Several architectures have their own kmemcache based thread allocator because THREAD_SIZE is smaller than PAGE_SIZE. Add it to the core code conditionally on THREAD_SIZE < PAGE_SIZE so the private copies can go. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- kernel/fork.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) Index: tip/kernel/fork.c =================================================================== --- tip.orig/kernel/fork.c +++ tip/kernel/fork.c @@ -132,6 +132,11 @@ static inline void free_task_struct(stru void __weak arch_release_thread_info(struct thread_info *ti) { } +/* + * Allocate pages if THREAD_SIZE is >= PAGE_SIZE, otherwise use a + * kmemcache based allocator. + */ +# if THREAD_SIZE >= PAGE_SIZE static struct thread_info *alloc_thread_info_node(struct task_struct *tsk, int node) { @@ -146,6 +151,28 @@ static inline void free_thread_info(stru arch_release_thread_info(ti); free_pages((unsigned long)ti, THREAD_SIZE_ORDER); } +# else +static struct kmem_cache *thread_info_cache; + +static struct thread_info *alloc_thread_info_node(struct task_struct *tsk, + int node) +{ + return kmem_cache_alloc_node(thread_info_cache, THREADINFO_GFP, node); +} + +static void free_thread_info(struct thread_info *ti) +{ + arch_release_thread_info(ti); + kmem_cache_free(thread_info_cache, ti); +} + +void thread_info_cache_init(void) +{ + thread_info_cache = kmem_cache_create("thread_info", THREAD_SIZE, + THREAD_SIZE, 0, NULL); + BUG_ON(thread_info_cache == NULL); +} +# endif #endif /* SLAB cache for signal_struct structures (tsk->signal) */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/