linux-kernel - [PATCH] Add might_sleep

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Date:	Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:23:59 +0900
From:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Add might_sleep_if() for slub

Hi,

I don't know it is intention, or not. However, current SLUB not seems to
warn about might_sleep_if(gfpflags & __GFP_WAIT);

If it's not intention, please apply.
-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>


Currently SLUB doesn't warn about __GFP_WAIT. Add it into slab_alloc().

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
---

 mm/slub.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff -puN mm/slub.c~slub-might-sleep mm/slub.c
--- linux-2.6/mm/slub.c~slub-might-sleep	2008-11-19 20:57:28.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6-hirofumi/mm/slub.c	2008-11-19 20:57:28.000000000 +0900
@@ -1591,6 +1591,7 @@ static __always_inline void *slab_alloc(
 	unsigned long flags;
 	unsigned int objsize;
 
+	might_sleep_if(gfpflags & __GFP_WAIT);
 	local_irq_save(flags);
 	c = get_cpu_slab(s, smp_processor_id());
 	objsize = c->objsize;
_
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