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authorMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>2010-01-28 13:23:22 (GMT)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2010-03-09 00:52:52 (GMT)
commit1426d5a3bd07589534286375998c0c8c6fdc5260 (patch)
treefade4f3afd6324b46e27f3c8702935a7edc2fe21 /arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
parent59603b9ae426e968d452f9325cdcff308573dee7 (diff)
downloadlinux-1426d5a3bd07589534286375998c0c8c6fdc5260.tar.xz
powerpc: Dynamically allocate pacas
On 64-bit kernels we currently have a 512 byte struct paca_struct for each cpu (usually just called "the paca"). Currently they are statically allocated, which means a kernel built for a large number of cpus will waste a lot of space if it's booted on a machine with few cpus. We can avoid that by only allocating the number of pacas we need at boot. However this is complicated by the fact that we need to access the paca before we know how many cpus there are in the system. The solution is to dynamically allocate enough space for NR_CPUS pacas, but then later in boot when we know how many cpus we have, we free any unused pacas. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
index 03dd6a2..48f0a00 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/setup-common.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
#include <linux/lmb.h>
#include <linux/of_platform.h>
#include <asm/io.h>
+#include <asm/paca.h>
#include <asm/prom.h>
#include <asm/processor.h>
#include <asm/vdso_datapage.h>
@@ -493,6 +494,8 @@ void __init smp_setup_cpu_maps(void)
* here will have to be reworked
*/
cpu_init_thread_core_maps(nthreads);
+
+ free_unused_pacas();
}
#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */