[PATCH] set_cpus_allowed() for 2.4

[Christoph Hellwig]

now that all commercial vendors ship a backport of Ingo's O(1) scheduler
external projects like XFS have to track those projects in addition to the
mainline kernel.

Having the common new APIs available in mainline would be a very good thing
for those projects.  We already have a proper yield() in 2.4.20, but the
set_cpus_allowed() API as used e.g. for kernelthreads bound to CPUs is
still missing.

Any chance you could apply Robert Love's patch to add it for 2.4.21?  Note
that it does not change any existing code but just adds that interface.

diff -urN linux-2.4.20-pre8/include/linux/sched.h linux/include/linux/sched.h
--- linux-2.4.20-pre8/include/linux/sched.h	Mon Sep 30 17:41:22 2002
+++ linux/include/linux/sched.h	Tue Oct  1 18:35:28 2002
@@ -163,6 +164,12 @@
 extern int start_context_thread(void);
 extern int current_is_keventd(void);
 
+#if CONFIG_SMP
+extern void set_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long new_mask);
+#else
+# define set_cpus_allowed(p, new_mask) do { } while (0)
+#endif
+
 /*
  * The default fd array needs to be at least BITS_PER_LONG,
  * as this is the granularity returned by copy_fdset().
diff -urN linux-2.4.20-pre8/kernel/ksyms.c linux/kernel/ksyms.c
--- linux-2.4.20-pre8/kernel/ksyms.c	Mon Sep 30 17:41:22 2002
+++ linux/kernel/ksyms.c	Tue Oct  1 18:34:41 2002
@@ -451,6 +451,9 @@
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(interruptible_sleep_on_timeout);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(schedule);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(schedule_timeout);
+#if CONFIG_SMP
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(set_cpus_allowed);
+#endif
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(yield);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__cond_resched);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(jiffies);
diff -urN linux-2.4.20-pre8/kernel/sched.c linux/kernel/sched.c
--- linux-2.4.20-pre8/kernel/sched.c	Mon Sep 30 17:41:22 2002
+++ linux/kernel/sched.c	Tue Oct  1 18:54:49 2002
@@ -850,6 +850,46 @@
 
 void scheduling_functions_end_here(void) { }
 
+#if CONFIG_SMP
+
+/**
+ * set_cpus_allowed() - change a given task's processor affinity
+ * @p: task to bind
+ * @new_mask: bitmask of allowed processors
+ *
+ * Upon return, the task is running on a legal processor.  Note the caller
+ * must have a valid reference to the task: it must not exit() prematurely.
+ * This call can sleep; do not hold locks on call.
+ */
+void set_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *p, unsigned long new_mask)
+{
+	new_mask &= cpu_online_map;
+	BUG_ON(!new_mask);
+
+	p->cpus_allowed = new_mask;
+
+	/*
+	 * If the task is on a no-longer-allowed processor, we need to move
+	 * it.  If the task is not current, then set need_resched and send
+	 * its processor an IPI to reschedule.
+	 */
+	if (!(p->cpus_runnable & p->cpus_allowed)) {
+		if (p != current) {
+			p->need_resched = 1;
+			smp_send_reschedule(p->processor);
+		}
+		/*
+		 * Wait until we are on a legal processor.  If the task is
+		 * current, then we should be on a legal processor the next
+		 * time we reschedule.  Otherwise, we need to wait for the IPI.
+		 */
+		while (!(p->cpus_runnable & p->cpus_allowed))
+			schedule();
+	}
+}
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_SMP */
+
 #ifndef __alpha__
 
 /*