linux-kernel - [PATCH] sched/isolation: Warn about missing isolcpus mask

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Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 12:46:10 +0100
From: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
	Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
	Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
	Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] sched/isolation: Warn about missing isolcpus mask

Since an empty string is a valid cpulist, this cmdline option does not
trigger any warnings:

  isolcpus=domain,

housekeeping_setup() just carries on and we end up with the housekeeping
mask being all CPUs in the system.

Check that there *is* a cpulist and that it isn't empty.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/sched/isolation.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/isolation.c b/kernel/sched/isolation.c
index 373d42c707bc5..aa20cd1702199 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/isolation.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/isolation.c
@@ -120,7 +120,8 @@ static int __init housekeeping_setup(char *str, unsigned long flags)
 	}
 
 	alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(&non_housekeeping_mask);
-	if (cpulist_parse(str, non_housekeeping_mask) < 0) {
+	if (cpulist_parse(str, non_housekeeping_mask) < 0 ||
+	    cpumask_empty(non_housekeeping_mask)) {
 		pr_warn("Housekeeping: nohz_full= or isolcpus= incorrect CPU range\n");
 		goto free_non_housekeeping_mask;
 	}
-- 
2.43.0