sparse irq_desc[] array: core kernel and x86 changes
Impact: new feature
Problem on distro kernels: irq_desc[NR_IRQS] takes megabytes of RAM with
NR_CPUS set to large values. The goal is to be able to scale up to much
larger NR_IRQS value without impacting the (important) common case.
To solve this, we generalize irq_desc[NR_IRQS] to an (optional) array of
irq_desc pointers.
When CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ=y is used, we use kzalloc_node to get irq_desc,
this also makes the IRQ descriptors NUMA-local (to the site that calls
request_irq()).
This gets rid of the irq_cfg[] static array on x86 as well: irq_cfg now
uses desc->chip_data for x86 to store irq_cfg.
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/kernel/irq/proc.c b/kernel/irq/proc.c
index d257e7d..f6b3440 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/proc.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/proc.c
@@ -243,7 +243,11 @@
/*
* Create entries for all existing IRQs.
*/
- for_each_irq_desc(irq, desc)
+ for_each_irq_desc(irq, desc) {
+ if (!desc)
+ continue;
+
register_irq_proc(irq, desc);
+ }
}