linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] tracing: Allocate mask

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Date:   Thu, 26 Oct 2017 07:15:51 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     changbin.du@...el.com
Cc:     mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tracing: Allocate mask_str buffer dynamically

On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 00:20:28 +0800
changbin.du@...el.com wrote:

> From: Changbin Du <changbin.du@...el.com>
> 
> The default NR_CPUS can be very large, but actual possible nr_cpu_ids
> usually is very small. For my x86 distribution, the NR_CPUS is 8192 and
> nr_cpu_ids is 4. About 2 pages are wasted.
> 
> Most machines don't have so many CPUs, so define a array with NR_CPUS
> just wastes memory. So let's allocate the buffer dynamically when need.
> 
> The exact buffer size should be:
>   DIV_ROUND_UP(nr_cpu_ids, 4) + nr_cpu_ids/32 + 2;
> 
> Example output:
>   ff,ffffffff
> 
> Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@...el.com>
> 

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