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| author | Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> | 2011-04-13 19:45:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2011-04-18 13:08:08 +1000 |
| commit | 127493d5dc73589cbe00ea5ec8357cc2a4c0d82a (patch) | |
| tree | aae7b2ce16ed3950cf49cd0ad00a5ee780b40344 /arch | |
| parent | 7c7a81b53e581d727d069cc45df5510516faac31 (diff) | |
| download | linux-127493d5dc73589cbe00ea5ec8357cc2a4c0d82a.tar.bz2 | |
powerpc/pseries: Use a kmem cache for DTL buffers
PAPR specifies that DTL buffers can not cross AMS environments (aka CMO
in the PAPR) and can not cross a memory entitlement granule boundary
(4k). This is found in section 14.11.3.2 H_REGISTER_VPA of the PAPR.
kmalloc does not guarantee an alignment of the allocation, though,
beyond 8 bytes (at least in my understanding). Create a special kmem
cache for DTL buffers with the alignment requirement.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c index 000724149089..6c42cfde8415 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/setup.c @@ -287,14 +287,22 @@ static int alloc_dispatch_logs(void) int cpu, ret; struct paca_struct *pp; struct dtl_entry *dtl; + struct kmem_cache *dtl_cache; if (!firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR)) return 0; + dtl_cache = kmem_cache_create("dtl", DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES, + DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES, 0, NULL); + if (!dtl_cache) { + pr_warn("Failed to create dispatch trace log buffer cache\n"); + pr_warn("Stolen time statistics will be unreliable\n"); + return 0; + } + for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) { pp = &paca[cpu]; - dtl = kmalloc_node(DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES, GFP_KERNEL, - cpu_to_node(cpu)); + dtl = kmem_cache_alloc(dtl_cache, GFP_KERNEL); if (!dtl) { pr_warn("Failed to allocate dispatch trace log for cpu %d\n", cpu); |