On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 16:38 +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > Some archs (alpha and s390) need to add 'weak' attribute to percpu > variable definitions so that the compiler generates external > references for them. To allow this, enforce global definition of all > percpu variables. > > This patch makes DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION() do DECLARE_PERCPU_SECTION() > implicitly and drop static from all percpu definitions. > > [ Impact: all percpu variables are forced to be global ] > > Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Uh, wont this cause name space collisions? -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
