Re: [this_cpu_xx V6 1/7] this_cpu_ops: page allocator conversion

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu Oct 08 2009 - 06:42:42 EST


Tejun Heo wrote:
> This looks much better but I'm not sure whether it's safe. percpu
> offsets have not been set up before setup_per_cpu_areas() is complete
> on most archs but if all that's necessary is getting the page
> allocator up and running as soon as static per cpu areas and offsets
> are set up (which basically means as soon as cpu init is complete on
> ia64 and setup_per_cpu_areas() is complete on all other archs). This
> should be correct. Is this what you're expecting?

Also, as I'm not very familiar with the code, I'd really appreciate
Mel Gorman's acked or reviewed-by.

Thanks.

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tejun
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