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>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/random.c b/drivers/char/random.c
index 675076f5fca..d26891bfcd4 100644
--- a/drivers/char/random.c
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c
@@ -558,23 +558,9 @@ struct timer_rand_state {
         unsigned dont_count_entropy:1;
 };
 
-static struct timer_rand_state *irq_timer_state[NR_IRQS];
-
-static struct timer_rand_state *get_timer_rand_state(unsigned int irq)
-{
-        if (irq >= nr_irqs)
-                return NULL;
-
-        return irq_timer_state[irq];
-}
-
-static void set_timer_rand_state(unsigned int irq, struct timer_rand_state *state)
-{
-        if (irq >= nr_irqs)
-                return;
-
-        irq_timer_state[irq] = state;
-}
+#ifndef CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ
+struct timer_rand_state *irq_timer_state[NR_IRQS];
+#endif
 
 static struct timer_rand_state input_timer_state;
 
@@ -933,8 +919,10 @@ void rand_initialize_irq(int irq)
 {
         struct timer_rand_state *state;
 
+#ifndef CONFIG_SPARSE_IRQ
         if (irq >= nr_irqs)
                 return;
+#endif
 
         state = get_timer_rand_state(irq);