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authorMateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>2026-01-20 21:48:20 +0100
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>2026-02-10 11:39:30 +0100
commit03aef0602f22f30aab0e42e7f3169b0a5920c461 (patch)
tree6efcd58a0ca621360f756e90f216927813926193
parent802182490445f6bcf5de0e0518fb967c2afb6da1 (diff)
pid: reorder fields in pid_namespace to reduce false sharing
alloc_pid() loads pid_cachep, level and pid_max prior to taking the lock. It dirties idr and pid_allocated with the lock. Some of these fields share the cacheline as is, split them up. No change in the size of the struct. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260120204820.1497002-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/pid_namespace.h14
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
index 0e7ae12c96d2..b20baaa7e62b 100644
--- a/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
+++ b/include/linux/pid_namespace.h
@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@ struct pid_namespace {
struct idr idr;
struct rcu_head rcu;
unsigned int pid_allocated;
+#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
+#if defined(CONFIG_MEMFD_CREATE)
+ int memfd_noexec_scope;
+#endif
+ struct ctl_table_set set;
+ struct ctl_table_header *sysctls;
+#endif
struct task_struct *child_reaper;
struct kmem_cache *pid_cachep;
unsigned int level;
@@ -40,13 +47,6 @@ struct pid_namespace {
int reboot; /* group exit code if this pidns was rebooted */
struct ns_common ns;
struct work_struct work;
-#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
- struct ctl_table_set set;
- struct ctl_table_header *sysctls;
-#if defined(CONFIG_MEMFD_CREATE)
- int memfd_noexec_scope;
-#endif
-#endif
} __randomize_layout;
extern struct pid_namespace init_pid_ns;