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<title>kernel/linux.git/drivers/cpuidle/coupled.c, branch v7.0.10</title>
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<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cpuidle: Avoid explicit cpumask allocation on stack</title>
<updated>2024-04-24T19:23:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dawei Li</name>
<email>dawei.li@shingroup.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-16T08:54:54+00:00</published>
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In general it's preferable to avoid placing cpumasks on the stack, as
for large values of NR_CPUS these can consume significant amounts of
stack space and make stack overflows more likely.

Use cpumask_first_and_and() and cpumask_weight_and() to avoid the need
for a temporary cpumask on the stack.

Signed-off-by: Dawei Li &lt;dawei.li@shingroup.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240416085454.3547175-8-dawei.li@shingroup.cn

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<entry>
<title>cpuidle: coupled: Drop duplicate word from a comment</title>
<updated>2022-08-31T18:54:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Wang</name>
<email>wangborong@cdjrlc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-11T12:04:50+00:00</published>
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The double `are' is duplicated in the comment, remove one.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang &lt;wangborong@cdjrlc.com&gt;
[ rjw: New subject ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>smp: Cleanup smp_call_function*()</title>
<updated>2020-11-24T15:47:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-15T09:29:31+00:00</published>
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Get rid of the __call_single_node union and cleanup the API a little
to avoid external code relying on the structure layout as much.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cpuidle: coupled: fix warnings when compiling with W=1</title>
<updated>2020-01-22T23:30:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Gaignard</name>
<email>benjamin.gaignard@st.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-20T13:24:08+00:00</published>
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Fix warnings that show up when compiling with W=1

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gaignard &lt;benjamin.gaignard@st.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 157</title>
<updated>2019-05-30T18:26:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-27T06:55:06+00:00</published>
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Based on 3 normalized pattern(s):

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version this program is distributed in the
  hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even
  the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version [author] [kishon] [vijay] [abraham]
  [i] [kishon]@[ti] [com] this program is distributed in the hope that
  it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied
  warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see
  the gnu general public license for more details

  this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at
  your option any later version [author] [graeme] [gregory]
  [gg]@[slimlogic] [co] [uk] [author] [kishon] [vijay] [abraham] [i]
  [kishon]@[ti] [com] [based] [on] [twl6030]_[usb] [c] [author] [hema]
  [hk] [hemahk]@[ti] [com] this program is distributed in the hope
  that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the
  implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
  purpose see the gnu general public license for more details

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1105 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal &lt;allison@lohutok.net&gt;
Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana &lt;rfontana@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart &lt;kstewart@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.202006027@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>smp: Avoid using two cache lines for struct call_single_data</title>
<updated>2017-08-29T13:14:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ying Huang</name>
<email>ying.huang@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-08-08T04:30:00+00:00</published>
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struct call_single_data is used in IPIs to transfer information between
CPUs.  Its size is bigger than sizeof(unsigned long) and less than
cache line size.  Currently it is not allocated with any explicit alignment
requirements.  This makes it possible for allocated call_single_data to
cross two cache lines, which results in double the number of the cache lines
that need to be transferred among CPUs.

This can be fixed by requiring call_single_data to be aligned with the
size of call_single_data. Currently the size of call_single_data is the
power of 2.  If we add new fields to call_single_data, we may need to
add padding to make sure the size of new definition is the power of 2
as well.

Fortunately, this is enforced by GCC, which will report bad sizes.

To set alignment requirements of call_single_data to the size of
call_single_data, a struct definition and a typedef is used.

To test the effect of the patch, I used the vm-scalability multiple
thread swap test case (swap-w-seq-mt).  The test will create multiple
threads and each thread will eat memory until all RAM and part of swap
is used, so that huge number of IPIs are triggered when unmapping
memory.  In the test, the throughput of memory writing improves ~5%
compared with misaligned call_single_data, because of faster IPIs.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Huang, Ying &lt;ying.huang@intel.com&gt;
[ Add call_single_data_t and align with size of call_single_data. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Aaron Lu &lt;aaron.lu@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;eric.dumazet@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bmnqd6lz.fsf@yhuang-mobile.sh.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cpuidle/coupled: Convert to hotplug state machine</title>
<updated>2016-09-06T16:30:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior</name>
<email>bigeasy@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-24T09:14:44+00:00</published>
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Install the callbacks via the state machine.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160824091444.brdr5zpbxjvh6n3f@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>cpuidle: coupled: remove unused define cpuidle_coupled_lock</title>
<updated>2016-01-27T22:08:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anders Roxell</name>
<email>anders.roxell@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-27T19:26:54+00:00</published>
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This was found with the -RT patch enabled, but the fix should apply to
non-RT also.

Used multi_v7_defconfig+PREEMPT_RT_FULL=y and this caused a compilation
warning without this fix:
../drivers/cpuidle/coupled.c:122:21: warning: 'cpuidle_coupled_lock'
defined but not used [-Wunused-variable]

Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell &lt;anders.roxell@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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