From: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosa...@redhat.com> Next patch will switch unbound kernel threads mask to housekeeping_cpumask(), a subset of cpu_possible_mask. So in order to ease bisection, lets first switch kthreads default affinity from cpu_all_mask to cpu_possible_mask.
It looks safe to do so as cpu_possible_mask seem to be initialized at setup_arch() time, way before kthreadd is created. Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frede...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosa...@redhat.com> Cc: Chris Friesen <chris.frie...@windriver.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jim Somerville <jim.somervi...@windriver.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frede...@kernel.org> --- kernel/kthread.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c index bfbfa481be3a..788bec94aca7 100644 --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ struct task_struct *__kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data), * The kernel thread should not inherit these properties. */ sched_setscheduler_nocheck(task, SCHED_NORMAL, ¶m); - set_cpus_allowed_ptr(task, cpu_all_mask); + set_cpus_allowed_ptr(task, cpu_possible_mask); } kfree(create); return task; @@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ 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; -- 2.26.2