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Per cpu code simplification

From:  Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To:  akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject:  [patch 00/14] Per cpu code simplification
Date:  Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:11:51 -0800
Message-ID:  <20071127001151.709076611@sgi.com>
Cc:  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

This patchset simplifies the code that arches need to maintain to support
per cpu functionality. Most of the code is moved into arch independent
code. Only a set of minimal definitions is kept for each arch.

The patch also unifies the x86 arch so that there is only a single
asm-x86/percpu.h

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