> Hi Rusty,
>
> I appreciate the noble gesture of allowing NUMA people to
> locate the per-cpu areas in different places in memory ;-)
>
> That said, memcpy of static per-cpu areas doesn't seem right.
> Why copy the same area to all the dynamically allocated per-cpu
> areas ?
Initialization. Sure, we can't do it with the current macros...
> Also, shouldn't the size be &__per_cpu_end - &__per_cpu_start ?
Oops... Yes. (I wrote this just before my Xmas break, and didn't have time
to test it).
> And how do we use this with per-cpu data used right
> from smp boot, say apic_timer_irqs[] ?
No. You can't have everthing (without going into the arch-specific code).
Cheers,
Rusty.
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