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authorJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-09-07 15:07:55 -0400
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-09-07 15:07:55 -0400
commitfac805f8c198092de9a2842efd7f5022e2937b18 (patch)
tree7557809c373f97a343c427d8fded0696060394ce /kernel/softirq.c
parent2461c7d60f9f3821274e4acf9019cba8b82c94b5 (diff)
parentf10723841e624c0726c70356b31d91befed01dd6 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/softirq.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/softirq.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 671f9594e368..b73e681df09e 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -210,6 +210,14 @@ asmlinkage void __do_softirq(void)
__u32 pending;
int max_restart = MAX_SOFTIRQ_RESTART;
int cpu;
+ unsigned long old_flags = current->flags;
+
+ /*
+ * Mask out PF_MEMALLOC s current task context is borrowed for the
+ * softirq. A softirq handled such as network RX might set PF_MEMALLOC
+ * again if the socket is related to swap
+ */
+ current->flags &= ~PF_MEMALLOC;
pending = local_softirq_pending();
account_system_vtime(current);
@@ -265,6 +273,7 @@ restart:
account_system_vtime(current);
__local_bh_enable(SOFTIRQ_OFFSET);
+ tsk_restore_flags(current, old_flags, PF_MEMALLOC);
}
#ifndef __ARCH_HAS_DO_SOFTIRQ