sched: fix a bug in sched domain degenerate
authorLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Thu, 6 Nov 2008 01:45:16 +0000 (09:45 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sat, 13 Dec 2008 23:29:30 +0000 (15:29 -0800)
commit1c03c0828f200dfde456836fe69febb72979b5c7
tree821bb7b5c30e60cda866bc93cfc02eb9b341f738
parent8695c0e41ee6fcfce99b7335565d6b1a2e2fbda8
sched: fix a bug in sched domain degenerate

commit f29c9b1ccb52904ee442a933cf3dee628f9f4e62 upstream.

Impact: re-add incorrectly eliminated sched domain layers

(1) on i386 with SCHED_SMT and SCHED_MC enabled
# mount -t cgroup -o cpuset xxx /mnt
# echo 0 > /mnt/cpuset.sched_load_balance
# mkdir /mnt/0
# echo 0 > /mnt/0/cpuset.cpus
# dmesg
CPU0 attaching sched-domain:
 domain 0: span 0 level CPU
  groups: 0

(2) on i386 with SCHED_MC enabled but SCHED_SMT disabled
# same with (1)
# dmesg
CPU0 attaching NULL sched-domain.

The bug is that some sched domains may be skipped unintentionally when
degenerating (optimizing) sched domains.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
kernel/sched.c