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[RFC] kthread_create_on_node is failing to honor the node choice

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  [RFC] kthread_create_on_node is failing to honor the node choice Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com> - 2015-06-25 23:50 +0200

#1172475 — [RFC] kthread_create_on_node is failing to honor the node choice

In kthread_create_on_node we set_cpus_allowed to cpu_all_mask
regardless of what the node is requested.
This seems incorrect.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

---
 kernel/kthread.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 10e489c..d885d66 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -318,7 +318,10 @@ struct task_struct *kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
 		 * The kernel thread should not inherit these properties.
 		 */
 		sched_setscheduler_nocheck(task, SCHED_NORMAL, &param);
-		set_cpus_allowed_ptr(task, cpu_all_mask);
+		if (node == -1)
+			set_cpus_allowed_ptr(task, cpu_all_mask);
+		else
+			set_cpus_allowed_ptr(task, cpumask_of_node(node));
 	}
 	kfree(create);
 	return task;
-- 
1.8.2.1

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