Re: [PATCH v1] cgroup: drop preemption_disabled checking

["Jiayuan Chen" <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>]

November 19, 2025 at 23:59, "Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org mailto:tj@kernel.org?to=%22Tejun%20Heo%22%20%3Ctj%40kernel.org%3E > wrote:


> 
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 07:14:01PM +0800, Jiayuan Chen wrote:
> 
> > 
> > BPF programs do not disable preemption, they only disable migration.
> >  Therefore, when running the cgroup_hierarchical_stats selftest, a
> >  warning [1] is generated.
> >  
> >  The css_rstat_updated() function is lockless and reentrant, so checking
> >  for disabled preemption is unnecessary (please correct me if I'm wrong).
> > 
> While it won't crash the kernel to schedule while running the function,
> there are timing considerations here. If the thread which wins the lnode
> competition gets scheduled out, there can be significant unexpected delays
> for others that lost against it. Maybe just update the caller to disable
> preemption?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- 
> tejun
>

Since css_rstat_updated() can be called from BPF where preemption is not
disabled by its framework, we can simply add preempt_disable()/preempt_enable()
around the call, like this:

void css_rstat_updated()
{
    preempt_disable();
    __css_rstat_updated();
    preempt_enable();
}