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| author | Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> | 2008-05-12 15:44:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2008-05-25 07:03:46 +0200 |
| commit | 63cc8c75156462d4b42cbdd76c293b7eee7ddbfe (patch) | |
| tree | e014b4c61399f8f74347352e6ea76ddf1502dcfa /arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | |
| parent | 75d3bce2fc0a80f435fe12f2c9ed2632c8ac29e4 (diff) | |
percpu: introduce DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED() macro
While examining holes in percpu section I found this :
c05f5000 D per_cpu__current_task
c05f5000 D __per_cpu_start
c05f5004 D per_cpu__cpu_number
c05f5008 D per_cpu__irq_regs
c05f500c d per_cpu__cpu_devices
c05f5040 D per_cpu__cyc2ns
<Big Hole of about 4000 bytes>
c05f6000 d per_cpu__cpuid4_info
c05f6004 d per_cpu__cache_kobject
c05f6008 d per_cpu__index_kobject
<Big Hole of about 4000 bytes>
c05f7000 D per_cpu__gdt_page
This is because gdt_page is a percpu variable, defined with
a page alignement, and linker is doing its job, two times because of .o
nesting in the build process.
I introduced a new macro DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED() to avoid
wasting this space. All page aligned variables (only one at this time)
are put in a separate
subsection .data.percpu.page_aligned, at the very begining of percpu zone.
Before patch , on a x86_32 machine :
.data.percpu 30232 3227471872
.data.percpu 22168 3227471872
Thats 8064 bytes saved for each CPU.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c index d0463a94624..b2f54fafb8b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ #include "cpu.h" -DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct gdt_page, gdt_page) = { .gdt = { +DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED(struct gdt_page, gdt_page) = { .gdt = { [GDT_ENTRY_KERNEL_CS] = { { { 0x0000ffff, 0x00cf9a00 } } }, [GDT_ENTRY_KERNEL_DS] = { { { 0x0000ffff, 0x00cf9200 } } }, [GDT_ENTRY_DEFAULT_USER_CS] = { { { 0x0000ffff, 0x00cffa00 } } }, |