From aa6f5ffbdba45aa8e19e5048648fc6c7b25376d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: merge Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:55:32 +0000 Subject: MERGE-via-pending-tracking-hist-MERGE-via-stable-tracking-MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-fix-stray-endmenu-patch-1232632040-1232632141 pending-tracking-hist top was MERGE-via-stable-tracking-MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-fix-stray-endmenu-patch-1232632040-1232632141 / fdf777a63bcb59e0dfd78bfe2c6242e01f6d4eb9 ... parent commitmessage: From: merge MERGE-via-stable-tracking-hist-MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-fix-stray-endmenu-patch-1232632040 stable-tracking-hist top was MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-fix-stray-endmenu-patch-1232632040 / 90463bfd2d5a3c8b52f6e6d71024a00e052b0ced ... parent commitmessage: From: merge MERGE-via-mokopatches-tracking-hist-fix-stray-endmenu-patch mokopatches-tracking-hist top was fix-stray-endmenu-patch / 3630e0be570de8057e7f8d2fe501ed353cdf34e6 ... parent commitmessage: From: Andy Green fix-stray-endmenu.patch Signed-off-by: Andy Green --- mm/pdflush.c | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm/pdflush.c') diff --git a/mm/pdflush.c b/mm/pdflush.c index a0a14c4d507..15de509b68f 100644 --- a/mm/pdflush.c +++ b/mm/pdflush.c @@ -172,7 +172,16 @@ 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 @@ -187,8 +196,9 @@ static int pdflush(void *dummy) * 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); } -- cgit v1.2.3