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percpu: Remove the multi-page alignment facility

[DECLARE|DEFINE]_PER_CPU_MULTIPAGE_ALIGNED never really worked because
the head percpu section was only page aligned. Now that the last user
is gone (32-bit IRQ stacks), remove the generic percpu facility.

Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <1288158182-1753-1-git-send-email-brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

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include/linux/percpu-defs.h
··· 148 148 DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "..readmostly") 149 149 150 150 /* 151 - * Declaration/definition used for large per-CPU variables that must be 152 - * aligned to something larger than the pagesize. 153 - */ 154 - #define DECLARE_PER_CPU_MULTIPAGE_ALIGNED(type, name, size) \ 155 - DECLARE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "..page_aligned") \ 156 - __aligned(size) 157 - 158 - #define DEFINE_PER_CPU_MULTIPAGE_ALIGNED(type, name, size) \ 159 - DEFINE_PER_CPU_SECTION(type, name, "..page_aligned") \ 160 - __aligned(size) 161 - 162 - /* 163 151 * Intermodule exports for per-CPU variables. sparse forgets about 164 152 * address space across EXPORT_SYMBOL(), change EXPORT_SYMBOL() to 165 153 * noop if __CHECKER__.