Re: [PATCH] cpuset: fix cpus_allowed mask for offline/online CPUs

[Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>]

>> On 2016/1/1 20:09, Chen Yu wrote:
>>> Commit be4c9dd7aee5 ("cpuset: enable onlined cpu/node in effective
>>> masks") leverages cpuset's cpus_allowed and its parent's
>>> effective_cpus to calculate the new_cpus by:
>>>
>>> cpumask_and(&new_cpus, cs->cpus_allowed,
>>> parent_cs(cs)->effective_cpus);
>>>
>>> However cpus_allowed will also be updated after the CPU is offline, in
>>> hotplug_update_tasks_legacy, so when the CPU is online again, it will
>>> use the old cpus_allowed mask to calculate the new_cpus, thus new_cpus
>>> will get incorrect value after each round of offline/online.
>>>
>>> This problem is found on ubuntu 15.10 with cpuset mounted:
>>>
>>> 1. echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online
>>> 2. echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online
>>> 3. cat /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/cpuset.cpus
>>>      0-3
>>> 4. cat /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset/user.slice/cpuset.cpus
>>>      0-1,3
>>> 5. taskset -c 2 ls
>>>      taskset: failed to set pid 0's affinity: Invalid argument
>>>
>>
>> This is the expected behavior...In legacy hierachy onlining an offlined cpu
>> won't restore cpuset configurations automatically.
> [Yu] Ah, I see, we were just a little confused with it before.
>   So if we want to online an offlined cpu in legacy hierarchy, we
> should not only echo 1 to 'online' sysfs, but also restore the mask manually?

Right. You have to take care of this by yourself.

> It seems that we should not rely on /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online,
> if cpuset has been mounted.