The following commit has been merged into the sched/core branch of tip: Commit-ID: 043eb8e1051143a24811e6f35c276e35ae8247b6 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/043eb8e1051143a24811e6f35c276e35ae8247b6 Author: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Wed, 27 May 2020 16:29:08 +02:00 Committer: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CommitterDate: Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:10:03 +02:00 kthread: Switch to cpu_possible_mask 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 <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200527142909.23372-2-frederic@xxxxxxxxxx --- kernel/kthread.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c index 8e3d2d7..b86d37c 100644 --- a/kernel/kthread.c +++ b/kernel/kthread.c @@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ 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; @@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ 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;