Re: [rfc 08/45] cpu alloc: x86 support

[H. Peter Anvin]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 November 2007 04:50, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > I might be pointing out the obvious, but on x86-64 there is definitely
> > > not 256TB of VM available for this.
> > Well maybe in the future.
>
> That would either require more than 4 levels or larger pages
> in page tables.
>
> > One of the issues that I ran into is that I had to place the cpu area
> > in between to make the offsets link right.
>
> Above -2GB, otherwise you cannot address them

This limitation shouldn't apply to the percpu area, since gs_base can be 
pointed anywhere in the address space -- in effect we're always indirect.

Obviously the offsets *within* the percpu area has to be in range (±2 GB 
per cpu for absolute offsets, slightly smaller for %rip-based addressing 
-- obviously judicious use of an offset for gs_base is essential in the 
latter case).

Thus you want the percpu areas below -2 GB where they don't interfere 
with modules or any other precious address space.

	-hpa
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