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    Merge branch 'for-5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dennis/percpu · 3aff5fac
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull percpu updates from Dennis Zhou:
    
     - scan hint update which helps address performance issues with heavily
       fragmented blocks
    
     - lockdep fix when freeing an allocation causes balance work to be
       scheduled
    
    * 'for-5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dennis/percpu:
      percpu: remove spurious lock dependency between percpu and sched
      percpu: use chunk scan_hint to skip some scanning
      percpu: convert chunk hints to be based on pcpu_block_md
      percpu: make pcpu_block_md generic
      percpu: use block scan_hint to only scan forward
      percpu: remember largest area skipped during allocation
      percpu: add block level scan_hint
      percpu: set PCPU_BITMAP_BLOCK_SIZE to PAGE_SIZE
      percpu: relegate chunks unusable when failing small allocations
      percpu: manage chunks based on contig_bits instead of free_bytes
      percpu: introduce helper to determine if two regions overlap
      percpu: do not search past bitmap when allocating an area
      percpu: update free path with correct new free region
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