Re: [crash, bisected] Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86_64: Fold pda into per cpu area

[Andi Kleen]

ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) writes:
>
> Has anyone investigated using the technique gcc uses for thread local storage?

I investigated a long time ago (given when the binutils/gcc support
was much more primitive) and my conclusion back then was that doing 
the same for kernel module (negative addresses) would need 
new relocation types.  And the pain of a binutils change didn't
seem worth it.

-Andi
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