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Cc: Anuranjan Shukla <anshukla@juniper.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Proposal for change to kernel linker for fixing a VNET and DPCPU
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:07:02AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday, September 21, 2012 12:56:56 pm Julian Elischer wrote:
> > On 9/21/12 2:22 AM, Mikolaj Golub wrote:

> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~trociny/link_elf.c.pcpu_vnet.patch
> > >
> > > The fix is to make the linker on a module load recognize "external"
> > > VNET/DPCPU variables defined in the previously loaded modules and
> > > relocate them accordingly. For this set_pcpu_list and set_vnet_list
> > > are used, where the addresses of modules 'set_pcpu' and 'set_vnet'
> > > linker sets are stored in.
> > 
> > it makes sense to me, but I really am not a linker person..
> > I think it woul be good to get Doug Rabson  to weigh in on it, and
> > maybe john Baldwin..
> > 
> > moving to -current as it's not a "net" issue really..
> 
> I think the proposed patch is ok.

Thanks! Committed as r240997.

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Mikolaj Golub