sched/membarrier: Return -ENOMEM to userspace on memory allocation failure

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Remove the IPI fallback code from membarrier to deal with very
infrequent cpumask memory allocation failure. Use GFP_KERNEL rather
than GFP_NOWAIT, and relax the blocking guarantees for the expedited
membarrier system call commands, allowing it to block if waiting for
memory to be made available.

In addition, now -ENOMEM can be returned to user-space if the cpumask
memory allocation fails.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190919173705.2181-8-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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Mathieu Desnoyers 2019-09-19 13:37:05 -04:00 • committed by Ingo Molnar

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