- Inline timecounter_cyc2time() as that is now used in the networking
hotpath. Inlining it significantly improves performance.
- Optimize the tick dependency check in case that the tracepoint is disabled,
which improves the hotpath performance in the tick management code, which
is a hotpath on transitions in and out of idle.
- The usual cleanups and improvements
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Merge tag 'timers-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Inline timecounter_cyc2time() as that is now used in the networking
hotpath. Inlining it significantly improves performance.
- Optimize the tick dependency check in case that the tracepoint is
disabled, which improves the hotpath performance in the tick
management code, which is a hotpath on transitions in and out of
idle.
- The usual cleanups and improvements
* tag 'timers-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
time/kunit: Document handling of negative years of is_leap()
tick/nohz: Optimize check_tick_dependency() with early return
time/sched_clock: Use ACCESS_PRIVATE() to evaluate hrtimer::function
hrtimer: Drop _tv64() helpers
hrtimer: Remove public definition of HIGH_RES_NSEC
hrtimer: Remove unused resolution constants
time/timecounter: Inline timecounter_cyc2time()
Scheduler Kconfig space updates:
- Further consolidate configurable preemption modes: reduce
the number of architectures that are allowed to offer
PREEMPT_NONE and PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY, reducing the number
of preemption models from four to just two: 'full' and 'lazy'
on up-to-date architectures (arm64, loongarch, powerpc,
riscv, s390, x86).
None and voluntary are only available as legacy features
on platforms that don't implement lazy preemption yet,
or which don't even support preemption.
The goal is to eventually remove cond_resched() and
voluntary preemption altogether.
(Peter Zijlstra)
RSEQ based 'scheduler time slice extension' support:
This allows a thread to request a time slice extension when it
enters a critical section to avoid contention on a resource when
the thread is scheduled out inside of the critical section.
- Add fields and constants for time slice extension
- Provide static branch for time slice extensions
- Add statistics for time slice extensions
- Add prctl() to enable time slice extensions
- Implement sys_rseq_slice_yield()
- Implement syscall entry work for time slice extensions
- Implement time slice extension enforcement timer
- Reset slice extension when scheduled
- Implement rseq_grant_slice_extension()
- entry: Hook up rseq time slice extension
- selftests: Implement time slice extension test
(Thomas Gleixner)
- Allow registering RSEQ with slice extension
- Move slice_ext_nsec to debugfs
- Lower default slice extension
- selftests/rseq: Add rseq slice histogram script
(Peter Zijlstra)
Scheduler performance/scalability improvements:
- Update rq->avg_idle when a task is moved to an idle CPU,
which improves the scalability of various workloads.
(Shubhang Kaushik)
- Reorder fields in 'struct rq' for better caching
(Blake Jones)
- Fair scheduler SMP NOHZ balancing code speedups:
- Move checking for nohz cpus after time check
- Change likelyhood of nohz.nr_cpus
- Remove nohz.nr_cpus and use weight of cpumask instead
(Shrikanth Hegde)
- Avoid false sharing for sched_clock_irqtime (Wangyang Guo)
- Drop useless cpumask_empty() in find_energy_efficient_cpu()
- Simplify task_numa_find_cpu()
- Use cpumask_weight_and() in sched_balance_find_dst_group()
(Yury Norov)
DL scheduler updates:
- Add a deadline server for sched_ext tasks (by Andrea Righi and
Joel Fernandes, with fixes by Peter Zijlstra)
RT scheduler updates:
- Skip currently executing CPU in rto_next_cpu() (Chen Jinghuang)
Entry code updates and performance improvements, which is part of the
scheduler tree in this cycle due to interdependencies with the RSEQ
based time slice extension work:
- Remove unused syscall argument from syscall_trace_enter()
- Rework syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work() for architecture reuse
- Add arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry/exit()
- Inline syscall_exit_work() and syscall_trace_enter()
(Jinjie Ruan)
Scheduler core updates:
- Rework sched_class::wakeup_preempt() and rq_modified_*()
- Avoid rq->lock bouncing in sched_balance_newidle()
- Rename rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain() =>
rcu_dereference_sched_domain()
- <linux/compiler_types.h>: Add the __signed_scalar_typeof() helper
(Peter Zijlstra)
Fair scheduler updates/refactoring:
- Fold the sched_avg update
- Change rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain() to rcu-sched
- Switch to rcu_dereference_all()
- Remove superfluous rcu_read_lock()
- Limit hrtick work
(Peter Zijlstra)
- Join two #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED blocks
- Clean up comments in 'struct cfs_rq'
- Separate se->vlag from se->vprot
- Rename cfs_rq::avg_load to cfs_rq::sum_weight
- Rename cfs_rq::avg_vruntime to ::sum_w_vruntime & helper functions
- Introduce and use the vruntime_cmp() and vruntime_op() wrappers
for wrapped-signed aritmetics
- Sort out 'blocked_load*' namespace noise
(Ingo Molnar)
Scheduler debugging code updates:
- Export hidden tracepoints to modules (Gabriele Monaco)
- Convert copy_from_user() + kstrtouint() to kstrtouint_from_user()
(Fushuai Wang)
- Add assertions to QUEUE_CLASS (Peter Zijlstra)
- hrtimer: Fix tracing oddity (Thomas Gleixner)
Misc fixes and cleanups:
- Re-evaluate scheduling when migrating queued tasks out of
throttled cgroups (Zicheng Qu)
- Remove task_struct->faults_disabled_mapping (Christoph Hellwig)
- Fix math notation errors in avg_vruntime comment (Zhan Xusheng)
- sched/cpufreq: Use %pe format for PTR_ERR() printing (zenghongling)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'sched-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Scheduler Kconfig space updates:
- Further consolidate configurable preemption modes (Peter Zijlstra)
Reduce the number of architectures that are allowed to offer
PREEMPT_NONE and PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY, reducing the number of
preemption models from four to just two: 'full' and 'lazy' on
up-to-date architectures (arm64, loongarch, powerpc, riscv, s390,
x86).
None and voluntary are only available as legacy features on
platforms that don't implement lazy preemption yet, or which don't
even support preemption.
The goal is to eventually remove cond_resched() and voluntary
preemption altogether.
RSEQ based 'scheduler time slice extension' support (Thomas Gleixner
and Peter Zijlstra):
This allows a thread to request a time slice extension when it enters
a critical section to avoid contention on a resource when the thread
is scheduled out inside of the critical section.
