The patch titled cpusets: update task's cpus_allowed and mems_allowed after CPU/NODE offline/online has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was cpusets-update-tasks-cpus_allowed-and-mems_allowed-after-cpu-node-offline-online.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: cpusets: update task's cpus_allowed and mems_allowed after CPU/NODE offline/online From: Miao Xie <miaox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The bug is, a task may run on the cpu/node which is not in its cpuset.cpus/ cpuset.mems. It can be reproduced by the following commands: =================================== # mkdir /dev/cpuset # mount -t cpuset xxx /dev/cpuset # mkdir /dev/cpuset/0 # echo 0-1 > /dev/cpuset/0/cpus # echo 0 > /dev/cpuset/0/mems # echo $$ > /dev/cpuset/0/tasks # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online # echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online =================================== There is only CPU0 in cpuset.cpus, but the task in this cpuset runs on both CPU0 and CPU1. It is because the task's cpu_allowed didn't get updated after we did CPU offline/online manipulation. Similar for mem_allowed. This patch fixes this bug expect for root cpuset. Because there is a problem about root cpuset, in that whether it is necessary to update all the tasks in root cpuset or not after cpu/node offline/online. If updating, some kernel threads which is bound into a specified cpu will be unbound. If not updating, there is a bug in root cpuset. This bug is also caused by offline/online manipulation. For example, there is a dual-cpu machine. we create a sub cpuset in root cpuset and assign 1 to its cpus. And then we attach some tasks into this sub cpuset. After this, we offline CPU1. Now, the tasks in this new cpuset are moved into root cpuset automatically because there is no cpu in sub cpuset. Then we online CPU1, we find all the tasks which doesn't belong to root cpuset originally just run on CPU0. Maybe we need to add a flag in the task_struct to mark which task can't be unbound? Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cpuset.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff -puN kernel/cpuset.c~cpusets-update-tasks-cpus_allowed-and-mems_allowed-after-cpu-node-offline-online kernel/cpuset.c --- a/kernel/cpuset.c~cpusets-update-tasks-cpus_allowed-and-mems_allowed-after-cpu-node-offline-online +++ a/kernel/cpuset.c @@ -1874,6 +1874,7 @@ static void scan_for_empty_cpusets(const struct cpuset *child; /* scans child cpusets of cp */ struct list_head queue; struct cgroup *cont; + nodemask_t oldmems; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&queue); @@ -1893,6 +1894,8 @@ static void scan_for_empty_cpusets(const nodes_subset(cp->mems_allowed, node_states[N_HIGH_MEMORY])) continue; + oldmems = cp->mems_allowed; + /* Remove offline cpus and mems from this cpuset. */ mutex_lock(&callback_mutex); cpus_and(cp->cpus_allowed, cp->cpus_allowed, cpu_online_map); @@ -1904,6 +1907,10 @@ static void scan_for_empty_cpusets(const if (cpus_empty(cp->cpus_allowed) || nodes_empty(cp->mems_allowed)) remove_tasks_in_empty_cpuset(cp); + else { + update_tasks_cpumask(cp); + update_tasks_nodemask(cp, &oldmems); + } } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from miaox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are cpusets-fix-and-update-documentation.patch cpusets-update-tasks-cpus_allowed-and-mems_allowed-after-cpu-node-offline-online.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html