From: Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 06:31:21 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] CPU hotplug compatible alloc_percpu()
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.19-rc1~1196
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7ff6f08295d90ab20d25200ef485ebb45b1b8d71;p=pandora-kernel.git

[PATCH] CPU hotplug compatible alloc_percpu()

This patch splits alloc_percpu() up into two phases.  Likewise for
free_percpu().  This allows clients to limit initial allocations to online
cpu's, and to populate or depopulate per-cpu data at run time as needed:

  struct my_struct *obj;

  /* initial allocation for online cpu's */
  obj = percpu_alloc(sizeof(struct my_struct), GFP_KERNEL);

  ...

  /* populate per-cpu data for cpu coming online */
  ptr = percpu_populate(obj, sizeof(struct my_struct), GFP_KERNEL, cpu);

  ...

  /* access per-cpu object */
  ptr = percpu_ptr(obj, smp_processor_id());

  ...

  /* depopulate per-cpu data for cpu going offline */
  percpu_depopulate(obj, cpu);

  ...

  /* final removal */
  percpu_free(obj);

Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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