Re: [PATCH 1/2] cpuset: Fix cpuset_cpus_allowed() to not filter offline CPUs

[Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 10:34:00PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> On 2/1/23 16:10, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 01:46:11PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> > 
> > > Note that using cpus_allowed directly in cgroup v2 may not be right because
> > > cpus_allowed may have no relationship to effective_cpus at all in some
> > > cases, e.g.
> > > 
> > >     root
> > >      |
> > >      V
> > >      A (cpus_allowed = 1-4, effective_cpus = 1-4)
> > >      |
> > >      V
> > >      B (cpus_allowed = 5-8, effective_cpus = 1-4)
> > > 
> > > In the case of cpuset B, passing back cpus 5-8 as the allowed_cpus is wrong.
> > I think my patch as written does the right thing here. Since the
> > intersection of (1-4) and (5-8) is empty it will move up the hierarchy
> > and we'll end up with (1-4) from the cgroup side of things.
> > 
> > So the purpose of __cs_cpus_allowed() is to override the cpus_allowed of
> > the root set and force it to cpu_possible_mask.
> > 
> > Then cs_cpus_allowed() computes the intersection of cs->cpus_allowed and
> > all it's parents. This will, in the case of B above, result in the empty
> > mask.
> > 
> > Then cpuset_cpus_allowed() has a loop that starts with
> > task_cpu_possible_mask(), intersects that with cs_cpus_allowed() and if
> > the intersection of that and cpu_online_mask is empty, moves up the
> > hierarchy. Given cs_cpus_allowed(B) is the empty mask, we'll move to A.
> > 
> > Note that since we force the mask of root to cpu_possible_mask,
> > cs_cpus_allowed(root) will be a no-op and if we guarantee (in arch code)
> > that cpu_online_mask always has a non-empty intersection with
> > task_cpu_possible_mask(), this loop is guaranteed to terminate with a
> > viable mask.
> 
> I will take a closer look at that tomorrow. I will be more comfortable
> ack'ing that if this is specific to v1 cpuset instead of applying this in
> both v1 and v2 since it is only v1 that is problematic.

fwiw, the regression I'm seeing is with cgroup2. I haven't tried v1.

WIll