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Commit 9ae606bc authored by Will Deacon's avatar Will Deacon Committed by Peter Zijlstra
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sched: Introduce task_cpu_possible_mask() to limit fallback rq selection



Asymmetric systems may not offer the same level of userspace ISA support
across all CPUs, meaning that some applications cannot be executed by
some CPUs. As a concrete example, upcoming arm64 big.LITTLE designs do
not feature support for 32-bit applications on both clusters.

On such a system, we must take care not to migrate a task to an
unsupported CPU when forcefully moving tasks in select_fallback_rq()
in response to a CPU hot-unplug operation.

Introduce a task_cpu_possible_mask() hook which, given a task argument,
allows an architecture to return a cpumask of CPUs that are capable of
executing that task. The default implementation returns the
cpu_possible_mask, since sane machines do not suffer from per-cpu ISA
limitations that affect scheduling. The new mask is used when selecting
the fallback runqueue as a last resort before forcing a migration to the
first active CPU.

Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarValentin Schneider <Valentin.Schneider@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarQuentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730112443.23245-2-will@kernel.org
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