mm: NUMA aware alloc_task_struct_node()

All kthreads being created from a single helper task, they all use memory
from a single node for their kernel stack and task struct.

This patch suite creates kthread_create_on_cpu(), adding a 'cpu' parameter
to parameters already used by kthread_create().

This parameter serves in allocating memory for the new kthread on its
memory node if available.

Users of this new function are : ksoftirqd, kworker, migration, pktgend...

This patch:

Add a node parameter to alloc_task_struct(), and change its name to
alloc_task_struct_node()

This change is needed to allow NUMA aware kthread_create_on_cpu()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/frv/kernel/process.c b/arch/frv/kernel/process.c
index efad12071c2..9d359752646 100644
--- a/arch/frv/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/frv/kernel/process.c
@@ -44,9 +44,10 @@ asmlinkage void ret_from_fork(void);
 void (*pm_power_off)(void);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(pm_power_off);
 
-struct task_struct *alloc_task_struct(void)
+struct task_struct *alloc_task_struct_node(int node)
 {
-	struct task_struct *p = kmalloc(THREAD_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+	struct task_struct *p = kmalloc_node(THREAD_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL, node);
+
 	if (p)
 		atomic_set((atomic_t *)(p+1), 1);
 	return p;