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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2021-09-28 14:24:32 +0200
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2021-10-05 15:52:09 +0200
commit8d491de6edc27138806cae6e8eca455beb325b62 (patch)
tree63a9b2be7c7f2baacc8dfd695088634fd1c8d079 /kernel
parentsched: Make cookie functions static (diff)
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sched: Move mmdrop to RCU on RT
mmdrop() is invoked from finish_task_switch() by the incoming task to drop the mm which was handed over by the previous task. mmdrop() can be quite expensive which prevents an incoming real-time task from getting useful work done. Provide mmdrop_sched() which maps to mmdrop() on !RT kernels. On RT kernels it delagates the eventually required invocation of __mmdrop() to RCU. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210928122411.648582026@linutronix.de
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/core.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 95f4e16f98a2..9eaeba671001 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -4836,7 +4836,7 @@ static struct rq *finish_task_switch(struct task_struct *prev)
*/
if (mm) {
membarrier_mm_sync_core_before_usermode(mm);
- mmdrop(mm);
+ mmdrop_sched(mm);
}
if (unlikely(prev_state == TASK_DEAD)) {
if (prev->sched_class->task_dead)