This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
frv: Use core allocator for task_struct
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
frv-use-core-allocator-for-task_struct.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From c6ae063aaf3786b9db7f19a90bf4ed8aaebb7f90 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 May 2012 09:02:47 +0000
Subject: frv: Use core allocator for task_struct
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit c6ae063aaf3786b9db7f19a90bf4ed8aaebb7f90 upstream.
There is no point having a copy of the core allocator.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120503085033.967140188@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/frv/include/asm/thread_info.h | 2 --
arch/frv/kernel/process.c | 10 ----------
2 files changed, 12 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/frv/include/asm/thread_info.h
+++ b/arch/frv/include/asm/thread_info.h
@@ -21,8 +21,6 @@
#define THREAD_SIZE 8192
-#define __HAVE_ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ALLOCATOR
-
/*
* low level task data that entry.S needs immediate access to
* - this struct should fit entirely inside of one cache line
--- a/arch/frv/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/frv/kernel/process.c
@@ -44,16 +44,6 @@ asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void);
void (*pm_power_off)(void);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(pm_power_off);
-struct task_struct *alloc_task_struct_node(int node)
-{
- return kmalloc_node(sizeof(task_struct), GFP_KERNEL, node);
-}
-
-void free_task_struct(struct task_struct *p)
-{
- kfree(p);
-}
-
static void core_sleep_idle(void)
{
#ifdef LED_DEBUG_SLEEP
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.4/futex-take-hugepages-into-account-when-generating-futex_key.patch
queue-3.4/frv-use-core-allocator-for-task_struct.patch
queue-3.4/frv-use-correct-size-for-task_struct-allocation.patch
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