The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
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From a0195f314a25582b38993bf30db11c300f4f4611 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fenghua Yu fenghua.yu@intel.com Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 14:31:19 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] x86/resctrl: Don't move a task to the same resource group
Shakeel Butt reported in [1] that a user can request a task to be moved to a resource group even if the task is already in the group. It just wastes time to do the move operation which could be costly to send IPI to a different CPU.
Add a sanity check to ensure that the move operation only happens when the task is not already in the resource group.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CALvZod7E9zzHwenzf7objzGKsdBmVwTgEJ0nPgs0LUFU3S...
Fixes: e02737d5b826 ("x86/intel_rdt: Add tasks files") Reported-by: Shakeel Butt shakeelb@google.com Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu fenghua.yu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre reinette.chatre@intel.com Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov bp@suse.de Reviewed-by: Tony Luck tony.luck@intel.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/962ede65d8e95be793cb61102cca37f7bb018e66.160824314...
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c index 1c6f8a60ac52..460f3e0df106 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c @@ -546,6 +546,13 @@ static void update_task_closid_rmid(struct task_struct *t) static int __rdtgroup_move_task(struct task_struct *tsk, struct rdtgroup *rdtgrp) { + /* If the task is already in rdtgrp, no need to move the task. */ + if ((rdtgrp->type == RDTCTRL_GROUP && tsk->closid == rdtgrp->closid && + tsk->rmid == rdtgrp->mon.rmid) || + (rdtgrp->type == RDTMON_GROUP && tsk->rmid == rdtgrp->mon.rmid && + tsk->closid == rdtgrp->mon.parent->closid)) + return 0; + /* * Set the task's closid/rmid before the PQR_ASSOC MSR can be * updated by them.