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Date:	Tue, 8 May 2012 05:32:48 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...nel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: [tip:smp/hotplug] fork: Move thread info gfp flags to header

Commit-ID:  2889f60814e15dea644782597d897cdba943564f
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/2889f60814e15dea644782597d897cdba943564f
Author:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
AuthorDate: Sat, 5 May 2012 15:05:41 +0000
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitDate: Tue, 8 May 2012 13:55:20 +0200

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@...utronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120505150141.428211694@linutronix.de
---
 include/linux/thread_info.h |    6 ++++++
 kernel/fork.c               |    8 ++------
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/thread_info.h b/include/linux/thread_info.h
index 8d03f07..db78775 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 a79b36e..5d22b9b 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;
 }
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