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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2008-11-25 02:35:04 +1030
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-11-24 17:51:10 +0100
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sched: convert nohz_cpu_mask to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS. Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS. cpumask_var_t is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sched.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 6b9606a6cabf..2723d7a4a42d 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -5870,9 +5870,9 @@ void __cpuinit init_idle(struct task_struct *idle, int cpu)
* indicates which cpus entered this state. This is used
* in the rcu update to wait only for active cpus. For system
* which do not switch off the HZ timer nohz_cpu_mask should
- * always be CPU_MASK_NONE.
+ * always be CPU_BITS_NONE.
*/
-cpumask_t nohz_cpu_mask = CPU_MASK_NONE;
+cpumask_var_t nohz_cpu_mask;
/*
* Increase the granularity value when there are more CPUs,
@@ -8274,6 +8274,9 @@ void __init sched_init(void)
*/
current->sched_class = &fair_sched_class;
+ /* Allocate the nohz_cpu_mask if CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK */
+ alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(&nohz_cpu_mask);
+
scheduler_running = 1;
}