Re: [PATCH 1/3] kernel/sched: introduce vcpu preempted check interface

From: Boqun Feng
Date: Mon Jun 27 2016 - 10:01:44 EST


On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 01:41:28PM -0400, Pan Xinhui wrote:
> this supports to fix lock holder preempted issue which run as a guest
>
> for kernel users, we could use bool vcpu_is_preempted(int cpu) to detech
> if one vcpu is preempted or not.
>
> The default implementation is a macrodefined by false. So compiler can
> wrap it out if arch dose not support such vcpu pteempted check.
>
> archs can implement it by define arch_vcpu_is_preempted().
>
> Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/sched.h | 9 +++++++++
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
> index 6e42ada..dc0a9c3 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -3293,6 +3293,15 @@ static inline void set_task_cpu(struct task_struct *p, unsigned int cpu)
>
> #endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
>
> +#ifdef arch_vcpu_is_preempted
> +static inline bool vcpu_is_preempted(int cpu)
> +{
> + return arch_vcpu_is_preempted(cpu);
> +}
> +#else
> +#define vcpu_is_preempted(cpu) false
> +#endif
> +

I think you are missing Peter's comment here. We can

#ifndef vcpu_is_preempted
#define vcpu_is_preempted(cpu) fasle
#endif

And different archs implement their own versions of vcpu_is_preempted(),
IOW, no need for an arch_vcpu_is_preempted().

Regards,
Boqun

> extern long sched_setaffinity(pid_t pid, const struct cpumask *new_mask);
> extern long sched_getaffinity(pid_t pid, struct cpumask *mask);
>
> --
> 2.4.11
>

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