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authorVenkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>2010-10-04 17:03:18 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-10-18 20:52:22 +0200
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sched: Add a PF flag for ksoftirqd identification
To account softirq time cleanly in scheduler, we need to identify whether softirq is invoked in ksoftirqd context or softirq at hardirq tail context. Add PF_KSOFTIRQD for that purpose. As all PF flag bits are currently taken, create space by moving one of the infrequently used bits (PF_THREAD_BOUND) down in task_struct to be along with some other state fields. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <1286237003-12406-4-git-send-email-venki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/softirq.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 988dfbe6bbe8..267f7b763ebb 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -713,6 +713,7 @@ 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()) {