Re: [PATCH] NOMMU: support SMP dynamic percpu_alloc

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:20 PM, David Howells wrote:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> The percpu code requires more functions to be implemented in the mm core
>> which nommu currently does not provide.  So add inline implementations
>> since these are largely meaningless on nommu systems.
>
> Under what conditions are these required?
>
> I've seen one percpu compilation bug that I've made a patch for (see
> attached), but none of these.  Is SMP required to trigger them?

yes, it only occurs in SMP builds.

i havent seen the build error you mention below, but i think that's
because in a past discussion we determined that NOMMU ports should be
setting VMALLOC_START to 0 and VMALLOC_END to -1.  is that no longer
the case ?

there are bunch more places where things would fail if
VMALLOC_{START,END} werent defined ...
-mike
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