In message <20030218195140.27b0798f.akpm@digeo.com> you write:
> Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
> > The problem is that then you have to have to know whether this is a
> > per-cpu thing created in a module, or not, when you use it 8(
> >
> > There are two things we can use to alleviate the problem. The first
> > would be to put a minimal cap on the per-cpu data size (eg. 8k). The
> > other possibility is to allocate on an object granularity, in which
> > case the rule becomes "no single per-cpu object can be larger than
> > XXX", but the cost is to write a mini allocator.
> >
>
> Is kmalloc_percpu() not suitable?
Unfortunately, no. You have to use the same offsets as the in-kernel
DEFINE_PER_CPU declarations, meaning that each cpu's stuff needs to be
"sizeof kernel per-cpu-section" apart.
Which means an allocator which keeps a linked list of NR_CPUS * sizeof
kernel-per-cpu-section things, and allocs and frees from that.
Hence this patch just tacks it on the end of the module, rather than
deal with an allocator. A minor improvement would be only to allocate
for the maximum possible CPU, which means about 6k * numcpus per
module which declares per-cpu data, which is probably fine.
Rusty.
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