I know if we have task_struct, surly we can get the contained sched_entity because it's one field in the task struct. But can we get the pointer to the task_struct given the shed_entity? Following is the sched_entity structure:
struct sched_entity {
struct load_weight load; /* for load-balancing */
struct rb_node run_node;
struct list_head group_node;
unsigned int on_rq;
u64 exec_start;
u64 sum_exec_runtime;
u64 vruntime;
u64 prev_sum_exec_runtime;
u64 nr_migrations;
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS
struct sched_statistics statistics;
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
struct sched_entity *parent;
/* rq on which this entity is (to be) queued: */
struct cfs_rq *cfs_rq;
/* rq "owned" by this entity/group: */
struct cfs_rq *my_q;
#endif
};
It seems that there is no place where I can get the task_struct. My final goal is to get the sched_entity of the task group_leader containing the task with this shed_entity :>
The Linux kernel code provides a standard way to take a pointer to an element contained within a structure, and get back a pointer to the containing structure: the container_of
macro, which is used extensively throughout the kernel.
In this case, if you have a struct sched_entity *foo
, you can get the enclosing task_struct
with:
struct task_struct *task = container_of(foo, struct task_struct, se);
(Obviously this is only safe if you know for sure that the original struct sched_entity *
pointer is pointing to a struct sched_entity
which is inside a struct task_struct
, so be careful...)