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Re: FOR REVIEW: New x86-64 vsyscall vgetcpu()

From: Jes Sorensen <jes at sgi dot com>
To: Zoltan Menyhart <Zoltan dot Menyhart at bull dot net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak at suse dot de>, Tony Luck <tony dot luck at intel dot com>, discuss at x86-64 dot org, linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, vojtech at suse dot cz, linux-ia64 at vger dot kernel dot org
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:41:10 +0200
Subject: Re: FOR REVIEW: New x86-64 vsyscall vgetcpu()
References: <200606140942.31150.ak@suse.de> <200606161209.25266.ak@suse.de> <44928FB1.5070107@sgi.com> <200606161317.19296.ak@suse.de> <44929CE6.4@sgi.com> <4492A5E4.9050702@bull.net>

Zoltan Menyhart wrote:
> Just to make sure I understand it correctly...
> Assuming I have allocated per CPU data (numa control, etc.) pointed at by:

I think you misunderstood - vgetcpu is for userland usage, not within
the kernel.

Cheers,
Jes

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