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Andrea Righi 6ae315d379 sched_ext: Use HK_TYPE_DOMAIN_BOOT to detect isolcpus= domain isolation
scx_enable() refuses to attach a BPF scheduler when isolcpus=domain is
in effect by comparing housekeeping_cpumask(HK_TYPE_DOMAIN) against
cpu_possible_mask.

Since commit 27c3a5967f ("sched/isolation: Convert housekeeping
cpumasks to rcu pointers"), HK_TYPE_DOMAIN's cpumask is RCU protected
and dereferencing it requires either RCU read lock, the cpu_hotplug
write lock, or the cpuset lock; scx_enable() holds none of these, so
booting with isolcpus=domain and attaching any BPF scheduler triggers
the following lockdep splat:

  =============================
  WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
  -----------------------------
  kernel/sched/isolation.c:60 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!

  1 lock held by scx_flash/281:
   #0: ffffffff8379fce0 (update_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at:
       bpf_struct_ops_link_create+0x134/0x1c0

  Call Trace:
   dump_stack_lvl+0x6f/0xb0
   lockdep_rcu_suspicious.cold+0x37/0x70
   housekeeping_cpumask+0xcd/0xe0
   scx_enable.isra.0+0x17/0x120
   bpf_scx_reg+0x5e/0x80
   bpf_struct_ops_link_create+0x151/0x1c0
   __sys_bpf+0x1e4b/0x33c0
   __x64_sys_bpf+0x21/0x30
   do_syscall_64+0x117/0xf80
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

In addition, commit 03ff735101 ("cpuset: Update HK_TYPE_DOMAIN cpumask
from cpuset") made HK_TYPE_DOMAIN include cpuset isolated partitions as
well, which means the current check also rejects BPF schedulers when a
cpuset partition is active. That contradicts the original intent of
commit 9f391f94a1 ("sched_ext: Disallow loading BPF scheduler if
isolcpus= domain isolation is in effect"), which explicitly noted that
cpuset partitions are honored through per-task cpumasks and should not
be rejected.

Switch to housekeeping_enabled(HK_TYPE_DOMAIN_BOOT), which reads only
the housekeeping flag bit (no RCU dereference) and reflects exactly the
boot-time isolcpus= configuration that the error message refers to.

Fixes: 27c3a5967f ("sched/isolation: Convert housekeeping cpumasks to rcu pointers")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v7.0+
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
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