The percpu allocator can now handle allocations during early boot. So drop the static kmem_cache_cpu array. Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slub.c | 17 ++++------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c 2010-08-18 09:41:00.000000000 -0500 +++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c 2010-08-18 09:55:20.000000000 -0500 @@ -2062,23 +2062,14 @@ init_kmem_cache_node(struct kmem_cache_n #endif } -static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kmem_cache_cpu, kmalloc_percpu[KMALLOC_CACHES]); - static inline int alloc_kmem_cache_cpus(struct kmem_cache *s) { - if (s < kmalloc_caches + KMALLOC_CACHES && s >= kmalloc_caches) - /* - * Boot time creation of the kmalloc array. Use static per cpu data - * since the per cpu allocator is not available yet. - */ - s->cpu_slab = kmalloc_percpu + (s - kmalloc_caches); - else - s->cpu_slab = alloc_percpu(struct kmem_cache_cpu); + BUILD_BUG_ON(PERCPU_DYNAMIC_EARLY_SIZE < + SLUB_PAGE_SHIFT * sizeof(struct kmem_cache_cpu)); - if (!s->cpu_slab) - return 0; + s->cpu_slab = alloc_percpu(struct kmem_cache_cpu); - return 1; + return s->cpu_slab != NULL; } #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>