Re: Broken "cpualloc: the allocator" patch

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Wed Nov 05 2008 - 08:46:20 EST


On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

Same thing. For reference f622b9e43c8ba1902d4423bef9ae9d89b0254b45 aka
"cpualloc: the allocator".

It's BUG_ON(!size) at mm/bootmem.c:438. At cpu_alloc_init():

__per_cpu_start = ff...80555000
__per_cpu_end = ff...8055d3e0
UNIT_SIZE = 4
base_percpu_in_units = 8440
PERCPU_AREA_SIZE = 33760
nr_units = 0 (bang!)

MODULES are off.

Oww.. Ok we need to skip ahead to have a hunk from the second stage
to make sure PERCPU_RESERVE_SIZE is always > 0.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/percpu.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/percpu.h 2008-11-05 07:41:22.134646124 -0600
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/percpu.h 2008-11-05 07:44:28.603155403 -0600
@@ -44,11 +44,7 @@
extern unsigned int percpu_reserve;
/* Enough to cover all DEFINE_PER_CPUs in kernel, including modules. */
#ifndef PERCPU_AREA_SIZE
-#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
#define PERCPU_RESERVE_SIZE 8192
-#else
-#define PERCPU_RESERVE_SIZE 0
-#endif

#define PERCPU_AREA_SIZE \
(__per_cpu_end - __per_cpu_start + percpu_reserve)
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