linux-kernel - Re: cpusets not cpu hotplug aware

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Date:	Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:12:39 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
To:	Nathan Lynch <ntl@...ox.com>
Cc:	Paul Jackson <pj@....com>, anton@...ba.org, simon.derr@...l.net,
	nathanl@...tin.ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: cpusets not cpu hotplug aware

On Wed, 23 Aug 2006 18:49:53 -0500
Nathan Lynch <ntl@...ox.com> wrote:

> Update cpus_allowed in top_cpuset when cpus are hotplugged;
> otherwise binding a task to a newly hotplugged cpu fails since the
> toplevel cpuset has a static copy of whatever cpu_online_map was at
> boot time.
> 

I must say, that's a pretty simple patch.  It beats dealing with udev
developers ;)

> 
> --- cpuhp-sched_setaffinity.orig/kernel/cpuset.c
> +++ cpuhp-sched_setaffinity/kernel/cpuset.c
> @@ -2033,6 +2033,29 @@ out:
>  	return err;
>  }
>  
> +static int cpuset_handle_cpuhp(struct notifier_block *nb,
> +				unsigned long phase, void *_cpu)
> +{
> +	unsigned long cpu = (unsigned long)_cpu;
> +
> +	mutex_lock(&manage_mutex);
> +	mutex_lock(&callback_mutex);
> +
> +	switch (phase) {
> +	case CPU_ONLINE:
> +		cpu_set(cpu, top_cpuset.cpus_allowed);
> +		break;
> +	case CPU_DEAD:
> +		cpu_clear(cpu, top_cpuset.cpus_allowed);
> +		break;
> +	}
> +
> +	mutex_unlock(&callback_mutex);
> +	mutex_unlock(&manage_mutex);
> +
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +

The above needs #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU wrappers.

>  /**
>   * cpuset_init_smp - initialize cpus_allowed
>   *
> @@ -2043,6 +2066,8 @@ void __init cpuset_init_smp(void)
>  {
>  	top_cpuset.cpus_allowed = cpu_online_map;
>  	top_cpuset.mems_allowed = node_online_map;
> +
> +	hotcpu_notifier(cpuset_handle_cpuhp, 0);
>  }
>  
>  /**
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