sched/isolation: Allow "isolcpus=" to skip unknown sub-parameters
authorPeter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Fri, 3 Apr 2020 22:35:17 +0000 (18:35 -0400)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 15 Apr 2020 08:38:26 +0000 (10:38 +0200)
commit3662daf023500dc084fa3b96f68a6f46179ddc73
tree06cf6888d3cf6482dc942ba50d6e6cf44bd4079d
parent8f3d9f354286745c751374f5f1fcafee6b3f3136
sched/isolation: Allow "isolcpus=" to skip unknown sub-parameters

The "isolcpus=" parameter allows sub-parameters before the cpulist is
specified, and if the parser detects an unknown sub-parameters the whole
parameter will be ignored.

This design is incompatible with itself when new sub-parameters are added.
An older kernel will not recognize the new sub-parameter and will
invalidate the whole parameter so the CPU isolation will not take
effect. It emits a warning:

    isolcpus: Error, unknown flag

The better and compatible way is to allow "isolcpus=" to skip unknown
sub-parameters, so that even if new sub-parameters are added an older
kernel will still be able to behave as usual even if with the new
sub-parameter specified on the command line.

Ideally this should have been there when the first sub-parameter for
"isolcpus=" was introduced.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200403223517.406353-1-peterx@redhat.com
kernel/sched/isolation.c