[PATCH v1] ARM: keep __my_cpu_offset consistent with generic one

Ming Lei tom.leiming at gmail.com
Tue Mar 12 07:44:55 EDT 2013


On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Ingo and Peter, what is your opinion on the problem?
>
> Having discussed this with Ben Herrenschmidt, it seems that we do need
> to have a more complex patch to sort this out - we need to setup our
> private pointer inside setup_per_cpu_areas().

Suppose so, seems the patch is still needed to make CPU0 see
static variables in '.data..percpu' section correctly.


Thanks,
-- 
Ming Lei



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