Re: [Bug #11342] Linux 2.6.27-rc3: kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c - bisected

[Yinghai Lu]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> wonder if could use "unsigned long *" directly.
>
> I would actually suggest something like this:
>
>  - we continue to have a magic "cpumask_t".
>
>  - we do different cases for big and small NR_CPUS:
>
>        #if NR_CPUS <= BITS_PER_LONG
>
>        /*
>         * Make it an array - that way passing it as an argument will
>         * always pass it as a pointer!
>         */
>        typedef unsigned long cpumask_t[1];
>
>        static inline void create_cpumask(cpumask_t *p)
>        {
>                *p = 0;
>        }
>        static inline void free_cpumask(cpumask_t *p)
>        {
>        }
>
>        #else
>
>        typedef unsigned long *cpumask_t;
>
>        static inline void create_cpumask(cpumask_t *p)
>        {
>                *p = kcalloc(..);
>        }
>
>        static inline void free_cpumask(cpumask_t *p)
>        {
>                kfree(*p);
>        }
>
>        #endif
>
> and now after you do this, you can just do something like
>
>        cpumask_t mycpu;
>
>        create_cpumask(&mycpu);
>        ..
>        free_cpumask(&mycpu);
>
> and in between, you can use 'cpumask' as a pointer, because even when it
> is an array directly allocated on the stack, the array can always
> degenerate into a pointer by C type rules!
>

that is good for local variables.

for global variables, need to allocate them in some point. may need one
int cpumask_size;

cpumask_t online_cpu_map;
DEFINE_DYN_ARRAY(online_cpu_map, sizeof(unsigned long), cpumask_size,
PAGE_SIZE, NULL);

or something like that.

YH
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