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SubjectRe: [PATCH] cpuset: Enforce that a child's cpus must be a subset of the parent
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Hi Waiman,

On 2018/5/30 21:46, Waiman Long wrote:
> It was found that the cpuset.cpus could contain CPUs that are not listed
> in their parent's cpu list as shown by the command sequence below:
>
> # echo "+cpuset" >cgroup.subtree_control
> # mkdir g1
> # echo 0-5 >g1/cpuset.cpus
> # mkdir g1/g11
> # echo "+cpuset" > g1/cgroup.subtree_control
> # echo 6-11 >g1/g11/cpuset.cpus
> # grep -R . g1 | grep "\.cpus"
> g1/cpuset.cpus:0-5
> g1/cpuset.cpus.effective:0-5
> g1/g11/cpuset.cpus:6-11
> g1/g11/cpuset.cpus.effective:0-5
>
> As the intersection of g11's cpus and that of g1 is empty, the effective
> cpus of g11 is just that of g1. The check in update_cpumask() is now
> corrected to make sure that cpus in a child cpus must be a subset of
> its parent's cpus. The error "write error: Invalid argument" will now
> be reported in the above case.
>

We made the distinction between user-configured CPUs and effective CPUs
in commit 7e88291beefbb758, so actually it's not a bug.

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