From 4200efd9acda4accf24640f1e77d24fdcdb524df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 09:22:19 +0200 Subject: sched: properly define the sched_group::cpumask and sched_domain::span fields Properly document the variable-size structure tricks we are doing wrt. struct sched_group and sched_domain, and use the field[0] GCC extension instead of defining a vla array. Dont use unions for this, as pointed out by Linus. [ Impact: cleanup, un-confuse Sparse and LLVM ] Reported-by: Jeff Garzik Acked-by: Linus Torvalds LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- include/linux/sched.h | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/sched.h') diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h index de7b3b217772..dbb1043e8656 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched.h +++ b/include/linux/sched.h @@ -839,7 +839,17 @@ struct sched_group { */ u32 reciprocal_cpu_power; - unsigned long cpumask[]; + /* + * The CPUs this group covers. + * + * NOTE: this field is variable length. (Allocated dynamically + * by attaching extra space to the end of the structure, + * depending on how many CPUs the kernel has booted up with) + * + * It is also be embedded into static data structures at build + * time. (See 'struct static_sched_group' in kernel/sched.c) + */ + unsigned long cpumask[0]; }; static inline struct cpumask *sched_group_cpus(struct sched_group *sg) @@ -925,8 +935,17 @@ struct sched_domain { char *name; #endif - /* span of all CPUs in this domain */ - unsigned long span[]; + /* + * Span of all CPUs in this domain. + * + * NOTE: this field is variable length. (Allocated dynamically + * by attaching extra space to the end of the structure, + * depending on how many CPUs the kernel has booted up with) + * + * It is also be embedded into static data structures at build + * time. (See 'struct static_sched_domain' in kernel/sched.c) + */ + unsigned long span[0]; }; static inline struct cpumask *sched_domain_span(struct sched_domain *sd) -- cgit v1.2.3