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Paul Jackson 02a0e53d82 [PATCH] cpuset: rework cpuset_zone_allowed api
Elaborate the API for calling cpuset_zone_allowed(), so that users have to
explicitly choose between the two variants:

  cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall()
  cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall()

Until now, whether or not you got the hardwall flavor depended solely on
whether or not you or'd in the __GFP_HARDWALL gfp flag to the gfp_mask
argument.

If you didn't specify __GFP_HARDWALL, you implicitly got the softwall
version.

Unfortunately, this meant that users would end up with the softwall version
without thinking about it.  Since only the softwall version might sleep,
this led to bugs with possible sleeping in interrupt context on more than
one occassion.

The hardwall version requires that the current tasks mems_allowed allows
the node of the specified zone (or that you're in interrupt or that
__GFP_THISNODE is set or that you're on a one cpuset system.)

The softwall version, depending on the gfp_mask, might allow a node if it
was allowed in the nearest enclusing cpuset marked mem_exclusive (which
requires taking the cpuset lock 'callback_mutex' to evaluate.)

This patch removes the cpuset_zone_allowed() call, and forces the caller to
explicitly choose between the hardwall and the softwall case.

If the caller wants the gfp_mask to determine this choice, they should (1)
be sure they can sleep or that __GFP_HARDWALL is set, and (2) invoke the
cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall() routine.

This adds another 100 or 200 bytes to the kernel text space, due to the few
lines of nearly duplicate code at the top of both cpuset_zone_allowed_*
routines.  It should save a few instructions executed for the calls that
turned into calls of cpuset_zone_allowed_hardwall, thanks to not having to
set (before the call) then check (within the call) the __GFP_HARDWALL flag.

For the most critical call, from get_page_from_freelist(), the same
instructions are executed as before -- the old cpuset_zone_allowed()
routine it used to call is the same code as the
cpuset_zone_allowed_softwall() routine that it calls now.

Not a perfect win, but seems worth it, to reduce this chance of hitting a
sleeping with irq off complaint again.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-13 09:05:49 -08:00
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acpi [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t 2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
asm-alpha [PATCH] tty: preparatory structures for termios revamp 2006-12-08 08:28:56 -08:00
asm-arm Merge branch 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6 2006-12-12 09:57:55 -08:00
asm-arm26 [PATCH] tty: preparatory structures for termios revamp 2006-12-08 08:28:56 -08:00
asm-avr32 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://www.atmel.no/~hskinnemoen/linux/kernel/avr32 2006-12-11 18:28:59 -08:00
asm-cris [PATCH] tty: preparatory structures for termios revamp 2006-12-08 08:28:56 -08:00
asm-frv [PATCH] tty: preparatory structures for termios revamp 2006-12-08 08:28:56 -08:00
asm-generic Make sure we populate the initroot filesystem late enough 2006-12-11 12:12:04 -08:00
asm-h8300 [PATCH] tty: preparatory structures for termios revamp 2006-12-08 08:28:56 -08:00
asm-i386 Merge ../linus 2006-12-12 17:41:41 -05:00
asm-ia64 [IA64] enable trap code on slot 1 2006-12-12 12:00:55 -08:00
asm-m32r [PATCH] tty: preparatory structures for termios revamp 2006-12-08 08:28:56 -08:00
asm-m68k [PATCH] Sun3: General updates 2006-12-09 09:41:18 -08:00
asm-m68knommu [PATCH] cleanup asm/setup.h userspace visibility 2006-12-07 08:39:46 -08:00
asm-mips [MIPS] IP27: Don't drag <asm/sn/arch.h> into topology.h. 2006-12-12 01:46:24 +00:00
asm-parisc [PATCH] tty: preparatory structures for termios revamp 2006-12-08 08:28:56 -08:00
asm-powerpc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc 2006-12-11 18:24:58 -08:00
asm-ppc Merge branch 'for_paulus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpc 2006-12-11 16:31:42 +11:00
asm-s390 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6 2006-12-08 11:21:55 -08:00
asm-sh sh: SH-MobileR SH7722 CPU support. 2006-12-12 08:42:09 +09:00
asm-sh64 [PATCH] cleanup asm/setup.h userspace visibility 2006-12-07 08:39:46 -08:00
asm-sparc [PATCH] tty: preparatory structures for termios revamp 2006-12-08 08:28:56 -08:00
asm-sparc64 [SPARC64]: Fix several kprobes bugs. 2006-12-10 02:42:03 -08:00
asm-um [PATCH] UML: add generic BUG support 2006-12-08 08:28:39 -08:00
asm-v850 [PATCH] tty: preparatory structures for termios revamp 2006-12-08 08:28:56 -08:00
asm-x86_64 Merge ../linus 2006-12-12 17:41:41 -05:00
asm-xtensa [PATCH] xtensa: fix system call interface 2006-12-10 09:55:39 -08:00
crypto [CRYPTO] lib: table driven multiplications in GF(2^128) 2006-12-06 18:38:55 -08:00
keys
linux [PATCH] cpuset: rework cpuset_zone_allowed api 2006-12-13 09:05:49 -08:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (4935): Added the capability of selecting fm gain by tuner 2006-12-10 09:05:52 -02:00
mtd Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2006-10-01 17:55:53 +01:00
net [HAMRADIO]: Fix baycom_epp.c compile failure. 2006-12-11 14:35:01 -08:00
pcmcia [PATCH] pcmcia: multifunction card handling fixes 2006-12-04 20:09:15 -05:00
rdma IB: Add DMA mapping functions to allow device drivers to interpose 2006-12-12 14:27:41 -08:00
rxrpc
scsi [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t 2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
sound Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2006-12-05 17:01:28 +00:00
video [PATCH] video: pm3fb macros fix 2006-12-08 08:29:08 -08:00
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