From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 09:37:01 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: PERCPU : __percpu_alloc_mask() can dynamically size percpu_data storage
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.25-rc1~729
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b3242151906372f30f57feaa43b4cac96a23edb1;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-3.10.git

PERCPU : __percpu_alloc_mask() can dynamically size percpu_data storage

Instead of allocating a fix sized array of NR_CPUS pointers for percpu_data,
we can use nr_cpu_ids, which is generally < NR_CPUS.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/include/linux/percpu.h b/include/linux/percpu.h
index 50faa0e..1ac9697 100644
--- a/include/linux/percpu.h
+++ b/include/linux/percpu.h
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 
 struct percpu_data {
-	void *ptrs[NR_CPUS];
+	void *ptrs[1];
 };
 
 #define __percpu_disguise(pdata) (struct percpu_data *)~(unsigned long)(pdata)
diff --git a/mm/allocpercpu.c b/mm/allocpercpu.c
index 00b0262..7e58322 100644
--- a/mm/allocpercpu.c
+++ b/mm/allocpercpu.c
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__percpu_populate_mask);
  */
 void *__percpu_alloc_mask(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, cpumask_t *mask)
 {
-	void *pdata = kzalloc(sizeof(struct percpu_data), gfp);
+	void *pdata = kzalloc(nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(void *), gfp);
 	void *__pdata = __percpu_disguise(pdata);
 
 	if (unlikely(!pdata))