percpu: update header to contain bitmap allocator explanation.
The other patches contain a lot of information, so adding this information in a separate patch. It adds my copyright and a brief explanation of how the bitmap allocator works. There is a minor typo as well in the prior explanation so that is fixed. Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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* Copyright (C) 2009 SUSE Linux Products GmbH
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* Copyright (C) 2009 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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* Copyright (C) 2017 Facebook Inc.
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* Copyright (C) 2017 Dennis Zhou <dennisszhou@gmail.com>
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* This file is released under the GPLv2 license.
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* The percpu allocator handles both static and dynamic areas. Percpu
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* There is special consideration for the first chunk which must handle
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* the static percpu variables in the kernel image as allocation services
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* are not online yet. In short, the first chunk is structure like so:
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* are not online yet. In short, the first chunk is structured like so:
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*
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* <Static | [Reserved] | Dynamic>
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*
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* percpu variables from kernel modules. Finally, the dynamic section
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* takes care of normal allocations.
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*
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* Allocation state in each chunk is kept using an array of integers
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* on chunk->map. A positive value in the map represents a free
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* region and negative allocated. Allocation inside a chunk is done
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* by scanning this map sequentially and serving the first matching
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* entry. This is mostly copied from the percpu_modalloc() allocator.
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* Chunks can be determined from the address using the index field
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* in the page struct. The index field contains a pointer to the chunk.
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* The allocator organizes chunks into lists according to free size and
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* tries to allocate from the fullest chunk first. Each chunk is managed
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* by a bitmap with metadata blocks. The allocation map is updated on
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* every allocation and free to reflect the current state while the boundary
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* map is only updated on allocation. Each metadata block contains
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* information to help mitigate the need to iterate over large portions
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* of the bitmap. The reverse mapping from page to chunk is stored in
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* the page's index. Lastly, units are lazily backed and grow in unison.
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* These chunks are organized into lists according to free_size and
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* tries to allocate from the fullest chunk first. Each chunk maintains
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* a maximum contiguous area size hint which is guaranteed to be equal
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* to or larger than the maximum contiguous area in the chunk. This
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* helps prevent the allocator from iterating over chunks unnecessarily.
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* There is a unique conversion that goes on here between bytes and bits.
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* Each bit represents a fragment of size PCPU_MIN_ALLOC_SIZE. The chunk
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* tracks the number of pages it is responsible for in nr_pages. Helper
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* functions are used to convert from between the bytes, bits, and blocks.
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* All hints are managed in bits unless explicitly stated.
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* To use this allocator, arch code should do the following:
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