Hi Bert, I created this page by removing the CPU_*() material from sched_setscheduler.2 and adding documentation of the many other macros that have been added in more recent glibc releases. I remember looking at a mail thread you pointed at a few days back where you said the interface of the CPU_*S() macros is somewhat confusing in its use of bits in some places, and bytes in others. It's hard to disagree with you -- so I included an example in the man-pages which hopefully might reduce the confusion. Of course, since these are macros, my use of types in the prototypes in the SYNOPSIS is in many cases invention; let me know if something looks weird. Also, take a look at http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7029. Unless I'm confused (which is always possible), this is a real bug. Do you agree? Thanks, Michael .\" Copyright (C) 2006 Michael Kerrisk .\" and Copyright (C) 2008 Linux Foundation, written by Michael Kerrisk .\" <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> .\" .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are .\" preserved on all copies. .\" .\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this .\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the .\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a .\" permission notice identical to this one. .\" .\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this .\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no .\" responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from .\" the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not .\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual, .\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working .\" professionally. .\" .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. .\" .TH CPU_SET 2 2008-11-13 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME CPU_SET, CPU_CLR, CPU_ISSET, CPU_ZERO, CPU_COUNT, CPU_AND, CPU_OR, CPU_XOR, CPU_EQUAL, CPU_ALLOC, CPU_ALLOC_SIZE, CPU_FREE, CPU_SET_S, CPU_CLR_S, CPU_ISSET_S, CPU_ZERO_S, CPU_COUNT_S, CPU_AND_S, CPU_OR_S, CPU_XOR_S, CPU_EQUAL_S \- macros for manipulating CPU sets .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #define _GNU_SOURCE .B #include <sched.h> .sp .BI "void CPU_ZERO(cpu_set_t *" set ); .sp .BI "void CPU_SET(int " cpu ", cpu_set_t *" set ); .BI "void CPU_CLR(int " cpu ", cpu_set_t *" set ); .BI "int CPU_ISSET(int " cpu ", cpu_set_t *" set ); .sp .BI "void CPU_COUNT(cpu_set_t *" set ); .sp .BI "void CPU_AND(cpu_set_t *" destset , .BI " cpu_set_t *" srcset1 ", cpu_set_t *" srcset2 ); .BI "void CPU_OR(cpu_set_t *" destset , .BI " cpu_set_t *" srcset1 ", cpu_set_t *" srcset2 ); .BI "void CPU_XOR(cpu_set_t *" destset , .BI " cpu_set_t *" srcset1 ", cpu_set_t *" srcset2 ); .sp .BI "int CPU_EQUAL(cpu_set_t *" set1 ", cpu_set_t *" set2 ); .sp .BI "cpu_set_t *CPU_ALLOC(int " num_cpus ); .BR "void CPU_FREE(cpu_set_t *" set ); .BI "size_t CPU_ALLOC_SIZE(int " num_cpus ); .sp .BI "void CPU_ZERO_S(size_t " setsize ", cpu_set_t *" set ); .sp .BI "void CPU_SET_S(int " cpu ", size_t " setsize ", cpu_set_t *" set ); .BI "void CPU_CLR_S(int " cpu ", size_t " setsize ", cpu_set_t *" set ); .BI "int CPU_ISSET_S(int " cpu ", size_t " setsize ", cpu_set_t *" set ); .sp .BI "void CPU_COUNT_S(size_t " setsize ", cpu_set_t *" set ); .sp .BI "void CPU_AND_S(size_t " setsize ", cpu_set_t *" destset , .BI " cpu_set_t *" srcset1 ", cpu_set_t *" srcset2 ); .BI "void CPU_OR_S(size_t " setsize ", cpu_set_t *" destset , .BI " cpu_set_t *" srcset1 ", cpu_set_t *" srcset2 ); .BI "void CPU_XOR_S(size_t " setsize ", cpu_set_t *" destset , .BI " cpu_set_t *" srcset1 ", cpu_set_t *" srcset2 ); .sp .BI "int CPU_EQUAL_S(size_t " setsize ", cpu_set_t *" set1 \ ", cpu_set_t *" set2 ); .fi .SH DESCRIPTION The .I cpu_set_t data structure represents a set of CPUs. CPU sets are used by .BR sched_setaffinity (2) and similar interfaces. The following macros are provided to operate on the CPU set .IR set : .TP 17 .BR CPU_ZERO () Clears .IR set , so that it contains no CPUs. .TP .BR CPU_SET () Add CPU .I cpu to .IR set . .TP .BR CPU_CLR () Remove CPU .I cpu from .IR set . .TP .BR CPU_ISSET () Test to see if CPU .I cpu is a member of .IR set . .TP .BR CPU_COUNT () Return the number of CPUs in .IR set . .PP Where a .I cpu argument is specified, it should not produce side effects, since the above macros