[PATCH v4 06/11] watchdog: sync watchdog_cpumask with HK_TYPE_KERNEL_NOISE on isolation
From: Jing Wu
Date: Thu Jul 09 2026 - 23:30:03 EST
The watchdog is initialized at boot to run on all housekeeping CPUs
(HK_TYPE_KERNEL_NOISE). When a cpuset isolated partition removes CPUs
from that mask at runtime, watchdog continues running on those CPUs
because nothing updates watchdog_cpumask.
Save the boot-time watchdog_cpumask as watchdog_cpumask_boot, which
captures the user's intended coverage (possibly narrowed via kernel
parameter or sysctl) before any runtime isolation. Introduce
lockup_detector_hk_update() which intersects this boot snapshot with
the current HK_TYPE_KERNEL_NOISE mask and reconfigures the detector.
This ensures that isolated CPUs are excluded while honoring any
manual narrowing the admin applied at or after boot.
lockup_detector_hk_update() snapshots the RCU-protected housekeeping
mask under rcu_read_lock(), then updates watchdog_cpumask and calls
__lockup_detector_reconfigure() under watchdog_mutex, matching the
same locking discipline used by proc_watchdog_cpumask().
Co-developed-by: Qiliang Yuan <yuanql9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Qiliang Yuan <yuanql9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jing Wu <realwujing@xxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/nmi.h | 2 ++
kernel/watchdog.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 26 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/nmi.h b/include/linux/nmi.h
index bc1162895f355..0bbe562de67b7 100644
--- a/include/linux/nmi.h
+++ b/include/linux/nmi.h
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ extern int sysctl_hardlockup_all_cpu_backtrace;
static inline void lockup_detector_init(void) { }
static inline void lockup_detector_retry_init(void) { }
static inline void lockup_detector_soft_poweroff(void) { }
+static inline void lockup_detector_hk_update(void) { }
#endif /* !CONFIG_LOCKUP_DETECTOR */
#ifdef CONFIG_SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR
@@ -120,6 +121,7 @@ void watchdog_hardlockup_enable(unsigned int cpu);
void watchdog_hardlockup_disable(unsigned int cpu);
void lockup_detector_reconfigure(void);
+void lockup_detector_hk_update(void);
#ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_BUDDY
void watchdog_buddy_check_hardlockup(int hrtimer_interrupts);
diff --git a/kernel/watchdog.c b/kernel/watchdog.c
index c18c3e9781d7b..26463f6d3a39d 100644
--- a/kernel/watchdog.c
+++ b/kernel/watchdog.c
@@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ static int __read_mostly watchdog_hardlockup_available;
struct cpumask watchdog_cpumask __read_mostly;
unsigned long *watchdog_cpumask_bits = cpumask_bits(&watchdog_cpumask);
+/* Boot snapshot: user's intended watchdog mask before any runtime isolation. */
+static struct cpumask watchdog_cpumask_boot __ro_after_init;
#ifdef CONFIG_HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR
@@ -1348,6 +1350,27 @@ static void __init lockup_detector_delay_init(struct work_struct *work)
lockup_detector_setup();
}
+void lockup_detector_hk_update(void)
+{
+ cpumask_var_t new_mask;
+
+ if (!alloc_cpumask_var(&new_mask, GFP_KERNEL))
+ return;
+
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ cpumask_and(new_mask, &watchdog_cpumask_boot,
+ housekeeping_cpumask_rcu(HK_TYPE_KERNEL_NOISE));
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
+ mutex_lock(&watchdog_mutex);
+ cpumask_copy(&watchdog_cpumask, new_mask);
+ __lockup_detector_reconfigure(false);
+ mutex_unlock(&watchdog_mutex);
+
+ free_cpumask_var(new_mask);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(lockup_detector_hk_update);
+
/*
* lockup_detector_retry_init - retry init lockup detector if possible.
*
@@ -1390,6 +1413,7 @@ void __init lockup_detector_init(void)
cpumask_copy(&watchdog_cpumask,
housekeeping_cpumask(HK_TYPE_KERNEL_NOISE));
+ cpumask_copy(&watchdog_cpumask_boot, &watchdog_cpumask);
if (!watchdog_hardlockup_probe())
watchdog_hardlockup_available = true;
--
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