On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Jeff Squyres wrote:
Check out http://svn.open-mpi.org/svn/ompi/trunk/opal/mca/paffinity/
linux/paffinity_linux.h -- there's a big comment in that file about
the problem, to include descriptions of the 3 APIs.
I'm sorry, but that is not quite what I wrote about in my message. The
comments refer to the _glibc_ view of the functions, at least I
couldn't see how they map to my reading of the _kernel_ source code.
Let's take one that is specifically mentioned there: Mandrake 10.0,
kernel based on 2.6.3, in file kernel/sched.c there is the function:
/**
* sys_sched_setaffinity - set the cpu affinity of a process
* @pid: pid of the process
* @len: length in bytes of the bitmask pointed to by user_mask_ptr
* @user_mask_ptr: user-space pointer to the new cpu mask
*/
asmlinkage long sys_sched_setaffinity(pid_t pid, unsigned int len,
unsigned long __user *user_mask_ptr)
which again has 3 arguments that look exactly like the ones that I
mentioned previously. I don't have access to the source code of
the SGI Altix kernel, so I can't check the other one mentioned there
as a 2-args function. But so far all _kernel_ prototypes of the
function that I have looked at are exactly the same with 3 arguments.
The solution that I proposed works much like a statically linked
binary - it calls via a syscall the _kernel_ function that has a
constant (so far) prototype. It doesn't call the _glibc_ function that
changes prototype.
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