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authorChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>2015-06-24 16:55:42 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-06-24 17:49:40 -0700
commitb5242e98c1cb834feb1e84026f09a4796b49eb4d (patch)
tree46f415a3fb41a6238f8e6d69675d2e22960c3447 /include
parent8c07a308ec5284fe41aefe48ac2ef4cfcd71ddbf (diff)
smpboot: allow excluding cpus from the smpboot threads
This patch series allows the watchdog to run by default only on the housekeeping cores when nohz_full is in effect; this seems to be a good compromise short of turning it off completely (since the nohz_full cores can't tolerate a watchdog). To provide customizability, we add /proc/sys/kernel/watchdog_cpumask so that the set of cores running the watchdog can be tuned to different values after bootup. To implement this customizability, we add a new smpboot_update_cpumask_percpu_thread() API to the smpboot_thread subsystem that lets us park or unpark "unwanted" threads. And now that threads can be parked for long periods of time, we tweak the /proc/<pid>/stat and /proc/<pid>/status code so parked threads aren't reported as running, which is otherwise confusing. This patch (of 3): This change allows some cores to be excluded from running the smp_hotplug_thread tasks. The following commit to update kernel/watchdog.c to use this functionality is the motivating example, and more information on the motivation is provided there. A new smp_hotplug_thread field is introduced, "cpumask", which is cpumask field managed by the smpboot subsystem that indicates whether or not the given smp_hotplug_thread should run on that core; the cpumask is checked when deciding whether to unpark the thread. To limit the cpumask to less than cpu_possible, you must call smpboot_update_cpumask_percpu_thread() after registering. Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Ulrich Obergfell <uobergfe@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/smpboot.h5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/smpboot.h b/include/linux/smpboot.h
index d600afb21926..da3c593f9845 100644
--- a/include/linux/smpboot.h
+++ b/include/linux/smpboot.h
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ struct smpboot_thread_data;
* @pre_unpark: Optional unpark function, called before the thread is
* unparked (cpu online). This is not guaranteed to be
* called on the target cpu of the thread. Careful!
+ * @cpumask: Internal state. To update which threads are unparked,
+ * call smpboot_update_cpumask_percpu_thread().
* @selfparking: Thread is not parked by the park function.
* @thread_comm: The base name of the thread
*/
@@ -41,11 +43,14 @@ struct smp_hotplug_thread {
void (*park)(unsigned int cpu);
void (*unpark)(unsigned int cpu);
void (*pre_unpark)(unsigned int cpu);
+ cpumask_var_t cpumask;
bool selfparking;
const char *thread_comm;
};
int smpboot_register_percpu_thread(struct smp_hotplug_thread *plug_thread);
void smpboot_unregister_percpu_thread(struct smp_hotplug_thread *plug_thread);
+int smpboot_update_cpumask_percpu_thread(struct smp_hotplug_thread *plug_thread,
+ const struct cpumask *);
#endif