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<title>sched/fair: Fix util_est UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED handling</title>
<updated>2021-06-16T10:01:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dietmar Eggemann</name>
<email>dietmar.eggemann@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-06-02T14:58:08+00:00</published>
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commit 68d7a190682aa4eb02db477328088ebad15acc83 upstream.

The util_est internal UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED flag which is used to prevent
unnecessary util_est updates uses the LSB of util_est.enqueued. It is
exposed via _task_util_est() (and task_util_est()).

Commit 92a801e5d5b7 ("sched/fair: Mask UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED usages")
mentions that the LSB is lost for util_est resolution but
find_energy_efficient_cpu() checks if task_util_est() returns 0 to
return prev_cpu early.

_task_util_est() returns the max value of util_est.ewma and
util_est.enqueued or'ed w/ UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED.
So task_util_est() returning the max of task_util() and
_task_util_est() will never return 0 under the default
SCHED_FEAT(UTIL_EST, true).

To fix this use the MSB of util_est.enqueued instead and keep the flag
util_est internal, i.e. don't export it via _task_util_est().

The maximal possible util_avg value for a task is 1024 so the MSB of
'unsigned int util_est.enqueued' isn't used to store a util value.

As a caveat the code behind the util_est_se trace point has to filter
UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED to see the real util_est.enqueued value which should
be easy to do.

This also fixes an issue report by Xuewen Yan that util_est_update()
only used UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED for the subtrahend of the equation:

  last_enqueued_diff = ue.enqueued - (task_util() | UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED)

Fixes: b89997aa88f0b sched/pelt: Fix task util_est update filtering
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Xuewen Yan &lt;xuewen.yan@unisoc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vincent Donnefort &lt;vincent.donnefort@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210602145808.1562603-1-dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 68d7a190682aa4eb02db477328088ebad15acc83 upstream.

The util_est internal UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED flag which is used to prevent
unnecessary util_est updates uses the LSB of util_est.enqueued. It is
exposed via _task_util_est() (and task_util_est()).

Commit 92a801e5d5b7 ("sched/fair: Mask UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED usages")
mentions that the LSB is lost for util_est resolution but
find_energy_efficient_cpu() checks if task_util_est() returns 0 to
return prev_cpu early.

_task_util_est() returns the max value of util_est.ewma and
util_est.enqueued or'ed w/ UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED.
So task_util_est() returning the max of task_util() and
_task_util_est() will never return 0 under the default
SCHED_FEAT(UTIL_EST, true).

To fix this use the MSB of util_est.enqueued instead and keep the flag
util_est internal, i.e. don't export it via _task_util_est().

The maximal possible util_avg value for a task is 1024 so the MSB of
'unsigned int util_est.enqueued' isn't used to store a util value.

As a caveat the code behind the util_est_se trace point has to filter
UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED to see the real util_est.enqueued value which should
be easy to do.

This also fixes an issue report by Xuewen Yan that util_est_update()
only used UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED for the subtrahend of the equation:

  last_enqueued_diff = ue.enqueued - (task_util() | UTIL_AVG_UNCHANGED)

Fixes: b89997aa88f0b sched/pelt: Fix task util_est update filtering
Signed-off-by: Dietmar Eggemann &lt;dietmar.eggemann@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Xuewen Yan &lt;xuewen.yan@unisoc.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vincent Donnefort &lt;vincent.donnefort@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210602145808.1562603-1-dietmar.eggemann@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/debug: Fix cgroup_path[] serialization</title>
<updated>2021-05-14T07:50:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Waiman Long</name>
<email>longman@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-15T19:54:26+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ad789f84c9a145f8a18744c0387cec22ec51651e ]

The handling of sysrq key can be activated by echoing the key to
/proc/sysrq-trigger or via the magic key sequence typed into a terminal
that is connected to the system in some way (serial, USB or other mean).
In the former case, the handling is done in a user context. In the
latter case, it is likely to be in an interrupt context.

