[patch 1/3] kthread: switch to cpu_possible_mask

Marcelo Tosatti
2020-03-28T15:27:58Z

Next patch will switch unbound kernel threads mask to
housekeeping_cpumask(), a subset of cpu_possible_mask.

Switch from cpu_all_mask to cpu_possible_mask separately,
to ease bisection.

Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

---
kernel/kthread.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/kthread.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/kthread.c
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ struct task_struct *__kthread_create_on_
* The kernel thread should not inherit these properties.
*/
sched_setscheduler_nocheck(task, SCHED_NORMAL, &param);
- set_cpus_allowed_ptr(task, cpu_all_mask);
+ set_cpus_allowed_ptr(task, cpu_possible_mask);
}
kfree(create);
return task;
@@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ int kthreadd(void *unused)
/* Setup a clean context for our children to inherit. */
set_task_comm(tsk, "kthreadd");
ignore_signals(tsk);
- set_cpus_allowed_ptr(tsk, cpu_all_mask);
+ set_cpus_allowed_ptr(tsk, cpu_possible_mask);
set_mems_allowed(node_states[N_MEMORY]);

current->flags |= PF_NOFREEZE;