Re: [PATCH 3/6] sched: prctl() cookie manipulation for core scheduling.

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Sat Mar 20 2021 - 11:53:37 EST


On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 04:32:50PM -0400, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:

> include/linux/sched.h | 7 ++
> include/linux/sched/task.h | 4 +-
> include/uapi/linux/prctl.h | 7 ++
> kernel/sched/core.c | 11 +-
> kernel/sched/coretag.c | 197 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> kernel/sched/sched.h | 2 +
> kernel/sys.c | 7 ++
> tools/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h | 7 ++
> 8 files changed, 230 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>

> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 2e3024a6f6e1..a62e8ad5ce58 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -4654,11 +4654,17 @@ unsigned long nr_iowait(void)
> * sched_exec - execve() is a valuable balancing opportunity, because at
> * this point the task has the smallest effective memory and cache footprint.
> */
> -void sched_exec(void)
> +int sched_exec(void)
> {
> struct task_struct *p = current;
> unsigned long flags;
> int dest_cpu;
> + int ret;
> +
> + /* this may change what tasks current can share a core with */
> + ret = sched_core_exec();
> + if (ret)
> + return ret;

Did the hunk for fs/exec.c go missing?