Le lundi 31 mai 2010 à 15:22 +0200, Jan Engelhardt a écrit :

On Monday 2010-05-31 15:13, Eric Dumazet wrote:

quoted

All cpus share a single cache line for their 'stackptr' storage,
introduced in commit f3c5c1bfd4

This is a stable candidate (2.6.34)

Stackptr was first introduced for 2.6.35-rcX.

Indeed, I was fooled by 'git describe'

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+	i->stackptr = alloc_percpu(unsigned int);
	if (i->stackptr == NULL)
		return -ENOMEM;
-	memset(i->stackptr, 0, size);

	size = sizeof(void **) * nr_cpu_ids;
	if (size > PAGE_SIZE)

Are alloc_percpu areas cleared?

Yes, allocated chunks are cleared.


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