Re: [GIT PULL] x86, percpu: implement and use reserved percpu alloc

[Mike Galbraith]

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 15:46 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Please pull from the following git vector.
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git tj-percpu
> 
> This patchset implements reserved percpu alloc from the first chunk
> and uses it for static perpcu variables in modules on x86_64.  This is
> necessary because x86_64 expects symbols to be relocatable using 32bit
> relocations but dynamic percpu allocation does not guarantee it
> leading to relocation overflow during module load.

Tested, my module loading woes are cured.

	-Mike

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