From ac6b931c44fd9988eaa821c339d54ba06b212412 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 21:53:19 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] x86_64: Reduce NMI watchdog stack usage NR_CPUs can be quite big these days. kmalloc the per CPU array instead of putting it onto the stack Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c b/arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c index 61de0b3..ec13eb9 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c +++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/nmi.c @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ static __init int cpu_has_lapic(void) static int __init check_nmi_watchdog (void) { - int counts[NR_CPUS]; + int *counts; int cpu; if (nmi_watchdog == NMI_NONE) @@ -125,6 +125,12 @@ static int __init check_nmi_watchdog (void) return -1; } + counts = kmalloc(NR_CPUS * sizeof(int),GFP_KERNEL); + if (!counts) { + nmi_watchdog = NMI_NONE; + return 0; + } + printk(KERN_INFO "Testing NMI watchdog ... "); for (cpu = 0; cpu < NR_CPUS; cpu++) @@ -139,6 +145,7 @@ static int __init check_nmi_watchdog (void) cpu_pda[cpu].__nmi_count); nmi_active = 0; lapic_nmi_owner &= ~LAPIC_NMI_WATCHDOG; + kfree(counts); return -1; } } @@ -149,6 +156,7 @@ static int __init check_nmi_watchdog (void) if (nmi_watchdog == NMI_LOCAL_APIC) nmi_hz = 1; + kfree(counts); return 0; } /* Have this called later during boot so counters are updating */ -- 2.7.4