- Add fields and constants for time slice extension
- Provide static branch for time slice extensions
- Add statistics for time slice extensions
- Add prctl() to enable time slice extensions
- Implement sys_rseq_slice_yield()
- Implement syscall entry work for time slice extensions
- Implement time slice extension enforcement timer
- Reset slice extension when scheduled
- Implement rseq_grant_slice_extension()
- entry: Hook up rseq time slice extension
- selftests: Implement time slice extension test
- Allow registering RSEQ with slice extension
- Move slice_ext_nsec to debugfs
- Lower default slice extension
- selftests/rseq: Add rseq slice histogram script
Scheduler performance/scalability improvements:
- Update rq->avg_idle when a task is moved to an idle CPU, which
improves the scalability of various workloads (Shubhang Kaushik)
- Reorder fields in 'struct rq' for better caching (Blake Jones)
- Fair scheduler SMP NOHZ balancing code speedups (Shrikanth Hegde):
- Move checking for nohz cpus after time check
- Change likelyhood of nohz.nr_cpus
- Remove nohz.nr_cpus and use weight of cpumask instead
- Avoid false sharing for sched_clock_irqtime (Wangyang Guo)
- Cleanups (Yury Norov):
- Drop useless cpumask_empty() in find_energy_efficient_cpu()
- Simplify task_numa_find_cpu()
- Use cpumask_weight_and() in sched_balance_find_dst_group()
DL scheduler updates:
- Add a deadline server for sched_ext tasks (by Andrea Righi and Joel
Fernandes, with fixes by Peter Zijlstra)
RT scheduler updates:
- Skip currently executing CPU in rto_next_cpu() (Chen Jinghuang)
Entry code updates and performance improvements (Jinjie Ruan)
This is part of the scheduler tree in this cycle due to inter-
dependencies with the RSEQ based time slice extension work:
- Remove unused syscall argument from syscall_trace_enter()
- Rework syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work() for architecture reuse
- Add arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry/exit()
- Inline syscall_exit_work() and syscall_trace_enter()
Scheduler core updates (Peter Zijlstra):
- Rework sched_class::wakeup_preempt() and rq_modified_*()
- Avoid rq->lock bouncing in sched_balance_newidle()
- Rename rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain() =>
rcu_dereference_sched_domain()
- <linux/compiler_types.h>: Add the __signed_scalar_typeof() helper
Fair scheduler updates/refactoring (Peter Zijlstra and Ingo Molnar):
- Fold the sched_avg update
- Change rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain() to rcu-sched
- Switch to rcu_dereference_all()
- Remove superfluous rcu_read_lock()
- Limit hrtick work
- Join two #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED blocks
- Clean up comments in 'struct cfs_rq'
- Separate se->vlag from se->vprot
- Rename cfs_rq::avg_load to cfs_rq::sum_weight
- Rename cfs_rq::avg_vruntime to ::sum_w_vruntime & helper functions
- Introduce and use the vruntime_cmp() and vruntime_op() wrappers for
wrapped-signed aritmetics
- Sort out 'blocked_load*' namespace noise
Scheduler debugging code updates:
- Export hidden tracepoints to modules (Gabriele Monaco)
- Convert copy_from_user() + kstrtouint() to kstrtouint_from_user()
(Fushuai Wang)
- Add assertions to QUEUE_CLASS (Peter Zijlstra)
- hrtimer: Fix tracing oddity (Thomas Gleixner)
Misc fixes and cleanups:
- Re-evaluate scheduling when migrating queued tasks out of throttled
cgroups (Zicheng Qu)
- Remove task_struct->faults_disabled_mapping (Christoph Hellwig)
- Fix math notation errors in avg_vruntime comment (Zhan Xusheng)
- sched/cpufreq: Use %pe format for PTR_ERR() printing
(zenghongling)"
* tag 'sched-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits)
sched: Re-evaluate scheduling when migrating queued tasks out of throttled cgroups
sched/cpufreq: Use %pe format for PTR_ERR() printing
sched/rt: Skip currently executing CPU in rto_next_cpu()
sched/clock: Avoid false sharing for sched_clock_irqtime
selftests/sched_ext: Add test for DL server total_bw consistency
selftests/sched_ext: Add test for sched_ext dl_server
sched/debug: Fix dl_server (re)start conditions
sched/debug: Add support to change sched_ext server params
sched_ext: Add a DL server for sched_ext tasks
sched/debug: Stop and start server based on if it was active
sched/debug: Fix updating of ppos on server write ops
sched/deadline: Clear the defer params
entry: Inline syscall_exit_work() and syscall_trace_enter()
entry: Add arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry/exit()
entry: Rework syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work() for architecture reuse
entry: Remove unused syscall argument from syscall_trace_enter()
sched: remove task_struct->faults_disabled_mapping
sched: Update rq->avg_idle when a task is moved to an idle CPU
selftests/rseq: Add rseq slice histogram script
hrtimer: Fix trace oddity
...
Lock debugging:
- Implement compiler-driven static analysis locking context
checking, using the upcoming Clang 22 compiler's context
analysis features. (Marco Elver)
We removed Sparse context analysis support, because prior to
removal even a defconfig kernel produced 1,700+ context
tracking Sparse warnings, the overwhelming majority of which
are false positives. On an allmodconfig kernel the number of
false positive context tracking Sparse warnings grows to
over 5,200... On the plus side of the balance actual locking
bugs found by Sparse context analysis is also rather ... sparse:
I found only 3 such commits in the last 3 years. So the
rate of false positives and the maintenance overhead is
rather high and there appears to be no active policy in
place to achieve a zero-warnings baseline to move the
annotations & fixers to developers who introduce new code.
Clang context analysis is more complete and more aggressive
in trying to find bugs, at least in principle. Plus it has
a different model to enabling it: it's enabled subsystem by
subsystem, which results in zero warnings on all relevant
kernel builds (as far as our testing managed to cover it).
Which allowed us to enable it by default, similar to other
compiler warnings, with the expectation that there are no
warnings going forward. This enforces a zero-warnings baseline
on clang-22+ builds. (Which are still limited in distribution,
admittedly.)
Hopefully the Clang approach can lead to a more maintainable
zero-warnings status quo and policy, with more and more
subsystems and drivers enabling the feature. Context tracking
can be enabled for all kernel code via WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ALL=y
(default disabled), but this will generate a lot of false positives.
( Having said that, Sparse support could still be added back,
if anyone is interested - the removal patch is still
relatively straightforward to revert at this stage. )
Rust integration updates: (Alice Ryhl, Fujita Tomonori, Boqun Feng)
- Add support for Atomic<i8/i16/bool> and replace most Rust native
AtomicBool usages with Atomic<bool>
- Clean up LockClassKey and improve its documentation
- Add missing Send and Sync trait implementation for SetOnce
- Make ARef Unpin as it is supposed to be
- Add __rust_helper to a few Rust helpers as a preparation for
helper LTO
- Inline various lock related functions to avoid additional
function calls.
WW mutexes:
- Extend ww_mutex tests and other test-ww_mutex updates (John Stultz)
Misc fixes and cleanups:
- rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline
(Arnd Bergmann)
- locking/local_lock: Include more missing headers (Peter Zijlstra)
- seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc (Randy Dunlap)
- rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
(Tamir Duberstein)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Lock debugging:
- Implement compiler-driven static analysis locking context checking,
using the upcoming Clang 22 compiler's context analysis features
(Marco Elver)
We removed Sparse context analysis support, because prior to
removal even a defconfig kernel produced 1,700+ context tracking
Sparse warnings, the overwhelming majority of which are false
positives. On an allmodconfig kernel the number of false positive
context tracking Sparse warnings grows to over 5,200... On the plus
side of the balance actual locking bugs found by Sparse context
analysis is also rather ... sparse: I found only 3 such commits in
the last 3 years. So the rate of false positives and the
maintenance overhead is rather high and there appears to be no
active policy in place to achieve a zero-warnings baseline to move
the annotations & fixers to developers who introduce new code.
Clang context analysis is more complete and more aggressive in
trying to find bugs, at least in principle. Plus it has a different
model to enabling it: it's enabled subsystem by subsystem, which
results in zero warnings on all relevant kernel builds (as far as
our testing managed to cover it). Which allowed us to enable it by
default, similar to other compiler warnings, with the expectation
that there are no warnings going forward. This enforces a
zero-warnings baseline on clang-22+ builds (Which are still limited
in distribution, admittedly)
Hopefully the Clang approach can lead to a more maintainable
zero-warnings status quo and policy, with more and more subsystems
and drivers enabling the feature. Context tracking can be enabled
for all kernel code via WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ALL=y (default
disabled), but this will generate a lot of false positives.
( Having said that, Sparse support could still be added back,
if anyone is interested - the removal patch is still
relatively straightforward to revert at this stage. )
Rust integration updates: (Alice Ryhl, Fujita Tomonori, Boqun Feng)
- Add support for Atomic<i8/i16/bool> and replace most Rust native
AtomicBool usages with Atomic<bool>
- Clean up LockClassKey and improve its documentation
- Add missing Send and Sync trait implementation for SetOnce
- Make ARef Unpin as it is supposed to be
- Add __rust_helper to a few Rust helpers as a preparation for
helper LTO
- Inline various lock related functions to avoid additional function
calls
WW mutexes:
- Extend ww_mutex tests and other test-ww_mutex updates (John
Stultz)
Misc fixes and cleanups:
- rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline (Arnd
Bergmann)
- locking/local_lock: Include more missing headers (Peter Zijlstra)
- seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc (Randy Dunlap)
- rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings (Tamir
Duberstein)"
* tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (90 commits)
locking/rwlock: Fix write_trylock_irqsave() with CONFIG_INLINE_WRITE_TRYLOCK
rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline
compiler-context-analysis: Remove __assume_ctx_lock from initializers
tomoyo: Use scoped init guard
crypto: Use scoped init guard
kcov: Use scoped init guard
compiler-context-analysis: Introduce scoped init guards
cleanup: Make __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD handle commas in initializers
seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc
tools: Update context analysis macros in compiler_types.h
rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings
rust: sync: Inline various lock related methods
rust: helpers: Move #define __rust_helper out of atomic.c
rust: wait: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: time: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: task: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: sync: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: refcount: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: rcu: Add __rust_helper to helpers
rust: processor: Add __rust_helper to helpers
...
affinity of unbound kthreads (node or custom cpumask) against
housekeeping (CPU isolation) constraints and CPU hotplug events.
One crucial missing piece is the handling of cpuset: when an isolated
partition is created, deleted, or its CPUs updated, all the unbound
kthreads in the top cpuset become indifferently affine to _all_ the
non-isolated CPUs, possibly breaking their preferred affinity along
the way.
Solve this with performing the kthreads affinity update from cpuset to
the kthreads consolidated relevant code instead so that preferred
affinities are honoured and applied against the updated cpuset isolated
partitions.
The dispatch of the new isolated cpumasks to timers, workqueues and
kthreads is performed by housekeeping, as per the nice Tejun's
suggestion.
As a welcome side effect, HK_TYPE_DOMAIN then integrates both the set
from boot defined domain isolation (through isolcpus=) and cpuset
isolated partitions. Housekeeping cpumasks are now modifiable with a
specific RCU based synchronization. A big step toward making nohz_full=
also mutable through cpuset in the future.
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Merge tag 'kthread-for-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks
Pull kthread updates from Frederic Weisbecker:
"The kthread code provides an infrastructure which manages the
preferred affinity of unbound kthreads (node or custom cpumask)
against housekeeping (CPU isolation) constraints and CPU hotplug
events.
One crucial missing piece is the handling of cpuset: when an isolated
partition is created, deleted, or its CPUs updated, all the unbound
kthreads in the top cpuset become indifferently affine to _all_ the
non-isolated CPUs, possibly breaking their preferred affinity along
the way.
Solve this with performing the kthreads affinity update from cpuset to
the kthreads consolidated relevant code instead so that preferred
affinities are honoured and applied against the updated cpuset
isolated partitions.
The dispatch of the new isolated cpumasks to timers, workqueues and
kthreads is performed by housekeeping, as per the nice Tejun's
suggestion.
As a welcome side effect, HK_TYPE_DOMAIN then integrates both the set
from boot defined domain isolation (through isolcpus=) and cpuset
isolated partitions. Housekeeping cpumasks are now modifiable with a
specific RCU based synchronization. A big step toward making
nohz_full= also mutable through cpuset in the future"
* tag 'kthread-for-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks: (33 commits)
doc: Add housekeeping documentation
kthread: Document kthread_affine_preferred()
kthread: Comment on the purpose and placement of kthread_affine_node() call
kthread: Honour kthreads preferred affinity after cpuset changes
sched/arm64: Move fallback task cpumask to HK_TYPE_DOMAIN
sched: Switch the fallback task allowed cpumask to HK_TYPE_DOMAIN
kthread: Rely on HK_TYPE_DOMAIN for preferred affinity management
kthread: Include kthreadd to the managed affinity list
kthread: Include unbound kthreads in the managed affinity list
kthread: Refine naming of affinity related fields
PCI: Remove superfluous HK_TYPE_WQ check
sched/isolation: Remove HK_TYPE_TICK test from cpu_is_isolated()
cpuset: Remove cpuset_cpu_is_isolated()
timers/migration: Remove superfluous cpuset isolation test
cpuset: Propagate cpuset isolation update to timers through housekeeping
cpuset: Propagate cpuset isolation update to workqueue through housekeeping
PCI: Flush PCI probe workqueue on cpuset isolated partition change
sched/isolation: Flush vmstat workqueues on cpuset isolated partition change
sched/isolation: Flush memcg workqueues on cpuset isolated partition change
cpuset: Update HK_TYPE_DOMAIN cpumask from cpuset
...
Cpuset isolated partitions are now included in HK_TYPE_DOMAIN. Testing
if a CPU is part of an isolated partition alone is now useless.
Remove the superflous test.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Testing housekeeping_cpu() will soon require that either the RCU "lock"
is held or the cpuset mutex.
When CPUs get isolated through cpuset, the change is propagated to
timer migration such that isolation is also performed from the migration
tree. However that propagation is done using workqueue which tests if
the target is actually isolated before proceeding.
Lockdep doesn't know that the workqueue caller holds cpuset mutex and
that it waits for the work, making the housekeeping cpumask read safe.
Shut down the future warning by removing this test. It is unecessary
beyond hotplug, the workqueue is already targeted towards isolated CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
The code local is_leap() helper was tried to be replaced by the RTC
is_leap_year() function. Unfortunately the two aren't exactly equivalent,
as the kunit variant uses a signed value for the year and the RTC an
unsigned one.
