Re: [PATCH/RFT 4/5] CLOCK-Pro page replacement

"David S. Miller" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > +DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, evicted_pages);
> 
> DEFINE_PER_CPU() needs an explicit initializer to work
> around some bugs in gcc-2.95, wherein on some platforms
> if you let it end up as a BSS candidate it won't end up
> in the per-cpu section properly.
> 
> I'm actually happy you made this mistake as it forced me
> to audit the whole current 2.6.x tree and there are few
> missing cases in there which I'll fix up and send to Linus.

I'm prety sure we fixed that somehow.  But I forget how.
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