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authorJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2008-01-24 08:52:45 +0100
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2008-01-28 10:50:29 +0100
commitfd0928df98b9578be8a786ac0cb78a47a5e17a20 (patch)
tree70a34cf207bea1bec28e59cf0dba7d20e7f8b0f1 /kernel/fork.c
parent91525300baf162e83e923b09ca286f9205e21522 (diff)
downloadlinux-fd0928df98b9578be8a786ac0cb78a47a5e17a20.tar.bz2
ioprio: move io priority from task_struct to io_context
This is where it belongs and then it doesn't take up space for a process that doesn't do IO. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c32
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 39d22b3357de..2a86c9dff744 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
#include <linux/random.h>
#include <linux/tty.h>
#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
+#include <linux/blkdev.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
#include <asm/pgalloc.h>
@@ -791,6 +792,26 @@ out:
return error;
}
+static int copy_io(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
+ struct io_context *ioc = current->io_context;
+
+ if (!ioc)
+ return 0;
+
+ if (ioprio_valid(ioc->ioprio)) {
+ tsk->io_context = alloc_io_context(GFP_KERNEL, -1);
+ if (unlikely(!tsk->io_context))
+ return -ENOMEM;
+
+ tsk->io_context->task = tsk;
+ tsk->io_context->ioprio = ioc->ioprio;
+ }
+#endif
+ return 0;
+}
+
/*
* Helper to unshare the files of the current task.
* We don't want to expose copy_files internals to
@@ -1156,15 +1177,17 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
goto bad_fork_cleanup_mm;
if ((retval = copy_namespaces(clone_flags, p)))
goto bad_fork_cleanup_keys;
+ if ((retval = copy_io(p)))
+ goto bad_fork_cleanup_namespaces;
retval = copy_thread(0, clone_flags, stack_start, stack_size, p, regs);
if (retval)
- goto bad_fork_cleanup_namespaces;
+ goto bad_fork_cleanup_io;
if (pid != &init_struct_pid) {
retval = -ENOMEM;
pid = alloc_pid(task_active_pid_ns(p));
if (!pid)
- goto bad_fork_cleanup_namespaces;
+ goto bad_fork_cleanup_io;
if (clone_flags & CLONE_NEWPID) {
retval = pid_ns_prepare_proc(task_active_pid_ns(p));
@@ -1234,9 +1257,6 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
/* Need tasklist lock for parent etc handling! */
write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
- /* for sys_ioprio_set(IOPRIO_WHO_PGRP) */
- p->ioprio = current->ioprio;
-
/*
* The task hasn't been attached yet, so its cpus_allowed mask will
* not be changed, nor will its assigned CPU.
@@ -1328,6 +1348,8 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
bad_fork_free_pid:
if (pid != &init_struct_pid)
free_pid(pid);
+bad_fork_cleanup_io:
+ put_io_context(p->io_context);
bad_fork_cleanup_namespaces:
exit_task_namespaces(p);
bad_fork_cleanup_keys: