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SubjectRe: [patch 1/3] Percpu infrastructure to rebase the per cpu area to 0UL
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On Friday 30 November 2007 17:43:06 Christoph Lameter wrote:
> Support an option
>
> CONFIG_PERCPU_ZERO_BASED

Minor nitpicks aside, I like this patch (using AT() was a nice touch: I tried
using section-relative relocs originally and it gave horrible results).

But this belongs in a completely separate patch, since it could well break
archs which don't have NUMA stuff set up yet:

> Index: linux-2.6.24-rc3-mm2/init/main.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.24-rc3-mm2.orig/init/main.c 2007-11-29 22:06:01.607326159
> -0800 +++ linux-2.6.24-rc3-mm2/init/main.c 2007-11-29 22:06:22.754826440
> -0800 @@ -370,18 +370,19 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__per_cpu_offset);
>
> static void __init setup_per_cpu_areas(void)
> {
> - unsigned long size, i;
> - char *ptr;
> - unsigned long nr_possible_cpus = num_possible_cpus();
> + unsigned long size;
> + int cpu;
>
> /* Copy section for each CPU (we discard the original) */
> size = ALIGN(PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM, PAGE_SIZE);
> - ptr = alloc_bootmem_pages(size * nr_possible_cpus);
>
> - for_each_possible_cpu(i) {
> - __per_cpu_offset[i] = ptr - __per_cpu_start;
> - memcpy(ptr, __per_cpu_start, __per_cpu_end - __per_cpu_start);
> - ptr += size;
> + for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> + char *ptr;
> +
> + ptr = alloc_bootmem_pages_node(NODE_DATA(cpu_to_node(cpu)),
> + size);
> + __per_cpu_offset[cpu] = ptr - __per_cpu_start;
> + memcpy(ptr, __per_cpu_load, __per_cpu_size);
> }
> }

Thanks!
Rusty.


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