Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]> writes:
>
>
>> Let's allow page-alignment in general for per-cpu data (wanted by Xen, and
>> Ingo suggested KVM as well).
>>
>> Because larger alignments can use more room, we increase the max per-cpu
>> memory to 64k rather than 32k: it's getting a little tight.
>>
>
> The second paragraph of the comment is dated. You are not changing the per-cpu
> memory size at all now.
>
Yup.
> Although we should probably fail the module load if the requested alignment
> is to great, but that is just picking nits, and is no worse than what we
> do today.
>
Yes. And we barely support a module's use of page-aligned data, since
it would potentially chew through the percpu space very quickly.
J
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