro in the
> definition of per_cpu()? Maybe the question is actually why we need
> macro RELOC_HIDE() at all. I changed the following line in
> include/asm-generic/percpu.h, from

Guess it was copied from IA64 but the semantics were not preserved.
I think it should either be changed the way you suggest or the 
implementation needs to be fixed to actually do a linker relocation.
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