From: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> commit 112166f88cf83dd11486cf1818672d42b540865b upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/fork.c | 16 +++++----------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index e53770d2bf95..d07d1562f314 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -205,19 +205,17 @@ static unsigned long *alloc_thread_stack_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node) 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(struct task_struct *tsk) { #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; -- 2.13.1