[PATCH v2] sched/topology: Add a cpus_read_lock to rebuild_sched_domains()
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Thu Aug 13 2026 - 03:39:22 EST
A read from /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_runtime_us leads to backtrace due
to missing cpu_hotplug_lock with CONFIG_CPUSETS=n. The callchain is
sched_rt_handler() -> partition_sched_domains() -> sched_cache_set() ->
static_key_enable_cpuslocked(&sched_cache_present).
sched_cache_set() itself is also invoked from sched_init_domains() which
is early during the boot, holding just the sched_domains_mutex_lock().
Here is no warning because it happens before user space is running (and
hotplug operations are not possible).
There is also sched_cache_active_set() which acquires the hotplug lock
before invoking any of the _cpuslocked() functions.
This is only a problem with CONFIG_CPUSETS=n because in the =y case the
other implementation of rebuild_sched_domains acquires the CPU-hotplug
lock.
Acquire CPU hotplug lock before in rebuild_sched_domains(), before
partition_sched_domains() is invoked for the CONFIG_CPUSETS=n case.
Fixes: a7660ce1590fc ("sched/cache: Fix has_multi_llcs iff at least one partition has multiple LLCs")
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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v1…v2: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260812095800.gl06ANul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
- Move the lock from partition_sched_domains() to
rebuild_sched_domains() in the CONFIG_CPUSETS=n since this is the
only affected case. Noticed by Yu C Chen and Tim Chen.
include/linux/cpuset.h | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/cpuset.h b/include/linux/cpuset.h
index 65d76a38974ba..bf3999daa080a 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpuset.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpuset.h
@@ -273,6 +273,7 @@ static inline void dl_rebuild_rd_accounting(void)
static inline void rebuild_sched_domains(void)
{
+ guard(cpus_read_lock)();
partition_sched_domains(1, NULL, NULL);
}
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2.55.0