From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>,
Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>,
Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 22/33] kthread: Include unbound kthreads in the managed affinity list
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:48:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250829154814.47015-23-frederic@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250829154814.47015-1-frederic@kernel.org>
The managed affinity list currently contains only unbound kthreads that
have affinity preferences. Unbound kthreads globally affine by default
are outside of the list because their affinity is automatically managed
by the scheduler (through the fallback housekeeping mask) and by cpuset.
However in order to preserve the preferred affinity of kthreads, cpuset
will delegate the isolated partition update propagation to the
housekeeping and kthread code.
Prepare for that with including all unbound kthreads in the managed
affinity list.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
---
kernel/kthread.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index c4dd967e9e9c..cba3d297f267 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -365,9 +365,10 @@ static void kthread_fetch_affinity(struct kthread *kthread, struct cpumask *cpum
if (kthread->preferred_affinity) {
pref = kthread->preferred_affinity;
} else {
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(kthread->node == NUMA_NO_NODE))
- return;
- pref = cpumask_of_node(kthread->node);
+ if (kthread->node == NUMA_NO_NODE)
+ pref = housekeeping_cpumask(HK_TYPE_KTHREAD);
+ else
+ pref = cpumask_of_node(kthread->node);
}
cpumask_and(cpumask, pref, housekeeping_cpumask(HK_TYPE_KTHREAD));
@@ -380,32 +381,29 @@ static void kthread_affine_node(void)
struct kthread *kthread = to_kthread(current);
cpumask_var_t affinity;
- WARN_ON_ONCE(kthread_is_per_cpu(current));
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(kthread_is_per_cpu(current)))
+ return;
- if (kthread->node == NUMA_NO_NODE) {
- housekeeping_affine(current, HK_TYPE_KTHREAD);
- } else {
- if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&affinity, GFP_KERNEL)) {
- WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
- return;
- }
-
- mutex_lock(&kthread_affinity_lock);
- WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&kthread->affinity_node));
- list_add_tail(&kthread->affinity_node, &kthread_affinity_list);
- /*
- * The node cpumask is racy when read from kthread() but:
- * - a racing CPU going down will either fail on the subsequent
- * call to set_cpus_allowed_ptr() or be migrated to housekeepers
- * afterwards by the scheduler.
- * - a racing CPU going up will be handled by kthreads_online_cpu()
- */
- kthread_fetch_affinity(kthread, affinity);
- set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, affinity);
- mutex_unlock(&kthread_affinity_lock);
-
- free_cpumask_var(affinity);
+ if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&affinity, GFP_KERNEL)) {
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
+ return;
}
+
+ mutex_lock(&kthread_affinity_lock);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!list_empty(&kthread->affinity_node));
+ list_add_tail(&kthread->affinity_node, &kthread_affinity_list);
+ /*
+ * The node cpumask is racy when read from kthread() but:
+ * - a racing CPU going down will either fail on the subsequent
+ * call to set_cpus_allowed_ptr() or be migrated to housekeepers
+ * afterwards by the scheduler.
+ * - a racing CPU going up will be handled by kthreads_online_cpu()
+ */
+ kthread_fetch_affinity(kthread, affinity);
+ set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, affinity);
+ mutex_unlock(&kthread_affinity_lock);
+
+ free_cpumask_var(affinity);
}
static int kthread(void *_create)
@@ -924,8 +922,11 @@ static int kthreads_online_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
ret = -EINVAL;
continue;
}
- kthread_fetch_affinity(k, affinity);
- set_cpus_allowed_ptr(k->task, affinity);
+
+ if (k->preferred_affinity || k->node != NUMA_NO_NODE) {
+ kthread_fetch_affinity(k, affinity);
+ set_cpus_allowed_ptr(k->task, affinity);
+ }
}
free_cpumask_var(affinity);
--
2.51.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-29 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-29 15:47 [PATCH 00/33 v2] cpuset/isolation: Honour kthreads preferred affinity Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:47 ` [PATCH 01/33] sched/isolation: Remove housekeeping static key Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 21:34 ` Waiman Long
2025-09-18 12:04 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2025-09-01 10:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2025-09-18 13:18 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2025-09-11 20:57 ` Phil Auld
2025-08-29 15:47 ` [PATCH 02/33] PCI: Protect against concurrent change of housekeeping cpumask Frederic Weisbecker
[not found] ` <458c5db8-0c31-4c02-9c41-b7eca851d04a@redhat.com>
