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authorAaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>2025-10-10 21:28:53 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2025-11-26 15:20:51 +0100
commitcd22926af45400093738c758b6749de8035ed5a8 (patch)
tree12edfbf74edaf0886e7e14ffc39f6568a1c9aece /drivers/base
parentf10c23fa159c5481dfe0025e619dc5ef844f6ce1 (diff)
tick/nohz: Expose housekeeping CPUs in sysfs
Expose the current system-defined list of housekeeping CPUs in a new sysfs file: /sys/devices/system/cpu/housekeeping. This provides userspace performance tuning tools and resource managers with a canonical, reliable method to accurately identify the cores responsible for essential kernel maintenance workloads (RCU, timer callbacks, and unbound workqueues). Currently, tooling must manually calculate the housekeeping set by parsing complex kernel boot parameters (like isolcpus= and nohz_full=) and system topology, which is prone to error. This dedicated file simplifies the configuration of low-latency workloads. Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251011012853.7539-2-atomlin@atomlin.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/cpu.c14
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/cpu.c b/drivers/base/cpu.c
index e3cb47eae982..c6c57b6f61c6 100644
--- a/drivers/base/cpu.c
+++ b/drivers/base/cpu.c
@@ -300,6 +300,19 @@ static ssize_t print_cpus_isolated(struct device *dev,
}
static DEVICE_ATTR(isolated, 0444, print_cpus_isolated, NULL);
+static ssize_t housekeeping_show(struct device *dev,
+ struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+ const struct cpumask *hk_mask;
+
+ hk_mask = housekeeping_cpumask(HK_TYPE_KERNEL_NOISE);
+
+ if (housekeeping_enabled(HK_TYPE_KERNEL_NOISE))
+ return sysfs_emit(buf, "%*pbl\n", cpumask_pr_args(hk_mask));
+ return sysfs_emit(buf, "\n");
+}
+static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(housekeeping);
+
#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
static ssize_t nohz_full_show(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr,
@@ -509,6 +522,7 @@ static struct attribute *cpu_root_attrs[] = {
&dev_attr_offline.attr,
&dev_attr_enabled.attr,
&dev_attr_isolated.attr,
+ &dev_attr_housekeeping.attr,
#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
&dev_attr_nohz_full.attr,
#endif