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authorJan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>2010-04-21 16:08:14 +0100
committerH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>2010-04-28 17:15:47 -0700
commit5967ed87ade85a421ef814296c3c7f182b08c225 (patch)
tree16d08b1e34308390d189ddc52e7c4e25cc841e41 /arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
parentx86, asm: Introduce and use percpu_inc() (diff)
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x86-64: Reduce SMP locks table size
Reduce the SMP locks table size by using relative pointers instead of absolute ones, thus cutting the table size by half. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> LKML-Reference: <4BCF30FE020000780003B3B6@vpn.id2.novell.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
index b09ec55650b3..714bf2417284 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/alternative.h
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
#define LOCK_PREFIX \
".section .smp_locks,\"a\"\n" \
- _ASM_ALIGN "\n" \
- _ASM_PTR "661f\n" /* address */ \
+ ".balign 4\n" \
+ ".long 661f - .\n" /* offset */ \
".previous\n" \
"661:\n\tlock; "