Re: [PATCH 03/25] add dyn_array support

From: Yinghai Lu
Date: Sun Aug 03 2008 - 00:21:25 EST


On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 9:03 PM, Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> could have crazy big arrays and allocate them in bootmem at init stage.
>> also also to allocate array according to size we need to use to avoid wasting
>> memory
>> use CONFIG_HAVE_DYN_ARRAY to enable it or not
>>
>> usage:
>>
>> |static struct irq_desc irq_desc_init __initdata = {
>> | .status = IRQ_DISABLED,
>> | .chip = &no_irq_chip,
>> | .handle_irq = handle_bad_irq,
>> | .depth = 1,
>> | .lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(irq_desc->lock),
>> |#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
>> | .affinity = CPU_MASK_ALL
>> |#endif
>> |};
>> |
>> |static void __init init_work(void *data)
>> |{
>> | struct dyn_array *da = data;
>> | struct irq_desc *desc;
>> | int i;
>> |
>> | desc = *da->name;
>
> Where *da->name might be NULL...

you can not pass compiling

+#define DEFINE_DYN_ARRAY(nameX, sizeX, nrX, alignX, init_workX) \
+ static struct dyn_array __dyn_array_##nameX __initdata = \
+ { .name = (void **)&nameX,\
+ .size = sizeX,\
+ .nr = &nrX,\
+ .align = alignX,\
+ .init_work = init_workX,\
+ }; \
+ static struct dyn_array *__dyn_array_ptr_##nameX __used \
+ __attribute__((__section__(".dyn_array.init"))) = \
+ &__dyn_array_##nameX
+

YH
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