Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched/deadline: Don't return invalid cpu in cpudl_maximum_cpu()

From: Byungchul Park
Date: Tue Jun 06 2017 - 19:42:40 EST


On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 04:12:25PM +0100, Juri Lelli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 02/06/17 16:31, Byungchul Park wrote:
> > When the heap tree is empty, cp->elements[0].cpu has meaningless value.

Hi,

The meaningless value is 0.

> > We need to consider the case.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c | 3 ++-
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c b/kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c
> > index d4a6963..9b314a9 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c
> > @@ -110,7 +110,8 @@ static void cpudl_heapify(struct cpudl *cp, int idx)
> >
> > static inline int cpudl_maximum_cpu(struct cpudl *cp)
> > {
> > - return cp->elements[0].cpu;
> > + int cpu = cp->elements[0].cpu;
> > + return cp->elements[cpu].idx == IDX_INVALID ? -1 : cpu;
>
> Mmm, don't we get a WARN from cpumask_check() if we return -1 here?

The function does not return -1 without my patch.

Right?

>
> Thanks,
>
> - Juri