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Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:01:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jlelli-thinkpadt14gen4.remote.csb ([151.29.133.86]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-493b8d0afacsm79749845e9.12.2026.06.30.07.01.14 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:01:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:01:13 +0200 From: Juri Lelli To: Waiman Long Cc: Ridong Chen , Tejun Heo , Johannes Weiner , Michal =?iso-8859-1?Q?Koutn=FD?= , Shuah Khan , cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, Aaron Tomlin , Guopeng Zhang Subject: Re: [PATCH-next v9 01/11] cgroup/cpuset: Make nr_deadline_tasks an atomic_t Message-ID: References: <20260630033344.352702-1-longman@redhat.com> <20260630033344.352702-2-longman@redhat.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260630033344.352702-2-longman@redhat.com> Hi Waiman, On 29/06/26 23:33, Waiman Long wrote: > The nr_deadline_tasks variable in the cpuset structure was introduced by > commit 6c24849f5515 ("sched/cpuset: Keep track of SCHED_DEADLINE task > in cpusets"). It is reported by sashiko [1] that nr_deadline_tasks > can currently be modified by inc_dl_tasks_cs() under rq->lock and > by cpuset_attach() under cpuset_mutex. So if both updates happen > simultaneously, the nr_deadline_tasks variable can be corrupted leading > to incorrect operations down the road. > > Fix that by changing its type to atomic_t so that nr_deadline_tasks are > always atomically updated. > > [1] https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260626181923.133658-1-longman%40redhat.comk > > Fixes: 6c24849f5515 ("sched/cpuset: Keep track of SCHED_DEADLINE task in cpusets") > Signed-off-by: Waiman Long > --- Looks like Sashiko is yet not completely happy with this: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260630033344.352702-1-longman%40redhat.com I actually wondered the same and couldn't convince myself we don't actually have that problem with the window between sched_setscheduler() and cpuset_attach(). If issue is confirmed, not sure if wait_attach_ done_lock() could help here as well? It's kind of a big lock for the scheduler, but maybe only affecting DEADLINE tasks and if migrations are ongoing. Thanks, Juri