Re: small migration thread fix

William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Fri, 10 Jan 2003 05:11:00 -0800


On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:46:03PM +0100, Erich Focht wrote:
> the small patch fixes a potential problem in the migration thread for
> the case that the first CPU in the cpus_allowed mask of a process is
> offline. Please consider applying it to your trees.

I'm not mingo, but I can say this looks sane. My only question is
whether there are more codepaths that need this kind of check, for
instance, what happens if someone does set_cpus_allowed() to a cpumask
with !(task->cpumask & cpu_online_map) ?

Thanks,
Bill
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