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When the trace_pid_list was created, the default pid max was 32768. Creating a bitmask that can hold one bit for all 32768 took up 4096 (one page). Having a one page bitmask was not much of a problem, and that was used for mapping pids. But today, systems are bigger and can run more tasks, and now the default pid_max is usually set to 4194304. Which means to handle that many pids requires 524288 bytes. Worse yet, the pid_max can be set to 2^30 (1073741824 or 1G) which would take 134217728 (128M) of memory to store this array. Since the pid_list array is very sparsely populated, it is a huge waste of memory to store all possible bits for each pid when most will not be set. Instead, use a page table scheme to store the array, and allow this to handle up to 30 bit pids. The pid_mask will start out with 256 entries for the first 8 MSB bits. This will cost 1K for 32 bit architectures and 2K for 64 bit. Each of these will have a 256 array to store the next 8 bits of the pid (another 1 or 2K). These will hold an 2K byte bitmask (which will cover the LSB 14 bits or 16384 pids). When the trace_pid_list is allocated, it will have the 1/2K upper bits allocated, and then it will allocate a cache for the next upper chunks and the lower chunks (default 6 of each). Then when a bit is "set", these chunks will be pulled from the free list and added to the array. If the free list gets down to a lever (default 2), it will trigger an irqwork that will refill the cache back up. On clearing a bit, if the clear causes the bitmask to be zero, that chunk will then be placed back into the free cache for later use, keeping the need to allocate more down to a minimum. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.