In the context of CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, tick_nohz_full_mask (of type
cpumask_var_t) is initialised to 0. Memory is only allocated to the cpumask
data structure, in tick_nohz_full_setup(), when Linux kernel boot-time
parameter "nohz_full=" is correctly specified (see housekeeping_setup()).
If "nohz_full=" is not set and an attempt is made to read
/sys/devices/system/cpu/nohz_full, '(null)' can be displayed:
❯ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/nohz_full
(null)
This patch changes the output to print a newline (or 0x0A) instead of
'(null)', making it consistent with print_cpus_isolated() behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
---
drivers/base/cpu.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/cpu.c b/drivers/base/cpu.c
index c792ec66462d..e3cb47eae982 100644
--- a/drivers/base/cpu.c
+++ b/drivers/base/cpu.c
@@ -305,7 +305,10 @@ static ssize_t nohz_full_show(struct device *dev,
struct device_attribute *attr,
char *buf)
{
- return sysfs_emit(buf, "%*pbl\n", cpumask_pr_args(tick_nohz_full_mask));
+ if (cpumask_available(tick_nohz_full_mask))
+ return sysfs_emit(buf, "%*pbl\n",
+ cpumask_pr_args(tick_nohz_full_mask));
+ return sysfs_emit(buf, "\n");
}
static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(nohz_full);
#endif
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2.49.0