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[PATCH] uml: mark SMP on UML/x86_64 as broken
authorJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:57:33 +0000 (15:57 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@evo.osdl.org>
Mon, 5 Sep 2005 07:06:22 +0000 (00:06 -0700)
commit02edeb586ae4cdd17778923674700edb732a4741
treefe55ef9ca0d35901b835984026d76387aa2311b8tree | snapshot
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[PATCH] uml: mark SMP on UML/x86_64 as broken

Noticed by Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> - 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.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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