From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Howells Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/10] percpu: make 4k first chunk allocator map memory Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:12:53 +0100 Message-ID: <24253.1247479973@redhat.com> References: <1245850216-31653-5-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <1245850216-31653-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:38815 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750843AbZGMKV0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Jul 2009 06:21:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1245850216-31653-5-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Tejun Heo Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, andi@firstfloor.org, hpa@zytor.com, tglx@linutronix.de, cl@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Tejun Heo wrote: > + pr_info("PERCPU: %d 4k pages per cpu, static data %zu bytes\n", > + pcpu4k_unit_pages, static_size); It occurs to me that this is may include a bad assumption. Page size need not be 4K. I don't know that it matters, but looking at this: > + vm.size = num_possible_cpus() * pcpu4k_unit_pages << PAGE_SHIFT; > + vm_area_register_early(&vm, PAGE_SIZE); It might. David