[patch 02/18] fork: Provide weakarch_release_[task_struct|thread_info] functions

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sat May 05 2012 - 11:10:32 EST


These functions allow us to move most of the duplicated thread_info
allocators to the core code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/fork.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Index: tip/kernel/fork.c
===================================================================
--- tip.orig/kernel/fork.c
+++ tip/kernel/fork.c
@@ -112,14 +112,26 @@ int nr_processes(void)
}

#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
-# define alloc_task_struct_node(node) \
- kmem_cache_alloc_node(task_struct_cachep, GFP_KERNEL, node)
-# define free_task_struct(tsk) \
- kmem_cache_free(task_struct_cachep, (tsk))
static struct kmem_cache *task_struct_cachep;
+
+static inline struct task_struct *alloc_task_struct_node(int node)
+{
+ return kmem_cache_alloc_node(task_struct_cachep, GFP_KERNEL, node);
+}
+
+void __weak arch_release_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk) { }
+
+static inline void free_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+ arch_release_task_struct(tsk);
+ kmem_cache_free(task_struct_cachep, tsk);
+}
#endif

#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR
+
+void __weak arch_release_thread_info(struct thread_info *ti) { }
+
static struct thread_info *alloc_thread_info_node(struct task_struct *tsk,
int node)
{
@@ -135,6 +147,7 @@ static struct thread_info *alloc_thread_

static inline void free_thread_info(struct thread_info *ti)
{
+ arch_release_thread_info(ti);
free_pages((unsigned long)ti, THREAD_SIZE_ORDER);
}
#endif


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