Re: [PATCH v3 4/8] sched/deadline: Rebuild root domain accounting after every update

From: Waiman Long
Date: Mon Mar 10 2025 - 15:19:12 EST



On 3/10/25 2:54 PM, Dietmar Eggemann wrote:
On 10/03/2025 10:37, Juri Lelli wrote:
Rebuilding of root domains accounting information (total_bw) is
currently broken on some cases, e.g. suspend/resume on aarch64. Problem
Nit: Couldn't spot any arch dependency here. I guess it was just tested
on Arm64 platforms so far.

[...]

diff --git a/kernel/sched/topology.c b/kernel/sched/topology.c
index 44093339761c..363ad268a25b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/topology.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/topology.c
@@ -2791,6 +2791,7 @@ void partition_sched_domains_locked(int ndoms_new, cpumask_var_t doms_new[],
ndoms_cur = ndoms_new;
update_sched_domain_debugfs();
+ dl_rebuild_rd_accounting();
Won't dl_rebuild_rd_accounting()'s lockdep_assert_held(&cpuset_mutex)
barf when called via cpuhp's:

sched_cpu_deactivate()

cpuset_cpu_inactive()

partition_sched_domains()

partition_sched_domains_locked()

dl_rebuild_rd_accounting()

?

[...]

Right. If cpuhp_tasks_frozen is true, partition_sched_domains() will be called without holding cpuset mutex.

Well, I think we will need an additional wrapper in cpuset.c that acquires the cpuset_mutex first before calling partition_sched_domains() and use the new wrapper in these cases.

Cheers,
Longman