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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/pdflush.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/pdflush.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/pdflush.c b/mm/pdflush.c index a0a14c4d5072..15de509b68fd 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); } |