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percpu: introduce DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED() macro

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While examining holes in percpu section I found this :

c05f5000 D per_cpu__current_task
c05f5000 D __per_cpu_start
c05f5004 D per_cpu__cpu_number
c05f5008 D per_cpu__irq_regs
c05f500c d per_cpu__cpu_devices
c05f5040 D per_cpu__cyc2ns

<Big Hole of about 4000 bytes>

c05f6000 d per_cpu__cpuid4_info
c05f6004 d per_cpu__cache_kobject
c05f6008 d per_cpu__index_kobject

<Big Hole of about 4000 bytes>

c05f7000 D per_cpu__gdt_page

This is because gdt_page is a percpu variable, defined with
a page alignement, and linker is doing its job, two times because of .o
nesting in the build process.

I introduced a new macro DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED() to avoid
wasting this space. All page aligned variables (only one at this time)
are put in a separate
subsection .data.percpu.page_aligned, at the very begining of percpu zone.

Before patch , on a x86_32 machine :

.data.percpu                30232   3227471872
.data.percpu                22168   3227471872

Thats 8064 bytes saved for each CPU.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Eric Dumazet
2008-05-12 15:44:40 +02:00
committed by Thomas Gleixner
parent 75d3bce2fc
commit 63cc8c7515
4 changed files with 10 additions and 1 deletions
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arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c
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#include "cpu.h"
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct gdt_page, gdt_page) = { .gdt = {
DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED(struct gdt_page, gdt_page) = { .gdt = {
[GDT_ENTRY_KERNEL_CS] = { { { 0x0000ffff, 0x00cf9a00 } } },
[GDT_ENTRY_KERNEL_DS] = { { { 0x0000ffff, 0x00cf9200 } } },
[GDT_ENTRY_DEFAULT_USER_CS] = { { { 0x0000ffff, 0x00cffa00 } } },