*
* 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
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
/*
* 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);
}