Since the KUnit tests cover a 16000 year range around the epoch they use
year values that are very comfortably negative and hence get mishandled
when passed into is_leap_year().
The change was reverted, so add a comment which prevents further attempts
to do so.
[ tglx: Adapted to the revert ]
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260130-kunit-fix-leap-year-v1-1-92ddf55dffd7@kernel.org
There is no point in iterating through individual tick dependency bits when
the tick_stop tracepoint is disabled, which is the common case.
When the trace point is disabled, return immediately based on the atomic
value being zero or non-zero, skipping the per-bit evaluation.
This optimization improves the hot path performance of tick dependency
checks across all contexts (idle and non-idle), not just nohz_full CPUs.
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ionut Nechita (Sunlight Linux) <sunlightlinux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260128074558.15433-3-sunlightlinux@gmail.com
cpufreq calls get_cpu_idle_time_us() just to know if idle cputime
accounting has a nanoseconds granularity.
Use the appropriate indicator instead to make that deduction.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aXozx0PXutnm8ECX@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
It turns out that __run_hrtimer() will trace like:
<idle>-0 [032] d.h2. 20705.474563: hrtimer_cancel: hrtimer=0xff2db8f77f8226e8
<idle>-0 [032] d.h1. 20705.474563: hrtimer_expire_entry: hrtimer=0xff2db8f77f8226e8 now=20699452001850 function=tick_nohz_handler/0x0
Which is a bit nonsensical, the timer doesn't get canceled on
expiration. The cause is the use of the incorrect debug helper.
Fixes: c6a2a17702 ("hrtimer: Add tracepoint for hrtimers")
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260121143208.219595606@infradead.org
The "valid" readout delay between the two reads of the watchdog is larger
than the valid delta between the resulting watchdog and clocksource
intervals, which results in false positive watchdog results.
Assume TSC is the clocksource and HPET is the watchdog and both have a
uncertainty margin of 250us (default). The watchdog readout does:
1) wdnow = read(HPET);
2) csnow = read(TSC);
3) wdend = read(HPET);
The valid window for the delta between #1 and #3 is calculated by the
uncertainty margins of the watchdog and the clocksource:
m = 2 * watchdog.uncertainty_margin + cs.uncertainty margin;
which results in 750us for the TSC/HPET case.
The actual interval comparison uses a smaller margin:
m = watchdog.uncertainty_margin + cs.uncertainty margin;
which results in 500us for the TSC/HPET case.
That means the following scenario will trigger the watchdog:
Watchdog cycle N:
1) wdnow[N] = read(HPET);
2) csnow[N] = read(TSC);
3) wdend[N] = read(HPET);
Assume the delay between #1 and #2 is 100us and the delay between #1 and
Watchdog cycle N + 1:
4) wdnow[N + 1] = read(HPET);
5) csnow[N + 1] = read(TSC);
6) wdend[N + 1] = read(HPET);
If the delay between #4 and #6 is within the 750us margin then any delay
between #4 and #5 which is larger than 600us will fail the interval check
and mark the TSC unstable because the intervals are calculated against the
previous value:
wd_int = wdnow[N + 1] - wdnow[N];
cs_int = csnow[N + 1] - csnow[N];
Putting the above delays in place this results in:
cs_int = (wdnow[N + 1] + 610us) - (wdnow[N] + 100us);
-> cs_int = wd_int + 510us;
which is obviously larger than the allowed 500us margin and results in
marking TSC unstable.
Fix this by using the same margin as the interval comparison. If the delay
between two watchdog reads is larger than that, then the readout was either
disturbed by interconnect congestion, NMIs or SMIs.
Fixes: 4ac1dd3245 ("clocksource: Set cs_watchdog_read() checks based on .uncertainty_margin")
Reported-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@quora.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250602223251.496591-1-daniel@quora.org/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/87bjjxc9dq.ffs@tglx
When __do_ajdtimex() was introduced to handle adjtimex for any
timekeeper, this reference to tk_core was not updated. When called on an
auxiliary timekeeper, the core timekeeper would be updated incorrectly.
This gets caught by the lock debugging diagnostics because the
timekeepers sequence lock gets written to without holding its
associated spinlock:
WARNING: include/linux/seqlock.h:226 at __do_adjtimex+0x394/0x3b0, CPU#2: test/125
aux_clock_adj (kernel/time/timekeeping.c:2979)
__do_sys_clock_adjtime (kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1161 kernel/time/posix-timers.c:1173)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 (discriminator 1) arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 (discriminator 1))
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:131)
Update the correct auxiliary timekeeper.
Fixes: 775f71ebed ("timekeeping: Make do_adjtimex() reusable")
Fixes: ecf3e70304 ("timekeeping: Provide adjtimex() for auxiliary clocks")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260120-timekeeper-auxclock-leapstate-v1-1-5b358c6b3cfd@linutronix.de
Since ktime_t has become an alias to s64, these helpers are unnecessary.
Migrate the few remaining users to the regular helpers and remove the
now dead code.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260107-hrtimer-header-cleanup-v1-3-1a698ef0ddae@linutronix.de
This constant is only used in a single place and is has a very generic
name polluting the global namespace.
Move the constant closer to its only user.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260107-hrtimer-header-cleanup-v1-2-1a698ef0ddae@linutronix.de
In a vain attempt to consolidate the email zoo switch everything to the
kernel.org account.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As discussed in [1], removing __cond_lock() will improve the readability
of trylock code. Now that Sparse context tracking support has been
removed, we can also remove __cond_lock().
Change existing APIs to either drop __cond_lock() completely, or make
use of the __cond_acquires() function attribute instead.
In particular, spinlock and rwlock implementations required switching
over to inline helpers rather than statement-expressions for their
trylock_* variants.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250207082832.GU7145@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/ [1]
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-25-elver@google.com
New network transport protocols want NIC drivers to get hardware timestamps
of all incoming packets, and possibly all outgoing packets.
One example is the upcoming 'Swift congestion control' which is used by TCP
transport and is the primary need for timecounter_cyc2time(). This means
timecounter_cyc2time() can be called more than 100 million times per second
on a busy server.
Inlining timecounter_cyc2time() brings a 12% improvement on a UDP receive
stress test on a 100Gbit NIC.
Note that FDO, LTO, PGO are unable to magically help for this case,
presumably because NIC drivers are almost exclusively shipped as modules.
Add an unlikely() around the cc_cyc2ns_backwards() case, even if FDO (when
used) is able to take care of this optimization.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://research.google/pubs/swift-delay-is-simple-and-effective-for-congestion-control-in-the-datacenter/
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251129095740.3338476-1-edumazet@google.com
This is the first half of the driver changes:
- A treewide interface change to the "syscore" operations for
power management, as a preparation for future Tegra specific
changes.
- Reset controller updates with added drivers for LAN969x, eic770
and RZ/G3S SoCs.
- Protection of system controller registers on Renesas and Google SoCs,
to prevent trivially triggering a system crash from e.g. debugfs
access.
