linux-kernel - [tip:smp/hotplug] sched: Provide is_percpu

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Date:   Fri, 26 May 2017 01:47:52 -0700
From:   tip-bot for Thomas Gleixner <tipbot@...or.com>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     rostedt@...dmis.org, tglx@...utronix.de, bigeasy@...utronix.de,
        hpa@...or.com, mingo@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: [tip:smp/hotplug] sched: Provide is_percpu_thread() helper

Commit-ID:  62ec05dd71b19f5be890a1992227cc7b2ac0adc4
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/62ec05dd71b19f5be890a1992227cc7b2ac0adc4
Author:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
AuthorDate: Wed, 24 May 2017 10:15:41 +0200
Committer:  Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CommitDate: Fri, 26 May 2017 10:10:47 +0200

sched: Provide is_percpu_thread() helper

Provide a helper function for checking whether current task is a per cpu
thread.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170524081549.541649540@linutronix.de

---
 include/linux/sched.h | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 2b69fc6..3dfa5f9 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1265,6 +1265,16 @@ extern struct pid *cad_pid;
 #define tsk_used_math(p)			((p)->flags & PF_USED_MATH)
 #define used_math()				tsk_used_math(current)
 
+static inline bool is_percpu_thread(void)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_SMP
+	return (current->flags & PF_NO_SETAFFINITY) &&
+		(current->nr_cpus_allowed  == 1);
+#else
+	return true;
+#endif
+}
+
 /* Per-process atomic flags. */
 #define PFA_NO_NEW_PRIVS		0	/* May not gain new privileges. */
 #define PFA_SPREAD_PAGE			1	/* Spread page cache over cpuset */