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authorShakeel Butt2022-08-26 23:06:42 +0000
committerAndrew Morton2022-09-26 19:46:29 -0700
commite6ad640bc404eb298dd1880113131768ddf5c6a8 (patch)
treef72c01caf19e88d74482af862b9378f6f19893b9 /include/linux/cache.h
parent974f4367dd315acc15ad4a6453f8304aea60dfbd (diff)
mm: deduplicate cacheline padding code
There are three users (mmzone.h, memcontrol.h, page_counter.h) using similar code for forcing cacheline padding between fields of different structures. Dedup that code. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220826230642.566725-1-shakeelb@google.com Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Suggested-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/cache.h')
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/cache.h b/include/linux/cache.h
index d742c57eaee5..5da1bbd96154 100644
--- a/include/linux/cache.h
+++ b/include/linux/cache.h
@@ -85,4 +85,17 @@
#define cache_line_size() L1_CACHE_BYTES
#endif
+/*
+ * Helper to add padding within a struct to ensure data fall into separate
+ * cachelines.
+ */
+#if defined(CONFIG_SMP)
+struct cacheline_padding {
+ char x[0];
+} ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp;
+#define CACHELINE_PADDING(name) struct cacheline_padding name
+#else
+#define CACHELINE_PADDING(name)
+#endif
+
#endif /* __LINUX_CACHE_H */