From 250981e6e1ef04947eccaa55e8c25ddcaa47a02e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:07:21 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] x86: reduce preemption off section in exit thread Impact: latency improvement No need to keep preemption disabled over the kfree call. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- arch/x86/kernel/process.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c index 6afa5232dbb..156f87582c6 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process.c @@ -65,11 +65,11 @@ void exit_thread(void) { struct task_struct *me = current; struct thread_struct *t = &me->thread; + unsigned long *bp = t->io_bitmap_ptr; - if (me->thread.io_bitmap_ptr) { + if (bp) { struct tss_struct *tss = &per_cpu(init_tss, get_cpu()); - kfree(t->io_bitmap_ptr); t->io_bitmap_ptr = NULL; clear_thread_flag(TIF_IO_BITMAP); /* @@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ void exit_thread(void) memset(tss->io_bitmap, 0xff, t->io_bitmap_max); t->io_bitmap_max = 0; put_cpu(); + kfree(bp); } ds_exit_thread(current); -- 2.41.1