Commit 59f30abe authored Apr 24, 2015 by Rik van Riel Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman May 20, 2015

show isolated cpus in sysfs



After system bootup, there is no totally reliable way to see
which CPUs are isolated, because the kernel may modify the
CPUs specified on the isolcpus= kernel command line option.

Export the CPU list that actually got isolated in sysfs,
specifically in the file /sys/devices/system/cpu/isolated

This can be used by system management tools like libvirt,
openstack, and others to ensure proper placement of tasks.

Suggested-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

parent e2608180

drivers/base/cpu.c

+12 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -265,6 +265,17 @@ static ssize_t print_cpus_offline(struct device *dev,
		}
		static DEVICE_ATTR(offline, 0444, print_cpus_offline, NULL);

		static ssize_t print_cpus_isolated(struct device *dev,
		struct device_attribute attr, char buf)
		{
		int n = 0, len = PAGE_SIZE-2;

		n = scnprintf(buf, len, "%*pbl\n", cpumask_pr_args(cpu_isolated_map));

		return n;
		}
		static DEVICE_ATTR(isolated, 0444, print_cpus_isolated, NULL);

		static void cpu_device_release(struct device *dev)
		{
		/*
		@@ -431,6 +442,7 @@ static struct attribute *cpu_root_attrs[] = {
		&cpu_attrs[2].attr.attr,
		&dev_attr_kernel_max.attr,
		&dev_attr_offline.attr,
		&dev_attr_isolated.attr,
		#ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE
		&dev_attr_modalias.attr,
		#endif

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