Where is the __per_cpu_offset array initialized??

Laurent Navet laurent.navet at gmail.com
Sat Mar 10 08:45:23 EST 2018


Hi Larry,

> Does anyone can tell me where the array __per_cpu_offset is initialized on
> x86_64 arch,
> I remembered it was initialized in function setup_per_cpu_areas,
> but it seems that it is not the case on x86-64 arch.

It seems your memory is right and code is shared with x86.
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/latest/source/arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c#L29

Laurent.
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