[PATCH 1/5] mm/Kconfig: add ARCH_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU option

[Hao Ge]

From: Hao Ge <gehao@xxxxxxxxxx>

Recently discovered this entry while checking kallsyms on ARM64:
ffff800083e509c0 D _shared_alloc_tag

If ARCH_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU is not defined((it is only defined for
s390 and alpha architectures),there's no need to statically define
the percpu variable _shared_alloc_tag. As the number of CPUs
increases,the wasted memory will grow correspondingly.

Therefore,we need to implement isolation for this purpose.

However,currently ARCH_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU is a #define and
is enclosed within the #if defined(MODULE) conditional block.

When building the core kernel code for s390 or alpha architectures,
ARCH_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU remains undefined (as it is gated by #if defined(MODULE)).
However,when building modules for these architectures,the macro is explicitly defined.

Therefore,we need to make ARCH_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU a Kconfig option.
And replace all instances of ARCH_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU in the kernel
code with MODULE_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU,gated by #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU.
Then,when defining the percpu variable _shared_alloc_tag,wrap it
with the CONFIG_ARCH_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU condition.

Therefore,we should add the ARCH_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU option
to the mm Kconfig file.

Suggested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hao Ge <gehao@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/Kconfig | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index e113f713b493..36bb4d6fd360 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -929,6 +929,10 @@ config ARCH_SUPPORTS_PUD_PFNMAP
 	def_bool y
 	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_HUGE_PFNMAP && HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD
 
+# s390 and alpha be enabled,see comments for DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION
+config ARCH_NEEDS_WEAK_PER_CPU
+       bool
+
 #
 # UP and nommu archs use km based percpu allocator
 #
-- 
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