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| author | Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com> | 2009-03-18 19:27:00 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-03-19 14:02:47 +0100 |
| commit | c78a3956b982418186e40978a51636a2b43221bc (patch) | |
| tree | edc09b263a4bfc8143e4161d93cb3b7251f6a1c6 /arch/x86/kernel/ds.c | |
| parent | 79258a354e0c69be94ae2871809a195bf4a647b1 (diff) | |
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x86, bts: use atomic memory allocation
Ds_request_bts() needs to allocate memory. It uses GFP_KERNEL.
Hw-branch-tracer calls ds_request_bts() within on_each_cpu().
Use atomic memory allocation to allow it to be used in that context.
Signed-off-by: Markus Metzger <markus.t.metzger@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090318192700.A6038@sedona.ch.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/ds.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/ds.c | 21 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/ds.c b/arch/x86/kernel/ds.c index 5fd53333c1df..b1d6e1f502fa 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/ds.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/ds.c @@ -255,8 +255,13 @@ static inline struct ds_context *ds_get_context(struct task_struct *task) struct ds_context *new_context = NULL; unsigned long irq; - /* Chances are small that we already have a context. */ - new_context = kzalloc(sizeof(*new_context), GFP_KERNEL); + /* + * Chances are small that we already have a context. + * + * Contexts for per-cpu tracing are allocated using + * smp_call_function(). We must not sleep. + */ + new_context = kzalloc(sizeof(*new_context), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!new_context) return NULL; @@ -662,8 +667,12 @@ struct bts_tracer *ds_request_bts(struct task_struct *task, if (ovfl) goto out; + /* + * Per-cpu tracing is typically requested using smp_call_function(). + * We must not sleep. + */ error = -ENOMEM; - tracer = kzalloc(sizeof(*tracer), GFP_KERNEL); + tracer = kzalloc(sizeof(*tracer), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!tracer) goto out; tracer->ovfl = ovfl; @@ -722,8 +731,12 @@ struct pebs_tracer *ds_request_pebs(struct task_struct *task, if (ovfl) goto out; + /* + * Per-cpu tracing is typically requested using smp_call_function(). + * We must not sleep. + */ error = -ENOMEM; - tracer = kzalloc(sizeof(*tracer), GFP_KERNEL); + tracer = kzalloc(sizeof(*tracer), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!tracer) goto out; tracer->ovfl = ovfl; |