Merge tag 'percpu-for-6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dennis/percpu
Pull percpu updates from Dennis Zhou: "One bigger change to percpu_counter's api allowing for init and destroy of multiple counters via percpu_counter_init_many() and percpu_counter_destroy_many(). This is used to help begin remediating a performance regression with percpu rss stats. Additionally, it seems larger core count machines are feeling the burden of the single threaded allocation of percpu. Mateusz is thinking about it and I will spend some time on it too. percpu: - A couple cleanups by Baoquan He and Bibo Mao. The only behavior change is to start printing messages if we're under the warn limit for failed atomic allocations. percpu_counter: - Shakeel introduced percpu counters into mm_struct which caused percpu allocations be on the hot path [1]. Originally I spent some time trying to improve the percpu allocator, but instead preferred what Mateusz Guzik proposed grouping at the allocation site, percpu_counter_init_many(). This allows a single percpu allocation to be shared by the counters. I like this approach because it creates a shared lifetime by the allocations. Additionally, I believe many inits have higher level synchronization requirements, like percpu_counter does against HOTPLUG_CPU. Therefore we can group these optimizations together" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20221024052841.3291983-1-shakeelb@google.com/ [1] * tag 'percpu-for-6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dennis/percpu: kernel/fork: group allocation/free of per-cpu counters for mm struct pcpcntr: add group allocation/free mm/percpu.c: print error message too if atomic alloc failed mm/percpu.c: optimize the code in pcpu_setup_first_chunk() a little bit mm/percpu.c: remove redundant check mm/percpu: Remove some local variables in pcpu_populate_pte
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