On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 03:08:50PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

Hi Paul,

On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 19:41:57 -0800 "Paul E. McKenney" [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Indeed, I suspect that SRCU might not be the only thing that would like
static per-CPU variables.  ;-)

from include/linux/percpu-defs.h:

 * s390 and alpha modules require percpu variables to be defined as
 * weak to force the compiler to generate GOT based external
 * references for them.  This is necessary because percpu sections
 * will be located outside of the usually addressable area.
 *
 * This definition puts the following two extra restrictions when
 * defining percpu variables.
 *
 * 1. The symbol must be globally unique, even the static ones.
 * 2. Static percpu variables cannot be defined inside a function.
 *
 * Archs which need weak percpu definitions should define
 * ARCH_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU in asm/percpu.h when necessary.
 *
 * To ensure that the generic code observes the above two
 * restrictions, if CONFIG_DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU is set weak
 * definition is used for all cases.

so they can be static, but must be globally unique.

Thank you for the tutorial!  I have updated the patch to use a unique
name for the srcu_struct added by rcuperf.c.

							Thanx, Paul