From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@port70.net>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [musl] Re: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) broken.
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2022 19:58:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220727175859.GC1320090@port70.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48546934-5ccd-0b1e-bf2b-306133101c6b@landley.net>
* Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> [2022-07-27 01:34:41 -0500]:
> On 7/27/22 01:28, Rob Landley wrote:
> > NPROCESSORS_CONF is supposed to show total processors, NPROCESSORS_ONLN shows
> > available processors using the tasket mask sched_getaffinity()).
> >
> > Musl is (uniquely) using the getaffinity() version for both. Neither glibc nor
> > bionic have that bug.
> >
> > Test: my laptop has 4 processors:
> >
> > $ taskset 7 nproc
> > 3
> > $ taskset 7 nproc --all
> > 4
> >
> > With musl, both show 3.
>
> P.S. According to strace, devuan's nprocs --all is reading sysfs:
>
> openat(AT_FDCWD, "/sys/devices/system/cpu",
> O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_CLOEXEC|O_DIRECTORY) = 3
> fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
> getdents64(3, /* 22 entries */, 32768) = 656
> getdents64(3, /* 0 entries */, 32768) = 0
>
> At a guess, counting the cpu[0-9]* entries? I looked at bionic's source and it
> had a comment that x86 can use /proc/cpuinfo but arm only shows "available"
> processors there, not total processors...
i think the most recent thread on the topic:
https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2021/07/06/2
an older discussion is at
https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2019/03/15/5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-27 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-27 6:28 [musl] " Rob Landley
2022-07-27 6:34 ` [musl] " Rob Landley
2022-07-27 17:58 ` Szabolcs Nagy [this message]
2022-07-27 21:29 ` Jonathan Rajotte-Julien
2022-07-28 17:27 ` enh
2022-07-29 18:42 ` enh
2022-07-29 18:53 ` NRK
2022-07-29 19:39 ` enh
2022-07-27 18:05 ` enh
2022-07-27 23:06 ` [musl] dynamic linker is capturing "reserved" library names erroneously Christopher Sean Morrison
2022-07-28 9:18 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2022-07-28 20:39 ` Christopher Sean Morrison
2022-07-29 0:07 ` Rich Felker
2022-07-29 6:19 ` Christopher Sean Morrison
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