- soc_device identification updates on Nvidia, Exynos and Mediatek
- debugfs support in the ST STM32 firewall driver
- Minor updates for SoC drivers on AMD/Xilinx, Renesas, Allwinner, TI
- Cleanups for memory controller support on Nvidia and Renesas
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Merge tag 'soc-drivers-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc
Pull SoC driver updates from Arnd Bergmann:
"This is the first half of the driver changes:
- A treewide interface change to the "syscore" operations for power
management, as a preparation for future Tegra specific changes
- Reset controller updates with added drivers for LAN969x, eic770 and
RZ/G3S SoCs
- Protection of system controller registers on Renesas and Google
SoCs, to prevent trivially triggering a system crash from e.g.
debugfs access
- soc_device identification updates on Nvidia, Exynos and Mediatek
- debugfs support in the ST STM32 firewall driver
- Minor updates for SoC drivers on AMD/Xilinx, Renesas, Allwinner, TI
- Cleanups for memory controller support on Nvidia and Renesas"
* tag 'soc-drivers-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc: (114 commits)
memory: tegra186-emc: Fix missing put_bpmp
Documentation: reset: Remove reset_controller_add_lookup()
reset: fix BIT macro reference
reset: rzg2l-usbphy-ctrl: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() bug in probe
reset: th1520: Support reset controllers in more subsystems
reset: th1520: Prepare for supporting multiple controllers
dt-bindings: reset: thead,th1520-reset: Add controllers for more subsys
dt-bindings: reset: thead,th1520-reset: Remove non-VO-subsystem resets
reset: remove legacy reset lookup code
clk: davinci: psc: drop unused reset lookup
reset: rzg2l-usbphy-ctrl: Add support for RZ/G3S SoC
reset: rzg2l-usbphy-ctrl: Add support for USB PWRRDY
dt-bindings: reset: renesas,rzg2l-usbphy-ctrl: Document RZ/G3S support
reset: eswin: Add eic7700 reset driver
dt-bindings: reset: eswin: Documentation for eic7700 SoC
reset: sparx5: add LAN969x support
dt-bindings: reset: microchip: Add LAN969x support
soc: rockchip: grf: Add select correct PWM implementation on RK3368
soc/tegra: pmc: Add USB wake events for Tegra234
amba: tegra-ahb: Fix device leak on SMMU enable
...
* Move jiffies converters out of kernel/sysctl.c
Moved the jiffies converters into kernel/time/jiffies.c and replaced
the pipe-max-size proc_handler converter with a macro based version.
This is all part of the effort to relocate non-sysctl logic out of
kernel/sysctl.c into more relevant subsystems. No functional changes.
* Generalize proc handler converter creation
Removed duplicated sysctl converter logic by consolidating it in
macros. These are used inside sysctl core as well as in pipe.c and
jiffies.c. Converter kernel and user space pointer args are now
automatically const qualified for the convenience of the caller. No
functional changes.
* Miscellaneous
Fixed kernel-doc format warnings, removed unnecessary __user
qualifiers, and moved the nmi_watchdog sysctl into .rodata.
* Testing
This series was run through sysctl selftests/kunit test suite in
x86_64. It went into linux-next after rc2, giving it a good 4/5 weeks
of testing.
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Merge tag 'sysctl-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl
Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados:
- Move jiffies converters out of kernel/sysctl.c
Move the jiffies converters into kernel/time/jiffies.c and replace
the pipe-max-size proc_handler converter with a macro based version.
This is all part of the effort to relocate non-sysctl logic out of
kernel/sysctl.c into more relevant subsystems. No functional changes.
- Generalize proc handler converter creation
Remove duplicated sysctl converter logic by consolidating it in
macros. These are used inside sysctl core as well as in pipe.c and
jiffies.c. Converter kernel and user space pointer args are now
automatically const qualified for the convenience of the caller. No
functional changes.
- Miscellaneous
Fix kernel-doc format warnings, remove unnecessary __user
qualifiers, and move the nmi_watchdog sysctl into .rodata.
- Testing
This series was run through sysctl selftests/kunit test suite in
x86_64. It went into linux-next after rc2, giving it a good 4/5 weeks
of testing.
* tag 'sysctl-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl: (21 commits)
sysctl: Wrap do_proc_douintvec with the public function proc_douintvec_conv
sysctl: Create pipe-max-size converter using sysctl UINT macros
sysctl: Move proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax to kernel/time/jiffies.c
sysctl: Move jiffies converters to kernel/time/jiffies.c
sysctl: Move UINT converter macros to sysctl header
sysctl: Move INT converter macros to sysctl header
sysctl: Allow custom converters from outside sysctl
sysctl: remove __user qualifier from stack_erasing_sysctl buffer argument
sysctl: Create macro for user-to-kernel uint converter
sysctl: Add optional range checking to SYSCTL_UINT_CONV_CUSTOM
sysctl: Create unsigned int converter using new macro
sysctl: Add optional range checking to SYSCTL_INT_CONV_CUSTOM
sysctl: Create integer converters with one macro
sysctl: Create converter functions with two new macros
sysctl: Discriminate between kernel and user converter params
sysctl: Indicate the direction of operation with macro names
sysctl: Remove superfluous __do_proc_* indirection
sysctl: Remove superfluous tbl_data param from "dovec" functions
sysctl: Replace void pointer with const pointer to ctl_table
sysctl: fix kernel-doc format warning
...
by in_hardirq() and marked deprecated in 2020.
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Merge tag 'core-core-2025-12-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull core irq cleanup from Thomas Gleixner:
"Tree wide cleanup of the remaining users of in_irq() which got
replaced by in_hardirq() and marked deprecated in 2020"
* tag 'core-core-2025-12-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
treewide: Remove in_irq()
- Prevent a thundering herd problem when the timekeeper CPU is delayed
and a large number of CPUs compete to acquire jiffies_lock to do the
update. Limit it to one CPU with a separate "uncontended" atomic
variable.
- A set of improvements for the timer migration mechanism:
- Support imbalanced NUMA trees correctly
- Support dynamic exclusion of CPUs from the migrator duty to allow the
cpuset/isolation mechanism to exclude them from handling timers of
remote idle CPUs.
- The usual small updates, cleanups and enhancements
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Merge tag 'timers-core-2025-11-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Prevent a thundering herd problem when the timekeeper CPU is delayed
and a large number of CPUs compete to acquire jiffies_lock to do the
update. Limit it to one CPU with a separate "uncontended" atomic
variable.
