Re: [5/6] dynamically allocate IRQ stacks (was: Re: [-mm patch] i386: enable 4k stacks by default)

[Andi Kleen]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 12:49:04PM -0700, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> 
> > -static char softirq_stack[NR_CPUS * THREAD_SIZE]
> > -		__attribute__((__aligned__(THREAD_SIZE)));
> > +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(char *, softirq_stack);
> > +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(char *, hardirq_stack);
> >  
> > -static char hardirq_stack[NR_CPUS * THREAD_SIZE]
> > -		__attribute__((__aligned__(THREAD_SIZE)));
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_VMALLOC_STACK
> > +static void * __init __alloc_irqstack(int cpu)
> 
> How about just using DEFINE_PER_CPU and allowing the percpu code 
> dynamically allocate.

That would require a true possible map first.

-Andi
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