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authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2014-09-02 14:46:04 -0400
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2014-09-02 14:46:04 -0400
commit5835d96e9ce4efdba8c6cefffc2f1575925456de (patch)
tree5d0419fff89fc11469be48e5935ebe46c0fb57fa /mm/shmem.c
parente04d320838f573d8fa989a0d7af0972f9b0142d9 (diff)
percpu: implement [__]alloc_percpu_gfp()
Now that pcpu_alloc_area() can allocate only from populated areas, it's easy to add atomic allocation support to [__]alloc_percpu(). Update pcpu_alloc() so that it accepts @gfp and skips all the blocking operations and allocates only from the populated areas if @gfp doesn't contain GFP_KERNEL. New interface functions [__]alloc_percpu_gfp() are added. While this means that atomic allocations are possible, this isn't complete yet as there's no mechanism to ensure that certain amount of populated areas is kept available and atomic allocations may keep failing under certain conditions. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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