[PATCH] Increase max kmalloc size for very large systems
authorJack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Mon, 6 Mar 2006 23:42:50 +0000 (15:42 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Tue, 7 Mar 2006 02:40:44 +0000 (18:40 -0800)
Systems with extemely large numbers of nodes or cpus need to kmalloc
structures larger than is currently supported.  This patch increases the
maximum supported size for very large systems.

This patch should have no effect on current systems.

(akpm: why not just use alloc_pages() for sysfs_cpus?)

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
include/linux/kmalloc_sizes.h

index d82d4c05c12d7043a3021706c3d2c384b187147d..bda23e00ed710e634152be31f4c1db207cca0721 100644 (file)
        CACHE(32768)
        CACHE(65536)
        CACHE(131072)
-#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
+#if (NR_CPUS > 512) || (MAX_NUMNODES > 256) || !defined(CONFIG_MMU)
        CACHE(262144)
+#endif
+#ifndef CONFIG_MMU
        CACHE(524288)
        CACHE(1048576)
 #ifdef CONFIG_LARGE_ALLOCS