- A set of improvements for the timer migration mechanism:
- Support imbalanced NUMA trees correctly
- Support dynamic exclusion of CPUs from the migrator duty to allow
the cpuset/isolation mechanism to exclude them from handling
timers of remote idle CPUs
- The usual small updates, cleanups and enhancements
* tag 'timers-core-2025-11-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timers/migration: Exclude isolated cpus from hierarchy
cpumask: Add initialiser to use cleanup helpers
sched/isolation: Force housekeeping if isolcpus and nohz_full don't leave any
cgroup/cpuset: Rename update_unbound_workqueue_cpumask() to update_isolation_cpumasks()
timers/migration: Use scoped_guard on available flag set/clear
timers/migration: Add mask for CPUs available in the hierarchy
timers/migration: Rename 'online' bit to 'available'
selftests/timers/nanosleep: Add tests for return of remaining time
selftests/timers: Clean up kernel version check in posix_timers
time: Fix a few typos in time[r] related code comments
time: tick-oneshot: Add missing Return and parameter descriptions to kernel-doc
hrtimer: Store time as ktime_t in restart block
timers/migration: Remove dead code handling idle CPU checking for remote timers
timers/migration: Remove unused "cpu" parameter from tmigr_get_group()
timers/migration: Assert that hotplug preparing CPU is part of stable active hierarchy
timers/migration: Fix imbalanced NUMA trees
timers/migration: Remove locking on group connection
timers/migration: Convert "while" loops to use "for"
tick/sched: Limit non-timekeeper CPUs calling jiffies update
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Merge tag 'namespace-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull namespace updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains substantial namespace infrastructure changes including a new
system call, active reference counting, and extensive header cleanups.
The branch depends on the shared kbuild branch for -fms-extensions support.
Features:
- listns() system call
Add a new listns() system call that allows userspace to iterate
through namespaces in the system. This provides a programmatic
interface to discover and inspect namespaces, addressing
longstanding limitations:
Currently, there is no direct way for userspace to enumerate
namespaces. Applications must resort to scanning /proc/*/ns/ across
all processes, which is:
- Inefficient - requires iterating over all processes
- Incomplete - misses namespaces not attached to any running
process but kept alive by file descriptors, bind mounts, or
parent references
- Permission-heavy - requires access to /proc for many processes
- No ordering or ownership information
- No filtering per namespace type
The listns() system call solves these problems:
ssize_t listns(const struct ns_id_req *req, u64 *ns_ids,
size_t nr_ns_ids, unsigned int flags);
struct ns_id_req {
__u32 size;
__u32 spare;
__u64 ns_id;
struct /* listns */ {
__u32 ns_type;
__u32 spare2;
__u64 user_ns_id;
};
};
Features include:
- Pagination support for large namespace sets
- Filtering by namespace type (MNT_NS, NET_NS, USER_NS, etc.)
- Filtering by owning user namespace
- Permission checks respecting namespace isolation
- Active Reference Counting
Introduce an active reference count that tracks namespace
visibility to userspace. A namespace is visible in the following
cases:
- The namespace is in use by a task
- The namespace is persisted through a VFS object (namespace file
descriptor or bind-mount)
- The namespace is a hierarchical type and is the parent of child
namespaces
The active reference count does not regulate lifetime (that's still
done by the normal reference count) - it only regulates visibility
to namespace file handles and listns().
This prevents resurrection of namespaces that are pinned only for
internal kernel reasons (e.g., user namespaces held by
file->f_cred, lazy TLB references on idle CPUs, etc.) which should
not be accessible via (1)-(3).
- Unified Namespace Tree
Introduce a unified tree structure for all namespaces with:
- Fixed IDs assigned to initial namespaces
- Lookup based solely on inode number
- Maintained list of owned namespaces per user namespace
- Simplified rbtree comparison helpers
Cleanups
- Header Reorganization:
- Move namespace types into separate header (ns_common_types.h)
- Decouple nstree from ns_common header
- Move nstree types into separate header
- Switch to new ns_tree_{node,root} structures with helper functions
- Use guards for ns_tree_lock
- Initial Namespace Reference Count Optimization
- Make all reference counts on initial namespaces a nop to avoid
pointless cacheline ping-pong for namespaces that can never go
away
- Drop custom reference count initialization for initial namespaces
- Add NS_COMMON_INIT() macro and use it for all namespaces
- pid: rely on common reference count behavior
- Miscellaneous Cleanups
- Rename exit_task_namespaces() to exit_nsproxy_namespaces()
- Rename is_initial_namespace() and make argument const
- Use boolean to indicate anonymous mount namespace
- Simplify owner list iteration in nstree
- nsfs: raise SB_I_NODEV, SB_I_NOEXEC, and DCACHE_DONTCACHE explicitly
- nsfs: use inode_just_drop()
- pidfs: raise DCACHE_DONTCACHE explicitly
- pidfs: simplify PIDFD_GET__NAMESPACE ioctls
- libfs: allow to specify s_d_flags
- cgroup: add cgroup namespace to tree after owner is set
- nsproxy: fix free_nsproxy() and simplify create_new_namespaces()
Fixes:
- setns(pidfd, ...) race condition
Fix a subtle race when using pidfds with setns(). When the target
task exits after prepare_nsset() but before commit_nsset(), the
namespace's active reference count might have been dropped. If
setns() then installs the namespaces, it would bump the active
reference count from zero without taking the required reference on
the owner namespace, leading to underflow when later decremented.
The fix resurrects the ownership chain if necessary - if the caller
succeeded in grabbing passive references, the setns() should
succeed even if the target task exits or gets reaped.
- Return EFAULT on put_user() error instead of success
- Make sure references are dropped outside of RCU lock (some
namespaces like mount namespace sleep when putting the last
reference)
- Don't skip active reference count initialization for network
namespace
- Add asserts for active refcount underflow
- Add asserts for initial namespace reference counts (both passive
and active)
- ipc: enable is_ns_init_id() assertions
- Fix kernel-doc comments for internal nstree functions
- Selftests
- 15 active reference count tests
- 9 listns() functionality tests
- 7 listns() permission tests
- 12 inactive namespace resurrection tests
- 3 threaded active reference count tests
- commit_creds() active reference tests
- Pagination and stress tests
- EFAULT handling test
- nsid tests fixes"
* tag 'namespace-6.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (103 commits)
pidfs: simplify PIDFD_GET_<type>_NAMESPACE ioctls
nstree: fix kernel-doc comments for internal functions
nsproxy: fix free_nsproxy() and simplify create_new_namespaces()
selftests/namespaces: fix nsid tests
ns: drop custom reference count initialization for initial namespaces
pid: rely on common reference count behavior
ns: add asserts for initial namespace active reference counts
ns: add asserts for initial namespace reference counts
ns: make all reference counts on initial namespace a nop
ipc: enable is_ns_init_id() assertions
fs: use boolean to indicate anonymous mount namespace
ns: rename is_initial_namespace()
ns: make is_initial_namespace() argument const
nstree: use guards for ns_tree_lock
nstree: simplify owner list iteration
nstree: switch to new structures
nstree: add helper to operate on struct ns_tree_{node,root}
nstree: move nstree types into separate header
nstree: decouple from ns_common header
ns: move namespace types into separate header
...
Move proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax to kernel/time/jiffies.c. Create
a non static wrapper function proc_doulongvec_minmax_conv that
forwards the custom convmul and convdiv argument values to the internal
do_proc_doulongvec_minmax. Remove unused linux/times.h include from
kernel/sysctl.c.
