Re: [PATCH v9 0/7] sched: Persistent user requested affinity

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 02:32:10PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:

> Waiman Long (7):
>   sched: Add __releases annotations to affine_move_task()
>   sched: Use user_cpus_ptr for saving user provided cpumask in
>     sched_setaffinity()
>   sched: Enforce user requested affinity
>   sched: Introduce affinity_context structure
>   sched: Handle set_cpus_allowed_ptr() & sched_setaffinity() race
>   sched: Fix sched_setaffinity() and fork/clone() race
>   sched: Always clear user_cpus_ptr in do_set_cpus_allowed()

I still think this is ordered all wrong. Esp. with that affinity context
doing the right thing isn't onerous at all.

So please, re-order this and fold all fixes back in so that it becomes
a sane series. Basically patches 5 and 6 shouldn't exist, they fix
issues created by the earlier patches.