How to initialize complex per-cpu variables?

From: Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky (inaky.perez-gonzalez@intel.com)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 16:32:26 EST


Hi All

I am having this issue I don't know how to solve (digged
the source, it didn't clarify)

I have this kind of half complex data structure that
needs to be per-cpu and I need to initialize them.

The problem is it contains an array of list_heads
and I cannot initialize that with an static initializer,
AFAIK:

#define NUMBER_OF_QUEUES 256

struct rtf_h {
        spinlock_t lock;
        struct list_head queues[NUMBER_OF_QUEUES];
}

static DEFINE_PER_CPU (struct rtf_h, rtf_lh);

So I want to initialize those - I cannot use the variable
initializing because (a) it is very dirty to add a huge
number of INIT_LIST_HEAD and (b) it would break the
DEFINE_PER_CPU() semantics, as I assume they are copied
and thus the values would be broken.

So I can have it initialized except the list_heads (only
the locks) and then manually initialize the list_heads
with some rth_h_init() function;

Now the question is: how do I walk each structure that is
associated to each CPU - I mean, something like:

struct rtf_h *h;
for_each_cpu (h, rtf_lh) {
        rtf_h_init (h);
}

TIA

Iñaky Pérez-González -- Not speaking for Intel -- all opinions are my own
(and my fault)
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