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Move integer jiffies converters (proc_dointvec{_,_ms_,_userhz_}jiffies
and proc_dointvec_ms_jiffies_minmax) to kernel/time/jiffies.c. Error
stubs for when CONFIG_PRCO_SYSCTL is not defined are not reproduced
because all the jiffies converters go through proc_dointvec_conv which
is already stubbed. This is part of the greater effort to move sysctl
logic out of kernel/sysctl.c thereby reducing merge conflicts in
kernel/sysctl.c.
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
If kobject_create_and_add() fails on the first iteration, then the error
code is set to -ENOMEM which is correct. But if it fails in subsequent
iterations then "ret" is zero, which means success, but it should be
-ENOMEM.
Set the error code to -ENOMEM correctly.
Fixes: 7b5ab04f03 ("timekeeping: Fix resource leak in tk_aux_sysfs_init() error paths")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Malaya Kumar Rout <mrout@redhat.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aSW1R8q5zoY_DgQE@stanley.mountain
There is a race condition between timer_shutdown_sync() and timer
expiration that can lead to hitting a WARN_ON in expire_timers().
The issue occurs when timer_shutdown_sync() clears the timer function
to NULL while the timer is still running on another CPU. The race
scenario looks like this:
CPU0 CPU1
<SOFTIRQ>
lock_timer_base()
expire_timers()
base->running_timer = timer;
unlock_timer_base()
[call_timer_fn enter]
mod_timer()
...
timer_shutdown_sync()
lock_timer_base()
// For now, will not detach the timer but only clear its function to NULL
if (base->running_timer != timer)
ret = detach_if_pending(timer, base, true);
if (shutdown)
timer->function = NULL;
unlock_timer_base()
[call_timer_fn exit]
lock_timer_base()
base->running_timer = NULL;
unlock_timer_base()
...
// Now timer is pending while its function set to NULL.
// next timer trigger
<SOFTIRQ>
expire_timers()
WARN_ON_ONCE(!fn) // hit
...
lock_timer_base()
// Now timer will detach
if (base->running_timer != timer)
ret = detach_if_pending(timer, base, true);
if (shutdown)
timer->function = NULL;
unlock_timer_base()
The problem is that timer_shutdown_sync() clears the timer function
regardless of whether the timer is currently running. This can leave a
pending timer with a NULL function pointer, which triggers the
WARN_ON_ONCE(!fn) check in expire_timers().
Fix this by only clearing the timer function when actually detaching the
timer. If the timer is running, leave the function pointer intact, which is
safe because the timer will be properly detached when it finishes running.
Fixes: 0cc04e8045 ("timers: Add shutdown mechanism to the internal functions")
Signed-off-by: Yipeng Zou <zouyipeng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251122093942.301559-1-zouyipeng@huawei.com
The timer migration mechanism allows active CPUs to pull timers from
idle ones to improve the overall idle time. This is however undesired
when CPU intensive workloads run on isolated cores, as the algorithm
would move the timers from housekeeping to isolated cores, negatively
affecting the isolation.
Exclude isolated cores from the timer migration algorithm, extend the
concept of unavailable cores, currently used for offline ones, to
isolated ones:
* A core is unavailable if isolated or offline;
* A core is available if non isolated and online;
A core is considered unavailable as isolated if it belongs to:
* the isolcpus (domain) list
* an isolated cpuset
Except if it is:
* in the nohz_full list (already idle for the hierarchy)
* the nohz timekeeper core (must be available to handle global timers)
CPUs are added to the hierarchy during late boot, excluding isolated
ones, the hierarchy is also adapted when the cpuset isolation changes.
Due to how the timer migration algorithm works, any CPU part of the
hierarchy can have their global timers pulled by remote CPUs and have to
pull remote timers, only skipping pulling remote timers would break the
logic.
For this reason, prevent isolated CPUs from pulling remote global
timers, but also the other way around: any global timer started on an
isolated CPU will run there. This does not break the concept of
isolation (global timers don't come from outside the CPU) and, if
considered inappropriate, can usually be mitigated with other isolation
techniques (e.g. IRQ pinning).
This effect was noticed on a 128 cores machine running oslat on the
isolated cores (1-31,33-63,65-95,97-127). The tool monopolises CPUs,
and the CPU with lowest count in a timer migration hierarchy (here 1
and 65) appears as always active and continuously pulls global timers,
from the housekeeping CPUs. This ends up moving driver work (e.g.
delayed work) to isolated CPUs and causes latency spikes:
before the change:
# oslat -c 1-31,33-63,65-95,97-127 -D 62s
...
Maximum: 1203 10 3 4 ... 5 (us)
after the change:
# oslat -c 1-31,33-63,65-95,97-127 -D 62s
...
Maximum: 10 4 3 4 3 ... 5 (us)
The same behaviour was observed on a machine with as few as 20 cores /
40 threads with isocpus set to: 1-9,11-39 with rtla-osnoise-top.
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: John B. Wyatt IV <jwyatt@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251120145653.296659-8-gmonaco@redhat.com
Cleanup tmigr_clear_cpu_available() and tmigr_set_cpu_available() to
prepare for easier checks on the available flag.
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251120145653.296659-4-gmonaco@redhat.com
Keep track of the CPUs available for timer migration in a cpumask. This
prepares the ground to generalise the concept of unavailable CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251120145653.296659-3-gmonaco@redhat.com
The timer migration hierarchy excludes offline CPUs via the
tmigr_is_not_available function, which is essentially checking the
online bit for the CPU.
Rename the online bit to available and all references in function names
and tracepoint to generalise the concept of available CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251120145653.296659-2-gmonaco@redhat.com
tk_aux_sysfs_init() returns immediately on error during the auxiliary clock
initialization loop without cleaning up previously allocated kobjects and
sysfs groups.
If kobject_create_and_add() or sysfs_create_group() fails during loop
iteration, the parent kobjects (tko and auxo) and any previously created
child kobjects are leaked.
Fix this by adding proper error handling with goto labels to ensure all
allocated resources are cleaned up on failure. kobject_put() on the
parent kobjects will handle cleanup of their children.
Fixes: 7b95663a3d ("timekeeping: Provide interface to control auxiliary clocks")
Signed-off-by: Malaya Kumar Rout <mrout@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251120150213.246777-1-mrout@redhat.com
In commit 0345691b24 ("tick/rcu: Stop allowing RCU_SOFTIRQ in idle") the
new function report_idle_softirq() was created by breaking code out of the
existing can_stop_idle_tick() for kernels v5.18 and newer.
In doing so, the code essentially went from this form:
if (A) {
static int ratelimit;
if (ratelimit < 10 && !C && A&D) {
pr_warn("NOHZ tick-stop error: ...");
ratelimit++;
}
return false;
}
to a new function:
static bool report_idle_softirq(void)
{
static int ratelimit;
if (likely(!A))
return false;
if (ratelimit < 10)
return false;
...
pr_warn("NOHZ tick-stop error: local softirq work is pending, handler #%02x!!!\n",
pending);
ratelimit++;
return true;
}
commit a7e282c777 ("tick/rcu: Fix bogus ratelimit condition") realized
ratelimit was essentially set to zero instead of ten, and hence *no*
softirq pending messages would ever be issued, but "fixed" it as:
- if (ratelimit < 10)
+ if (ratelimit >= 10)
return false;
However, this fix introduced another issue:
When ratelimit is greater than or equal 10, even if A is true, it will
directly return false. While ratelimit in the original code was only used
to control printing and will not affect the return value.
