Re: [PATCH 3/6] x86: Convert cpu_sibling_map to be a per cpuvariable (v2) (fwd)

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Sep 04 2007 - 17:12:24 EST


> On Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:29:11 -0700 Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> [Sorry, I did not see this message until Christoph forwarded it to me. I'm
> guessing we (SGI) still have a problem with our external spam filter?]
>
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:49:03 -0700
> > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: travis@xxxxxxx
> > Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>, linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> > Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] x86: Convert cpu_sibling_map to be a per cpu variable
> > (v2)
> >
> > On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:26:57 -0700 travis@xxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> >> Convert cpu_sibling_map from a static array sized by NR_CPUS to a
> >> per_cpu variable. This saves sizeof(cpumask_t) * NR unused cpus.
> >> Access is mostly from startup and CPU HOTPLUG functions.
> >
> > ia64 allmodconfig:
> >
> > kernel/sched.c: In function `cpu_to_phys_group': kernel/sched.c:5937: error: `per_cpu__cpu_sibling_map' undeclared (first use in this function) kernel/sched.c:5937: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> > kernel/sched.c:5937: error: for each function it appears in.) kernel/sched.c:5937: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `type name'
> > kernel/sched.c:5937: error: invalid type argument of `unary *' kernel/sched.c: In function `build_sched_domains': kernel/sched.c:6172: error: `per_cpu__cpu_sibling_map' undeclared (first use in this function) kernel/sched.c:6172: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `type name' kernel/sched.c:6172: error: invalid type argument of `unary *' kernel/sched.c:6183: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of `type name' kernel/sched.c:6183: error: invalid type argument of `unary *'
>
> I'm thinking that the best approach would be to define a cpu_sibling_map() macro
> to handle the cases where cpu_sibling_map is not a per_cpu variable? Perhaps
> something like:
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_SMT
> #ifndef cpu_sibling_map
> #define cpu_sibling_map(cpu) cpu_sibling_map[cpu]
> #endif
> #endif
>
> My question though, would include/linux/smp.h be the appropriate place for
> the above define? (That is, if the above approach is the correct one... ;-)

It'd be better to convert the unconverted architectures?
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