Re: [PATCH v3] posix-cpu-timers: clear TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER on clone

[Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>]

Le Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 06:35:35PM -0700, Benjamin Segall a écrit :
> When cloning a new thread, its posix_cputimers are not inherited, and
> are cleared by posix_cputimers_init(). However, this does not clear the
> tick dependency it creates in tsk->tick_dep_mask, and the handler does
> not reach the code to clear the dependency if there were no timers to
> begin with.
> 
> Thus if a thread has a cputimer running before clone/fork, all
> descendants will prevent nohz_full unless they create a cputimer of
> their own.
> 
> Fix this by entirely clearing the tick_dep_mask in copy_process().
> (There is currently no inherited state that needs a tick dependency)
> 
> Process-wide timers do not have this problem because fork does not copy
> signal_struct as a baseline, it creates one from scratch.
> 
> Fixes: b78783000d5c ("posix-cpu-timers: Migrate to use new tick dependency mask model")
> Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>

Thanks!