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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu</title>
<updated>2010-10-23T00:31:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2010-10-23T00:31:36+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: update comments to reflect that percpu allocations are always zero-filled
  percpu: Optimize __get_cpu_var()
  x86, percpu: Optimize this_cpu_ptr
  percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator
  percpu: fix build breakage on s390 and cleanup build configuration tests
  percpu: use percpu allocator on UP too
  percpu: reduce PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE to 32k
  vmalloc: pcpu_get/free_vm_areas() aren't needed on UP

Fixed up trivial conflicts in include/linux/percpu.h
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: update comments to reflect that percpu allocations are always zero-filled
  percpu: Optimize __get_cpu_var()
  x86, percpu: Optimize this_cpu_ptr
  percpu: clear memory allocated with the km allocator
  percpu: fix build breakage on s390 and cleanup build configuration tests
  percpu: use percpu allocator on UP too
  percpu: reduce PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE to 32k
  vmalloc: pcpu_get/free_vm_areas() aren't needed on UP

Fixed up trivial conflicts in include/linux/percpu.h
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<entry>
<title>percpu: Add {get,put}_cpu_ptr</title>
<updated>2010-09-21T11:55:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-16T17:21:28+00:00</published>
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These are similar to {get,put}_cpu_var() except for dynamically
allocated per-cpu memory.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100917093009.252867712@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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These are similar to {get,put}_cpu_var() except for dynamically
allocated per-cpu memory.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
LKML-Reference: &lt;20100917093009.252867712@chello.nl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<title>percpu: use percpu allocator on UP too</title>
<updated>2010-09-08T09:11:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-03T16:22:48+00:00</published>
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On UP, percpu allocations were redirected to kmalloc.  This has the
following problems.

* For certain amount of allocations (determined by
  PERCPU_DYNAMIC_EARLY_SLOTS and PERCPU_DYNAMIC_EARLY_SIZE), percpu
  allocator can be used before the usual kernel memory allocator is
  brought online.  On SMP, this is used to initialize the kernel
  memory allocator.

* percpu allocator honors alignment upto PAGE_SIZE but kmalloc()
  doesn't.  For example, workqueue makes use of larger alignments for
  cpu_workqueues.

Currently, users of percpu allocators need to handle UP differently,
which is somewhat fragile and ugly.  Other than small amount of
memory, there isn't much to lose by enabling percpu allocator on UP.
It can simply use kernel memory based chunk allocation which was added
for SMP archs w/o MMUs.

This patch removes mm/percpu_up.c, builds mm/percpu.c on UP too and
makes UP build use percpu-km.  As percpu addresses and kernel
addresses are always identity mapped and static percpu variables don't
need any special treatment, nothing is arch dependent and mm/percpu.c
implements generic setup_per_cpu_areas() for UP.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
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On UP, percpu allocations were redirected to kmalloc.  This has the
following problems.

* For certain amount of allocations (determined by
  PERCPU_DYNAMIC_EARLY_SLOTS and PERCPU_DYNAMIC_EARLY_SIZE), percpu
  allocator can be used before the usual kernel memory allocator is
  brought online.  On SMP, this is used to initialize the kernel
  memory allocator.

* percpu allocator honors alignment upto PAGE_SIZE but kmalloc()
  doesn't.  For example, workqueue makes use of larger alignments for
  cpu_workqueues.

Currently, users of percpu allocators need to handle UP differently,
which is somewhat fragile and ugly.  Other than small amount of
memory, there isn't much to lose by enabling percpu allocator on UP.
It can simply use kernel memory based chunk allocation which was added
for SMP archs w/o MMUs.

This patch removes mm/percpu_up.c, builds mm/percpu.c on UP too and
makes UP build use percpu-km.  As percpu addresses and kernel
addresses are always identity mapped and static percpu variables don't
need any special treatment, nothing is arch dependent and mm/percpu.c
implements generic setup_per_cpu_areas() for UP.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@cs.helsinki.fi&gt;
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<title>percpu: reduce PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE to 32k</title>
<updated>2010-09-08T09:11:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-03T16:22:47+00:00</published>
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In preparation of enabling percpu allocator for UP, reduce
PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE to 32k.  On UP, the first chunk doesn't have to
include static percpu variables and chunk size can be smaller which is
important as UP percpu allocator will use contiguous kernel memory to
populate chunks.

PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE also determines the maximum supported allocation
size but 32k should still be enough.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
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In preparation of enabling percpu allocator for UP, reduce
PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE to 32k.  On UP, the first chunk doesn't have to
include static percpu variables and chunk size can be smaller which is
important as UP percpu allocator will use contiguous kernel memory to
populate chunks.

PCPU_MIN_UNIT_SIZE also determines the maximum supported allocation
size but 32k should still be enough.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>percpu: handle __percpu notations in UP accessors</title>
<updated>2010-08-07T12:20:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Namhyung Kim</name>
<email>namhyung@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-06T18:26:23+00:00</published>
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UP accessors didn't take care of __percpu notations leading to a lot
of spurious sparse warnings on UP configurations.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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UP accessors didn't take care of __percpu notations leading to a lot
of spurious sparse warnings on UP configurations.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim &lt;namhyung@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>percpu: allow limited allocation before slab is online</title>
<updated>2010-06-27T16:50:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-27T16:50:00+00:00</published>
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This patch updates percpu allocator such that it can serve limited
amount of allocation before slab comes online.  This is primarily to
allow slab to depend on working percpu allocator.

