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| author | Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> | 2008-05-12 15:44:40 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2008-05-25 07:03:46 +0200 |
| commit | 63cc8c75156462d4b42cbdd76c293b7eee7ddbfe (patch) | |
| tree | e014b4c61399f8f74347352e6ea76ddf1502dcfa /include/asm-generic | |
| parent | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6 (diff) | |
| download | linux-63cc8c75156462d4b42cbdd76c293b7eee7ddbfe.tar.xz linux-63cc8c75156462d4b42cbdd76c293b7eee7ddbfe.zip | |
percpu: introduce DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED() macro
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-generic')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h index f054778e916c..69e5c1182fde 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h @@ -348,6 +348,7 @@ . = ALIGN(align); \ __per_cpu_start = .; \ .data.percpu : AT(ADDR(.data.percpu) - LOAD_OFFSET) { \ + *(.data.percpu.page_aligned) \ *(.data.percpu) \ *(.data.percpu.shared_aligned) \ } \ |