On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 03:45:15PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote: > This patch makes most !CONFIG_HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA archs use > dynamic percpu allocator. The first chunk is allocated using > embedding helper and 8k is reserved for modules. This ensures that > the new allocator behaves almost identically to the original allocator > as long as static percpu variables are concerned, so it shouldn't > introduce much breakage. > > s390 and alpha use custom SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR() to work around addressing > range limit the addressing model imposes. Unfortunately, this breaks > if the address is specified using a variable, so for now, the two > archs aren't converted. > > The following architectures are affected by this change. > > * sh > * arm > * cris > * mips > * sparc(32) > * blackfin > * avr32 > * parisc (broken, under investigation) > * m32r > * powerpc(32) > No problems on sh. Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
