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cpuset: convert to new cpumask API

From:  Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To:  Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject:  [PATCH 0/6] cpuset: convert to new cpumask API
Date:  Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:34:46 +0800
Message-ID:  <495B2EA6.7010808@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>, Paul Menage <menage@google.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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This patchset converts cpuset to use new cpumask API, and thus
remove on stack cpumask_t to reduce stack usage.

Before:
 # cat kernel/cpuset.c include/linux/cpuset.h | grep -c cpumask_t
 21
After:
 # cat kernel/cpuset.c include/linux/cpuset.h | grep -c cpumask_t
 0

The patchset is based on mmotm 2008-12-30-16-05.

[PATCH 1/6] cpuset: remove on stack cpumask_t in cpuset_sprintf_cpulist()
[PATCH 2/6] cpuset: remove on stack cpumask_t in cpuset_can_attach()
[PATCH 3/6] cpuset: convert cpuset_attach() to use cpumask_var_t
[PATCH 4/6] cpuset: don't allocate trial cpuset on stack
[PATCH 5/6] cpuset: convert cpuset->cpus_allowed to cpumask_var_t
[PATCH 6/6] cpuset: remove remaining pointers to cpumask_t
---
 include/linux/cpuset.h   |   10 +
 kernel/cpuset.c          |  279 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 3 files changed, 174 insertions(+), 115 deletions(-)



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