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Message-Id: <1236354883-25063-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 00:54:39 +0900 From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> To: mingo@...e.hu, rusty@...tcorp.com.au, tglx@...utronix.de, x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, npiggin@...e.de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org Subject: [GIT PULL] percpu: finer grained locking Hello, Please pull from the following git vector. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git tj-percpu This patchset makes locking in dynamic percpu allocator finer grained to break deadlock[1] and allow atomic free. This patchset is on top of the current x86/core/percpu[2] contains the following patches. 0001-percpu-replace-pcpu_realloc-with-pcpu_mem_alloc.patch 0002-percpu-move-chunk-area-map-extension-out-of-area-al.patch 0003-percpu-move-fully-free-chunk-reclamation-into-a-wor.patch 0004-percpu-finer-grained-locking-to-break-deadlock-and.patch 0001-0003 prepare for finer grained locking. 0004 implements it. Diffstat follows. mm/percpu.c | 365 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- 1 file changed, 245 insertions(+), 120 deletions(-) Thanks. -- tejun [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/802384 [2] 6b19b0c2400437a3c10059ede0e59b517092e1bd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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