[PATCH v2 3/3] cgroup/cpuset: Do housekeeping check when isolated child with root parent may get more xcpus
From: Waiman Long
Date: Fri Oct 30 2026 - 15:09:00 EST
It is reported by sashiko and Guopeng that when an isolated child with
root parent gets more isolated CPUs from the expansion of the parent's
effective_xcpus, it is possible that all the active housekeeping CPUs
may be gone. So a prstate_housekeeping_conflict() should be performed
when that happens. Add the check to make sure that we can't exhaust
all the active housekeeping CPUs.
Test cases are added to the NOHZ_FULL_TEST_MATRIX of test_cpuset_prs.sh
to test that.
Reported-by: Guopeng Zhang <guopeng.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ed6fecb4-38e9-4a73-8c1a-7bdd80175a69@xxxxxxxxx
Fixes: e2ffe502ba45 ("cgroup/cpuset: Add cpuset.cpus.exclusive for v2")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c | 18 +++++++++++++++---
.../selftests/cgroup/test_cpuset_prs.sh | 10 ++++++++--
2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
index ed014ecb770c..6e136888fc8e 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
@@ -2119,10 +2119,22 @@ static int update_parent_effective_cpumask(struct cpuset *cs, int cmd,
* If there is an expansion of parent's effective_xcpus,
* we may take more xcpus from parent. The parent's
* effective_cpus should still have active CPUs or nocpu
- * should have been set.
+ * should have been set. We also need to do a
+ * housekeeping check for an isolated child with root
+ * parent to make sure that it won't exhaust all the
+ * active housekeeping CPUs.
*/
- deleting = cpumask_andnot(tmp->delmask, tmp->delmask,
- cs->effective_xcpus);
+ cpumask_andnot(tmp->addmask, cs->effective_xcpus, tmp->delmask);
+ if ((parent_prs == PRS_ROOT) && (old_prs == PRS_ISOLATED) &&
+ prstate_housekeeping_conflict(old_prs, parent_prs,
+ tmp->delmask, tmp->addmask)) {
+ adding = cpumask_and(tmp->addmask, cs->effective_xcpus,
+ tmp->delmask);
+ part_error = PERR_HKEEPING;
+ } else {
+ deleting = cpumask_andnot(tmp->delmask, tmp->delmask,
+ cs->effective_xcpus);
+ }
} else if (is_partition_invalid(cs)) {
struct cgroup_subsys_state *css;
struct cpuset *child;
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_cpuset_prs.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_cpuset_prs.sh
index 844efdf029cd..bdca6c471f87 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_cpuset_prs.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_cpuset_prs.sh
@@ -137,7 +137,8 @@ LAST_PRESENT_CPU=$(cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/present | sed -e "s/.*[,-]//")
# If isolated CPUs have been reserved at boot time (as shown in
# /sys/devices/system/cpu/isolated), these isolated CPUs should be outside of
# CPUs 0-8 that will be used by this script for testing purpose. If not, some
-# of the tests may fail incorrectly.
+# of the tests may fail incorrectly. The first boot isolated CPU should be
+# 10 or above.
#
# The current set of isolated CPUs (as shown in cpuset.cpus.isolated) should
# be the same as the boot value. If not, wait a bit and retry again just in
@@ -156,7 +157,7 @@ TEST_ISOLCPUS=
[[ -n "$BOOT_ISOLCPUS" ]] && {
FIRST_ISOLCPUS=$(echo $BOOT_ISOLCPUS | sed -e "s/[,-].*//")
echo "Boot isolated CPUs: $BOOT_ISOLCPUS"
- [[ $FIRST_ISOLCPUS -le 8 ]] &&
+ [[ $FIRST_ISOLCPUS -le 9 ]] &&
skip_test "Boot isolated CPUs overlap CPUs to be tested"
}
@@ -602,6 +603,7 @@ ISOLCPUS_TEST_MATRIX=(
)
# Test matrix to be run when boot time nohz_full CPUs cover all CPUs except CPUs 0-7
+# This also means that CPU 8 is available and is a nohz_full CPU.
NOHZ_FULL_TEST_MATRIX=(
# old-A1 old-A2 old-A3 old-B1 new-A1 new-A2 new-A3 new-B1 fail ECPUs Pstate ISOLCPUS
# ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ---- ----- ------ --------
@@ -610,6 +612,10 @@ NOHZ_FULL_TEST_MATRIX=(
" C2-7:P2 . . . C0-4 . . . 0 A1:0-4 A1:P2 0-4"
" C1-7:P2 C5-7:P2 . . . . . C0:P2 0 A1:1-4|A2:5-7|B1:0
A1:P2|A2:P2|B1:P-2 1-7"
+ # An isolated child partition cannot grow to take over the last
+ # housekeeping CPU when its parent expands the exclusive CPUs.
+ " C0-8:X1-8:P1 CX0-8:P2 . . X0-7 . . . 0 A1:0-7|A2:0-7 A1:P1|A2:P-2 ."
+ " C0-8:X0-6:P1 CX0-8:P2 . . X2-8 . . . 0 A1:|A2:2-8 A1:P1|A2:P2 2-8"
)
#
--
2.56.0