sched/isolcpus: Output warning when the 'isolcpus=' kernel parameter …

…is invalid

The isolcpus= kernel boot parameter restricts userspace from scheduling on
the specified CPUs.

If a CPU is specified that is outside the range of 0 to nr_cpu_ids,
cpulist_parse() will return -ERANGE, return an empty cpulist, and
fail silently.

This patch adds an error message to isolated_cpu_setup() to indicate to
the user that something has gone awry, and returns 0 on error.

Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
[ Twiddled some details. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>

kernel/sched/core.c

@@ -6173,11 +6173,16 @@ cpu_attach_domain(struct sched_domain *sd, struct root_domain *rd, int cpu)
 /* Setup the mask of cpus configured for isolated domains */
 static int __init isolated_cpu_setup(char *str)
 {
+	int ret;
+
 	alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(&cpu_isolated_map);
-	cpulist_parse(str, cpu_isolated_map);
+	ret = cpulist_parse(str, cpu_isolated_map);
+	if (ret) {
+		pr_err("sched: Error, all isolcpus= values must be between 0 and %d\n", nr_cpu_ids);
+		return 0;
+	}
 	return 1;
 }
-
 __setup("isolcpus=", isolated_cpu_setup);
 
 struct s_data {