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SubjectRe: [PATCH] percpu updates
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Brian Gerst wrote:
>
>>These patches convert some of the existing arrays based on NR_CPUS to
>>use the new per cpu code.
>>
>>...
>>-extern struct page_state {
>>+struct page_state {
>> unsigned long nr_dirty;
>> unsigned long nr_locked;
>> unsigned long nr_pagecache;
>>-} ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp page_states[NR_CPUS];
>>+};
>>+
>>+extern struct page_state __per_cpu_data page_states;
>
>
> When I did this a couple of weeks back it failed in
> mysterious ways and I ended up parking it. Failure
> symptoms included negative numbers being reported in
> /proc/meminfo for "Locked" and "Dirty".
>
> How well has this been tested? (If the answer
> is "not very" then please wait until I've tested
> it out...)
>
> -
>

Well, the answer is not very. I don't have an SMP machine to do
thorough testing on. The best I can do is boot an SMP kernel on a UP
machine. I did check the disassembly of vmlinux, and it looked like it
would work as advertised.

--

Brian Gerst

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