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Tejun Heo fa8a7094ba x86: implement percpu_alloc kernel parameter 
According to Andi, it isn't clear whether lpage allocator is worth the
trouble as there are many processors where PMD TLB is far scarcer than
PTE TLB.  The advantage or disadvantage probably depends on the actual
size of percpu area and specific processor.  As performance
degradation due to TLB pressure tends to be highly workload specific
and subtle, it is difficult to decide which way to go without more
data.

This patch implements percpu_alloc kernel parameter to allow selecting
which first chunk allocator to use to ease debugging and testing.

While at it, make sure all the failure paths report why something
failed to help determining why certain allocator isn't working.  Also,
kill the "Great future plan" comment which had already been realized
quite some time ago.

[ Impact: allow explicit percpu first chunk allocator selection ]

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
 		2009-06-22 11:56:24 +09:00
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Kconfig Merge branch 'akpm' 2009-06-16 19:50:13 -07:00
Kconfig.debug kmemcheck: enable in the x86 Kconfig 2009-06-15 15:49:15 +02:00
Makefile Merge branch 'akpm' 2009-06-16 19:50:13 -07:00
allocpercpu.c percpu: __percpu_depopulate_mask can take a const mask 2009-04-06 13:44:15 -07:00
backing-dev.c block: change the request allocation/congestion logic to be sync/async based 2009-04-06 08:04:53 -07:00
bootmem.c bootmem.c: avoid c90 declaration warning 2009-06-19 16:46:04 -07:00
bounce.c block: remove some includings of blktrace_api.h 2009-06-16 11:19:36 +02:00
debug-pagealloc.c generic debug pagealloc 2009-04-01 08:59:13 -07:00
dmapool.c dmapool: enable debugging for CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON too 2008-04-28 08:58:20 -07:00
fadvise.c readahead: move max_sane_readahead() calls into force_page_cache_readahead() 2009-06-16 19:47:28 -07:00
failslab.c kmemtrace, mm: fix slab.h dependency problem in mm/failslab.c 2009-04-03 12:23:01 +02:00
filemap.c page allocator: do not check NUMA node ID when the caller knows the node is valid 2009-06-16 19:47:32 -07:00
filemap_xip.c mm: do_xip_mapping_read: fix length calculation 2009-04-02 19:04:49 -07:00
fremap.c Do not account for the address space used by hugetlbfs using VM_ACCOUNT 2009-02-10 10:48:42 -08:00
highmem.c block: remove some includings of blktrace_api.h 2009-06-16 11:19:36 +02:00
hugetlb.c mm: introduce PageHuge() for testing huge/gigantic pages 2009-06-16 19:47:36 -07:00
init-mm.c mm: consolidate init_mm definition 2009-06-16 19:47:28 -07:00
internal.h vmscan: do not unconditionally treat zones that fail zone_reclaim() as full 2009-06-16 19:47:45 -07:00
kmemcheck.c kmemcheck: add hooks for the page allocator 2009-06-15 15:48:33 +02:00
kmemleak-test.c kmemleak: Simple testing module for kmemleak 2009-06-11 17:04:19 +01:00
kmemleak.c kmemleak: Fix some typos in comments 2009-06-17 18:29:04 +01:00
maccess.c [S390] maccess: add weak attribute to probe_kernel_write 2009-06-12 10:27:37 +02:00
madvise.c mm: madvise(): correct return code 2009-06-16 19:47:40 -07:00
memcontrol.c memcg: fix lru rotation in isolate_pages 2009-06-18 13:03:48 -07:00
memory.c Move FAULT_FLAG_xyz into handle_mm_fault() callers 2009-06-21 13:08:22 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c page-allocator: reset wmark_min and inactive ratio of zone when hotplug happens 2009-06-16 19:47:42 -07:00
mempolicy.c page allocator: do not check NUMA node ID when the caller knows the node is valid 2009-06-16 19:47:32 -07:00
mempool.c
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migrate.c migration: only migrate_prep() once per move_pages() 2009-06-16 19:47:41 -07:00
