Commit 63cc8c75 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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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: default avatarEric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
parent 75d3bce2

arch/x86/kernel/cpu/common.c

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@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ 


#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 } } },

arch/x86/kernel/vmlinux_32.lds.S

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@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ SECTIONS 
  . = ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE);

  .data.percpu  : AT(ADDR(.data.percpu) - LOAD_OFFSET) {

	__per_cpu_start = .;

	*(.data.percpu.page_aligned)

	*(.data.percpu)

	*(.data.percpu.shared_aligned)

	__per_cpu_end = .;

include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h

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@@ -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)				\

	}								\

include/linux/percpu.h

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@@ -23,12 +23,19 @@ 
	__attribute__((__section__(SHARED_ALIGNED_SECTION)))		\

	PER_CPU_ATTRIBUTES __typeof__(type) per_cpu__##name		\

	____cacheline_aligned_in_smp



#define DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED(type, name)			\

	__attribute__((__section__(".data.percpu.page_aligned")))	\

	PER_CPU_ATTRIBUTES __typeof__(type) per_cpu__##name

#else

#define DEFINE_PER_CPU(type, name)					\

	PER_CPU_ATTRIBUTES __typeof__(type) per_cpu__##name



#define DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED(type, name)		      \

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(type, name)



#define DEFINE_PER_CPU_PAGE_ALIGNED(type, name)		      \

	DEFINE_PER_CPU(type, name)

#endif



#define EXPORT_PER_CPU_SYMBOL(var) EXPORT_SYMBOL(per_cpu__##var)

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