[PATCH] x86: Allow percpu variables to be page-aligned
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.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/module.c b/kernel/module.c
index cf49ca2..4dc4a25 100644
--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -346,10 +346,10 @@
unsigned int i;
void *ptr;
- if (align > SMP_CACHE_BYTES) {
- printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: per-cpu alignment %li > %i\n",
- name, align, SMP_CACHE_BYTES);
- align = SMP_CACHE_BYTES;
+ if (align > PAGE_SIZE) {
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: per-cpu alignment %li > %li\n",
+ name, align, PAGE_SIZE);
+ align = PAGE_SIZE;
}
ptr = __per_cpu_start;