Re: _proxy_pda still makes linking modules fail

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Mar 12 2007 - 11:46:24 EST


On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 07:45:25AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >> Rusty's pda->per_cpu patch will deal with this once and for all; have
> >>
> >
> > Not on x86-64.
> >
>
> Have you considered dropping pda in x86-64? Segment based percpu
> doesn't really have any disadvantages.

Maybe.

>
> >> you picked it up yet?
> >>
> >
> > Not yet.
> >
>
> There will be interactions with my paravirt+xen patches, so I'm
> wondering if I should rebase onto those patches, or should we apply them
> later and fix everything up?

Applying them later is probably better

-Andi
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