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authorKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>2010-03-12 16:15:36 +0900
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-03-15 08:28:44 +0100
commitcd3d8031eb4311e516329aee03c79a08333141f1 (patch)
treeb01d378aa94300acdbeef84c01f81ef405505bb1 /kernel
parenta3d3203e4bb40f253b1541e310dc0f9305be7c84 (diff)
sched: sched_getaffinity(): Allow less than NR_CPUS length
[ Note, this commit changes the syscall ABI for > 1024 CPUs systems. ] Recently, some distro decided to use NR_CPUS=4096 for mysterious reasons. Unfortunately, glibc sched interface has the following definition: # define __CPU_SETSIZE 1024 # define __NCPUBITS (8 * sizeof (__cpu_mask)) typedef unsigned long int __cpu_mask; typedef struct { __cpu_mask __bits[__CPU_SETSIZE / __NCPUBITS]; } cpu_set_t; It mean, if NR_CPUS is bigger than 1024, cpu_set_t makes an ABI issue ... More recently, Sharyathi Nagesh reported following test program makes misterious syscall failure: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #define _GNU_SOURCE #include<stdio.h> #include<errno.h> #include<sched.h> int main() { cpu_set_t set; if (sched_getaffinity(0, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &set) < 0) printf("\n Call is failing with:%d", errno); } ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Because the kernel assumes len argument of sched_getaffinity() is bigger than NR_CPUS. But now it is not correct. Now we are faced with the following annoying dilemma, due to the limitations of the glibc interface built in years ago: (1) if we change glibc's __CPU_SETSIZE definition, we lost binary compatibility of _all_ application. (2) if we don't change it, we also lost binary compatibility of Sharyathi's use case. Then, I would propse to change the rule of the len argument of sched_getaffinity(). Old: len should be bigger than NR_CPUS New: len should be bigger than maximum possible cpu id This creates the following behavior: (A) In the real 4096 cpus machine, the above test program still return -EINVAL. (B) NR_CPUS=4096 but the machine have less than 1024 cpus (almost all machines in the world), the above can run successfully. Fortunatelly, BIG SGI machine is mainly used for HPC use case. It means they can rebuild their programs. IOW we hope they are not annoyed by this issue ... Reported-by: Sharyathi Nagesh <sharyath@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> LKML-Reference: <20100312161316.9520.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched.c10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c
index 9ab3cd7858d3..6eaef3df2d19 100644
--- a/kernel/sched.c
+++ b/kernel/sched.c
@@ -4902,7 +4902,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sched_getaffinity, pid_t, pid, unsigned int, len,
int ret;
cpumask_var_t mask;
- if (len < cpumask_size())
+ if (len < nr_cpu_ids)
+ return -EINVAL;
+ if (len & (sizeof(unsigned long)-1))
return -EINVAL;
if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&mask, GFP_KERNEL))
@@ -4910,10 +4912,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(sched_getaffinity, pid_t, pid, unsigned int, len,
ret = sched_getaffinity(pid, mask);
if (ret == 0) {
- if (copy_to_user(user_mask_ptr, mask, cpumask_size()))
+ int retlen = min(len, cpumask_size());
+
+ if (copy_to_user(user_mask_ptr, mask, retlen))
ret = -EFAULT;
else
- ret = cpumask_size();
+ ret = retlen;
}
free_cpumask_var(mask);