Currently in print_cpu() of kernel/sched/debug.c, sched_debug_lock is
taken with interrupt disabled for the whole duration of the calls to
print_*_stats() and print_rq() which could last for the quite some time
if the information dump happens on the serial console.

If the system has many cpus and the sched_debug_lock is somehow busy
(e.g. parallel sysrq-t), the system may hit a hard lockup panic
depending on the actually serial console implementation of the
system.

The purpose of sched_debug_lock is to serialize the use of the global
cgroup_path[] buffer in print_cpu(). The rests of the printk calls don't
need serialization from sched_debug_lock.

Calling printk() with interrupt disabled can still be problematic if
multiple instances are running. Allocating a stack buffer of PATH_MAX
bytes is not feasible because of the limited size of the kernel stack.

The solution implemented in this patch is to allow only one caller at a
time to use the full size group_path[], while other simultaneous callers
will have to use shorter stack buffers with the possibility of path
name truncation. A "..." suffix will be printed if truncation may have
happened.  The cgroup path name is provided for informational purpose
only, so occasional path name truncation should not be a big problem.

Fixes: efe25c2c7b3a ("sched: Reinstate group names in /proc/sched_debug")
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210415195426.6677-1-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ad789f84c9a145f8a18744c0387cec22ec51651e ]

The handling of sysrq key can be activated by echoing the key to
/proc/sysrq-trigger or via the magic key sequence typed into a terminal
that is connected to the system in some way (serial, USB or other mean).
In the former case, the handling is done in a user context. In the
latter case, it is likely to be in an interrupt context.

Currently in print_cpu() of kernel/sched/debug.c, sched_debug_lock is
taken with interrupt disabled for the whole duration of the calls to
print_*_stats() and print_rq() which could last for the quite some time
if the information dump happens on the serial console.

If the system has many cpus and the sched_debug_lock is somehow busy
(e.g. parallel sysrq-t), the system may hit a hard lockup panic
depending on the actually serial console implementation of the
system.

The purpose of sched_debug_lock is to serialize the use of the global
cgroup_path[] buffer in print_cpu(). The rests of the printk calls don't
need serialization from sched_debug_lock.

Calling printk() with interrupt disabled can still be problematic if
multiple instances are running. Allocating a stack buffer of PATH_MAX
bytes is not feasible because of the limited size of the kernel stack.

The solution implemented in this patch is to allow only one caller at a
time to use the full size group_path[], while other simultaneous callers
will have to use shorter stack buffers with the possibility of path
name truncation. A "..." suffix will be printed if truncation may have
happened.  The cgroup path name is provided for informational purpose
only, so occasional path name truncation should not be a big problem.

Fixes: efe25c2c7b3a ("sched: Reinstate group names in /proc/sched_debug")
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210415195426.6677-1-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/debug: Fix memory corruption caused by multiple small reads of flags</title>
<updated>2020-11-10T17:38:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Colin Ian King</name>
<email>colin.king@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-29T15:11:03+00:00</published>
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Reading /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu*/domain0/flags mutliple times
with small reads causes oopses with slub corruption issues because the kfree is
free'ing an offset from a previous allocation. Fix this by adding in a new
pointer 'buf' for the allocation and kfree and use the temporary pointer tmp
to handle memory copies of the buf offsets.

Fixes: 5b9f8ff7b320 ("sched/debug: Output SD flag names rather than their values")
Reported-by: Jeff Bastian &lt;jbastian@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201029151103.373410-1-colin.king@canonical.com
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Reading /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu*/domain0/flags mutliple times
with small reads causes oopses with slub corruption issues because the kfree is
free'ing an offset from a previous allocation. Fix this by adding in a new
pointer 'buf' for the allocation and kfree and use the temporary pointer tmp
to handle memory copies of the buf offsets.

