From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759382AbXKUICi (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:02:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755811AbXKUIC3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:02:29 -0500 Received: from netops-testserver-3-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.28]:45673 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755703AbXKUIC2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:02:28 -0500 Message-Id: <20071121080225.606291000@sgi.com> User-Agent: quilt/0.46-1 Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:02:25 -0800 From: travis@sgi.com To: Andrew Morton , Andi Kleen , Christoph Lameter Cc: mingo@elte.hu, apw@shadowen.org, Jack Steiner , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 0/2] x86: Reduce pressure on stack from cpumask usage Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Convert cpumask_of_cpu to use a static percpu data array and set_cpus_allowed to pass the cpumask_t arg as a pointer. Conditioned on NR_CPUS > BITS_PER_LONG. Compiled and tested for i386 and x86_64. I'd appreciate feedback on other architectures. (Note: there are still compile/test errors when NR_CPUS > 256 due to cpu id being 8 bits among other things.) --