On Fri, 2018-06-22 at 08:10 -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 06/20/2018 12:56 PM, Rik van Riel wrote:
> >  	/*
> > -	 * FIXME! The "sizeof(struct mm_struct)" currently
> > includes the
> > -	 * whole struct cpumask for the OFFSTACK case. We could
> > change
> > -	 * this to *only* allocate as much of it as required by
> > the
> > -	 * maximum number of CPU's we can ever have.  The
> > cpumask_allocation
> > -	 * is at the end of the structure, exactly for that
> > reason.
> > +	 * The mm_cpumask is located at the end of mm_struct, and
> > is
> > +	 * dynamically sized based on nr_cpu_ids.
> >  	 */
> > +	mm_size = sizeof(struct mm_struct) + cpumask_size();
> > +
> >  	mm_cachep = kmem_cache_create_usercopy("mm_struct",
> > -			sizeof(struct mm_struct),
> > ARCH_MIN_MMSTRUCT_ALIGN,
> > +			mm_size, ARCH_MIN_MMSTRUCT_ALIGN,
> 
> Could you add a bit to that comment, like "dynamically sized based on
> nr_cpu_ids" ... which is sized based on the number of possible CPUs.
> 
> I found myself wondering how that interacts with hotplug.

Improved in my tree for v2.  Thank you.

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