kernel: add CLONE_IO to specifically request sharing of IO contexts
syslets (or other threads/processes that want io context sharing) can
set this to enforce sharing of io context.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 1987c57..314f510 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -792,15 +792,21 @@
return error;
}
-static int copy_io(struct task_struct *tsk)
+static int copy_io(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_BLOCK
struct io_context *ioc = current->io_context;
if (!ioc)
return 0;
-
- if (ioprio_valid(ioc->ioprio)) {
+ /*
+ * Share io context with parent, if CLONE_IO is set
+ */
+ if (clone_flags & CLONE_IO) {
+ tsk->io_context = ioc_task_link(ioc);
+ if (unlikely(!tsk->io_context))
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ } else if (ioprio_valid(ioc->ioprio)) {
tsk->io_context = alloc_io_context(GFP_KERNEL, -1);
if (unlikely(!tsk->io_context))
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -1176,7 +1182,7 @@
goto bad_fork_cleanup_mm;
if ((retval = copy_namespaces(clone_flags, p)))
goto bad_fork_cleanup_keys;
- if ((retval = copy_io(p)))
+ if ((retval = copy_io(clone_flags, p)))
goto bad_fork_cleanup_namespaces;
retval = copy_thread(0, clone_flags, stack_start, stack_size, p, regs);
if (retval)