padata: Use the online cpumask as the default

We use the active cpumask to determine the superset of cpus to use for parallelization. However, the active cpumask is for internal usage of the scheduler and therefore not the appropriate cpumask for these purposes. So use the online cpumask instead. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
patjak · Mar 29, 2012 · 13614e0 · 13614e0
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commit 13614e0
Showing 1 changed file with 4 additions and 4 deletions.
diff --git a/kernel/padata.c b/kernel/padata.c
@@ -356,13 +356,13 @@ static int padata_setup_cpumasks(struct parallel_data *pd,
 	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&pd->cpumask.pcpu, GFP_KERNEL))
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	cpumask_and(pd->cpumask.pcpu, pcpumask, cpu_active_mask);
+	cpumask_and(pd->cpumask.pcpu, pcpumask, cpu_online_mask);
 	if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&pd->cpumask.cbcpu, GFP_KERNEL)) {
 		free_cpumask_var(pd->cpumask.cbcpu);
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
-	cpumask_and(pd->cpumask.cbcpu, cbcpumask, cpu_active_mask);
+	cpumask_and(pd->cpumask.cbcpu, cbcpumask, cpu_online_mask);
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(padata_unregister_cpumask_notifier);
 static bool padata_validate_cpumask(struct padata_instance *pinst,
 				    const struct cpumask *cpumask)
 {
-	if (!cpumask_intersects(cpumask, cpu_active_mask)) {
+	if (!cpumask_intersects(cpumask, cpu_online_mask)) {
 		pinst->flags |= PADATA_INVALID;
 		return false;
 	}
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ static int __padata_add_cpu(struct padata_instance *pinst, int cpu)
 {
 	struct parallel_data *pd;
 
-	if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, cpu_active_mask)) {
+	if (cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, cpu_online_mask)) {
 		pd = padata_alloc_pd(pinst, pinst->cpumask.pcpu,
 				     pinst->cpumask.cbcpu);
 		if (!pd)