From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932441AbdJYJbC (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2017 05:31:02 -0400 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:52266 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932280AbdJYJa6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Oct 2017 05:30:58 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 11:30:41 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Prateek Sood Cc: tj@kernel.org, lizefan@huawei.com, cgroups@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, longman@redhat.com, boqun.feng@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sramana@codeaurora.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroup/cpuset: remove circular dependency deadlock Message-ID: <20171025093041.GO3165@worktop.lehotels.local> References: <1504792583-10424-1-git-send-email-prsood@codeaurora.org> <20170907175107.GG17526@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> <4668d1ec-dc43-8a9c-4f94-a421683d3c17@codeaurora.org> <20171011094833.pdp4torvotvjdmkt@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> <00043e79-3647-3979-07bb-27039921efb4@codeaurora.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <00043e79-3647-3979-07bb-27039921efb4@codeaurora.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22.1 (2013-10-16) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 02:09:54PM +0530, Prateek Sood wrote: > > void cpuset_update_active_cpus(void) > > { > > + mutex_lock(&cpuset_mutex); > > + rebuild_sched_domains_cpuslocked(); > > + mutex_unlock(&cpuset_mutex); > > } > > In the above patch rebuild_sched_domains_cpuslocked() has been > used directly. Earlier cpuset_hotplug_update_tasks() was also > called from cpuset_hotplug_workfn(). So migration of tasks > related to cgroup which has empty cpuset would not happen > during cpu hotplug. > > > Could you please help in understanding more on this. > That was me being lazy...