Re: [PATCH 1/2] sched: topology: Fix topology validation error

From: K Prateek Nayak
Date: Sun Aug 24 2025 - 23:18:56 EST


Hello Tim, Vinicius,

On 8/23/2025 1:44 AM, Tim Chen wrote:
> --- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
> @@ -2394,6 +2394,14 @@ static bool topology_span_sane(const struct cpumask *cpu_map)
> for_each_sd_topology(tl) {
> int tl_common_flags = 0;
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
> + /*
> + * sd_numa_mask() (one of the possible values of
> + * tl->mask()) depends on the current level to work
> + * correctly.
> + */
> + sched_domains_curr_level = tl->numa_level;
> +#endif

A similar solution was proposed in [1] and after a few iterations, we
arrived at [2] as a potential solution to this issue. Now that the merge
window is behind us, Peter would it be possible to pick one of these up?

P.S. Leon has confirmed this solved the splat of their deployments too
on an earlier version [3].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250624041235.1589-1-kprateek.nayak@xxxxxxx/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250715040824.893-1-kprateek.nayak@xxxxxxx/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250720104136.GI402218@unreal/

> if (tl->sd_flags)
> tl_common_flags = (*tl->sd_flags)();
>

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Thanks and Regards,
Prateek