Re: [PATCH 04/10] percpu: make 4k first chunk allocator map memory

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Jul 14 2009 - 23:18:40 EST


Hello,

David Howells wrote:
> Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> + pr_info("PERCPU: %d 4k pages per cpu, static data %zu bytes\n",
>> + pcpu4k_unit_pages, static_size);
>
> It occurs to me that this is may include a bad assumption. Page size need not
> be 4K. I don't know that it matters, but looking at this:
>
>> + vm.size = num_possible_cpus() * pcpu4k_unit_pages << PAGE_SHIFT;
>> + vm_area_register_early(&vm, PAGE_SIZE);
>
> It might.

Yeah, I realized that after trying to convert powerpc64 and ia64 and
renamed it to page. I'll soon post the patches.

Thanks.

--
tejun
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