Re: cpuset trouble after hibernate

[Nicolas Capit <nicolas.capit@imag.fr>]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 11:45:10 +0200 (CEST)
Simon Derr <Simon.Derr@bull.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Nicolas Capit wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > This is my situation:
> >   - I mounted the pseudo cpuset filesystem into /dev/cpuset
> >   - I created a cpuset named oar with my 2 cpus
> > 
> > cat /dev/cpuset/oar/cpus 
> > 0-1
> > 
> >   - Then I hibernate my computer with 'echo -n "disk" >/sys/power/state'
> >   - After reboot:
> > 
> > cat /dev/cpuset/oar/cpus 
> > 0
> > 
> > Why did I lost a cpu?
> > Is this a normal behavior???
> 
> Hi Nicolas,
> 
> I believe this is related to the fact that hibernation uses the hotplug 
> subsystem to disable all CPUs except the boot CPU.
> 
> Thus guarantee_online_cpus() is called on each cpuset and removes all 
> CPUs, except CPU 0, from all cpusets.
> 
> I'm not quite sure about if/how this should be fixed in the kernel, 
> though. Looks like a very simple user-land workaround would be enough.
> 
> 	Simon.

Ok, it is not a big deal for me (you don't hibernate computers in a
cluster...) but I wanted to bring you this issue in case of a similar
behavior in another case...

Thanks for your response.

Nicolas Capit.