linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] uprobes: kill xol vma

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Date:	Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:20:31 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...k.frob.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Anton Arapov <anton@...hat.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Stephen Wilson <wilsons@...rt.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/5] uprobes: kill xol vma

On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 17:15 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >  static unsigned char
> > -uprobe_xol_slots[UPROBES_XOL_SLOT_BYTES][NR_CPUS] __page_aligned_bss;
> > +uprobe_xol_slots[NR_CPUS][UPROBES_XOL_SLOT_BYTES] __page_aligned_bss;
> 
> NR_CPUS arrays are basically always wrong.
> 
> Use per cpu data.

Doesn't really work here, you'd know if you'd read the patches. What we
could do though is do a UPROBES_XOL_SLOT_BYTES * nr_cpu_ids bootmem
allocation or so.
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