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Linus Torvalds d16738a4e7 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.
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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
  ...
2026-02-09 19:57:30 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker d279138a27 kthread: Document kthread_affine_preferred()
The documentation of this new API has been overlooked during its
introduction. Fill the gap.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
2026-02-03 15:23:35 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 60ba9c38b9 kthread: Comment on the purpose and placement of kthread_affine_node() call
It may not appear obvious why kthread_affine_node() is not called before
the kthread creation completion instead of after the first wake-up.

The reason is that kthread_affine_node() applies a default affinity
behaviour that only takes place if no affinity preference have already
been passed by the kthread creation call site.

Add a comment to clarify that.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
2026-02-03 15:23:35 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker e894f63398 kthread: Honour kthreads preferred affinity after cpuset changes
When cpuset isolated partitions get updated, unbound kthreads get
indifferently affine to all non isolated CPUs, regardless of their
individual affinity preferences.

For example kswapd is a per-node kthread that prefers to be affine to
the node it refers to. Whenever an isolated partition is created,
updated or deleted, kswapd's node affinity is going to be broken if any
CPU in the related node is not isolated because kswapd will be affine
globally.

Fix this with letting the consolidated kthread managed affinity code do
the affinity update on behalf of cpuset.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
2026-02-03 15:23:35 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 041ee6f372 kthread: Rely on HK_TYPE_DOMAIN for preferred affinity management
Unbound kthreads want to run neither on nohz_full CPUs nor on domain
isolated CPUs. And since nohz_full implies domain isolation, checking
the latter is enough to verify both.

Therefore exclude kthreads from domain isolation.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
2026-02-03 15:23:35 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 92a734606e kthread: Include kthreadd to the managed affinity list
The unbound kthreads affinity management performed by cpuset is going to
be imported to the kthread core code for consolidation purposes.

Treat kthreadd just like any other kthread.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
2026-02-03 15:23:35 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 5564c12385 kthread: Include unbound kthreads in the managed affinity list
The managed affinity list currently contains only unbound kthreads that
have affinity preferences. Unbound kthreads globally affine by default
are outside of the list because their affinity is automatically managed
by the scheduler (through the fallback housekeeping mask) and by cpuset.

However in order to preserve the preferred affinity of kthreads, cpuset
will delegate the isolated partition update propagation to the
housekeeping and kthread code.

Prepare for that with including all unbound kthreads in the managed
affinity list.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
2026-02-03 15:23:35 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 012fef0e48 kthread: Refine naming of affinity related fields
The kthreads preferred affinity related fields use "hotplug" as the base
of their naming because the affinity management was initially deemed to
deal with CPU hotplug.

The scope of this role is going to broaden now and also deal with
cpuset isolated partition updates.

Switch the naming accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
2026-02-03 15:23:35 +01:00
Breno Leitao cfe54f4591 kthread: Warn if mm_struct lacks user_ns in kthread_use_mm()
Add a WARN_ON_ONCE() check to detect mm_struct instances that are
missing user_ns initialization when passed to kthread_use_mm().

When a kthread adopts an mm via kthread_use_mm(), LSM hooks and
capability checks may access current->mm->user_ns for credential
validation. If user_ns is NULL, this leads to a NULL pointer
dereference crash.

This was observed with efi_mm on arm64, where commit a5baf582f4
("arm64/efi: Call EFI runtime services without disabling preemption")
introduced kthread_use_mm(&efi_mm), but efi_mm lacked user_ns
initialization, causing crashes during /proc access.

Adding this warning helps catch similar bugs early during development
rather than waiting for hard-to-debug NULL pointer crashes in
production.

Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
2025-12-24 21:32:58 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra b079d93796 sched: Rename do_set_cpus_allowed()
Hopefully saner naming.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
2025-10-16 11:13:53 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra abfc01077d sched: Fix do_set_cpus_allowed() locking
All callers of do_set_cpus_allowed() only take p->pi_lock, which is
not sufficient to actually change the cpumask. Again, this is mostly
ok in these cases, but it results in unnecessarily complicated
reasoning.

Furthermore, there is no reason what so ever to not just take all the
required locks, so do just that.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
2025-10-16 11:13:52 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker c0a23bbc98 ipvs: Fix estimator kthreads preferred affinity
The estimator kthreads' affinity are defined by sysctl overwritten
preferences and applied through a plain call to the scheduler's affinity
API.

However since the introduction of managed kthreads preferred affinity,
such a practice shortcuts the kthreads core code which eventually
overwrites the target to the default unbound affinity.

Fix this with using the appropriate kthread's API.

Fixes: d1a8919758 ("kthread: Default affine kthread to its preferred NUMA node")
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
2025-08-13 08:34:33 +02:00
Jiazi Li fed307b67c kthread: update comment for __to_kthread
With commit 343f4c49f2 ("kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init
and umh") and commit 753550eb0c ("fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD"), umh
task no longer have struct kthread and PF_KTHREAD flag.

