Re: unified percpu stuff
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Tue Jan 27 2009 - 12:51:18 EST
Brian Gerst wrote:
BTW, does the initial cpu0 percpu area get reallocated and moved during
boot, or does cpu0 keep using the same memory forever?
It is reallocated in setup_per_cpu_areas().
Hm, OK. What's the reason we need to move cpu 0's percpu area? Its
always seemed a bit awkward.
Once it has been moved, how can I find the address of a variable in the
original boot-time cpu 0 percpu area? There's a couple of pages which
Xen will have marked RO which need to be made RW if they're being freed
back into the kernel pool. Currently I use per_cpu_var(gdt_page), but
guess that's a small offset rather than a directly usable address.
Thanks,
J
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