Fixes: 5b9f8ff7b320 ("sched/debug: Output SD flag names rather than their values")
Reported-by: Jeff Bastian &lt;jbastian@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201029151103.373410-1-colin.king@canonical.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/topology: Move sd_flag_debug out of #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL</title>
<updated>2020-09-09T08:09:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Valentin Schneider</name>
<email>valentin.schneider@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-08T18:49:56+00:00</published>
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The last sd_flag_debug shuffle inadvertently moved its definition within
an #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL region. While CONFIG_SYSCTL is indeed required to
produce the sched domain ctl interface (which uses sd_flag_debug to output
flag names), it isn't required to run any assertion on the sched_domain
hierarchy itself.

Move the definition of sd_flag_debug to a CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG region of
topology.c.

Now at long last we have:

- sd_flag_debug declared in include/linux/sched/topology.h iff
  CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y
- sd_flag_debug defined in kernel/sched/topology.c, conditioned by:
  - CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG, with an explicit #ifdef block
  - CONFIG_SMP, as a requirement to compile topology.c

With this change, all symbols pertaining to SD flag metadata (with the
exception of __SD_FLAG_CNT) are now defined exclusively within topology.c

Fixes: 8fca9494d4b4 ("sched/topology: Move sd_flag_debug out of linux/sched/topology.h")
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200908184956.23369-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com
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The last sd_flag_debug shuffle inadvertently moved its definition within
an #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL region. While CONFIG_SYSCTL is indeed required to
produce the sched domain ctl interface (which uses sd_flag_debug to output
flag names), it isn't required to run any assertion on the sched_domain
hierarchy itself.

Move the definition of sd_flag_debug to a CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG region of
topology.c.

Now at long last we have:

- sd_flag_debug declared in include/linux/sched/topology.h iff
  CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG=y
- sd_flag_debug defined in kernel/sched/topology.c, conditioned by:
  - CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG, with an explicit #ifdef block
  - CONFIG_SMP, as a requirement to compile topology.c

With this change, all symbols pertaining to SD flag metadata (with the
exception of __SD_FLAG_CNT) are now defined exclusively within topology.c

Fixes: 8fca9494d4b4 ("sched/topology: Move sd_flag_debug out of linux/sched/topology.h")
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200908184956.23369-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com
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<entry>
<title>sched/topology: Move sd_flag_debug out of linux/sched/topology.h</title>
<updated>2020-08-26T10:41:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Valentin Schneider</name>
<email>valentin.schneider@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-25T13:32:15+00:00</published>
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Defining an array in a header imported all over the place clearly is a daft
idea, that still didn't stop me from doing it.

Leave a declaration of sd_flag_debug in topology.h and move its definition
to sched/debug.c.

Fixes: b6e862f38672 ("sched/topology: Define and assign sched_domain flag metadata")
Reported-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200825133216.9163-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com
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Defining an array in a header imported all over the place clearly is a daft
idea, that still didn't stop me from doing it.

Leave a declaration of sd_flag_debug in topology.h and move its definition
to sched/debug.c.

Fixes: b6e862f38672 ("sched/topology: Define and assign sched_domain flag metadata")
Reported-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200825133216.9163-1-valentin.schneider@arm.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/debug: Output SD flag names rather than their values</title>
<updated>2020-08-19T08:49:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Valentin Schneider</name>
<email>valentin.schneider@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-17T11:29:52+00:00</published>
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Decoding the output of /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu*/domain*/flags has
always been somewhat annoying, as one needs to go fetch the bit -&gt; name
mapping from the source code itself. This encoding can be saved in a script
somewhere, but that isn't safe from flags being added, removed or even
shuffled around.

What matters for debugging purposes is to get *which* flags are set in a
given domain, their associated value is pretty much meaningless.

Make the sd flags debug file output flag names.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200817113003.20802-7-valentin.schneider@arm.com
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Decoding the output of /proc/sys/kernel/sched_domain/cpu*/domain*/flags has
always been somewhat annoying, as one needs to go fetch the bit -&gt; name
mapping from the source code itself. This encoding can be saved in a script
somewhere, but that isn't safe from flags being added, removed or even
shuffled around.

