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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-09-27 16:45:33 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-09-27 16:45:33 -0700
commit6111da3432b10b2c56a21a5d8671aee46435326d (patch)
treedc85fcc0b58ab24754367794c5b617117afce734 /Documentation
parent83692898642a6d4950d3cd47971b101424d47859 (diff)
parent2ad654bc5e2b211e92f66da1d819e47d79a866f0 (diff)
Merge branch 'for-3.17-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo: "This is quite late but these need to be backported anyway. This is the fix for a long-standing cpuset bug which existed from 2009. cpuset makes use of PF_SPREAD_{PAGE|SLAB} flags to modify the task's memory allocation behavior according to the settings of the cpuset it belongs to; unfortunately, when those flags have to be changed, cpuset did so directly even whlie the target task is running, which is obviously racy as task->flags may be modified by the task itself at any time. This obscure bug manifested as corrupt PF_USED_MATH flag leading to a weird crash. The bug is fixed by moving the flag to task->atomic_flags. The first two are prepatory ones to help defining atomic_flags accessors and the third one is the actual fix" * 'for-3.17-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cpuset: PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB should be atomic flags sched: add macros to define bitops for task atomic flags sched: fix confusing PFA_NO_NEW_PRIVS constant
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
index 7740038d82bc..3c94ff3f9693 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
@@ -345,14 +345,14 @@ the named feature on.
The implementation is simple.
Setting the flag 'cpuset.memory_spread_page' turns on a per-process flag
-PF_SPREAD_PAGE for each task that is in that cpuset or subsequently
+PFA_SPREAD_PAGE for each task that is in that cpuset or subsequently
joins that cpuset. The page allocation calls for the page cache
-is modified to perform an inline check for this PF_SPREAD_PAGE task
+is modified to perform an inline check for this PFA_SPREAD_PAGE task
flag, and if set, a call to a new routine cpuset_mem_spread_node()
returns the node to prefer for the allocation.
Similarly, setting 'cpuset.memory_spread_slab' turns on the flag
-PF_SPREAD_SLAB, and appropriately marked slab caches will allocate
+PFA_SPREAD_SLAB, and appropriately marked slab caches will allocate
pages from the node returned by cpuset_mem_spread_node().
The cpuset_mem_spread_node() routine is also simple. It uses the