On Sun, 18 Oct 2009, Jeff Mahoney wrote: > Hi Peter - > > Commit 34d76c41 introduced the update_shares_data percpu, but it ends up > causing problems on large ia64 machines. Specifically, ia64 is limited > to 64k in percpu vars and with NR_CPUS=4096, that ends up being 32k by > itself. It ends up causing link errors since that is how ia64 enforces > the 64k limit. > > I can take a deeper look at finding a workable solution but thought I'd > mention it in case you had ideas already. I am adding some IA64 CCs, as the failure is solely caused by the ia64 percpu implementation/pagefault handler optimization which requires the .percpu section area not be larger than 64k, which blows up with 34d76c41 and NR_CPUS high enoufh (due to introduction of percpu array being size-dependent on NR_CPUS). -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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