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Message-Id: <20210921215218.89844-2-michael.christie@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 16:52:10 -0500
From: Mike Christie <michael.christie@...cle.com>
To: hdanton@...a.com, hch@...radead.org, stefanha@...hat.com,
jasowang@...hat.com, mst@...hat.com, sgarzare@...hat.com,
virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
christian.brauner@...ntu.com, axboe@...nel.dk,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Mike Christie <michael.christie@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH V2 1/9] fork: Make IO worker options flag based
This patchset adds a couple new options to kernel_clone_args for IO thread
like/related users. Instead of adding new fields to kernel_clone_args for
each option, this moves us to a flags based approach by first converting
io_thread.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@...cle.com>
---
include/linux/sched/task.h | 4 +++-
kernel/fork.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/task.h b/include/linux/sched/task.h
index ef02be869cf2..48417c735438 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/task.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/task.h
@@ -18,8 +18,11 @@ struct css_set;
/* All the bits taken by the old clone syscall. */
#define CLONE_LEGACY_FLAGS 0xffffffffULL
+#define KERN_WORKER_IO BIT(0)
+
struct kernel_clone_args {
u64 flags;
+ u32 worker_flags;
int __user *pidfd;
int __user *child_tid;
int __user *parent_tid;
@@ -31,7 +34,6 @@ struct kernel_clone_args {
/* Number of elements in *set_tid */
size_t set_tid_size;
int cgroup;
- int io_thread;
struct cgroup *cgrp;
struct css_set *cset;
};
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 38681ad44c76..3988106e9609 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2026,7 +2026,7 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
p = dup_task_struct(current, node);
if (!p)
goto fork_out;
- if (args->io_thread) {
+ if (args->worker_flags & KERN_WORKER_IO) {
/*
* Mark us an IO worker, and block any signal that isn't
* fatal or STOP
@@ -2526,7 +2526,7 @@ struct task_struct *create_io_thread(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, int node)
.exit_signal = (lower_32_bits(flags) & CSIGNAL),
.stack = (unsigned long)fn,
.stack_size = (unsigned long)arg,
- .io_thread = 1,
+ .worker_flags = KERN_WORKER_IO,
};
return copy_process(NULL, 0, node, &args);
--
2.25.1
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