[PATCH 09/31] block: Protect against concurrent isolated cpuset change

Frederic Weisbecker frederic at kernel.org
Wed Nov 5 13:03:25 PST 2025


The block subsystem prevents running the workqueue to isolated CPUs,
including those defined by cpuset isolated partitions. Since
HK_TYPE_DOMAIN will soon contain both and be subject to runtime
modifications, synchronize against housekeeping using the relevant lock.

For full support of cpuset changes, the block subsystem may need to
propagate changes to isolated cpumask through the workqueue in the
future.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic at kernel.org>
---
 block/blk-mq.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index d626d32f6e57..7a6137b15dee 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -4240,12 +4240,16 @@ static void blk_mq_map_swqueue(struct request_queue *q)
 
 		/*
 		 * Rule out isolated CPUs from hctx->cpumask to avoid
-		 * running block kworker on isolated CPUs
+		 * running block kworker on isolated CPUs.
+		 * FIXME: cpuset should propagate further changes to isolated CPUs
+		 * here.
 		 */
+		rcu_read_lock();
 		for_each_cpu(cpu, hctx->cpumask) {
 			if (cpu_is_isolated(cpu))
 				cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, hctx->cpumask);
 		}
+		rcu_read_unlock();
 
 		/*
 		 * Initialize batch roundrobin counts
-- 
2.51.0




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