[PATCH 0/8] cpumask: Replace/optimize cpumask_of_cpu & cpumask_t operations

[Mike Travis]

> From Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>  
>    Hi Christoph/Mike,
>    
>      Looked at cpumask_of_cpu as introduced in 
>    9f0e8d0400d925c3acd5f4e01dbeb736e4011882 (x86: convert cpumask_of_cpu
>    macro to allocated array), and I don't think it's safe:
>    
>      #define cpumask_of_cpu(cpu)					\
>      (*({								\
>    	typeof(_unused_cpumask_arg_) m;					\
>    	if (sizeof(m) == sizeof(unsigned long)) {			\
>    		m.bits[0] = 1UL<<(cpu);					\
>    	} else {							\
>    		cpus_clear(m);						\
>    		cpu_set((cpu), m);					\
>    	}								\
>    	&m;								\
>      }))
>    
>    Referring to &m once out of scope is invalid, and I can't find any
>    evidence that it's legal here.  In particular, the change 
>    b53e921ba1cff8453dc9a87a84052fa12d5b30bd (generic: reduce stack pressure
>    in sched_affinity) which passes &m to other functions seems highly risky.

  * Patch 1 replaces the dangerous lvalue version of cpumask_of_cpu
    with new cpumask_of_cpu_ptr macros.  These are patterned after the
    node_to_cpumask_ptr macros.

  * Patches 2..6 optimizes various places where a pointer to the cpumask_of_cpu
    value will result in reducing stack pressure.

  * Patch 7 provides a generic set of CPUMASK_ALLOC macros patterned after
    the SCHED_CPUMASK_ALLOC macros.  This is used where multiple cpumask_t
    variables are declared on the stack to reduce the amount of stack space
    required.

  * Patch 8 uses the CPUMASK_ALLOC macros in the centrino_target() function.

Based on linux-2.6.tip/master at the following commit:

    commit 0a91813e16ebd5c2d9b5c2acd5b7c91742112c4f
    Merge: 9a635fa... 724dce0...
    Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
    Date:   Tue Jul 15 14:55:17 2008 +0200


Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Banks <gnb@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dean Nelson <dcn@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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