On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 12:15:52PM +0000, Qais Yousef wrote: > On 12/08/20 13:28, Will Deacon wrote: > > If the scheduler cannot find an allowed CPU for a task, > > cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback() will widen the affinity to cpu_possible_mask > > if cgroup v1 is in use. > > > > In preparation for allowing architectures to provide their own fallback > > mask, just return early if we're not using cgroup v2 and allow > > select_fallback_rq() to figure out the mask by itself. > > > > Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > Reviewed-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c | 6 ++++-- > > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c > > index 57b5b5d0a5fd..e970737c3ed2 100644 > > --- a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c > > +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c > > @@ -3299,9 +3299,11 @@ void cpuset_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *tsk, struct cpumask *pmask) > > > > void cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback(struct task_struct *tsk) > > { > > + if (!is_in_v2_mode()) > > + return; /* select_fallback_rq will try harder */ > > + > > rcu_read_lock(); > > - do_set_cpus_allowed(tsk, is_in_v2_mode() ? > > - task_cs(tsk)->cpus_allowed : cpu_possible_mask); > > + do_set_cpus_allowed(tsk, task_cs(tsk)->cpus_allowed); > > Why is it safe to return that for cpuset v2? v1 Because in that case it does cpu_possible_mask, which, if you look at select_fallback_rq(), is exactly what happens when cpuset 'fails' to find a candidate. Or at least, that's how I read the patch.