Messages in this thread | | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Thu, 22 May 2003 11:39:32 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] per-cpu support inside modules (minimal) |
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Rusty> OK, this does the *minimum* required to support Rusty> DEFINE_PER_CPU inside modules. If we decide to change Rusty> kmalloc_percpu later, great, we can turf this out.
Rusty> Basically, overallocates the amount of per-cpu data at boot Rusty> to at least PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM if CONFIG_MODULES=y Rusty> (arch-specific by default 16k: I have only 5700 bytes of Rusty> percpu data in my kernel here, so makes sense), and a special Rusty> allocator in module.c dishes it out.
Rusty> Comments welcome!
Looks good to me. For ia64, I guess I'll want to add a
#define PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM PERCPU_PAGE_SIZE
somewhere, but that doesn't sound so hard. ;-)
Thanks!
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