mincore.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 14 2009-01-14 14:15:24 +01:00
mlock.c mm: remove CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU config option 2009-06-16 19:47:42 -07:00
mm_init.c mm: mminit_loglevel cannot be __meminitdata anymore 2008-08-20 15:40:30 -07:00
mmap.c Merge branch 'perfcounters-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2009-06-11 14:01:07 -07:00
mmu_notifier.c mmu-notifiers: core 2008-07-28 16:30:21 -07:00
mmzone.c [ARM] Double check memmap is actually valid with a memmap has unexpected holes V2 2009-05-18 11:22:24 +01:00
mprotect.c perf_counter: Add mmap event hooks to mprotect() 2009-06-08 23:10:43 +02:00
mremap.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 13 2009-01-14 14:15:23 +01:00
msync.c [CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 13 2009-01-14 14:15:23 +01:00
nommu.c nommu: Provide mmap_min_addr definition. 2009-06-10 09:24:09 +10:00
oom_kill.c oom: only oom kill exiting tasks with attached memory 2009-06-16 19:47:45 -07:00
page-writeback.c mm/page-writeback.c: dirty limit type should be unsigned long 2009-06-16 19:47:31 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm: page_alloc: clear PG_locked before checking flags on free 2009-06-20 16:08:22 -07:00
page_cgroup.c memcg: remove some redundant checks 2009-06-18 13:03:47 -07:00
page_io.c mm: remove file argument from swap_readpage() 2009-06-16 19:47:44 -07:00
page_isolation.c memory hotplug: fix page_zone() calculation in test_pages_isolated() 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
pagewalk.c pagemap: pass mm into pagewalkers 2008-06-12 18:05:41 -07:00
pdflush.c Revert "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads" 2009-05-15 11:32:24 +02:00
percpu.c x86: implement percpu_alloc kernel parameter 2009-06-22 11:56:24 +09:00
prio_tree.c
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quicklist.c cpumask: replace node_to_cpumask with cpumask_of_node. 2009-03-13 14:49:46 +10:30
readahead.c readahead: introduce context readahead algorithm 2009-06-16 19:47:30 -07:00
rmap.c memcg: add file-based RSS accounting 2009-06-18 13:03:47 -07:00
shmem.c mm cleanup: shmem_file_setup: 'char *' -> 'const char *' for name argument 2009-06-16 19:47:44 -07:00
shmem_acl.c [PATCH] sanitize ->permission() prototype 2008-07-26 20:53:14 -04:00
slab.c mm: Extend gfp masking to the page allocator 2009-06-18 13:12:57 -07:00
slob.c Merge branches 'slab/documentation', 'slab/fixes', 'slob/cleanups' and 'slub/fixes' into for-linus 2009-06-17 08:30:15 +03:00
slub.c mm: Extend gfp masking to the page allocator 2009-06-18 13:12:57 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c vmemmap: warn about page_structs with remote distance 2008-11-06 15:41:19 -08:00
sparse.c mm: mminit_validate_memmodel_limits(): remove redundant test 2009-04-01 08:59:11 -07:00
swap.c mm: fix Committed_AS underflow on large NR_CPUS environment 2009-05-02 15:36:10 -07:00
swap_state.c mm: remove file argument from swap_readpage() 2009-06-16 19:47:44 -07:00
swapfile.c memcg: fix swap accounting 2009-06-18 13:03:47 -07:00
thrash.c
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truncate.c mm: remove __invalidate_mapping_pages variant 2009-06-16 19:47:43 -07:00
util.c Merge branches 'slab/documentation', 'slab/fixes', 'slob/cleanups' and 'slub/fixes' into for-linus 2009-06-17 08:30:15 +03:00
vmalloc.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6 2009-06-11 14:15:57 -07:00
vmscan.c memcg: fix lru rotation in isolate_pages 2009-06-18 13:03:48 -07:00
vmstat.c vmscan: count the number of times zone_reclaim() scans and fails 2009-06-16 19:47:46 -07:00