Re: [PATCH] [10/23] SCHED: Only allocate per cpu cpu mask bufferwith offstack cpumasks

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Jun 10 2010 - 10:44:14 EST


On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 13:10 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> This will save a few bytes in the non offstack cpumask case.
>
> Found by gcc 4.6's new warnings.
>
> Cc: peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: mingo@xxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> kernel/sched.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6.35-rc2-gcc/kernel/sched.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.35-rc2-gcc.orig/kernel/sched.c
> +++ linux-2.6.35-rc2-gcc/kernel/sched.c
> @@ -7482,7 +7482,7 @@ static void init_tg_rt_entry(struct task
> void __init sched_init(void)
> {
> int i, j;
> - unsigned long alloc_size = 0, ptr;
> + unsigned long alloc_size = 0;
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
> alloc_size += 2 * nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(void **);
> @@ -7494,7 +7494,10 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
> alloc_size += num_possible_cpus() * cpumask_size();
> #endif
> if (alloc_size) {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
> + unsigned long ptr;
> ptr = (unsigned long)kzalloc(alloc_size, GFP_NOWAIT);
> +#endif
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
> init_task_group.se = (struct sched_entity **)ptr;

This patch will actually break things.. please read the code.

I guess we could move the unsigned long into that block, but I really
don't see the point.
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