Re: [PATCH 4/4] kstat: modify kstat_irqs_legacy to be variable sized

[Mike Travis]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Impact: reduce memory usage.
>>
>> Allocate kstat_irqs_legacy based on nr_cpu_ids to deal with this
>> memory usage bump when NR_CPUS bumped from 128 to 4096:
>>
>>      8192   +253952    262144 +3100%  kstat_irqs_legacy(.bss)
>>
>> This is only when CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQS=y.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  kernel/irq/handle.c |    9 ++++++---
>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> --- linux-2.6-for-ingo.orig/kernel/irq/handle.c
>> +++ linux-2.6-for-ingo/kernel/irq/handle.c
>> @@ -124,8 +124,7 @@ static struct irq_desc irq_desc_legacy[N
>>  	}
>>  };
>>  
>> -/* FIXME: use bootmem alloc ...*/
>> -static unsigned int kstat_irqs_legacy[NR_IRQS_LEGACY][NR_CPUS];
>> +static unsigned int *kstat_irqs_legacy;
>>  
>>  int __init early_irq_init(void)
>>  {
>> @@ -146,9 +145,13 @@ int __init early_irq_init(void)
>>  	/* allocate irq_desc_ptrs array based on nr_irqs */
>>  	irq_desc_ptrs = alloc_bootmem(nr_irqs * sizeof(void *));
>>  
>> +	/* allocate based on nr_cpu_ids */
>> +	kstat_irqs_legacy = alloc_bootmem(NR_IRQS_LEGACY * nr_cpu_ids *
>> +					  sizeof(int));
>> +
>>  	for (i = 0; i < legacy_count; i++) {
>>  		desc[i].irq = i;
>> -		desc[i].kstat_irqs = kstat_irqs_legacy[i];
>> +		desc[i].kstat_irqs = kstat_irqs_legacy + i * NR_IRQS_LEGACY;
>>  		lockdep_set_class(&desc[i].lock, &irq_desc_lock_class);
>>  		init_alloc_desc_masks(&desc[i], 0, true);
>>  		irq_desc_ptrs[i] = desc + i;
> 
> btw., while at it - dont we want to upgrade this to a 'long' (in a 
> separate commit)? Having more than 4 billion irqs after bootup is easily 
> possible.
> 
> 	Ingo

Yes, I can do that.  There are two places where it allocated, both for
legacy and dynamically added desc's.

You want basically this, yes?

--- linux-2.6-for-ingo.orig/include/linux/irq.h
+++ linux-2.6-for-ingo/include/linux/irq.h
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ struct irq_desc {
        unsigned int            irq;
 #ifdef CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ
        struct timer_rand_state *timer_rand_state;
-       unsigned int            *kstat_irqs;
+       unsigned long           *kstat_irqs;
 # ifdef CONFIG_INTR_REMAP
        struct irq_2_iommu      *irq_2_iommu;
 # endif


Thanks,
Mike
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