[patch 0/6] i386 gdt and percpu cleanups

2007-03-30 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Hi Andi, This is a series of patches based on your latest queue (as of the other day, at least). It includes: - the most recent patch to compute the appropriate amount of percpu space to allocate, using a separate reservation for modules where needed. - make the percpu sections page-align

Re: [patch 0/6] i386 gdt and percpu cleanups

2007-03-30 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > This is a series of patches based on your latest queue (as of the > other day, at least). > BTW, the From: line attributions got dropped from a few of these. These: Allow percpu variables to be page-aligned Page-align the GDT should be From: Rusty. He di

Re: [patch 0/6] i386 gdt and percpu cleanups

2007-03-30 Thread Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Rusty Russell wrote: > One nitpick: I'd really like PER_CPU() renamed to PER_CPU_ADDR(). > That's a separate patch, but I think would be far clearer. > Seems pretty simple, given that it has precisely one use. J - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in t

Re: [patch 0/6] i386 gdt and percpu cleanups

2007-03-30 Thread Rusty Russell
> - some improvements to asm-i386/percpu.h to make asm access to percpu >variables easy One nitpick: I'd really like PER_CPU() renamed to PER_CPU_ADDR(). That's a separate patch, but I think would be far clearer. Thanks, Rusty. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe li