On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 00:10 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

Rusty Russell [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

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

heh.  iirc, it was demonstrable on x86 also.

No.  gcc-2.95 on Sparc64 put uninititialized vars into the bss, ignoring
the __attribute__((section(".data.percpu"))) directive.  x86 certainly
doesn't have this, I just tested it w/2.95.

Really, it's Sparc64 + gcc-2.95.  Send an urgent telegram to the user
telling them to upgrade.

Rusty.
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