linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/9] cgroup/cpuset: Fix a partition bug with hotplug

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Message-ID: <2173a00b-504a-1932-877d-d26775e4775c@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue, 27 Jul 2021 16:16:56 -0400
From:   Waiman Long <llong@...hat.com>
To:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:     Zefan Li <lizefan.x@...edance.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, Phil Auld <pauld@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
        Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/9] cgroup/cpuset: Fix a partition bug with hotplug

On 7/26/21 6:59 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 10:18:27AM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>> In cpuset_hotplug_workfn(), the detection of whether the cpu list
>> has been changed is done by comparing the effective cpus of the top
>> cpuset with the cpu_active_mask. However, in the rare case that just
>> all the CPUs in the subparts_cpus are offlined, the detection fails
>> and the partition states are not updated correctly. Fix it by forcing
>> the cpus_updated flag to true in this particular case.
>>
>> Fixes: 4b842da276a8 ("cpuset: Make CPU hotplug work with partition")
>> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
> Applied to cgroup/for-5.15 w/ a minor update to the comment (I dropped
> "just" before "all". It read weird to me.)
>
> Thanks.
>
Thanks for fixing the wording.

Cheers,
Longman