The patch titled Subject: kernel/fork.c: virtually mapped stacks: do not disable interrupts has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was virtually-mapped-stacks-do-not-disable-interrupts.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: kernel/fork.c: virtually mapped stacks: do not disable interrupts The reason to disable interrupts seems to be to avoid switching to a different processor while handling per cpu data using individual loads and stores. If we use per cpu RMV primitives we will not have to disable interrupts. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1705171055130.5898@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/fork.c | 16 +++++----------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/fork.c~virtually-mapped-stacks-do-not-disable-interrupts kernel/fork.c --- a/kernel/fork.c~virtually-mapped-stacks-do-not-disable-interrupts +++ a/kernel/fork.c @@ -205,19 +205,17 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack void *stack; int i; - local_irq_disable(); for (i = 0; i < NR_CACHED_STACKS; i++) { - struct vm_struct *s = this_cpu_read(cached_stacks[i]); + struct vm_struct *s; + + s = this_cpu_xchg(cached_stacks[i], NULL); if (!s) continue; - this_cpu_write(cached_stacks[i], NULL); tsk->stack_vm_area = s; - local_irq_enable(); return s->addr; } - local_irq_enable(); stack = __vmalloc_node_range(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_SIZE, VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END, @@ -245,19 +243,15 @@ static inline void free_thread_stack(str { #ifdef CONFIG_VMAP_STACK if (task_stack_vm_area(tsk)) { - unsigned long flags; int i; - local_irq_save(flags); for (i = 0; i < NR_CACHED_STACKS; i++) { - if (this_cpu_read(cached_stacks[i])) + if (this_cpu_cmpxchg(cached_stacks[i], + NULL, tsk->stack_vm_area) != NULL) continue; - this_cpu_write(cached_stacks[i], tsk->stack_vm_area); - local_irq_restore(flags); return; } - local_irq_restore(flags); vfree_atomic(tsk->stack); return; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from cl@xxxxxxxxx are -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html