[PATCH][2.6] Nested Interrupt support

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Jan 20 09:12:01 EST 2004


On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 07:14, jschopp at austin.ibm.com wrote:
> We can't use percpu data here because the memory manager hasn't been
> initialized.  To use per cpu data we need to be able to call kmalloc.

Ugh ? Hopefully not !

percpu are stored in a separate .data section, you don't need
kmalloc to be available to use them...

Ben.


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