Add initial symmetric multi-processing (SMP) support to UML. With
this support enabled, users can tell UML to start multiple virtual
processors, each represented as a separate host thread.
In UML, kthreads and normal threads (when running in kernel mode)
can be scheduled and executed simultaneously on different virtual
processors. However, the userspace code of normal threads still
runs within their respective single-threaded stubs.
That is, SMP support is currently available both within the kernel
and across different processes, but still remains limited within
threads of the same process in userspace.
Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.btw@antgroup.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027001815.1666872-6-tiwei.bie@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This selects the THREAD_INFO_IN_TASK option for UM and changes the way
that the current task is discovered. This is trivial though, as UML
already tracks the current task in cpu_tasks[] and this can be used to
retrieve it.
Also remove the signal handler code that copies the thread information
into the IRQ stack. It is obsolete now, which also means that the
mentioned race condition cannot happen anymore.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Hajime Tazaki <thehajime@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241111102910.46512-1-benjamin@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
