linux/arch
Eric Dumazet 63cc8c7515 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>
2008-05-25 07:03:46 +02:00
..
alpha [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
arm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2008-05-19 16:37:45 -07:00
avr32 [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
blackfin Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2008-05-19 16:37:45 -07:00
cris [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
frv [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
h8300 [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
ia64 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6 2008-05-19 16:37:45 -07:00
m32r [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
m68k provide out-of-line strcat() for m68k 2008-05-21 16:56:00 -07:00
m68knommu [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
mips [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
mn10300 [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
parisc [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
powerpc Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc 2008-05-20 08:15:34 -07:00
ppc [POWERPC] ppc: More compile fixes 2008-05-12 22:57:51 +10:00
s390 [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
sh MODULE_LICENSE expects "GPL v2", not "GPLv2" 2008-05-21 16:56:00 -07:00
sparc sparc: remove CVS keywords 2008-05-20 00:33:44 -07:00
sparc64 sparc64: Prevent stack backtrace false positives on trap frames. 2008-05-21 21:50:01 -07:00
um thanks to net/mac80211 we need to pull drivers/leds/Kconfig on uml 2008-05-21 16:55:58 -07:00
v850 [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
x86 percpu: introduce DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED() macro 2008-05-25 07:03:46 +02:00
xtensa [PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c 2008-05-16 17:22:20 -04:00
.gitignore
Kconfig dma: add dma_*map*_attrs() interfaces 2008-04-29 08:06:11 -07:00