Re: Broken "cpualloc: the allocator" patch

[Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> Same thing. For reference f622b9e43c8ba1902d4423bef9ae9d89b0254b45 aka
> "cpualloc: the allocator".
>
> It's BUG_ON(!size) at mm/bootmem.c:438. At cpu_alloc_init():
>
> __per_cpu_start = ff...80555000
> __per_cpu_end   = ff...8055d3e0
> UNIT_SIZE = 4
> base_percpu_in_units = 8440
> PERCPU_AREA_SIZE = 33760
> nr_units = 0 (bang!)
>
> MODULES are off.

Oww.. Ok we need to skip ahead to have a hunk from the second stage
to make sure PERCPU_RESERVE_SIZE is always > 0.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>

Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/percpu.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/percpu.h	2008-11-05 07:41:22.134646124 -0600
+++ linux-2.6/include/linux/percpu.h	2008-11-05 07:44:28.603155403 -0600
@@ -44,11 +44,7 @@
  extern unsigned int percpu_reserve;
  /* Enough to cover all DEFINE_PER_CPUs in kernel, including modules. */
  #ifndef PERCPU_AREA_SIZE
-#ifdef CONFIG_MODULES
  #define PERCPU_RESERVE_SIZE	8192
-#else
-#define PERCPU_RESERVE_SIZE	0
-#endif

  #define PERCPU_AREA_SIZE						\
  	(__per_cpu_end - __per_cpu_start + percpu_reserve)