What matters for debugging purposes is to get *which* flags are set in a
given domain, their associated value is pretty much meaningless.

Make the sd flags debug file output flag names.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200817113003.20802-7-valentin.schneider@arm.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: Add rq::ttwu_pending</title>
<updated>2020-05-28T08:54:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-26T16:11:03+00:00</published>
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In preparation of removing rq-&gt;wake_list, replace the
!list_empty(rq-&gt;wake_list) with rq-&gt;ttwu_pending. This is not fully
equivalent as this new variable is racy.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526161908.070399698@infradead.org
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In preparation of removing rq-&gt;wake_list, replace the
!list_empty(rq-&gt;wake_list) with rq-&gt;ttwu_pending. This is not fully
equivalent as this new variable is racy.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526161908.070399698@infradead.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sched/urgent'</title>
<updated>2020-05-19T18:34:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-19T18:34:12+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>sched/debug: Fix requested task uclamp values shown in procfs</title>
<updated>2020-05-19T18:34:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavankumar Kondeti</name>
<email>pkondeti@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-05-10T12:56:41+00:00</published>
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The intention of commit 96e74ebf8d59 ("sched/debug: Add task uclamp
values to SCHED_DEBUG procfs") was to print requested and effective
task uclamp values. The requested values printed are read from p-&gt;uclamp,
which holds the last effective values. Fix this by printing the values
from p-&gt;uclamp_req.

Fixes: 96e74ebf8d59 ("sched/debug: Add task uclamp values to SCHED_DEBUG procfs")
Signed-off-by: Pavankumar Kondeti &lt;pkondeti@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1589115401-26391-1-git-send-email-pkondeti@codeaurora.org
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The intention of commit 96e74ebf8d59 ("sched/debug: Add task uclamp
values to SCHED_DEBUG procfs") was to print requested and effective
task uclamp values. The requested values printed are read from p-&gt;uclamp,
which holds the last effective values. Fix this by printing the values
from p-&gt;uclamp_req.

Fixes: 96e74ebf8d59 ("sched/debug: Add task uclamp values to SCHED_DEBUG procfs")
Signed-off-by: Pavankumar Kondeti &lt;pkondeti@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1589115401-26391-1-git-send-email-pkondeti@codeaurora.org
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<title>sched/debug: Make sd-&gt;flags sysctl read-only</title>
<updated>2020-04-30T18:14:39+00:00</updated>
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<name>Valentin Schneider</name>
<email>valentin.schneider@arm.com</email>
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<published>2020-04-15T21:05:05+00:00</published>
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Writing to the sysctl of a sched_domain-&gt;flags directly updates the value of
the field, and goes nowhere near update_top_cache_domain(). This means that
the cached domain pointers can end up containing stale data (e.g. the
domain pointed to doesn't have the relevant flag set anymore).

Explicit domain walks that check for flags will be affected by
the write, but this won't be in sync with the cached pointers which will
still point to the domains that were cached at the last sched_domain
build.

In other words, writing to this interface is playing a dangerous game. It
could be made to trigger an update of the cached sched_domain pointers when
written to, but this does not seem to be worth the trouble. Make it
read-only.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200415210512.805-3-valentin.schneider@arm.com
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Writing to the sysctl of a sched_domain-&gt;flags directly updates the value of
the field, and goes nowhere near update_top_cache_domain(). This means that
the cached domain pointers can end up containing stale data (e.g. the
domain pointed to doesn't have the relevant flag set anymore).

Explicit domain walks that check for flags will be affected by
the write, but this won't be in sync with the cached pointers which will
still point to the domains that were cached at the last sched_domain
build.

In other words, writing to this interface is playing a dangerous game. It
could be made to trigger an update of the cached sched_domain pointers when
written to, but this does not seem to be worth the trouble. Make it
read-only.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200415210512.805-3-valentin.schneider@arm.com
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