1. 24 6月, 2009 1 次提交
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      percpu: use dynamic percpu allocator as the default percpu allocator · e74e3962
      Tejun Heo 提交于
      This patch makes most !CONFIG_HAVE_SETUP_PER_CPU_AREA archs use
      dynamic percpu allocator.  The first chunk is allocated using
      embedding helper and 8k is reserved for modules.  This ensures that
      the new allocator behaves almost identically to the original allocator
      as long as static percpu variables are concerned, so it shouldn't
      introduce much breakage.
      
      s390 and alpha use custom SHIFT_PERCPU_PTR() to work around addressing
      range limit the addressing model imposes.  Unfortunately, this breaks
      if the address is specified using a variable, so for now, the two
      archs aren't converted.
      
      The following architectures are affected by this change.
      
      * sh
      * arm
      * cris
      * mips
      * sparc(32)
      * blackfin
      * avr32
      * parisc (broken, under investigation)
      * m32r
      * powerpc(32)
      
      As this change makes the dynamic allocator the default one,
      CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_PER_CPU_AREA is replaced with its invert -
      CONFIG_HAVE_LEGACY_PER_CPU_AREA, which is added to yet-to-be converted
      archs.  These archs implement their own setup_per_cpu_areas() and the
      conversion is not trivial.
      
      * powerpc(64)
      * sparc(64)
      * ia64
      * alpha
      * s390
      
      Boot and batch alloc/free tests on x86_32 with debug code (x86_32
      doesn't use default first chunk initialization).  Compile tested on
      sparc(32), powerpc(32), arm and alpha.
      
      Kyle McMartin reported that this change breaks parisc.  The problem is
      still under investigation and he is okay with pushing this patch
      forward and fixing parisc later.
      
      [ Impact: use dynamic allocator for most archs w/o custom percpu setup ]
      Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Acked-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Acked-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      Acked-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
      Acked-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
      Reviewed-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
      Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
      Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
      Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
      Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
      Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
      Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
      Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
      Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
      Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      e74e3962
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