From: Eric Dumazet Instead of allocating a fix sized array of NR_CPUS pointers for percpu_data, we can use nr_cpu_ids, which is generally < NR_CPUS. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: "David S. Miller" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- include/linux/percpu.h | 2 +- mm/allocpercpu.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN include/linux/percpu.h~percpu-__percpu_alloc_mask-can-dynamically-size-percpu_data include/linux/percpu.h --- a/include/linux/percpu.h~percpu-__percpu_alloc_mask-can-dynamically-size-percpu_data +++ a/include/linux/percpu.h @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ DECLARE_PER_CPU(cpumask_t, cpu_mask); #ifdef CONFIG_SMP struct percpu_data { - void *ptrs[NR_CPUS]; + void *ptrs[1]; }; #define __percpu_disguise(pdata) (struct percpu_data *)~(unsigned long)(pdata) diff -puN mm/allocpercpu.c~percpu-__percpu_alloc_mask-can-dynamically-size-percpu_data mm/allocpercpu.c --- a/mm/allocpercpu.c~percpu-__percpu_alloc_mask-can-dynamically-size-percpu_data +++ a/mm/allocpercpu.c @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__percpu_populate_mask */ void *__percpu_alloc_mask(size_t size, gfp_t gfp, cpumask_t *mask) { - void *pdata = kzalloc(sizeof(struct percpu_data), gfp); + void *pdata = kzalloc(nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(void *), gfp); void *__pdata = __percpu_disguise(pdata); if (unlikely(!pdata)) _