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author | Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> | 2020-04-03 18:35:17 -0400 |
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committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2020-04-15 10:38:26 +0200 |
commit | 3662daf023500dc084fa3b96f68a6f46179ddc73 (patch) | |
tree | 06cf6888d3cf6482dc942ba50d6e6cf44bd4079d /kernel/sched/membarrier.c | |
parent | 8f3d9f354286745c751374f5f1fcafee6b3f3136 (diff) |
sched/isolation: Allow "isolcpus=" to skip unknown sub-parameters
The "isolcpus=" parameter allows sub-parameters before the cpulist is
specified, and if the parser detects an unknown sub-parameters the whole
parameter will be ignored.
This design is incompatible with itself when new sub-parameters are added.
An older kernel will not recognize the new sub-parameter and will
invalidate the whole parameter so the CPU isolation will not take
effect. It emits a warning:
isolcpus: Error, unknown flag
The better and compatible way is to allow "isolcpus=" to skip unknown
sub-parameters, so that even if new sub-parameters are added an older
kernel will still be able to behave as usual even if with the new
sub-parameter specified on the command line.
Ideally this should have been there when the first sub-parameter for
"isolcpus=" was introduced.
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200403223517.406353-1-peterx@redhat.com
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