Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 May 2015 08:23:46 +0200 | From | David Hildenbrand <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC 00/15] decouple pagefault_disable() from preempt_disable() |
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> > This series therefore does 2 things: > > > > > > 1. Decouple pagefault_disable() from preempt_enable() > > > > ... > > > > 2. Reenable might_sleep() checks for might_fault() > > All seems sensible to me. pagefault_disabled has to go into the > task_struct (rather than being per-cpu) because > pagefault_disabled_inc() doesn't disable preemption, yes? >
Right, we can now get scheduled while in pagefault_disable() (if preemption hasn't been disabled manually). So we have to store it per task/thread not per cpu.
Actually even the preempt disable counter is only per-cpu for x86 and lives in thread_info for all other archs (which is also not 100% clean but doesn't matter at that point).
I had that pagefault disable counter in thread_info before, but that required messing with asm-offsets of some arch (I had a proper version but this one feels cleaner).
Thanks for having a look!
David
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