we cannot simply copy the cpuset.cpus file from our parent cgroup. For example,
in the root cgroup cpuset.cpus will contain all of the cpus including the
isolated cpus. Copying the values of the root cgroup into a child cgroup will
lead to a wrong view in /proc/self/status: For the root cgroup
/sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset /proc/self/status will correctly show
Cpus_allowed_list: 0-1,3
even though cpuset.cpus will show
0-3
However, initializing a subcgroup in the cpuset controller by copying the
cpuset.cpus setting from the root cgroup will cause /proc/self/status to
incorrectly show
Cpus_allowed_list: 0-3
Hence, we need to make sure to remove the isolated cpus from cpuset.cpus. Seth
has argued that this is not a kernel bug but by design. So let us be the smart
guys and fix this in liblxc.
The solution is straightforward: To avoid having to work with raw cpulist
strings we create cpumasks based on uint32_t bit arrays.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@canonical.com>