softirqs: Free up pf flag PF_KSOFTIRQD

Cleanup patch, freeing up PF_KSOFTIRQD and use per_cpu ksoftirqd pointer
instead, as suggested by Eric Dumazet.

Tested-by: Shaun Ruffell <sruffell@digium.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1292980144-28796-2-git-send-email-venki@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/interrupt.h b/include/linux/interrupt.h
index 55e0d4253e49..a1382b9b5813 100644
--- a/include/linux/interrupt.h
+++ b/include/linux/interrupt.h
@@ -426,6 +426,13 @@ extern void raise_softirq(unsigned int nr);
  */
 DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct list_head [NR_SOFTIRQS], softirq_work_list);
 
+DECLARE_PER_CPU(struct task_struct *, ksoftirqd);
+
+static inline struct task_struct *this_cpu_ksoftirqd(void)
+{
+        return this_cpu_read(ksoftirqd);
+}
+
 /* Try to send a softirq to a remote cpu.  If this cannot be done, the
  * work will be queued to the local cpu.
  */
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index d747f948b34e..af6e15fbfb78 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1715,7 +1715,6 @@ extern void thread_group_times(struct task_struct *p, cputime_t *ut, cputime_t *
 /*
  * Per process flags
  */
-#define PF_KSOFTIRQD    0x00000001      /* I am ksoftirqd */
 #define PF_STARTING     0x00000002      /* being created */
 #define PF_EXITING      0x00000004      /* getting shut down */
 #define PF_EXITPIDONE   0x00000008      /* pi exit done on shut down */