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, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/interrupt.h b/include/linux/interrupt.h
index f58a0cf8929a..79e915e7e8a5 100644
--- a/include/linux/interrupt.h
+++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
 #include <asm/ptrace.h>
 #include <asm/system.h>
 
+extern int nr_irqs;
+
 /*
  * These correspond to the IORESOURCE_IRQ_* defines in
  * linux/ioport.h to select the interrupt line behaviour.  When