Hello Tejun,

On 16/8/22 9:27 am, Tejun Heo wrote:

Bringing up a CPU may involve creating new tasks which requires read-locking
threadgroup_rwsem, so threadgroup_rwsem nests inside cpus_read_lock().
However, cpuset's ->attach(), which may be called with thredagroup_rwsem
write-locked, also wants to disable CPU hotplug and acquires
cpus_read_lock(), leading to a deadlock.

Fix it by guaranteeing that ->attach() is always called with CPU hotplug
disabled and removing cpus_read_lock() call from cpuset_attach().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <redacted>
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Hello, sorry about the delay.

So, the previous patch + the revert isn't quite correct because we sometimes
elide both cpus_read_lock() and threadgroup_rwsem together and
cpuset_attach() woudl end up running without CPU hotplug enabled. Can you
please test whether this patch fixes the problem?

This fixes the issue seen in my setup. As my setup is 5.4 based I used
cgroup_attach_lock/unlock(true) in the backport version of your patch.

Feel free to add my

Reviewed-and-tested-by: Imran Khan [off-list ref]

Thanks,
-- Imran