This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sched: Add a PF flag for ksoftirqd identification
to the 2.6.32-longterm tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
0016-sched-Add-a-PF-flag-for-ksoftirqd-identification.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.32 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the 2.6.32 longterm
tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 8deda0ce8811ddb055506e308e1e66245adcc4a5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Venkatesh Pallipadi <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:23:27 +0100
Subject: sched: Add a PF flag for ksoftirqd identification
Commit: 6cdd5199daf0cb7b0fcc8dca941af08492612887 upstream
To account softirq time cleanly in scheduler, we need to identify whether
softirq is invoked in ksoftirqd context or softirq at hardirq tail context.
Add PF_KSOFTIRQD for that purpose.
As all PF flag bits are currently taken, create space by moving one of the
infrequently used bits (PF_THREAD_BOUND) down in task_struct to be along
with some other state fields.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
LKML-Reference: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
include/linux/sched.h | 1 +
kernel/softirq.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1728,6 +1728,7 @@ extern void thread_group_times(struct ta
/*
* Per process flags
*/
+#define PF_KSOFTIRQD 0x00000001 /* I am ksoftirqd */
#define PF_STARTING 0x00000002 /* being created */
#define PF_EXITING 0x00000004 /* getting shut down */
#define PF_EXITPIDONE 0x00000008 /* pi exit done on shut down */
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -718,6 +718,7 @@ static int ksoftirqd(void * __bind_cpu)
{
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
+ current->flags |= PF_KSOFTIRQD;
while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
preempt_disable();
if (!local_softirq_pending()) {
Patches currently in longterm-queue-2.6.32 which might be from [email protected]
are
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