sched: Remove relyance on STRUCT_ALIGNMENT

Florian reported that all of kernel/sched/ is rebuild when
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD is changed, which, while not a bug is
unexpected. This is due to us including vmlinux.lds.h.

Jakub explained that the problem is that we put the alignment
requirement on the type instead of on a variable. Type alignment is a
minimum, the compiler is free to pick any larger alignment for a
specific instance of the type (eg. the variable).

So force the type alignment on all individual variable definitions and
remove the undesired dependency on vmlinux.lds.h.

Fixes: 85c2ce9104eb ("sched, vmlinux.lds: Increase STRUCT_ALIGNMENT to 64 bytes for GCC-4.9")
Reported-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 965b2968c13a..3e45055efbc5 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@
 #include <linux/tsacct_kern.h>
 
 #include <asm/tlb.h>
-#include <asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h>
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PARAVIRT
 # include <asm/paravirt.h>
@@ -1836,7 +1835,7 @@ struct sched_class {
 #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
 	void (*task_change_group)(struct task_struct *p, int type);
 #endif
-} __aligned(STRUCT_ALIGNMENT); /* STRUCT_ALIGN(), vmlinux.lds.h */
+};
 
 static inline void put_prev_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev)
 {
@@ -1850,6 +1849,20 @@ static inline void set_next_task(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *next)
 	next->sched_class->set_next_task(rq, next, false);
 }
 
+
+/*
+ * Helper to define a sched_class instance; each one is placed in a separate
+ * section which is ordered by the linker script:
+ *
+ *   include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h
+ *
+ * Also enforce alignment on the instance, not the type, to guarantee layout.
+ */
+#define DEFINE_SCHED_CLASS(name) \
+const struct sched_class name##_sched_class \
+	__aligned(__alignof__(struct sched_class)) \
+	__section("__" #name "_sched_class")
+
 /* Defined in include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h */
 extern struct sched_class __begin_sched_classes[];
 extern struct sched_class __end_sched_classes[];