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authorSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>2025-04-16 18:29:13 +0200
committerPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>2025-05-03 12:02:08 +0200
commit7c4f75a21f636486d2969d9b6680403ea8483539 (patch)
tree7ba61bc8ba91244f8180bcd17e7f54679fe9e0aa /kernel/fork.c
parent80367ad01d93ac781b0e1df246edaf006928002f (diff)
futex: Allow automatic allocation of process wide futex hash
Allocate a private futex hash with 16 slots if a task forks its first thread. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250416162921.513656-14-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/fork.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c22
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 831dfec45054..1f5d8083eeb2 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2164,6 +2164,13 @@ static void rv_task_fork(struct task_struct *p)
#define rv_task_fork(p) do {} while (0)
#endif
+static bool need_futex_hash_allocate_default(u64 clone_flags)
+{
+ if ((clone_flags & (CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_VM)) != (CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_VM))
+ return false;
+ return true;
+}
+
/*
* This creates a new process as a copy of the old one,
* but does not actually start it yet.
@@ -2545,6 +2552,21 @@ __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
goto bad_fork_cancel_cgroup;
/*
+ * Allocate a default futex hash for the user process once the first
+ * thread spawns.
+ */
+ if (need_futex_hash_allocate_default(clone_flags)) {
+ retval = futex_hash_allocate_default();
+ if (retval)
+ goto bad_fork_core_free;
+ /*
+ * If we fail beyond this point we don't free the allocated
+ * futex hash map. We assume that another thread will be created
+ * and makes use of it. The hash map will be freed once the main
+ * thread terminates.
+ */
+ }
+ /*
* From this point on we must avoid any synchronous user-space
* communication until we take the tasklist-lock. In particular, we do
* not want user-space to be able to predict the process start-time by