Rusty Russell [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 21:48 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:

quoted

From: Andrew Morton <redacted>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 21:05:32 -0700

quoted

Perhaps by uprevving the compiler version?

Can't be, we definitely support gcc-2.95 and that compiler
definitely has the bug on sparc64.

I believe we just ignored sparc64.  That usually works for solving these
kind of bugs. 8)

heh.  iirc, it was demonstrable on x86 also.

Dunno, it beats me.  But it is the case that we now have lots of
uninitialised DEFINE_PER_CPUs and nobody's crashing.  hm..
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