linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sched/core: expand sched_getaffinity(2) to return number of CPUs

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Message-ID: <87ftqw3e0l.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 05 Apr 2019 13:08:58 +0200
From:   Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>, mingo@...hat.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sched/core: expand sched_getaffinity(2) to return number of CPUs

* Peter Zijlstra:

> On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 12:16:39PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>> > True; but I suppose glibc already does lots of that anyway, right? It
>> > does contain the right information.
>> 
>> If I recall correctly my last investigation,
>> /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible does not reflect the size of the
>> affinity mask, either.
>
> Strictly speaking correct; the bitmap can be longer than the highest
> possible cpu number, however the remainder would be 0-padding and could
> thus be stripped without issue.

Doesn't the kernel still enforce the larget bitmap in sched_getaffinity,
even if the bits are always zero?

Thanks,
Florian