Re: [PATCH/RFT 4/5] CLOCK-Pro page replacement

From: Andrew Morton (akpm_at_osdl.org)
Date: 08/18/05

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    Date:	Wed, 17 Aug 2005 17:38:18 -0700
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>

    "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
    >
    > > +DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, evicted_pages);
    >
    > DEFINE_PER_CPU() needs an explicit initializer to work
    > around some bugs in gcc-2.95, wherein on some platforms
    > if you let it end up as a BSS candidate it won't end up
    > in the per-cpu section properly.
    >
    > I'm actually happy you made this mistake as it forced me
    > to audit the whole current 2.6.x tree and there are few
    > missing cases in there which I'll fix up and send to Linus.

    I'm prety sure we fixed that somehow. But I forget how.
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