Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 3 authors, 2008-06-04

Re: [PATCH 2/2] sched: fix cpupri priocount

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: 2008-06-04 21:09:52
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On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 15:04 -0400, Gregory Haskins wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
A rounding error was pointed out by Peter Zijlstra which would result
in the structure holding priorities to be off by one.

Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <redacted>
CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
---

 kernel/sched_cpupri.h |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sched_cpupri.h b/kernel/sched_cpupri.h
index 16d29b9..817c55c 100644
--- a/kernel/sched_cpupri.h
+++ b/kernel/sched_cpupri.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 
 #define CPUPRI_NR_PRIORITIES 2+MAX_RT_PRIO
-#define CPUPRI_NR_PRI_WORDS CPUPRI_NR_PRIORITIES/BITS_PER_LONG
+#define CPUPRI_NR_PRI_WORDS (CPUPRI_NR_PRIORITIES + BITS_PER_LONG/2)/BITS_PER_LONG
(33 + 16) / 32 = 49 / 32 = 1

So its still wrong ;-)

Please use DECLARE_BITMAP and or BITS_TO_LONGS to avoid these issues.
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