>doesn't that mean that those variables are a >special kind of (per-CPU) variables and should >get a special handling anyway? > >if not, then I'd agree with Peter that a per-cpu >variable on UP should not be treated any different >from a normal variable ... > >maybe you could clarify On ia64 we always map per-cpu variables into the top 64k of the kernel virtual address space ... it doesn't matter whether the kernel is UP or SMP. So the module loader should not have any special cases for UP. This is different from most (all?) other architectures where per-cpu variables are automagically redefined to be normal kernel variables in the UP case. -Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Sep 02 13:47:48 2005
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