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sched: Fix KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE overflow during cpumask allocation
authorAlex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Thu, 18 Dec 2014 18:44:30 +0000 (12:44 -0600)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tue, 23 Dec 2014 10:43:48 +0000 (11:43 +0100)
commit9cc457efeb88e865dcc5bbabf971765112d1aa11
tree912409011e17c43a33a1f08e40c871b903697b1f
parentc0def0fd300090420027957e9912ff2a07b2d424
sched: Fix KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE overflow during cpumask allocation

When allocating space for load_balance_mask, in sched_init, when
CPUMASK_OFFSTACK is set, we've managed to spill over
KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE on our 6144 core machine.  The patch below
breaks up the allocations so that they don't overflow the max
alloc size.  It also allocates the masks on the the node from
which they'll most commonly be accessed, to minimize remote
accesses on NUMA machines.

Suggested-by: George Beshers <gbeshers@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: George Beshers <gbeshers@sgi.com>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1418928270-148543-1-git-send-email-athorlton@sgi.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/sched/core.c