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authorVenkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>2010-12-21 17:09:00 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2011-01-26 12:33:20 +0100
commit4dd53d891ca46dcc1fde0376a33540d3fd83cb9a (patch)
tree9a6c242176f196c062ae76c50b0f321251900b5a
parentf07333bf6ee66d9b49286cec4371cf375e745b7a (diff)
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softirqs: Free up pf flag PF_KSOFTIRQD
Cleanup patch, freeing up PF_KSOFTIRQD and use per_cpu ksoftirqd pointer instead, as suggested by Eric Dumazet. Tested-by: Shaun Ruffell <sruffell@digium.com> Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1292980144-28796-2-git-send-email-venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/interrupt.h7
-rw-r--r--include/linux/sched.h1
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched.c2
-rw-r--r--kernel/softirq.c3
4 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/interrupt.h b/include/linux/interrupt.h
index 55e0d4253e49..a1382b9b5813 100644
--- a/include/linux/interrupt.h
+++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h
@@ -426,6 +426,13 @@ extern void raise_softirq(unsigned int nr);
*/
DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct list_head [NR_SOFTIRQS], softirq_work_list);
+DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, ksoftirqd);
+
+static inline struct task_struct *this_cpu_ksoftirqd(void)
+{
+ return this_cpu_read(ksoftirqd);
+}
+
/* Try to send a softirq to a remote cpu. If this cannot be done, the
* work will be queued to the local cpu.
*/
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index d747f948b34e..af6e15fbfb78 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1715,7 +1715,6 @@ extern void thread_group_times(struct task_struct *p, cputime_t *ut, cputime_t *
/*
* Per process flags
*/
-#define PF_KSOFTIRQD 0x00000001 /* I am ksoftirqd */
#define PF_STARTING 0x00000002 /* being created */
#define PF_EXITING 0x00000004 /* getting shut down */
#define PF_EXITPIDONE 0x00000008 /* pi exit done on shut down */
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 6820b5b3a969..8b89b3bba565 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -1880,7 +1880,7 @@ void account_system_vtime(struct task_struct *curr)
*/
if (hardirq_count())
__this_cpu_add(cpu_hardirq_time, delta);
- else if (in_serving_softirq() && !(curr->flags & PF_KSOFTIRQD))
+ else if (in_serving_softirq() && curr != this_cpu_ksoftirqd())
__this_cpu_add(cpu_softirq_time, delta);
irq_time_write_end();
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 68eb5efec388..0cee50487629 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(irq_stat);
static struct softirq_action softirq_vec[NR_SOFTIRQS] __cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, ksoftirqd);
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, ksoftirqd);
char *softirq_to_name[NR_SOFTIRQS] = {
"HI", "TIMER", "NET_TX", "NET_RX", "BLOCK", "BLOCK_IOPOLL",
@@ -721,7 +721,6 @@ static int run_ksoftirqd(void * __bind_cpu)
{
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
- current->flags |= PF_KSOFTIRQD;
while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
preempt_disable();
if (!local_softirq_pending()) {