[PATCH] sched/isolation: Postpone re-allocation of housekeeping cpumask until initcall

From: Waiman Long

Date: Fri Apr 10 2026 - 15:28:24 EST


When testing a linux-next kernel with commit 59bd1d914bb5 ("memblock:
warn when freeing reserved memory before memory map is initialized"),
the following warning was hit when there was a "nohz_full" kernel boot
parameter.

[ 0.080911] Cannot free reserved memory because of deferred initialization of the memory map
[ 0.080911] WARNING: mm/memblock.c:904 at __free_reserved_area+0xde/0xf0, CPU#0: swapper/0/0
:
[ 0.080945] Call Trace:
[ 0.080947] <TASK>
[ 0.080949] memblock_phys_free+0xcb/0x100
[ 0.080953] housekeeping_init+0x14c/0x170
[ 0.080957] start_kernel+0x207/0x450
[ 0.080961] x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x30
[ 0.080965] x86_64_start_kernel+0xda/0xe0
[ 0.080967] common_startup_64+0x13e/0x141
[ 0.080972] </TASK>

IOW, we shouldn't free memblock allocated memory so early in
the boot process when memory map isn't fully initialized in
deferred_init_memmap(). Fix it by adding a new housekeeping_late_init()
helper to defer the re-allocation of the housekeeping cpumasks to when
initcall's are being processed.

Fixes: 27c3a5967f05 ("sched/isolation: Convert housekeeping cpumasks to rcu pointers")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/sched/isolation.c | 18 ++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/isolation.c b/kernel/sched/isolation.c
index ef152d401fe2..3f582ed6b985 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/isolation.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/isolation.c
@@ -164,8 +164,6 @@ int housekeeping_update(struct cpumask *isol_mask)

void __init housekeeping_init(void)
{
- enum hk_type type;
-
if (!housekeeping.flags)
return;

@@ -173,15 +171,25 @@ void __init housekeeping_init(void)

if (housekeeping.flags & HK_FLAG_KERNEL_NOISE)
sched_tick_offload_init();
+}
+
+static int __init housekeeping_late_init(void)
+{
+ enum hk_type type;
+
+ if (!housekeeping.flags)
+ return 0;
+
/*
* Realloc with a proper allocator so that any cpumask update
- * can indifferently free the old version with kfree().
+ * can indifferently free the old version with kfree(). This
+ * should be done after the completion of deferred_init_memmap().
*/
for_each_set_bit(type, &housekeeping.flags, HK_TYPE_MAX) {
struct cpumask *omask, *nmask = kmalloc(cpumask_size(), GFP_KERNEL);

if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!nmask))
- return;
+ return 0;

omask = rcu_dereference(housekeeping.cpumasks[type]);

@@ -191,7 +199,9 @@ void __init housekeeping_init(void)
RCU_INIT_POINTER(housekeeping.cpumasks[type], nmask);
memblock_free(omask, cpumask_size());
}
+ return 0;
}
+pure_initcall(housekeeping_late_init);

static void __init housekeeping_setup_type(enum hk_type type,
cpumask_var_t housekeeping_staging)
--
2.53.0