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Commit e540bf31 authored by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior's avatar Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Committed by Thomas Gleixner
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fork: Only cache the VMAP stack in finish_task_switch()



The task stack could be deallocated later, but for fork()/exec() kind of
workloads (say a shell script executing several commands) it is important
that the stack is released in finish_task_switch() so that in VMAP_STACK
case it can be cached and reused in the new task.

For PREEMPT_RT it would be good if the wake-up in vfree_atomic() could
be avoided in the scheduling path. Far worse are the other
free_thread_stack() implementations which invoke __free_pages()/
kmem_cache_free() with disabled preemption.

Cache the stack in free_thread_stack() in the VMAP_STACK case and
RCU-delay the free path otherwise. Free the stack in the RCU callback.
In the VMAP_STACK case this is another opportunity to fill the cache.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: default avatarAndy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220217102406.3697941-8-bigeasy@linutronix.de
parent 1a03d3f1
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