On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:16:52 +0100
Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is needed to allow network softirq packet processing to make
> use of PF_MEMALLOC.
hm, why? You just added __GFP_MEMALLOC so we don't need to futz with
PF_MEMALLOC?
> Currently softirq context cannot use PF_MEMALLOC due to it not being
> associated with a task, and therefore not having task flags to fiddle
> with - thus the gfp to alloc flag mapping ignores the task flags when
> in interrupts (hard or soft) context.
>
> Allowing softirqs to make use of PF_MEMALLOC therefore requires some
> trickery. We basically borrow the task flags from whatever process
> happens to be preempted by the softirq.
>
> So we modify the gfp to alloc flags mapping to not exclude task flags
> in softirq context, and modify the softirq code to save, clear and
> restore the PF_MEMALLOC flag.
>
> The save and clear, ensures the preempted task's PF_MEMALLOC flag
> doesn't leak into the softirq. The restore ensures a softirq's
> PF_MEMALLOC flag cannot leak back into the preempted process.
>
> ...
>
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -1913,6 +1913,13 @@ static inline void rcu_copy_process(struct task_struct *p)
>
> #endif
>
> +static inline void tsk_restore_flags(struct task_struct *p,
> + unsigned long pflags, unsigned long mask)
The naming is poor.
p -> "tsk" or "task"
pflags -> "old_flags"
mask -> "flags"
> +{
> + p->flags &= ~mask;
> + p->flags |= pflags & mask;
> +}
> +
> #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
> extern void do_set_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p,
> const struct cpumask *new_mask);
> diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
> index 671f959..d349caa 100644
> --- a/kernel/softirq.c
> +++ b/kernel/softirq.c
> @@ -210,6 +210,8 @@ asmlinkage void __do_softirq(void)
> __u32 pending;
> int max_restart = MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART;
> int cpu;
> + unsigned long pflags = current->flags;
"old_flags"
> + current->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC;
The line before this one would be a suitable place for a comment!
> pending = local_softirq_pending();
> account_system_vtime(current);
> @@ -265,6 +267,7 @@ restart:
>
> account_system_vtime(current);
> __local_bh_enable(SOFTIRQ_OFFSET);
> + tsk_restore_flags(current, pflags, PF_MEMALLOC);
> }
>
> ...
>
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