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authorPrarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>2016-02-04 09:38:00 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2016-02-05 08:46:38 +0100
commita6e4491c682a7b28574a62e6f311a0acec50b318 (patch)
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sched/isolcpus: Output warning when the 'isolcpus=' kernel parameter is invalid
The isolcpus= kernel boot parameter restricts userspace from scheduling on the specified CPUs. If a CPU is specified that is outside the range of 0 to nr_cpu_ids, cpulist_parse() will return -ERANGE, return an empty cpulist, and fail silently. This patch adds an error message to isolated_cpu_setup() to indicate to the user that something has gone awry, and returns 0 on error. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454596680-10367-1-git-send-email-prarit@redhat.com [ Twiddled some details. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/core.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 9503d590e5ef..24fcdbf28b18 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -6173,11 +6173,16 @@ cpu_attach_domain(struct sched_domain *sd, struct root_domain *rd, int cpu)
/* Setup the mask of cpus configured for isolated domains */
static int __init isolated_cpu_setup(char *str)
{
+ int ret;
+
alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(&cpu_isolated_map);
- cpulist_parse(str, cpu_isolated_map);
+ ret = cpulist_parse(str, cpu_isolated_map);
+ if (ret) {
+ pr_err("sched: Error, all isolcpus= values must be between 0 and %d\n", nr_cpu_ids);
+ return 0;
+ }
return 1;
}
-
__setup("isolcpus=", isolated_cpu_setup);
struct s_data {