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[PATCH tip/core/rcu 05/12] rcu: Simplify rcu_init_geometry() capacity arithmetics

From "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH tip/core/rcu 05/12] rcu: Simplify rcu_init_geometry() capacity arithmetics
Date 2015-07-18 00:40 +0200
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From: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>

Current code suggests that introducing the extra level to
rcu_capacity[] array makes some of the arithmetic easier.
Well, in fact it appears rather confusing and unnecessary.

Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree.c | 18 ++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 37ca8a867a1c..2103beedb49f 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -4082,7 +4082,7 @@ static void __init rcu_init_geometry(void)
 {
 	ulong d;
 	int i;
-	int rcu_capacity[MAX_RCU_LVLS + 1];
+	int rcu_capacity[MAX_RCU_LVLS];
 
 	/*
 	 * Initialize any unspecified boot parameters.
@@ -4119,29 +4119,27 @@ static void __init rcu_init_geometry(void)
 
 	/*
 	 * Compute number of nodes that can be handled an rcu_node tree
-	 * with the given number of levels.  Setting rcu_capacity[0] makes
-	 * some of the arithmetic easier.
+	 * with the given number of levels.
 	 */
-	rcu_capacity[0] = 1;
-	rcu_capacity[1] = rcu_fanout_leaf;
-	for (i = 2; i <= MAX_RCU_LVLS; i++)
+	rcu_capacity[0] = rcu_fanout_leaf;
+	for (i = 1; i < MAX_RCU_LVLS; i++)
 		rcu_capacity[i] = rcu_capacity[i - 1] * RCU_FANOUT;
 
 	/*
 	 * The tree must be able to accommodate the configured number of CPUs.
 	 * If this limit is exceeded than we have a serious problem elsewhere.
 	 */
-	if (nr_cpu_ids > rcu_capacity[MAX_RCU_LVLS])
+	if (nr_cpu_ids > rcu_capacity[MAX_RCU_LVLS - 1])
 		panic("rcu_init_geometry: rcu_capacity[] is too small");
 
 	/* Calculate the number of levels in the tree. */
-	for (i = 1; nr_cpu_ids > rcu_capacity[i]; i++) {
+	for (i = 0; nr_cpu_ids > rcu_capacity[i]; i++) {
 	}
-	rcu_num_lvls = i;
+	rcu_num_lvls = i + 1;
 
 	/* Calculate the number of rcu_nodes at each level of the tree. */
 	for (i = 0; i < rcu_num_lvls; i++) {
-		int cap = rcu_capacity[rcu_num_lvls - i];
+		int cap = rcu_capacity[(rcu_num_lvls - 1) - i];
 		num_rcu_lvl[i] = DIV_ROUND_UP(nr_cpu_ids, cap);
 	}
 
-- 
1.8.1.5

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[PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/12] Tree geometry-initialization  simplifications for 4.3 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-07-18 00:40 +0200
  [PATCH tip/core/rcu 03/12] rcu: Remove superfluous local variable in rcu_init_geometry() "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-07-18 00:40 +0200
  [PATCH tip/core/rcu 08/12] rcu: Remove unnecessary fields from rcu_state structure "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-07-18 00:40 +0200
  [PATCH tip/core/rcu 12/12] rcu: Reset rcu_fanout_leaf if out of bounds "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-07-18 00:40 +0200
  [PATCH tip/core/rcu 11/12] rcu: Shut up bogus gcc array bounds warning "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-07-18 00:40 +0200
  [PATCH tip/core/rcu 10/12] rcu: Simplify arithmetic to calculate number of RCU nodes "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-07-18 00:40 +0200
  [PATCH tip/core/rcu 05/12] rcu: Simplify rcu_init_geometry() capacity arithmetics "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-07-18 00:40 +0200
  [PATCH tip/core/rcu 09/12] rcu: Limit count of static data to the number of RCU levels "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-07-18 00:40 +0200
  [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/12] rcu: Provide more diagnostics for stalled GP kthread "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-07-18 00:40 +0200
    [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/12] rcu: Cleanup rcu_init_geometry() code and arithmetics "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-07-18 00:40 +0200
    [PATCH tip/core/rcu 02/12] rcu: Panic if RCU tree can not accommodate all CPUs "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-07-18 00:40 +0200
    [PATCH tip/core/rcu 07/12] rcu: Limit rcu_capacity[] size to RCU_NUM_LVLS items "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-07-18 00:40 +0200
    [PATCH tip/core/rcu 06/12] rcu: Limit rcu_state::levelcnt[] to RCU_NUM_LVLS items "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2015-07-18 00:40 +0200

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