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authorSteffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>2012-03-28 08:43:21 +0200
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2012-03-29 13:52:46 +0200
commit13614e0fb1a8840c134be35c179ff23e23676304 (patch)
treee9fb16b0d3840562ebe5b5a8f2eb6e37f9e26a8d
parentpadata: Add a reference to the api documentation (diff)
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padata: Use the online cpumask as the default
We use the active cpumask to determine the superset of cpus to use for parallelization. However, the active cpumask is for internal usage of the scheduler and therefore not the appropriate cpumask for these purposes. So use the online cpumask instead. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
-rw-r--r--kernel/padata.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/padata.c b/kernel/padata.c
index 78750882b2ab..de3d0d97800a 100644
--- a/kernel/padata.c
+++ b/kernel/padata.c
@@ -356,13 +356,13 @@ static int padata_setup_cpumasks(struct parallel_data *pd,
if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&pd->cpumask.pcpu, GFP_KERNEL))
return -ENOMEM;
- cpumask_and(pd->cpumask.pcpu, pcpumask, cpu_active_mask);
+ cpumask_and(pd->cpumask.pcpu, pcpumask, cpu_online_mask);
if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&pd->cpumask.cbcpu, GFP_KERNEL)) {
free_cpumask_var(pd->cpumask.cbcpu);
return -ENOMEM;
}
- cpumask_and(pd->cpumask.cbcpu, cbcpumask, cpu_active_mask);
+ cpumask_and(pd->cpumask.cbcpu, cbcpumask, cpu_online_mask);
return 0;
}
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(padata_unregister_cpumask_notifier);
static bool padata_validate_cpumask(struct padata_instance *pinst,
const struct cpumask *cpumask)
{
- if (!cpumask_intersects(cpumask, cpu_active_mask)) {
+ if (!cpumask_intersects(cpumask, cpu_online_mask)) {
pinst->flags |= PADATA_INVALID;
return false;
}
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ static int __padata_add_cpu(struct padata_instance *pinst, int cpu)
{
struct parallel_data *pd;
- if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, cpu_active_mask)) {
+ if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, cpu_online_mask)) {
pd = padata_alloc_pd(pinst, pinst->cpumask.pcpu,
pinst->cpumask.cbcpu);
if (!pd)