Re: [PATCH 4/9] UML - Mark SMP on UML/x86_64 as broken

From: Andi Kleen (ak_at_suse.de)
Date: 08/30/05

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    To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Date:	30 Aug 2005 22:42:15 +0200

    Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> writes:

    > Noticed by Al Viro - SMP on x86_64 is fundamentally broken due to
    > UML's reuse of the host arch's percpu stuff. This is OK on x86, but
    > the x86_64 pda stuff just won't work for UML.

    The generic one should work too, it's just less efficient.
    So you can probably easily replace them.

    -Andi
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