Re: [PATCH 5/6] powerpc: Use generic per cpu linux-2.6.git

From: Mike Travis
Date: Wed Jan 30 2008 - 13:39:17 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * travis@xxxxxxx <travis@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Powerpc has a way to determine the address of the per cpu area of the
>> currently executing processor via the paca and the array of per cpu
>> offsets is avoided by looking up the per cpu area from the remote
>> paca's (copying x86_64).
>
> i needed the fix below to get my powerpc crosscompile build to succeed.
>
> Ingo

Thanks! I double-checked the logs and my ppc build worked. But yes, this was
in the original patch. And wierdly, powerpc was the only arch that had it
dropped.

-Mike
>
> -------------->
> Subject: powerpc: percpu build fix
> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/asm-powerpc/percpu.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: linux-x86.q/include/asm-powerpc/percpu.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-x86.q.orig/include/asm-powerpc/percpu.h
> +++ linux-x86.q/include/asm-powerpc/percpu.h
> @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
> #include <asm/paca.h>
>
> #define __per_cpu_offset(cpu) (paca[cpu].data_offset)
> -#define __my_cpu_offset() get_paca()->data_offset
> +#define __my_cpu_offset get_paca()->data_offset
> #define per_cpu_offset(x) (__per_cpu_offset(x))
>
> #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */

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