Subject: [PATCH 29/33] sched/arm64: Move fallback task cpumask to HK_TYPE_DOMAIN

From: Frederic Weisbecker <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:45:36 +0100

When none of the allowed CPUs of a task are online, it gets migrated
to the fallback cpumask which is all the non nohz_full CPUs.

However just like nohz_full CPUs, domain isolated CPUs don't want to be
disturbed by tasks that have lost their CPU affinities.

And since nohz_full rely on domain isolation to work correctly, the
housekeeping mask of domain isolated CPUs should always be a subset of
the housekeeping mask of nohz_full CPUs (there can be CPUs that are
domain isolated but not nohz_full, OTOH there shouldn't be nohz_full
CPUs that are not domain isolated):

	HK_TYPE_DOMAIN & HK_TYPE_KERNEL_NOISE == HK_TYPE_DOMAIN

Therefore use HK_TYPE_DOMAIN as the appropriate fallback target for
tasks. Note that cpuset isolated partitions are not supported on those
systems and may result in undefined behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email-masked]>
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <[email-masked]>
---
 Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst | 12 ++++++++----
 arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c                |  6 +++---
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst b/Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst
index 57b8d7476f71..fc0c350c5e00 100644
--- a/Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst
+++ b/Documentation/arch/arm64/asymmetric-32bit.rst
@@ -154,10 +154,14 @@ mode will return to host userspace with an ``exit_reason`` of
 ``KVM_EXIT_FAIL_ENTRY`` and will remain non-runnable until successfully
 re-initialised by a subsequent ``KVM_ARM_VCPU_INIT`` operation.
 
-NOHZ FULL
----------
+SCHEDULER DOMAIN ISOLATION
+--------------------------
 
-To avoid perturbing an adaptive-ticks CPU (specified using
-``nohz_full=``) when a 32-bit task is forcefully migrated, these CPUs
+To avoid perturbing a boot-defined domain isolated CPU (specified using
+``isolcpus=[domain]``) when a 32-bit task is forcefully migrated, these CPUs
 are treated as 64-bit-only when support for asymmetric 32-bit systems
 is enabled.
+
+However as opposed to boot-defined domain isolation, runtime-defined domain
+isolation using cpuset isolated partition is not advised on asymmetric
+32-bit systems and will result in undefined behaviour.
diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
index c840a93b9ef9..f0e66cb27d17 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/cpufeature.c
@@ -1669,7 +1669,7 @@ const struct cpumask *system_32bit_el0_cpumask(void)
 
 const struct cpumask *task_cpu_fallback_mask(struct task_struct *p)
 {
-	return __task_cpu_possible_mask(p, housekeeping_cpumask(HK_TYPE_TICK));
+	return __task_cpu_possible_mask(p, housekeeping_cpumask(HK_TYPE_DOMAIN));
 }
 
 static int __init parse_32bit_el0_param(char *str)
@@ -3987,8 +3987,8 @@ static int enable_mismatched_32bit_el0(unsigned int cpu)
 	bool cpu_32bit = false;
 
 	if (id_aa64pfr0_32bit_el0(info->reg_id_aa64pfr0)) {
-		if (!housekeeping_cpu(cpu, HK_TYPE_TICK))
-			pr_info("Treating adaptive-ticks CPU %u as 64-bit only\n", cpu);
+		if (!housekeeping_cpu(cpu, HK_TYPE_DOMAIN))
+			pr_info("Treating domain isolated CPU %u as 64-bit only\n", cpu);
 		else
 			cpu_32bit = true;
 	}
-- 
2.51.1