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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kthread.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/kthread.c | 33 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c index c55afba990a3..3b34d2732bce 100644 --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ struct kthread_create_info /* Information passed to kthread() from kthreadd. */ int (*threadfn)(void *data); void *data; + int node; /* Result passed back to kthread_create() from kthreadd. */ struct task_struct *result; @@ -98,10 +99,23 @@ static int kthread(void *_create) do_exit(ret); } +/* called from do_fork() to get node information for about to be created task */ +int tsk_fork_get_node(struct task_struct *tsk) +{ +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA + if (tsk == kthreadd_task) + return tsk->pref_node_fork; +#endif + return numa_node_id(); +} + static void create_kthread(struct kthread_create_info *create) { int pid; +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA + current->pref_node_fork = create->node; +#endif /* We want our own signal handler (we take no signals by default). */ pid = kernel_thread(kthread, create, CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES | SIGCHLD); if (pid < 0) { @@ -111,33 +125,38 @@ static void create_kthread(struct kthread_create_info *create) } /** - * kthread_create - create a kthread. + * kthread_create_on_node - create a kthread. * @threadfn: the function to run until signal_pending(current). * @data: data ptr for @threadfn. + * @node: memory node number. * @namefmt: printf-style name for the thread. * * Description: This helper function creates and names a kernel * thread. The thread will be stopped: use wake_up_process() to start * it. See also kthread_run(). * + * If thread is going to be bound on a particular cpu, give its node + * in @node, to get NUMA affinity for kthread stack, or else give -1. * When woken, the thread will run @threadfn() with @data as its * argument. @threadfn() can either call do_exit() directly if it is a - * standalone thread for which noone will call kthread_stop(), or + * standalone thread for which no one will call kthread_stop(), or * return when 'kthread_should_stop()' is true (which means * kthread_stop() has been called). The return value should be zero * or a negative error number; it will be passed to kthread_stop(). * * Returns a task_struct or ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM). */ -struct task_struct *kthread_create(int (*threadfn)(void *data), - void *data, - const char namefmt[], - ...) +struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data), + void *data, + int node, + const char namefmt[], + ...) { struct kthread_create_info create; create.threadfn = threadfn; create.data = data; + create.node = node; init_completion(&create.done); spin_lock(&kthread_create_lock); @@ -164,7 +183,7 @@ struct task_struct *kthread_create(int (*threadfn)(void *data), } return create.result; } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_create); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(kthread_create_on_node); /** * kthread_bind - bind a just-created kthread to a cpu. |
