From 7b34e4283c685f5cc6ba6d30e939906eee0d4bcf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:47:37 -0700 Subject: introduce PF_KTHREAD flag Introduce the new PF_KTHREAD flag to mark the kernel threads. It is set by INIT_TASK() and copied to the forked childs (we could set it in kthreadd() along with PF_NOFREEZE instead). daemonize() was changed as well. In that case testing of PF_KTHREAD is racy, but daemonize() is hopeless anyway. This flag is cleared in do_execve(), before search_binary_handler(). Probably not the best place, we can do this in exec_mmap() or in start_thread(), or clear it along with PF_FORKNOEXEC. But I think this doesn't matter in practice, and if do_execve() fails kthread should die soon. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Roland McGrath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/init_task.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/init_task.h') diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h index 93c45acf249a..021d8e720c79 100644 --- a/include/linux/init_task.h +++ b/include/linux/init_task.h @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ extern struct group_info init_groups; .state = 0, \ .stack = &init_thread_info, \ .usage = ATOMIC_INIT(2), \ - .flags = 0, \ + .flags = PF_KTHREAD, \ .lock_depth = -1, \ .prio = MAX_PRIO-20, \ .static_prio = MAX_PRIO-20, \ -- cgit v1.2.3 From 6976675d94042fbd446231d1bd8b7de71a980ada Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 15:52:40 -0700 Subject: hrtimer: create a "timer_slack" field in the task struct We want to be able to control the default "rounding" that is used by select() and poll() and friends. This is a per process property (so that we can have a "nice" like program to start certain programs with a looser or stricter rounding) that can be set/get via a prctl(). For this purpose, a field called "timer_slack_ns" is added to the task struct. In addition, a field called "default_timer_slack"ns" is added so that tasks easily can temporarily to a more/less accurate slack and then back to the default. The default value of the slack is set to 50 usec; this is significantly less than 2.6.27's average select() and poll() timing error but still allows the kernel to group timers somewhat to preserve power behavior. Applications and admins can override this via the prctl() Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven --- include/linux/init_task.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/init_task.h') diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h index 021d8e720c79..23fd8909b9e5 100644 --- a/include/linux/init_task.h +++ b/include/linux/init_task.h @@ -170,6 +170,7 @@ extern struct group_info init_groups; .cpu_timers = INIT_CPU_TIMERS(tsk.cpu_timers), \ .fs_excl = ATOMIC_INIT(0), \ .pi_lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(tsk.pi_lock), \ + .timer_slack_ns = 50000, /* 50 usec default slack */ \ .pids = { \ [PIDTYPE_PID] = INIT_PID_LINK(PIDTYPE_PID), \ [PIDTYPE_PGID] = INIT_PID_LINK(PIDTYPE_PGID), \ -- cgit v1.2.3