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Subject: RE: ip_contrack refuses to load if built UP as a module on IA64
From: dann frazier <dannf@hp.com>
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Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:04:59 -0600
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On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 14:59 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> 
> This patch makes UP and SMP do the same thing as far as module per-cpu
> data go.
> 
> Unfortunately it affects core code.

It causes 2.6.13/x86 to fail to link:
kernel/built-in.o: In function `load_module':
: undefined reference to `percpu_modcopy'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

fyi, this is a problem we're seeing in the Debian UP packages:
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=325070