From: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: don't use vmalloc_end
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:10:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B1FE81F.30408@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.0912091128280.16491@router.home>
Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Jan Beulich wrote:
>
>> According to Tejun the problem is just cosmetic (i.e. causes build
>> warnings), since the functions affected aren't being used (yet) on
>> ia64. So feel free to drop the patch again, given that he has a patch
>> queued to address the issue by renaming the arch variable.
>
> I thought the new code must be used in order for the new percpu allocator
> to work? Or is this referring to other code?
>
>> I wonder though why that code is being built on ia64 at all if it's not
>> being used (i.e. why it doesn't depend on a CONFIG_*, HAVE_*, or
>> NEED_* manifest constant).
>
> Tony: Can you confirm that the new percpu stuff works on IA64? (Or is
> there nobody left to care?)
Christoph, I have access to a 640p system for a couple more weeks if
there's anything you'd like me to check out.
Thanks,
Mike
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-09 18:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-07 16:24 Jan Beulich
2009-12-07 23:35 ` Andrew Morton
2009-12-08 0:33 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-08 0:40 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-08 6:57 ` [PATCH] m68k: don't alias VMALLOC_END to vmalloc_end Tejun Heo
2009-12-08 9:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-12-08 0:50 ` [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: don't use vmalloc_end Matthew Wilcox
2009-12-08 1:03 ` Andrew Morton
2009-12-08 8:23 ` Jan Beulich
2009-12-08 8:29 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-08 8:39 ` Jan Beulich
2009-12-08 8:57 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-09 23:43 ` [PATCH -stable] vmalloc: conditionalize build of pcpu_get_vm_areas() Tejun Heo
2009-12-16 23:12 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2009-12-17 0:01 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-17 0:02 ` Greg KH
2009-12-09 17:31 ` [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: don't use vmalloc_end Christoph Lameter
2009-12-09 17:48 ` Luck, Tony
2009-12-09 18:10 ` Mike Travis [this message]
2009-12-09 18:23 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-12-09 18:24 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-12-09 18:37 ` Mike Travis
2009-12-09 18:46 ` Christoph Lameter
2009-12-08 9:11 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-12-08 9:24 ` Tejun Heo
2009-12-09 8:47 ` [PATCH] m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end Tejun Heo
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