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    sched/core: Prevent race condition between cpuset and __sched_setscheduler() · 710da3c8
    Juri Lelli authored
    
    
    No synchronisation mechanism exists between the cpuset subsystem and
    calls to function __sched_setscheduler(). As such, it is possible that
    new root domains are created on the cpuset side while a deadline
    acceptance test is carried out in __sched_setscheduler(), leading to a
    potential oversell of CPU bandwidth.
    
    Grab cpuset_rwsem read lock from core scheduler, so to prevent
    situations such as the one described above from happening.
    
    The only exception is normalize_rt_tasks() which needs to work under
    tasklist_lock and can't therefore grab cpuset_rwsem. We are fine with
    this, as this function is only called by sysrq and, if that gets
    triggered, DEADLINE guarantees are already gone out of the window
    anyway.
    
    Tested-by: default avatarDietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJuri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Peter ...
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