linux-kernel - x86, perf, pmu: make reserve_ds_buffers() allocate memory dynamically

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Date:	Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:01:43 -0400
From:	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
To:	peterz@...hat.com, eranian@...gle.com, fweisbec@...il.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: x86, perf, pmu: make reserve_ds_buffers() allocate memory dynamically

Hi guys,

Some kdump folks noticed that on large machines (say 80 cpu threads), the
kernel reserved a good chunk of memory in the kdump kernel with the call
to reserve_ds_buffers(). About 64k per cpu.

Normally the kdump kernel boots with maxcpus=1 to limit the amount of
processing and memory usage it needs.  However, with reserve_ds_buffers()
it seems to allocate a giant chunk of memory due to its use of
for_each_possible_cpu().

I was wondering if it was possible to move some of that allocation to the
cpu_prepare/cpu_starting routines and allocate during a cpu hotplug event.
I am not sure if some of this allocation is on a per cpu basis (which
includes multiple cores) or if there is some sort of other restriction
that required the code to be statically allocated at boot time.

Thanks,
Don

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