Revert "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads"

[safe/jmp/linux-2.6] / mm / pdflush.c

diff --git a/mm/pdflush.c b/mm/pdflush.c
index 0cbe0c6..235ac44 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/pdflush.c
+++ b/mm/pdflush.c
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2002, Linus Torvalds.
  *
- * 09Apr2002   akpm@zip.com.au
+ * 09Apr2002   Andrew Morton
  *             Initial version
  * 29Feb2004   kaos@sgi.com
  *             Move worker thread creation to kthread to avoid chewing
@@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ static int __pdflush(struct pdflush_work *my_work)
        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&my_work->list);
 
        spin_lock_irq(&pdflush_lock);
-       nr_pdflush_threads++;
        for ( ; ; ) {
                struct pdflush_work *pdf;
 
@@ -126,20 +125,26 @@ static int __pdflush(struct pdflush_work *my_work)
 
                (*my_work->fn)(my_work->arg0);
 
+               spin_lock_irq(&pdflush_lock);
+
                /*
                 * Thread creation: For how long have there been zero
                 * available threads?
+                *
+                * To throttle creation, we reset last_empty_jifs.
                 */
                if (time_after(jiffies, last_empty_jifs + 1 * HZ)) {
-                       /* unlocked list_empty() test is OK here */
                        if (list_empty(&pdflush_list)) {
-                               /* unlocked test is OK here */
-                               if (nr_pdflush_threads < MAX_PDFLUSH_THREADS)
+                               if (nr_pdflush_threads < MAX_PDFLUSH_THREADS) {
+                                       last_empty_jifs = jiffies;
+                                       nr_pdflush_threads++;
+                                       spin_unlock_irq(&pdflush_lock);
                                        start_one_pdflush_thread();
+                                       spin_lock_irq(&pdflush_lock);
+                               }
                        }
                }
 
-               spin_lock_irq(&pdflush_lock);
                my_work->fn = NULL;
 
                /*
@@ -172,7 +177,16 @@ static int __pdflush(struct pdflush_work *my_work)
 static int pdflush(void *dummy)
 {
        struct pdflush_work my_work;
-       cpumask_t cpus_allowed;
+       cpumask_var_t cpus_allowed;
+
+       /*
+        * Since the caller doesn't even check kthread_run() worked, let's not
+        * freak out too much if this fails.
+        */
+       if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&cpus_allowed, GFP_KERNEL)) {
+               printk(KERN_WARNING "pdflush failed to allocate cpumask\n");
+               return 0;
+       }
 
        /*
         * pdflush can spend a lot of time doing encryption via dm-crypt.  We
@@ -182,13 +196,14 @@ static int pdflush(void *dummy)
 
        /*
         * Some configs put our parent kthread in a limited cpuset,
-        * which kthread() overrides, forcing cpus_allowed == CPU_MASK_ALL.
+        * which kthread() overrides, forcing cpus_allowed == cpu_all_mask.
         * Our needs are more modest - cut back to our cpusets cpus_allowed.
         * This is needed as pdflush's are dynamically created and destroyed.
         * The boottime pdflush's are easily placed w/o these 2 lines.
         */
-       cpuset_cpus_allowed(current, &cpus_allowed);
-       set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, &cpus_allowed);
+       cpuset_cpus_allowed(current, cpus_allowed);
+       set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpus_allowed);
+       free_cpumask_var(cpus_allowed);
 
        return __pdflush(&my_work);
 }
@@ -226,13 +241,26 @@ int pdflush_operation(void (*fn)(unsigned long), unsigned long arg0)
 
 static void start_one_pdflush_thread(void)
 {
-       kthread_run(pdflush, NULL, "pdflush");
+       struct task_struct *k;
+
+       k = kthread_run(pdflush, NULL, "pdflush");
+       if (unlikely(IS_ERR(k))) {
+               spin_lock_irq(&pdflush_lock);
+               nr_pdflush_threads--;
+               spin_unlock_irq(&pdflush_lock);
+       }
 }
 
 static int __init pdflush_init(void)
 {
        int i;
 
+       /*
+        * Pre-set nr_pdflush_threads...  If we fail to create,
+        * the count will be decremented.
+        */
+       nr_pdflush_threads = MIN_PDFLUSH_THREADS;
+
        for (i = 0; i < MIN_PDFLUSH_THREADS; i++)
                start_one_pdflush_thread();
        return 0;