2025-09-18 14:00 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2025-09-22 21:51 ` Waiman Long
2025-09-23 9:07 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:47 ` [PATCH 03/33] cpu: Revert "cpu/hotplug: Prevent self deadlock on CPU hot-unplug" Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:47 ` [PATCH 04/33] memcg: Prepare to protect against concurrent isolated cpuset change Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:47 ` [PATCH 05/33] mm: vmstat: " Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:47 ` [PATCH 06/33] sched/isolation: Save boot defined domain flags Frederic Weisbecker
2025-09-11 21:02 ` Phil Auld
2025-08-29 15:47 ` [PATCH 07/33] cpuset: Convert boot_hk_cpus to use HK_TYPE_DOMAIN_BOOT Frederic Weisbecker
2025-09-11 21:03 ` Phil Auld
2025-08-29 15:47 ` [PATCH 08/33] driver core: cpu: Convert /sys/devices/system/cpu/isolated " Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:47 ` [PATCH 09/33] net: Keep ignoring isolated cpuset change Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:47 ` [PATCH 10/33] block: Protect against concurrent " Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:47 ` [PATCH 11/33] cpu: Provide lockdep check for CPU hotplug lock write-held Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:47 ` [PATCH 12/33] cpuset: Provide lockdep check for cpuset lock held Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:47 ` [PATCH 13/33] sched/isolation: Convert housekeeping cpumasks to rcu pointers Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:47 ` [PATCH 14/33] cpuset: Update HK_TYPE_DOMAIN cpumask from cpuset Frederic Weisbecker
2025-09-01 0:40 ` Waiman Long
2025-09-22 14:57 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:47 ` [PATCH 15/33] sched/isolation: Flush memcg workqueues on cpuset isolated partition change Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:47 ` [PATCH 16/33] sched/isolation: Flush vmstat " Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:47 ` [PATCH 17/33] cpuset: Propagate cpuset isolation update to workqueue through housekeeping Frederic Weisbecker
2025-09-01 2:51 ` Waiman Long
2025-09-22 15:10 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:47 ` [PATCH 18/33] cpuset: Remove cpuset_cpu_is_isolated() Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:48 ` [PATCH 19/33] sched/isolation: Remove HK_TYPE_TICK test from cpu_is_isolated() Frederic Weisbecker
2025-09-02 14:28 ` Waiman Long
2025-09-02 15:48 ` Waiman Long
2025-09-22 15:20 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2025-09-22 15:19 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2025-09-22 21:59 ` Waiman Long
2025-09-23 9:11 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:48 ` [PATCH 20/33] PCI: Remove superfluous HK_TYPE_WQ check Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:48 ` [PATCH 21/33] kthread: Refine naming of affinity related fields Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:48 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2025-08-29 15:48 ` [PATCH 23/33] kthread: Include kthreadd to the managed affinity list Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:48 ` [PATCH 24/33] kthread: Rely on HK_TYPE_DOMAIN for preferred affinity management Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:48 ` [PATCH 25/33] sched: Switch the fallback task allowed cpumask to HK_TYPE_DOMAIN Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:48 ` [PATCH 26/33] cgroup/cpuset: Fail if isolated and nohz_full don't leave any housekeeping Frederic Weisbecker
2025-09-02 15:44 ` Waiman Long
2025-09-23 9:17 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2025-09-23 9:24 ` Gabriele Monaco
2025-08-29 15:48 ` [PATCH 27/33] sched/arm64: Move fallback task cpumask to HK_TYPE_DOMAIN Frederic Weisbecker
2025-09-02 16:43 ` Waiman Long
2025-09-23 9:43 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:48 ` [PATCH 28/33] kthread: Honour kthreads preferred affinity after cpuset changes Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:48 ` [PATCH 29/33] kthread: Comment on the purpose and placement of kthread_affine_node() call Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:48 ` [PATCH 30/33] kthread: Add API to update preferred affinity on kthread runtime Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:48 ` [PATCH 31/33] kthread: Document kthread_affine_preferred() Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:48 ` [RFC PATCH 32/33] genirq: Correctly handle preferred kthreads affinity Frederic Weisbecker
2025-08-29 15:48 ` [PATCH 33/33] doc: Add housekeeping documentation Frederic Weisbecker
2025-09-02 19:12 ` [PATCH 00/33 v2] cpuset/isolation: Honour kthreads preferred affinity Waiman Long
2025-09-23 9:48 ` Frederic Weisbecker
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2025-10-13 20:31 [PATCH 00/33 v3] " Frederic Weisbecker
2025-10-13 20:31 ` [PATCH 22/33] kthread: Include unbound kthreads in the managed affinity list Frederic Weisbecker
2025-10-21 22:42 ` Waiman Long
2025-11-05 16:57 ` Frederic Weisbecker
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