Re: [PATCH 1/2] [x86-64] align per-cpu section to configured cache bytes

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 02:02:42PM -0800, Zach Brown wrote:
> -  . = ALIGN(32);
> +  . = ALIGN(CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_BYTES);

Grepping other arch's than just x86 and x86_64 it looks like a common
thing.
Is this fix really only relevant for x86 + x86_64 or should it be done
for all arch's?

If we do it for all archs we may as well create:
#define PERCPU(aling) ...
macro in asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h

	Sam
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