From: Chris Metcalf <cmetc...@ezchip.com>

This change allows some cores to be excluded from running the
smp_hotplug_thread tasks.  The motivating example for this is
the watchdog threads, which by default we don't want to run
on any enabled nohz_full cores.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetc...@ezchip.com>
---
 include/linux/smpboot.h |  2 ++
 kernel/smpboot.c        | 11 ++++++++---
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/smpboot.h b/include/linux/smpboot.h
index d600afb21926..de2f64a98108 100644
--- a/include/linux/smpboot.h
+++ b/include/linux/smpboot.h
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ struct smpboot_thread_data;
  * @pre_unpark:                Optional unpark function, called before the 
thread is
  *                     unparked (cpu online). This is not guaranteed to be
  *                     called on the target cpu of the thread. Careful!
+ * @exclude_mask:      Optional cpumask, specifying cores to exclude.
  * @selfparking:       Thread is not parked by the park function.
  * @thread_comm:       The base name of the thread
  */
@@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ struct smp_hotplug_thread {
        void                            (*park)(unsigned int cpu);
        void                            (*unpark)(unsigned int cpu);
        void                            (*pre_unpark)(unsigned int cpu);
+       cpumask_t                       *exclude_mask;
        bool                            selfparking;
        const char                      *thread_comm;
 };
diff --git a/kernel/smpboot.c b/kernel/smpboot.c
index c697f73d82d6..8adff4f817fc 100644
--- a/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -173,6 +173,9 @@ __smpboot_create_thread(struct smp_hotplug_thread *ht, 
unsigned int cpu)
        if (tsk)
                return 0;
 
+       if (ht->exclude_mask && cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, ht->exclude_mask))
+               return 0;
+
        td = kzalloc_node(sizeof(*td), GFP_KERNEL, cpu_to_node(cpu));
        if (!td)
                return -ENOMEM;
@@ -221,9 +224,11 @@ static void smpboot_unpark_thread(struct 
smp_hotplug_thread *ht, unsigned int cp
 {
        struct task_struct *tsk = *per_cpu_ptr(ht->store, cpu);
 
-       if (ht->pre_unpark)
-               ht->pre_unpark(cpu);
-       kthread_unpark(tsk);
+       if (tsk) {
+               if (ht->pre_unpark)
+                       ht->pre_unpark(cpu);
+               kthread_unpark(tsk);
+       }
 }
 
 void smpboot_unpark_threads(unsigned int cpu)
-- 
2.1.2

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