Re: [patch 03/18] fork: Move thread info gfp flags to header

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Mon May 07 2012 - 00:35:29 EST


On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 03:05:41PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> These flags can be useful for extra allocations outside of the core
> code.
>
> Add __GFP_NOTRACE to them, so the archs which have kmemcheck do
> not have to provide extra allocators just for that reason.

This breaks powerpc builds due to __GFP_NOTRACE not being defined.
I restarted the test after removing the __GFP_NOTRACE as a testing-only
hack, and will let you know how it goes. Also looking into why this
builds on 32-bit x86 but not on powerpc.

Thanx, Paul

> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/thread_info.h | 6 ++++++
> kernel/fork.c | 8 ++------
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> Index: tip/include/linux/thread_info.h
> ===================================================================
> --- tip.orig/include/linux/thread_info.h
> +++ tip/include/linux/thread_info.h
> @@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ extern long do_no_restart_syscall(struct
>
> #ifdef __KERNEL__
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
> +# define THREADINFO_GFP (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACE | __GFP_ZERO)
> +#else
> +# define THREADINFO_GFP (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACE)
> +#endif
> +
> /*
> * flag set/clear/test wrappers
> * - pass TIF_xxxx constants to these functions
> Index: tip/kernel/fork.c
> ===================================================================
> --- tip.orig/kernel/fork.c
> +++ tip/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -135,12 +135,8 @@ void __weak arch_release_thread_info(str
> static struct thread_info *alloc_thread_info_node(struct task_struct *tsk,
> int node)
> {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
> - gfp_t mask = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO;
> -#else
> - gfp_t mask = GFP_KERNEL;
> -#endif
> - struct page *page = alloc_pages_node(node, mask, THREAD_SIZE_ORDER);
> + struct page *page = alloc_pages_node(node, THREADINFO_GFP,
> + THREAD_SIZE_ORDER);
>
> return page ? page_address(page) : NULL;
> }
>
>
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