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Martin Peschke 7ff6f08295 [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>
2006-09-26 08:48:47 -07:00
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acpi
asm-alpha [libata] No need for all those arch libata-portmap.h headers 2006-09-25 15:33:09 -04:00
asm-arm Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2006-09-24 22:05:59 +01:00
asm-arm26
asm-cris
asm-frv [libata] No need for all those arch libata-portmap.h headers 2006-09-25 15:33:09 -04:00
asm-generic [PATCH] trigger a syntax error if percpu macros are incorrectly used 2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
asm-h8300
asm-i386 [PATCH] convert i386 NUMA KVA space to bootmem 2006-09-26 08:48:45 -07:00
asm-ia64 [PATCH] cpu to node relationship fixup: map cpu to node 2006-09-25 17:38:36 -07:00
asm-m32r
asm-m68k
asm-m68knommu
asm-mips
asm-parisc
asm-powerpc [libata] No need for all those arch libata-portmap.h headers 2006-09-25 15:33:09 -04:00
asm-ppc [PATCH] #elif that should've been #elif defined 2006-09-23 11:34:43 -07:00
asm-s390 [PATCH] trigger a syntax error if percpu macros are incorrectly used 2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
asm-sh
asm-sh64
asm-sparc [libata] No need for all those arch libata-portmap.h headers 2006-09-25 15:33:09 -04:00
asm-sparc64 [libata] No need for all those arch libata-portmap.h headers 2006-09-25 15:33:09 -04:00
asm-um
asm-v850
asm-x86_64 [PATCH] trigger a syntax error if percpu macros are incorrectly used 2006-09-26 08:48:44 -07:00
asm-xtensa
crypto
keys
linux [PATCH] CPU hotplug compatible alloc_percpu() 2006-09-26 08:48:47 -07:00
math-emu
media
mtd
net [NetLabel]: rework the Netlink attribute handling (part 1) 2006-09-25 15:56:09 -07:00
pcmcia
rdma
rxrpc
scsi [PATCH] SCSI gfp_t annotations 2006-09-24 20:07:49 -07:00
sound [ALSA] ak4xxx - Remove bogus IPGA controls 2006-09-23 10:46:55 +02:00
video
Kbuild