On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 10:51:52AM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:
> The only problem comes with kernel tasks that are pinned to less than
> the entire system, and that are in the top cpuset.
That again is not fool-proof. What if kernel-tasks change their cpu affinity
after we have done the is_pinned_kernel_thread() test? Ideally they
should not, but one never knows!
IMHO we simply should not allow kernel threads to move out of top-cpuset
(unless you know of a good reason where we may want to move them).
int cpuset_can_attach()
{
int is_kthread = !tsk->mm || (tsk->flags & PF_BORROWED_MM);
...
/* Don't moved pinned kernel threads out of top cpuset */
if (is_kthread && oldcs == &top_cpuset && cs != oldcs) {
task_unlock(tsk);
mutex_unlock(&callback_mutex);
put_task_struct(tsk);
return -EINVAL;
}
}
What do you think?
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Regards,
vatsa
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