From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail202.messagelabs.com (mail202.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.227]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E64F60021B for ; Wed, 9 Dec 2009 13:10:49 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4B1FE81F.30408@sgi.com> Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 10:10:39 -0800 From: Mike Travis MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/vmalloc: don't use vmalloc_end References: <4B1D3A3302000078000241CD@vpn.id2.novell.com> <20091207153552.0fadf335.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4B1E1B1B0200007800024345@vpn.id2.novell.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Christoph Lameter Cc: tony.luck@intel.com, Andrew Morton , Jan Beulich , Tejun Heo , linux-mm@kvack.org, Geert Uytterhoeven , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org