Update the comment to describe what the current rules are to detect
is something is a kthread.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250620100801.23185-1-jqqlijiazi@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jiazi Li <jqqlijiazi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: mingzhu.wang <mingzhu.wang@transsion.com>
Suggested-by Eric W . Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-07-09 22:57:55 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 41cb08555c treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of()
Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace.

[ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com
2025-06-08 09:07:37 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 8fa7292fee treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()
timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree
over and remove the historical wrapper inlines.

Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2025-04-05 10:30:12 +02:00
Yu-Chun Lin 1b0332a426 kthread: Fix return value on kzalloc() failure in kthread_affine_preferred()
kthread_affine_preferred() incorrectly returns 0 instead of -ENOMEM
when kzalloc() fails. Return 'ret' to ensure the correct error code is
propagated.

Fixes: 4d13f4304f ("kthread: Implement preferred affinity")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202501301528.t0cZVbnq-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Yu-Chun Lin <eleanor15x@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
2025-02-04 01:42:27 +01:00
Linus Torvalds c159dfbdd4 Mainly individually changelogged singleton patches. The patch series in
this pull are:
 
 - "lib min_heap: Improve min_heap safety, testing, and documentation"
   from Kuan-Wei Chiu provides various tightenings to the min_heap library
   code.
 
 - "xarray: extract __xa_cmpxchg_raw" from Tamir Duberstein preforms some
   cleanup and Rust preparation in the xarray library code.
 
 - "Update reference to include/asm-<arch>" from Geert Uytterhoeven fixes
   pathnames in some code comments.
 
 - "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies()" from Easwar Hariharan uses the
   new secs_to_jiffies() in various places where that is appropriate.
 
 - "ocfs2, dlmfs: convert to the new mount API" from Eric Sandeen
   switches two filesystems to the new mount API.
 
 - "Convert ocfs2 to use folios" from Matthew Wilcox does that.
 
 - "Remove get_task_comm() and print task comm directly" from Yafang Shao
   removes now-unneeded calls to get_task_comm() in various places.
 
 - "squashfs: reduce memory usage and update docs" from Phillip Lougher
   implements some memory savings in squashfs and performs some
   maintainability work.
 
 - "lib: clarify comparison function requirements" from Kuan-Wei Chiu
   tightens the sort code's behaviour and adds some maintenance work.
 
 - "nilfs2: protect busy buffer heads from being force-cleared" from
   Ryusuke Konishi fixes an issues in nlifs when the fs is presented with a
   corrupted image.
 
 - "nilfs2: fix kernel-doc comments for function return values" from
   Ryusuke Konishi fixes some nilfs kerneldoc.
 
 - "nilfs2: fix issues with rename operations" from Ryusuke Konishi
   addresses some nilfs BUG_ONs which syzbot was able to trigger.
 
 - "minmax.h: Cleanups and minor optimisations" from David Laight
   does some maintenance work on the min/max library code.
 
 - "Fixes and cleanups to xarray" from Kemeng Shi does maintenance work
   on the xarray library code.
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-01-24-23-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Mainly individually changelogged singleton patches. The patch series
  in this pull are:

   - "lib min_heap: Improve min_heap safety, testing, and documentation"
     from Kuan-Wei Chiu provides various tightenings to the min_heap
     library code

   - "xarray: extract __xa_cmpxchg_raw" from Tamir Duberstein preforms
     some cleanup and Rust preparation in the xarray library code

   - "Update reference to include/asm-<arch>" from Geert Uytterhoeven
     fixes pathnames in some code comments

   - "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies()" from Easwar Hariharan uses
     the new secs_to_jiffies() in various places where that is
     appropriate

   - "ocfs2, dlmfs: convert to the new mount API" from Eric Sandeen
     switches two filesystems to the new mount API

   - "Convert ocfs2 to use folios" from Matthew Wilcox does that

   - "Remove get_task_comm() and print task comm directly" from Yafang
     Shao removes now-unneeded calls to get_task_comm() in various
     places

   - "squashfs: reduce memory usage and update docs" from Phillip
     Lougher implements some memory savings in squashfs and performs
     some maintainability work

   - "lib: clarify comparison function requirements" from Kuan-Wei Chiu
     tightens the sort code's behaviour and adds some maintenance work

   - "nilfs2: protect busy buffer heads from being force-cleared" from
     Ryusuke Konishi fixes an issues in nlifs when the fs is presented
     with a corrupted image

   - "nilfs2: fix kernel-doc comments for function return values" from
     Ryusuke Konishi fixes some nilfs kerneldoc

   - "nilfs2: fix issues with rename operations" from Ryusuke Konishi
     addresses some nilfs BUG_ONs which syzbot was able to trigger

