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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2012-05-05 15:05:41 +0000
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2012-05-08 13:55:20 +0200
commit2889f60814e15dea644782597d897cdba943564f (patch)
tree0dab94d2c8136dc86241a7e85e5c881b03677c92
parent6c0a9fa62feb7e9fdefa9720bcc03040c9b0b311 (diff)
downloadlinux-2889f60814e15dea644782597d897cdba943564f.tar.bz2
fork: Move thread info gfp flags to header
These flags can be useful for extra allocations outside of the core code. Add __GFP_NOTRACK to them, so the archs which have kmemcheck do not have to provide extra allocators just for that reason. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120505150141.428211694@linutronix.de
-rw-r--r--include/linux/thread_info.h6
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c8
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/thread_info.h b/include/linux/thread_info.h
index 8d03f079688c..db78775eff3b 100644
--- a/include/linux/thread_info.h
+++ b/include/linux/thread_info.h
@@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ extern long do_no_restart_syscall(struct restart_block *parm);
#ifdef __KERNEL__
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
+# define THREADINFO_GFP (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO)
+#else
+# define THREADINFO_GFP (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK)
+#endif
+
/*
* flag set/clear/test wrappers
* - pass TIF_xxxx constants to these functions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index a79b36e2e912..5d22b9b8cf7b 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -123,12 +123,8 @@ static struct kmem_cache *task_struct_cachep;
static struct thread_info *alloc_thread_info_node(struct task_struct *tsk,
int node)
{
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
- gfp_t mask = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO;
-#else
- gfp_t mask = GFP_KERNEL;
-#endif
- struct page *page = alloc_pages_node(node, mask, THREAD_SIZE_ORDER);
+ struct page *page = alloc_pages_node(node, THREADINFO_GFP,
+ THREAD_SIZE_ORDER);
return page ? page_address(page) : NULL;
}