softirqs: Free up pf flag PF_KSOFTIRQD
Cleanup patch, freeing up PF_KSOFTIRQD and use per_cpu ksoftirqd pointer
instead, as suggested by Eric Dumazet.
Tested-by: Shaun Ruffell <sruffell@digium.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1292980144-28796-2-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 68eb5ef..0cee504 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
static struct softirq_action softirq_vec[NR_SOFTIRQS] __cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, ksoftirqd);
+DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, ksoftirqd);
char *softirq_to_name[NR_SOFTIRQS] = {
"HI", "TIMER", "NET_TX", "NET_RX", "BLOCK", "BLOCK_IOPOLL",
@@ -721,7 +721,6 @@
{
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
- current->flags |= PF_KSOFTIRQD;
while (!kthread_should_stop()) {
preempt_disable();
if (!local_softirq_pending()) {