This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled cgroup/cpuset: Fix a partition bug with hotplug to the 5.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: cgroup-cpuset-fix-a-partition-bug-with-hotplug.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit f83502bd7d627d08ce793d1ed40f0d429544b930 Author: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Jul 20 10:18:27 2021 -0400 cgroup/cpuset: Fix a partition bug with hotplug [ Upstream commit 15d428e6fe77fffc3f4fff923336036f5496ef17 ] 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@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c index adb5190c4429..592e9e37542f 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c @@ -3168,6 +3168,13 @@ static void cpuset_hotplug_workfn(struct work_struct *work) cpus_updated = !cpumask_equal(top_cpuset.effective_cpus, &new_cpus); mems_updated = !nodes_equal(top_cpuset.effective_mems, new_mems); + /* + * In the rare case that hotplug removes all the cpus in subparts_cpus, + * we assumed that cpus are updated. + */ + if (!cpus_updated && top_cpuset.nr_subparts_cpus) + cpus_updated = true; + /* synchronize cpus_allowed to cpu_active_mask */ if (cpus_updated) { spin_lock_irq(&callback_lock);