[PATCH] percpu: Introduce DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED() macro

[PATCH] percpu: Introduce DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED() macro

[Eric Dumazet]

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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 :

# size -A vmlinux.old vmlinux | grep percpu
.data.percpu                30232   3227471872
.data.percpu                22168   3227471872

Thats 8064 bytes saved for each CPU.

Patch against x86.git/latest

Note : This will collide with Christoph efforts to put pda at offset 0 
of percpu zone...

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>

 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c      |    2 +-
 arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S  |    1 +
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h |    1 +
 include/linux/percpu.h            |    7 +++++++
 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)



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diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
index b186047..c665dfc 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 #include "cpu.h"
 
-DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct gdt_page, gdt_page) = { .gdt = {
+DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED(struct gdt_page, gdt_page) = { .gdt = {
 	[GDT_ENTRY_KERNEL_CS] = { { { 0x0000ffff, 0x00cf9a00 } } },
 	[GDT_ENTRY_KERNEL_DS] = { { { 0x0000ffff, 0x00cf9200 } } },
 	[GDT_ENTRY_DEFAULT_USER_CS] = { { { 0x0000ffff, 0x00cffa00 } } },
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S
index ce5ed08..0f7c29a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ SECTIONS
   . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);
   .data.percpu  : AT(ADDR(.data.percpu) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
 	__per_cpu_start = .;
+	*(.data.percpu.page_aligned)
 	*(.data.percpu)
 	*(.data.percpu.shared_aligned)
 	__per_cpu_end = .;
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
index f054778..69e5c11 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
@@ -348,6 +348,7 @@
 	. = ALIGN(align);						\
 	__per_cpu_start = .;						\
 	.data.percpu  : AT(ADDR(.data.percpu) - LOAD_OFFSET) {		\
+		*(.data.percpu.page_aligned)				\
 		*(.data.percpu)						\
 		*(.data.percpu.shared_aligned)				\
 	}								\
diff --git a/include/linux/percpu.h b/include/linux/percpu.h
index 1ac9697..1c0cc0d 100644
--- a/include/linux/percpu.h
+++ b/include/linux/percpu.h
@@ -18,12 +18,19 @@
 	__attribute__((__section__(".data.percpu.shared_aligned")))	\
 	PER_CPU_ATTRIBUTES __typeof__(type) per_cpu__##name		\
 	____cacheline_aligned_in_smp
+
+#define DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED(type, name)			\
+	__attribute__((__section__(".data.percpu.page_aligned")))	\
+	PER_CPU_ATTRIBUTES __typeof__(type) per_cpu__##name
 #else
 #define DEFINE_PER_CPU(type, name)					\
 	PER_CPU_ATTRIBUTES __typeof__(type) per_cpu__##name
 
 #define DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(type, name)		      \
 	DEFINE_PER_CPU(type, name)
+
+#define DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED(type, name)		      \
+	DEFINE_PER_CPU(type, name)
 #endif
 
 #define EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(var) EXPORT_SYMBOL(per_cpu__##var)