Restore the original logic and restrict ratelimit to control the printk and
not the return value.
Fixes: 0345691b24 ("tick/rcu: Stop allowing RCU_SOFTIRQ in idle")
Fixes: a7e282c777 ("tick/rcu: Fix bogus ratelimit condition")
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119174525.29470-1-wen.yang@linux.dev
Several functions in kernel/time/tick-oneshot.c are missing parameter and
return value descriptions in their kernel-doc comments. This causes
warnings during doc generation.
Update the kernel-doc blocks to include detailed @param and Return:
descriptions for better clarity and to fix kernel-doc warnings. No
functional code changes are made.
Signed-off-by: Sunday Adelodun <adelodunolaoluwa@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251106113938.34693-3-adelodunolaoluwa@yahoo.com
The hrtimer core uses ktime_t to represent times, use that also for the
restart block. CPU timers internally use nanoseconds instead of ktime_t
but use the same restart block, so use the correct accessors for those.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weißschuh <thomas.weissschuh@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251110-restart-block-expiration-v1-3-5d39cc93df4f@linutronix.de
Several drivers can benefit from registering per-instance data along
with the syscore operations. To achieve this, move the modifiable fields
out of the syscore_ops structure and into a separate struct syscore that
can be registered with the framework. Add a void * driver data field for
drivers to store contextual data that will be passed to the syscore ops.
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki (Intel) <rafael@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Bring in the shared branch with the kbuild tree to enable
'-fms-extensions' for 6.19. Further namespace cleanup work
requires this extension.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Idle migrators don't walk the whole tree in order to find out if there
are timers to migrate because they recorded the next deadline to be
verified within a single check in tmigr_requires_handle_remote().
Remove the related dead code and data.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024132536.39841-7-frederic@kernel.org
The CPU doing the prepare work for a remote target must be online from
the tree point of view and its hierarchy must be active, otherwise
propagating its active state up to the new root branch would be either
incorrect or racy.
Assert those conditions with more sanity checks.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024132536.39841-5-frederic@kernel.org
When a CPU from a new node boots, the old root may happen to be
connected to the new root even if their node mismatch, as depicted in
the following scenario:
1) CPU 0 boots and creates the first group for node 0.
[GRP0:0]
node 0
|
CPU 0
2) CPU 1 from node 1 boots and creates a new top that corresponds to
node 1, but it also connects the old root from node 0 to the new root
from node 1 by mistake.
[GRP1:0]
node 1
/ \
/ \
[GRP0:0] [GRP0:1]
node 0 node 1
| |
CPU 0 CPU 1
3) This eventually leads to an imbalanced tree where some node 0 CPUs
migrate node 1 timers (and vice versa) way before reaching the
crossnode groups, resulting in more frequent remote memory accesses
than expected.
[GRP2:0]
NUMA_NO_NODE
/ \
[GRP1:0] [GRP1:1]
node 1 node 0
/ \ |
/ \ [...]
[GRP0:0] [GRP0:1]
node 0 node 1
| |
CPU 0... CPU 1...
A balanced tree should only contain groups having children that belong
to the same node:
[GRP2:0]
NUMA_NO_NODE
/ \
[GRP1:0] [GRP1:0]
node 0 node 1
/ \ / \
/ \ / \
[GRP0:0] [...] [...] [GRP0:1]
node 0 node 1
| |
CPU 0... CPU 1...
In order to fix this, the hierarchy must be unfolded up to the crossnode
level as soon as a node mismatch is detected. For example the stage 2
above should lead to this layout:
[GRP2:0]
NUMA_NO_NODE
/ \
[GRP1:0] [GRP1:1]
node 0 node 1
/ \
/ \
[GRP0:0] [GRP0:1]
node 0 node 1
| |
CPU 0 CPU 1
This means that not only GRP1:0 must be created but also GRP1:1 and
GRP2:0 in order to prepare a balanced tree for next CPUs to boot.
Fixes: 7ee9887703 ("timers: Implement the hierarchical pull model")
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024132536.39841-4-frederic@kernel.org
Initializing the tmc's group, the group's number of children and the
group's parent can all be done without locking because:
1) Reading the group's parent and its group mask is done locklessly.
2) The connections prepared for a given CPU hierarchy are visible to the
target CPU once online, thanks to the CPU hotplug enforced memory
ordering.
3) In case of a newly created upper level, the new root and its
connections and initialization are made visible by the CPU which made
the connections. When that CPUs goes idle in the future, the new link
is published by tmigr_inactive_up() through the atomic RmW on
->migr_state.
4) If CPUs were still walking up the active hierarchy, they could observe
the new root earlier. In this case the ordering is enforced by an
early initialization of the group mask and by barriers that maintain
address dependency as explained in:
b729cc1ec2 ("timers/migration: Fix another race between hotplug and idle entry/exit")
de3ced72a7 ("timers/migration: Enforce group initialization visibility to tree walkers")
5) Timers are propagated by a chain of group locking from the bottom to
the top. And while doing so, the tree also propagates groups links
and initialization. Therefore remote expiration, which also relies
on group locking, will observe those links and initialization while
holding the root lock before walking the tree remotely and update
remote timers. This is especially important for migrators in the
active hierarchy that may observe the new root early.
Therefore the locking is unnecessary at initialization. If anything, it
just brings confusion. Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024132536.39841-3-frederic@kernel.org
Both the "do while" and "while" loops in tmigr_setup_groups() eventually
mimic the behaviour of "for" loops.
Simplify accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024132536.39841-2-frederic@kernel.org
On large NUMA systems, while running a test program that saturates the
inter-processor and inter-NUMA links, acquiring the jiffies_lock can be
very expensive.
If the cpu designated to do jiffies updates (tick_do_timer_cpu) gets
delayed and other cpus decide to do the jiffies update themselves, a large
number of them decide to do so at the same time.
The inexpensive check against tick_next_period is far quicker than actually
acquiring the lock, so most of these get in line to obtain the lock. If
obtaining the lock is slow enough, this spirals into the vast majority of
CPUs continuously being stuck waiting for this lock, just to obtain it and
find out that time has already been updated by another cpu. For example, on
one random entry to kdb by manually-injected NMI, 2912 of 3840 CPUs were
observed to be stuck there.
To avoid this, allow only one non-timekeeper CPU to call
tick_do_update_jiffies64() at any given time, resetting ts->stalled jiffies
only if the jiffies update function is actually called.
With this change, manually interrupting the test at most two CPUs are
observed to invoke tick_do_update_jiffies64() - the timekeeper and one
other.
Signed-off-by: Steve Wahl <steve.wahl@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027183456.343407-1-steve.wahl@hpe.com
Linus Torvalds