Two parameters, PERCPU_DYNAMIC_EARLY_SIZE and SLOTS, determine how
much memory space and allocation map slots are reserved.  If this
reserved area is exhausted, WARN_ON_ONCE() will trigger and allocation
will fail till slab comes online.

The following changes are made to implement early alloc.

* pcpu_mem_alloc() now checks slab_is_available()

* Chunks are allocated using pcpu_mem_alloc()

* Init paths make sure ai-&gt;dyn_size is at least as large as
  PERCPU_DYNAMIC_EARLY_SIZE.

* Initial alloc maps are allocated in __initdata and copied to
  kmalloc'd areas once slab is online.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This patch updates percpu allocator such that it can serve limited
amount of allocation before slab comes online.  This is primarily to
allow slab to depend on working percpu allocator.

Two parameters, PERCPU_DYNAMIC_EARLY_SIZE and SLOTS, determine how
much memory space and allocation map slots are reserved.  If this
reserved area is exhausted, WARN_ON_ONCE() will trigger and allocation
will fail till slab comes online.

The following changes are made to implement early alloc.

* pcpu_mem_alloc() now checks slab_is_available()

* Chunks are allocated using pcpu_mem_alloc()

* Init paths make sure ai-&gt;dyn_size is at least as large as
  PERCPU_DYNAMIC_EARLY_SIZE.

* Initial alloc maps are allocated in __initdata and copied to
  kmalloc'd areas once slab is online.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>percpu: make @dyn_size always mean min dyn_size in first chunk init functions</title>
<updated>2010-06-27T16:49:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-06-27T16:49:59+00:00</published>
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In pcpu_build_alloc_info() and pcpu_embed_first_chunk(), @dyn_size was
ssize_t, -1 meant auto-size, 0 forced 0 and positive meant minimum
size.  There's no use case for forcing 0 and the upcoming early alloc
support always requires non-zero dynamic size.  Make @dyn_size always
mean minimum dyn_size.

While at it, make pcpu_build_alloc_info() static which doesn't have
any external caller as suggested by David Rientjes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
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In pcpu_build_alloc_info() and pcpu_embed_first_chunk(), @dyn_size was
ssize_t, -1 meant auto-size, 0 forced 0 and positive meant minimum
size.  There's no use case for forcing 0 and the upcoming early alloc
support always requires non-zero dynamic size.  Make @dyn_size always
mean minimum dyn_size.

While at it, make pcpu_build_alloc_info() static which doesn't have
any external caller as suggested by David Rientjes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'slabh' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc</title>
<updated>2010-04-05T16:39:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-04-05T16:39:11+00:00</published>
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* 'slabh' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc:
  eeepc-wmi: include slab.h
  staging/otus: include slab.h from usbdrv.h
  percpu: don't implicitly include slab.h from percpu.h
  kmemcheck: Fix build errors due to missing slab.h
  include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
  iwlwifi: don't include iwl-dev.h from iwl-devtrace.h
  x86: don't include slab.h from arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_32.h

Fix up trivial conflicts in include/linux/percpu.h due to
is_kernel_percpu_address() having been introduced since the slab.h
cleanup with the percpu_up.c splitup.
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* 'slabh' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc:
  eeepc-wmi: include slab.h
  staging/otus: include slab.h from usbdrv.h
  percpu: don't implicitly include slab.h from percpu.h
  kmemcheck: Fix build errors due to missing slab.h
  include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
  iwlwifi: don't include iwl-dev.h from iwl-devtrace.h
  x86: don't include slab.h from arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_32.h

Fix up trivial conflicts in include/linux/percpu.h due to
is_kernel_percpu_address() having been introduced since the slab.h
cleanup with the percpu_up.c splitup.
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<title>percpu: don't implicitly include slab.h from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-24T08:06:43+00:00</published>
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percpu.h has always been including slab.h to get k[mz]alloc/free() for
UP inline implementation.  percpu.h being used by very low level
headers including module.h and sched.h, this meant that a lot files
unintentionally got slab.h inclusion.

Lee Schermerhorn was trying to make topology.h use percpu.h and got
bitten by this implicit inclusion.  The right thing to do is break
this ultimately unnecessary dependency.  The previous patch added
explicit inclusion of either gfp.h or slab.h to the source files using
them.  This patch updates percpu.h such that slab.h is no longer
included from percpu.h.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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percpu.h has always been including slab.h to get k[mz]alloc/free() for
UP inline implementation.  percpu.h being used by very low level
headers including module.h and sched.h, this meant that a lot files
unintentionally got slab.h inclusion.

Lee Schermerhorn was trying to make topology.h use percpu.h and got
bitten by this implicit inclusion.  The right thing to do is break
this ultimately unnecessary dependency.  The previous patch added
explicit inclusion of either gfp.h or slab.h to the source files using
them.  This patch updates percpu.h such that slab.h is no longer
included from percpu.h.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>percpu, module: implement and use is_kernel/module_percpu_address()</title>
<updated>2010-03-29T14:07:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-10T09:57:54+00:00</published>
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lockdep has custom code to check whether a pointer belongs to static
percpu area which is somewhat broken.  Implement proper
is_kernel/module_percpu_address() and replace the custom code.

On UP, percpu variables are regular static variables and can't be
distinguished from them.  Always return %false on UP.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
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lockdep has custom code to check whether a pointer belongs to static
percpu area which is somewhat broken.  Implement proper
is_kernel/module_percpu_address() and replace the custom code.

On UP, percpu variables are regular static variables and can't be
distinguished from them.  Always return %false on UP.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
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