may evaluate the argument more than once. .PP The first available CPU on the system corresponds to a .I cpu value of 0, the next CPU corresponds to a .I cpu value of 1, and so on. The constant .B CPU_SETSIZE (currently 1024) specifies a value one greater than the maximum CPU number that can be stored in .IR cpu_set_t . The following macros perform logical operations on CPU sets: .TP 17 .BR CPU_AND () Store the logical AND of the sets .I srcset1 and .I srcset2 in .I destset (which may be one of the source sets). .TP .BR CPU_OR () Store the logical OR of the sets .I srcset1 and .I srcset2 in .I destset (which may be one of the source sets). .TP .BR CPU_XOR () Store the logical XOR of the sets .I srcset1 and .I srcset2 in .I destset (which may be one of the source sets). .TP .BR CPU_EQUAL () Test whether two CPU set contain exactly the same CPUs. .SS Dynamically sized CPU sets Because some applications may require the ability to dynamically size CPU sets (e.g., to allocate sets larger than that defined by the standard .I cpu_set_t data type), glibc nowadays provides a set of macros to support this. The following macros are used to allocate and deallocate CPU sets: .TP 17 .BR CPU_ALLOC () Allocate a CPU set large enough to hold CPUs in the range 0 to .IR num_cpus-1 . .TP .BR CPU_ALLOC_SIZE () Return the size in bytes of the CPU set that would be needed to hold CPUs in the range 0 to .IR num_cpus-1 . .\" FIXME . track this bug .\" Currently (glibc 2.8), CPU_ALLOC_SIZE() returns double the .\" value that it should. This also causes CPU_ALLOC() to allocate .\" twice as much memory as is required. .\" http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7029 .\" Eventually, write this up in BUGS. This macro provides the value that can be used for .I setsize in the .BR CPU_*_S () macros described below. .TP .BR CPU_FREE () Free a CPU set previously allocated by .BR CPU_ALLOC (). .PP The macros whose names end with "_S" are the analogs of the similarly named macros without the suffix. These macros perform the same tasks as their analogs, but operate on the dynamically allocated CPU set(s) whose size is .I setsize bytes. .SH "RETURN VALUE" .BR CPU_ISSET () and .BR CPU_ISSET_S () return non-zero if .I cpu is in .IR set ; otherwise, it returns 0. .BR CPU_COUNT () and .BR CPU_COUNT_S () return the number of CPUs in .IR set . .BR CPU_EQUAL () and .BR CPU_EQUAL_S () return non-zero if the two CPU sets are equal; otherwise it returns 0. .BR CPU_ALLOC () returns a pointer on success, or NULL on failure. (Errors are as for .BR malloc (3).) .BR CPU_ALLOC_SIZE () returns the number of bytes required to store a CPU set of the specified cardinality. The other functions do not return a value. .SH VERSIONS The .BR CPU_ZERO (), .BR CPU_SET (), .BR CPU_CLR (), and .BR CPU_ISSET () macros were added in glibc 2.3.3. .BR CPU_COUNT () first appeared in glibc 2.6. .BR CPU_AND (), .BR CPU_OR (), .BR CPU_XOR (), .BR CPU_EQUAL (), .BR CPU_ALLOC (), .BR CPU_ALLOC_SIZE (), .BR CPU_FREE (), .BR CPU_ZERO_S (), .BR CPU_SET_S (), .BR CPU_CLR_S (), .BR CPU_ISSET_S (), .BR CPU_AND_S (), .BR CPU_OR_S (), .BR CPU_XOR_S (), and .BR CPU_EQUAL_S () first appeared in glibc 2.7. .SH "CONFORMING TO" These interfaces are Linux-specific. .SH EXAMPLE The following program demonstrates the use of some of the macros used for dynamically allocated CPU sets. .nf #define _GNU_SOURCE #include <sched.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <assert.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { cpu_set_t *cpusetp; size_t size; int num_cpus, cpu; if (argc < 2) { fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <num\-cpus>\\n", argv[0]); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } num_cpus = atoi(argv[1]); cpusetp = CPU_ALLOC(num_cpus); if (cpusetp == NULL) { perror("CPU_ALLOC"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } size = CPU_ALLOC_SIZE(num_cpus); CPU_ZERO_S(size, cpusetp); for (cpu = 0; cpu < num_cpus; cpu += 2) CPU_SET_S(cpu, size, cpusetp); printf("CPU_COUNT() of set: %d\\n", CPU_COUNT_S(size, cpusetp)); CPU_FREE(cpusetp); exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } .fi .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR sched_setaffinity (2), .BR pthread_attr_setaffinity_np (3), .BR pthread_setaffinity_np (3), .BR cpuset (7) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
