Re: [PULL] cpumask: finally make them variable size w/ CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

[KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>]

(5/9/12 2:10 AM), Rusty Russell wrote:
> Hi Ingo,
>
>          I finally rebased this on top of your tip tree, and tested it
> locally.  Some more old-style cpumask usages have crept in, but it's a
> fairly simple series.
>
> The final result is that if you enable CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK, then
> 'struct cpumask' becomes an undefined type.  You can't accidentally take
> the size of it, assign it, or pass it by value.  And thus it's safe for
> us to make it smaller if nr_cpu_ids<  NR_CPUS, as the final patch does.
>
> It unfortunately requires the lglock cleanup patch, which Al already has
> queued, so I've included it here.

Hi

Thanks this effort. This is very cleaner than I expected.
However I should NAK following one patch. sorry. because of, lru-drain is
called from memory reclaim context. It mean, additional allocation may not
work. Please just use bare NR_CPUS bitmap instead. space wasting is minor
issue than that.

> commit fab26054c0500d426cf1bc2ce227a6a428dc815e
> Author: Rusty Russell<rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> Date:   Wed May 9 14:55:15 2012 +0930
>
>      page_alloc: use cpumask_var_t.
>
>      The BSS trick works, but it still wastes space.  Especially since there's
>      a nice fallback in the case where we fail to allocate a temporary cpumask.
>
>      Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell<rusty@rustcorp.com.au>



Other patches looks very goold.
	Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>

Thanks.