From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-am33-list@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Akira Takeuchi <takeuchi.akr@jp.panasonic.com>,
Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] MN10300: Fix the PERCPU() alignment to allow for workqueues
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:27:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC6C941.2080003@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CC6C62F.1000804@kernel.org>
On 10/26/2010 02:14 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>> That said, I think it might be better to just remove the alignment parameter
>>> from the macro and force align to PAGE_SIZE.
>>
>> That's not necessarily good. Two arches to note:
>>
>> arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S: PERCPU(THREAD_SIZE)
>
> I don't think the current percpu allocator honors alignment larger
> than PAGE_SIZE no matter how large the alignment for the percpu output
> section is. I'll look into it deeper but I think we might just have
> been lucky and the alignment somehow didn't bite us yet. The only
> user of THREAD_SIZE mask at this point seems to be cpu_init(). Maybe
> we can remove this requirement. I'll look into it.
Okay, this was added by commit fe8e0c2 in this merge window. It's
broken and needs to be reverted. I'll send a patch to revert it.
Thanks.
--
tejun
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-26 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-25 22:41 [PATCH] MN10300: Fix the PERCPU() alignment to allow for workqueues David Howells
2010-10-26 9:10 ` Tejun Heo
2010-10-26 10:22 ` David Howells
2010-10-26 12:14 ` Tejun Heo
2010-10-26 12:27 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2010-10-26 12:45 ` [PATCH] x86, percpu: revert commit fe8e0c25 Tejun Heo
2010-10-26 13:25 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-26 13:34 ` Tejun Heo
2010-10-26 13:49 ` Brian Gerst
2010-10-26 15:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-27 5:43 ` [PATCH] x86-32: Allocate irq stacks seperate from percpu area Brian Gerst
2010-10-27 6:07 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-27 9:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-27 13:33 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-27 13:42 ` Tejun Heo
2010-10-27 13:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-27 14:00 ` Tejun Heo
2010-10-27 14:24 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-27 14:39 ` Tejun Heo
2010-10-27 14:39 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-27 14:43 ` Tejun Heo
2010-10-27 15:21 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-27 15:35 ` Tejun Heo
2010-10-27 16:07 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-27 17:33 ` [PATCH] numa: fix slab_node(MPOL_BIND) Eric Dumazet
2010-10-28 15:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-10-28 16:27 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-28 16:45 ` Mel Gorman
2010-10-28 16:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-28 21:07 ` Andrew Morton
2010-10-29 14:55 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-10-27 20:55 ` [PATCH] x86-32: Allocate irq stacks seperate from percpu area Eric Dumazet
2010-10-28 12:01 ` Tejun Heo
2010-10-28 12:30 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-28 14:40 ` [PATCH] x86-32: NUMA irq stacks allocations Eric Dumazet
2010-10-29 6:43 ` [tip:x86/urgent] x86-32: Restore irq stacks NUMA-aware allocations tip-bot for Eric Dumazet
2010-10-29 18:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-10-29 20:09 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-10-29 20:28 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-10-29 20:53 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-29 20:59 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-10-29 20:58 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-10-29 21:21 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2010-10-27 15:19 ` [PATCH] x86-32: Allocate irq stacks seperate from percpu area Linus Torvalds
2010-10-27 15:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-27 15:33 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-27 15:40 ` Tejun Heo
2010-10-27 15:43 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-10-27 16:03 ` [tip:x86/urgent] " tip-bot for Brian Gerst
2010-10-27 16:04 ` [tip:x86/urgent] percpu: Remove the multi-page alignment facility tip-bot for Ingo Molnar
2010-10-26 14:06 ` [RFC PATCH] percpu: always align percpu output section to PAGE_SIZE Tejun Heo
2011-03-24 6:46 ` [Uclinux-dist-devel] " Mike Frysinger
2011-03-24 6:46 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-03-24 8:25 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-24 8:25 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-24 8:51 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-24 8:51 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-24 13:46 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-03-24 13:46 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-03-24 17:51 ` Tejun Heo
2011-03-24 8:54 ` [PATCH UPDATED] " Tejun Heo
2010-10-26 14:50 ` [PATCH] MN10300: Fix the PERCPU() alignment to allow for workqueues David Howells
2010-10-26 14:56 ` Tejun Heo
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