[PATCH] sched: force /sbin/init off isolated cpus
authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Tue, 3 Oct 2006 08:14:04 +0000 (01:14 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:04:06 +0000 (08:04 -0700)
commit5c1e176781f43bc902a51e5832f789756bff911b
treed28ad2b40830eec152d94030b2f75777f26dd869
parent2c136efcf6f58d07512c4df83eb494597fe0d229
[PATCH] sched: force /sbin/init off isolated cpus

Force /sbin/init off isolated cpus (unless every CPU is specified as an
isolcpu).

Users seem to think that the isolated CPUs shouldn't have much running on
them to begin with.  That's fair enough: intuitive, I guess.  It also means
that the cpu affinity masks of tasks will not include isolcpus by default,
which is also more intuitive, perhaps.

/sbin/init is spawned from the boot CPU's idle thread, and /sbin/init
starts the rest of userspace. So if the boot CPU is specified to be an
isolcpu, then prior to this patch, all of userspace will be run there.

(throw in a couple of plausible devinit -> cpuinit conversions I spotted
while we're here).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
kernel/sched.c