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From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
To: "Chen Ridong" <chenridong@huaweicloud.com>,
	"Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>,
	"Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	"Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"Juri Lelli" <juri.lelli@redhat.com>,
	"Vincent Guittot" <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"Ben Segall" <bsegall@google.com>, "Mel Gorman" <mgorman@suse.de>,
	"Valentin Schneider" <vschneid@redhat.com>,
	"Anna-Maria Behnsen" <anna-maria@linutronix.de>,
	"Frederic Weisbecker" <frederic@kernel.org>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Shuah Khan" <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH/for-next v3 0/3] cgroup/cpuset: Fix partition related locking issues
Date: Mon,  2 Feb 2026 15:11:41 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260202201144.1669260-1-longman@redhat.com> (raw)

 v3:
  - Add a new patch to clarify the locking rules for internal variables
  - Defer all housekeeping_update() calls with associated
    rebuild_sched_domains*() calls to either workqueue or task_work.

 v2:
  - Change patch 1 to use workqueue instead of task run as it is a
    per-cpu kthread that performs the cpuset shutdown and bringup work.
  - Simplify and streamline some of the code.

After booting the latest cgroup for-next debug kernel with the latest
cgroup changes as well as Federic's "cpuset/isolation: Honour kthreads
preferred affinity" patch series [1] merged on top and running the
test-cpuset-prs.sh test, a circular locking dependency lockdep splat
was reported. See patch 2 for details.

To fix this issue, a new top level cpuset_top_mutex is added and the
call to housekeeping_update() is deferred to either a task_work or to
a workqueue.

With these changes in place, the cpuset test ran to completion with no
failure and no lockdep splat.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20260125224541.50226-1-frederic@kernel.org/

Waiman Long (3):
  cgroup/cpuset: Clarify exclusion rules for cpuset internal variables
  cgroup/cpuset: Defer housekeeping_update() calls from CPU hotplug to
    workqueue
  cgroup/cpuset: Call housekeeping_update() without holding
    cpus_read_lock

 kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c                        | 211 ++++++++++++++----
 kernel/sched/isolation.c                      |   4 +-
 kernel/time/timer_migration.c                 |   3 +-
 .../selftests/cgroup/test_cpuset_prs.sh       |  13 +-
 4 files changed, 174 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)

-- 
2.52.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-02-02 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-02 20:11 Waiman Long [this message]
2026-02-02 20:11 ` [PATCH/for-next v3 1/3] cgroup/cpuset: Clarify exclusion rules for cpuset internal variables Waiman Long
2026-02-02 20:11 ` [PATCH/for-next v3 2/3] cgroup/cpuset: Defer housekeeping_update() calls from CPU hotplug to workqueue Waiman Long
2026-02-02 20:18   ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-02-02 20:32     ` Waiman Long
2026-02-02 20:48       ` Peter Zijlstra
2026-02-03  0:55         ` Waiman Long
2026-02-04  3:27   ` Chen Ridong
2026-02-04  4:51     ` Waiman Long
2026-02-02 20:11 ` [PATCH/for-next v3 3/3] cgroup/cpuset: Call housekeeping_update() without holding cpus_read_lock Waiman Long
2026-02-04  2:44   ` Chen Ridong
2026-02-04  4:48     ` Waiman Long
2026-02-04  2:51   ` Chen Ridong
2026-02-04  4:47     ` Waiman Long

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