Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] cgroup/cpuset: Factor out child partition validation

From: Waiman Long

Date: Thu Sep 03 2026 - 15:13:42 EST


On 9/2/26 6:26 AM, Guopeng Zhang wrote:
From: Guopeng Zhang <zhangguopeng@xxxxxxxxxx>

compute_partition_effective_cpumask() checks whether each valid child
partition remains covered by the parent exclusive CPU mask and whether it
would consume all remaining CPUs of a populated parent.

Factor these two checks into child_partition_error() so the same rules can
be reused when evaluating a proposed parent configuration. This is a
preparatory refactoring with no intended functional change.

Signed-off-by: Guopeng Zhang <zhangguopeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
index 8f24171b6055..6994dc75d940 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
@@ -2085,6 +2085,26 @@ static int update_parent_effective_cpumask(struct cpuset *cs, int cmd,
return 0;
}
+/*
+ * Return the error that will invalidate a child partition under a proposed
+ * parent partition configuration.
+ */
+static enum prs_errcode
+child_partition_error(struct cpuset *child,
+ const struct cpumask *partition_cpus,
+ const struct cpumask *remaining_cpus,
+ bool parent_populated)
+{
+ if (!cpumask_subset(child->effective_xcpus, partition_cpus))
+ return PERR_INVCPUS;
+
+ if (parent_populated &&
+ cpumask_subset(remaining_cpus, child->effective_xcpus))
+ return PERR_NOCPUS;
+
+ return PERR_NONE;
+}
+
/**
* compute_partition_effective_cpumask - compute effective_cpus for partition
* @cs: partition root cpuset
@@ -2121,6 +2141,8 @@ static void compute_partition_effective_cpumask(struct cpuset *cs,
rcu_read_lock();
cpuset_for_each_child(child, css, cs) {
+ enum prs_errcode child_err;
+
if (!is_partition_valid(child))
continue;
@@ -2129,15 +2151,13 @@ static void compute_partition_effective_cpumask(struct cpuset *cs,
* partition root.
*/
WARN_ON_ONCE(is_remote_partition(child));
- WRITE_ONCE(child->prs_err, 0);
- if (!cpumask_subset(child->effective_xcpus,
- cs->effective_xcpus))

Looking at the patch again, I now see that the current code is incorrect. It should be "if (!cpumask_subset(child->effective_xcpus, new_ecpus))" So you only need to pass the "parent_excpus" (for instance) to the new helper instead of passing two.

Cheers,
Longman