[PATCH] x86-32: Allocate irq stacks seperate from percpu area

From: Brian Gerst
Date: Wed Oct 27 2010 - 01:43:49 EST


The percpu allocator cannot handle alignments larger than one page.
Allocate the irq stacks seperately, and only keep the pointers as
percpu data.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@xxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/irq.h | 2 --
arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c | 12 ++----------
arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 1 -
3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/irq.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/irq.h
index 0bf5b00..13b0eba 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/irq.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/irq.h
@@ -21,10 +21,8 @@ static inline int irq_canonicalize(int irq)

#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
extern void irq_ctx_init(int cpu);
-extern void irq_ctx_exit(int cpu);
#else
# define irq_ctx_init(cpu) do { } while (0)
-# define irq_ctx_exit(cpu) do { } while (0)
#endif

#define __ARCH_HAS_DO_SOFTIRQ
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c
index 50fbbe6..64668db 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/irq_32.c
@@ -60,9 +60,6 @@ union irq_ctx {
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(union irq_ctx *, hardirq_ctx);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(union irq_ctx *, softirq_ctx);

-static DEFINE_PER_CPU_MULTIPAGE_ALIGNED(union irq_ctx, hardirq_stack, THREAD_SIZE);
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU_MULTIPAGE_ALIGNED(union irq_ctx, softirq_stack, THREAD_SIZE);
-
static void call_on_stack(void *func, void *stack)
{
asm volatile("xchgl %%ebx,%%esp \n"
@@ -128,7 +125,7 @@ void __cpuinit irq_ctx_init(int cpu)
if (per_cpu(hardirq_ctx, cpu))
return;

- irqctx = &per_cpu(hardirq_stack, cpu);
+ irqctx = (union irq_ctx *)__get_free_pages(THREAD_FLAGS, THREAD_ORDER);
irqctx->tinfo.task = NULL;
irqctx->tinfo.exec_domain = NULL;
irqctx->tinfo.cpu = cpu;
@@ -137,7 +134,7 @@ void __cpuinit irq_ctx_init(int cpu)

per_cpu(hardirq_ctx, cpu) = irqctx;

- irqctx = &per_cpu(softirq_stack, cpu);
+ irqctx = (union irq_ctx *)__get_free_pages(THREAD_FLAGS, THREAD_ORDER);
irqctx->tinfo.task = NULL;
irqctx->tinfo.exec_domain = NULL;
irqctx->tinfo.cpu = cpu;
@@ -150,11 +147,6 @@ void __cpuinit irq_ctx_init(int cpu)
cpu, per_cpu(hardirq_ctx, cpu), per_cpu(softirq_ctx, cpu));
}

-void irq_ctx_exit(int cpu)
-{
- per_cpu(hardirq_ctx, cpu) = NULL;
-}
-
asmlinkage void do_softirq(void)
{
unsigned long flags;
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
index 6af1185..90baf56 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -1373,7 +1373,6 @@ void play_dead_common(void)
{
idle_task_exit();
reset_lazy_tlbstate();
- irq_ctx_exit(raw_smp_processor_id());
c1e_remove_cpu(raw_smp_processor_id());

mb();
--
1.7.2.3

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