Re: [PATCH 01/15] sched: make nr_running() return "unsigned int"

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Mon Apr 20 2020 - 17:06:04 EST


On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:57:29PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> I don't anyone have been crazy enough to spawn 2^32 threads.
> It'd require absurd amounts of physical memory, and bump into futex pid
> limit anyway.
>
> Meanwhile save few bits on REX prefixes and some stack space for upcoming
> print_integer() stuff.
>
> And remove "extern" from prototypes while I'm at it.

It seems like there's a few more places to fix in this regard?

kernel/sched/fair.c:static u64 __sched_period(unsigned long nr_running)
kernel/sched/sched.h: unsigned long dl_nr_running;
kernel/sched/core.c:unsigned long nr_iowait_cpu(int cpu)
kernel/sched/core.c:unsigned long nr_iowait(void)
kernel/sched/loadavg.c: long nr_active, delta = 0;
kernel/sched/sched.h: unsigned long rt_nr_migratory;
kernel/sched/sched.h: unsigned long rt_nr_total;
kernel/sched/sched.h: unsigned long rt_nr_boosted;
kernel/sched/sched.h: unsigned long dl_nr_running;
kernel/sched/sched.h: unsigned long dl_nr_migratory;
kernel/sched/sched.h: unsigned long nr_uninterruptible;