We want to move cpumasks off the stack: no local decls, no passing by
copy. Linus suggested we use the array-or-pointer trick for on-stack
vars; we introduce a new cpumask_var_t for this.
Rather than pick an arbitrary limit, I chose a new config option so
arch maintainers can decide where their threshold is.
From: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/cpumask.h | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
lib/cpumask.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 67 insertions(+)
--- test-compile.orig/include/linux/cpumask.h
+++ test-compile/include/linux/cpumask.h
@@ -485,6 +485,42 @@ int __next_cpu_nr(int n, const cpumask_t
#endif /* NR_CPUS > 64 */
/*
+ * cpumask_var_t: struct cpumask for stack usage.
+ *
+ * Oh, the wicked games we play! In order to make kernel coding a
+ * little more difficult, we typedef cpumask_var_t to an array or a
+ * pointer: doing &mask on an array is a noop, so it still works.
+ *
+ * ie.
+ * cpumask_var_t tmpmask;
+ * if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&tmpmask, GFP_KERNEL))
+ * return -ENOMEM;
+ *
+ * ... use 'tmpmask' like a normal struct cpumask * ...
+ *
+ * free_cpumask_var(tmpmask);
+ */
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
+typedef struct cpumask *cpumask_var_t;
+
+bool alloc_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t *mask, gfp_t flags);
+void free_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t mask);
+
+#else
+typedef struct cpumask cpumask_var_t[1];
+
+static inline bool alloc_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t *mask, gfp_t flags)
+{
+ return true;
+}
+
+static inline void free_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t mask)
+{
+}
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK */
+
+/*
* The following particular system cpumasks and operations manage
* possible, present, active and online cpus. Each of them is a fixed size
* bitmap of size NR_CPUS.
--- test-compile.orig/lib/cpumask.c
+++ test-compile/lib/cpumask.c
@@ -43,3 +43,34 @@ int __any_online_cpu(const cpumask_t *ma
return cpu;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__any_online_cpu);
+
+/* These are not inline because of header tangles. */
+#ifdef CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
+bool alloc_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t *mask, gfp_t flags)
+{
+ if (likely(slab_is_available()))
+ *mask = kmalloc(BITS_TO_LONGS(nr_cpu_ids)*sizeof(long), flags);
+ else {
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
+ printk(KERN_ERR
+ "=> alloc_cpumask_var: kmalloc not available!\n");
+ dump_stack();
+#endif
+ *mask = NULL;
+ }
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS
+ if (!*mask) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "=> alloc_cpumask_var: failed!\n");
+ dump_stack();
+ }
+#endif
+ return *mask != NULL;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(alloc_cpumask_var);
+
+void free_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t mask)
+{
+ kfree(mask);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(free_cpumask_var);
+#endif
--
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