[PATCH] powerpc: Don't use kmalloc() for kernel stacks

In readiness for 64k pages, when THREAD_SIZE will be less than
PAGE_SIZE, ppc64 uses kmalloc() rather than __get_free_pages() to
allocate kernel stacks, and since thread_info.h was merged, so does
ppc32.  However that adds some overhead which we don't really want
when PAGE_SIZE <= THREAD_SIZE (including all ppc32 machines), so this
patch avoids it.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/thread_info.h b/include/asm-powerpc/thread_info.h
index 0b4c24551c21..ab17db79f69d 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/thread_info.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/thread_info.h
@@ -66,19 +66,26 @@ struct thread_info {
 /* thread information allocation */
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
-#define alloc_thread_info(tsk)                                  \
-        ({                                                      \
-                struct thread_info *ret;                        \
-                                                                \
-                ret = kmalloc(THREAD_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);         \
-                if (ret)                                        \
-                        memset(ret, 0, THREAD_SIZE);            \
-                ret;                                            \
-        })
+#define THREAD_INFO_GFP         GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO
 #else
-#define alloc_thread_info(tsk)  kmalloc(THREAD_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL)
+#define THREAD_INFO_GFP         GFP_KERNEL
 #endif
+
+#if THREAD_SHIFT >= PAGE_SHIFT
+
+#define THREAD_ORDER    (THREAD_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+
+#define alloc_thread_info(tsk)  \
+        ((struct thread_info *)__get_free_pages(THREAD_INFO_GFP, THREAD_ORDER))
+#define free_thread_info(ti)    free_pages((unsigned long)ti, THREAD_ORDER)
+
+#else /* THREAD_SHIFT < PAGE_SHIFT */
+
+#define alloc_thread_info(tsk)  kmalloc(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_INFO_GFP)
 #define free_thread_info(ti)    kfree(ti)
+
+#endif /* THREAD_SHIFT < PAGE_SHIFT */
+
 #define get_thread_info(ti)     get_task_struct((ti)->task)
 #define put_thread_info(ti)     put_task_struct((ti)->task)