sched: make implementing .alloc_pdata optional
The .alloc_pdata scheduler hook must, before this change,
be implemented by all schedulers --even those ones that
don't need to allocate anything.
Make it possible to just use the SCHED_OP(), like for
the other hooks, by using ERR_PTR() and IS_ERR() for
error reporting. This:
- makes NULL a variant of success;
- allows for errors other than ENOMEM to be properly
communicated (if ever necessary).
This, in turn, means that schedulers not needing to
allocate any per-pCPU data, can avoid implementing the
hook. In fact, the artificial implementation of
.alloc_pdata in the ARINC653 is removed (and, while there,
nuke .free_pdata too, as it is equally useless).
Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <dario.faggioli@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Meng Xu <mengxu@cis.upenn.edu>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Acked-by: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>