Asymmetric systems may not offer the same level of userspace ISA support across all CPUs, meaning that some applications cannot be executed by some CPUs. As a concrete example, upcoming arm64 big.LITTLE designs do not feature support for 32-bit applications on both clusters.
On such a system, we must take care not to migrate a task to an unsupported CPU when forcefully moving tasks in select_fallback_rq() in response to a CPU hot-unplug operation. Introduce a task_cpu_possible_mask() hook which, given a task argument, allows an architecture to return a cpumask of CPUs that are capable of executing that task. The default implementation returns the cpu_possible_mask, since sane machines do not suffer from per-cpu ISA limitations that affect scheduling. The new mask is used when selecting the fallback runqueue as a last resort before forcing a migration to the first active CPU. Reviewed-by: Quentin Perret <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]> --- include/linux/mmu_context.h | 8 ++++++++ kernel/sched/core.c | 8 +++++--- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/mmu_context.h b/include/linux/mmu_context.h index 03dee12d2b61..bc4ac3c525e6 100644 --- a/include/linux/mmu_context.h +++ b/include/linux/mmu_context.h @@ -14,4 +14,12 @@ static inline void leave_mm(int cpu) { } #endif +/* + * CPUs that are capable of running task @p. By default, we assume a sane, + * homogeneous system. Must contain at least one active CPU. + */ +#ifndef task_cpu_possible_mask +# define task_cpu_possible_mask(p) cpu_possible_mask +#endif + #endif diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index e7e453492cff..58474569a2ea 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -1708,7 +1708,10 @@ static inline bool is_cpu_allowed(struct task_struct *p, int cpu) if (is_per_cpu_kthread(p)) return cpu_online(cpu); - return cpu_active(cpu); + if (!cpu_active(cpu)) + return false; + + return cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, task_cpu_possible_mask(p)); } /* @@ -2318,10 +2321,9 @@ static int select_fallback_rq(int cpu, struct task_struct *p) } fallthrough; case possible: - do_set_cpus_allowed(p, cpu_possible_mask); + do_set_cpus_allowed(p, task_cpu_possible_mask(p)); state = fail; break; - case fail: BUG(); break; -- 2.29.2.576.ga3fc446d84-goog
