sched/core: Provide a pointer to the valid CPU mask

In commit:

  4b53a3412d66 ("sched/core: Remove the tsk_nr_cpus_allowed() wrapper")

the tsk_nr_cpus_allowed() wrapper was removed. There was not
much difference in !RT but in RT we used this to implement
migrate_disable(). Within a migrate_disable() section the CPU mask is
restricted to single CPU while the "normal" CPU mask remains untouched.

As an alternative implementation Ingo suggested to use:

	struct task_struct {
		const cpumask_t		*cpus_ptr;
		cpumask_t		cpus_mask;
        };
with
	t->cpus_ptr = &t->cpus_mask;

In -RT we then can switch the cpus_ptr to:

	t->cpus_ptr = &cpumask_of(task_cpu(p));

in a migration disabled region. The rules are simple:

 - Code that 'uses' ->cpus_allowed would use the pointer.
 - Code that 'modifies' ->cpus_allowed would use the direct mask.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190423142636.14347-1-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/switch_to.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/switch_to.h
index 0f813bb753c6..09cbe9042828 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/switch_to.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/switch_to.h
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ extern struct task_struct *ll_task;
  * inline to try to keep the overhead down. If we have been forced to run on
  * a "CPU" with an FPU because of a previous high level of FP computation,
  * but did not actually use the FPU during the most recent time-slice (CU1
- * isn't set), we undo the restriction on cpus_allowed.
+ * isn't set), we undo the restriction on cpus_mask.
  *
  * We're not calling set_cpus_allowed() here, because we have no need to
  * force prompt migration - we're already switching the current CPU to a
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ do {									\
 	    test_ti_thread_flag(__prev_ti, TIF_FPUBOUND) &&		\
 	    (!(KSTK_STATUS(prev) & ST0_CU1))) {				\
 		clear_ti_thread_flag(__prev_ti, TIF_FPUBOUND);		\
-		prev->cpus_allowed = prev->thread.user_cpus_allowed;	\
+		prev->cpus_mask = prev->thread.user_cpus_allowed;	\
 	}								\
 	next->thread.emulated_fp = 0;					\
 } while(0)