workqueue: Add workqueue_unbound_exclude_cpumask() to exclude CPUs from wq_unbound_cpumask
When the "isolcpus" boot command line option is used to add a set of isolated CPUs, those CPUs will be excluded automatically from wq_unbound_cpumask to avoid running work functions from unbound workqueues. Recently cpuset has been extended to allow the creation of partitions of isolated CPUs dynamically. To make it closer to the "isolcpus" in functionality, the CPUs in those isolated cpuset partitions should be excluded from wq_unbound_cpumask as well. This can be done currently by explicitly writing to the workqueue's cpumask sysfs file after creating the isolated partitions. However, this process can be error prone. Ideally, the cpuset code should be allowed to request the workqueue code to exclude those isolated CPUs from wq_unbound_cpumask so that this operation can be done automatically and the isolated CPUs will be returned back to wq_unbound_cpumask after the destructions of the isolated cpuset partitions. This patch adds a new workqueue_unbound_exclude_cpumask() function to enable that. This new function will exclude the specified isolated CPUs from wq_unbound_cpumask. To be able to restore those isolated CPUs back after the destruction of isolated cpuset partitions, a new wq_requested_unbound_cpumask is added to store the user provided unbound cpumask either from the boot command line options or from writing to the cpumask sysfs file. This new cpumask provides the basis for CPU exclusion. To enable users to understand how the wq_unbound_cpumask is being modified internally, this patch also exposes the newly introduced wq_requested_unbound_cpumask as well as a wq_isolated_cpumask to store the cpumask to be excluded from wq_unbound_cpumask as read-only sysfs files. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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