Re: [patch 17/18] tile: Use common threadinfo allocator

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>]

On Mon, 7 May 2012, Chris Metcalf wrote:

> On 5/7/2012 4:33 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Mon, 7 May 2012, Chris Metcalf wrote:
> >
> >> I think the only obvious
> >> way is to override something in the threadinfo allocator.
> > Wrong. The obvious way is to use the common code and add a special
> > flag to it.
> 
> Well, that's overriding something in the threadinfo allocator :-)
> 
> In all seriousness, adding an arch-specific GFP flag sounds like it should
> work OK for tile.  Thanks!

I pushed out the minimum set of patches into a separate branch, so you
can base your work on that and we wont run into merge order
dependencies.

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git smp/threadinfo

The patch below lets you define your extra gfp flag for tile.

Thanks,

	tglx

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Subject: threadinfo: Add an optional ARCH gfp flag for the threadinfo allocator

Allows architectures to add their magic gfp flags.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

--- tip.orig/include/linux/thread_info.h
+++ tip/include/linux/thread_info.h
@@ -55,11 +55,17 @@ extern long do_no_restart_syscall(struct
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
-# define THREADINFO_GFP		(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO)
+# define __THREADINFO_GFP	(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK | __GFP_ZERO)
 #else
-# define THREADINFO_GFP		(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK)
+# define __THREADINFO_GFP	(GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_NOTRACK)
 #endif
 
+#ifndef ARCH_THREAD_INFO_GFP
+# define ARCH_THREAD_INFO_GFP	(0)
+#endif
+
+#define THREADINFO_GFP		(__THREADINFO_GFP | ARCH_THREAD_INFO_GFP)
+
 /*
  * flag set/clear/test wrappers
  * - pass TIF_xxxx constants to these functions