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Commit a41b7445 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge tag 'kernel.sys.v5.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux

Pull prctl updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the missing prctl uapi pieces for PR_SCHED_CORE.

  In order to activate core scheduling the caller is expected to specify
  the scope of the new core scheduling domain.

  For example, passing 2 in the 4th argument of

     prctl(PR_SCHED_CORE, PR_SCHED_CORE_CREATE, <pid>,  2, 0);

  would indicate that the new core scheduling domain encompasses all
  tasks in the process group of <pid>. Specifying 0 would only create a
  core scheduling domain for the thread identified by <pid> and 2 would
  encompass the whole thread-group of <pid>.

  Note, the values 0, 1, and 2 correspond to PIDTYPE_PID, PIDTYPE_TGID,
  and PIDTYPE_PGID. A first version tried to expose those values
  directly to which I objected because:

   - PIDTYPE_* is an enum that is kernel internal which we should not
     expose to userspace directly.

   - PIDTYPE_* indicates what a given stru...
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