linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cpuset: Enforce that a child's cpus must be a subset of the parent

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Message-ID: <20180531074327.GD12180@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Thu, 31 May 2018 09:43:27 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>
Cc:     Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...com, pjt@...gle.com, luto@...capital.net,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpuset: Enforce that a child's cpus must be a subset of
 the parent

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 09:25:29AM +0800, Zefan Li wrote:
> Hi Waiman,
> 
> On 2018/5/30 21:46, Waiman Long wrote:
> > It was found that the cpuset.cpus could contain CPUs that are not listed
> > in their parent's cpu list as shown by the command sequence below:
> > 
> >   # echo "+cpuset" >cgroup.subtree_control
> >   # mkdir g1
> >   # echo 0-5 >g1/cpuset.cpus
> >   # mkdir g1/g11
> >   # echo "+cpuset" > g1/cgroup.subtree_control
> >   # echo 6-11 >g1/g11/cpuset.cpus
> >   # grep -R . g1 | grep "\.cpus"
> >   g1/cpuset.cpus:0-5
> >   g1/cpuset.cpus.effective:0-5
> >   g1/g11/cpuset.cpus:6-11
> >   g1/g11/cpuset.cpus.effective:0-5
> > 
> > As the intersection of g11's cpus and that of g1 is empty, the effective
> > cpus of g11 is just that of g1. The check in update_cpumask() is now
> > corrected to make sure that cpus in a child cpus must be a subset of
> > its parent's cpus. The error "write error: Invalid argument" will now
> > be reported in the above case.
> > 
> 
> We made the distinction between user-configured CPUs and effective CPUs
> in commit 7e88291beefbb758, so actually it's not a bug.

Why though; that makes no sense what so ever.