   - "minmax.h: Cleanups and minor optimisations" from David Laight does
     some maintenance work on the min/max library code

   - "Fixes and cleanups to xarray" from Kemeng Shi does maintenance
     work on the xarray library code"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-01-24-23-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (131 commits)
  ocfs2: use str_yes_no() and str_no_yes() helper functions
  include/linux/lz4.h: add some missing macros
  Xarray: use xa_mark_t in xas_squash_marks() to keep code consistent
  Xarray: remove repeat check in xas_squash_marks()
  Xarray: distinguish large entries correctly in xas_split_alloc()
  Xarray: move forward index correctly in xas_pause()
  Xarray: do not return sibling entries from xas_find_marked()
  ipc/util.c: complete the kernel-doc function descriptions
  gcov: clang: use correct function param names
  latencytop: use correct kernel-doc format for func params
  minmax.h: remove some #defines that are only expanded once
  minmax.h: simplify the variants of clamp()
  minmax.h: move all the clamp() definitions after the min/max() ones
  minmax.h: use BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG() for the lo < hi test in clamp()
  minmax.h: reduce the #define expansion of min(), max() and clamp()
  minmax.h: update some comments
  minmax.h: add whitespace around operators and after commas
  nilfs2: do not update mtime of renamed directory that is not moved
  nilfs2: handle errors that nilfs_prepare_chunk() may return
  CREDITS: fix spelling mistake
  ...
2025-01-26 17:50:53 -08:00
Tio Zhang 97549ce684 kthread: correct comments before kthread_queue_work()
s/kthread_worker_create/kthread_create_worker/ to avoid confusion when
reading comments before kthread_queue_work().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241224095344.GA7587@didi-ThinkCentre-M930t-N000
Signed-off-by: Tio Zhang <tiozhang@didiglobal.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-01-24 22:47:22 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 1d6d399223 Kthreads affinity follow either of 4 existing different patterns:
1) Per-CPU kthreads must stay affine to a single CPU and never execute
    relevant code on any other CPU. This is currently handled by smpboot
    code which takes care of CPU-hotplug operations. Affinity here is
    a correctness constraint.
 
 2) Some kthreads _have_ to be affine to a specific set of CPUs and can't
    run anywhere else. The affinity is set through kthread_bind_mask()
    and the subsystem takes care by itself to handle CPU-hotplug
    operations. Affinity here is assumed to be a correctness constraint.
 
 3) Per-node kthreads _prefer_ to be affine to a specific NUMA node. This
    is not a correctness constraint but merely a preference in terms of
    memory locality. kswapd and kcompactd both fall into this category.
    The affinity is set manually like for any other task and CPU-hotplug
    is supposed to be handled by the relevant subsystem so that the task
    is properly reaffined whenever a given CPU from the node comes up.
    Also care should be taken so that the node affinity doesn't cross
    isolated (nohz_full) cpumask boundaries.
 
 4) Similar to the previous point except kthreads have a _preferred_
    affinity different than a node. Both RCU boost kthreads and RCU
    exp kworkers fall into this category as they refer to "RCU nodes"
    from a distinctly distributed tree.
 
 Currently the preferred affinity patterns (3 and 4) have at least 4
 identified users, with more or less success when it comes to handle
 CPU-hotplug operations and CPU isolation. Each of which do it in its own
 ad-hoc way.
 
 This is an infrastructure proposal to handle this with the following API
 changes:
 
 _ kthread_create_on_node() automatically affines the created kthread to
   its target node unless it has been set as per-cpu or bound with
   kthread_bind[_mask]() before the first wake-up.
 
 - kthread_affine_preferred() is a new function that can be called right
   after kthread_create_on_node() to specify a preferred affinity
   different than the specified node.
 
 When the preferred affinity can't be applied because the possible
 targets are offline or isolated (nohz_full), the kthread is affine
 to the housekeeping CPUs (which means to all online CPUs most of the
 time or only the non-nohz_full CPUs when nohz_full= is set).
 
 kswapd, kcompactd, RCU boost kthreads and RCU exp kworkers have been
 converted, along with a few old drivers.
 
 Summary of the changes:
 
 * Consolidate a bunch of ad-hoc implementations of kthread_run_on_cpu()
 
 * Introduce task_cpu_fallback_mask() that defines the default last
   resort affinity of a task to become nohz_full aware
 
 * Add some correctness check to ensure kthread_bind() is always called
   before the first kthread wake up.
 
 * Default affine kthread to its preferred node.
 
 * Convert kswapd / kcompactd and remove their halfway working ad-hoc
   affinity implementation
 
 * Implement kthreads preferred affinity
 
 * Unify kthread worker and kthread API's style
 
 * Convert RCU kthreads to the new API and remove the ad-hoc affinity
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Merge tag 'kthread-for-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks

Pull kthread updates from Frederic Weisbecker:
 "Kthreads affinity follow either of 4 existing different patterns:

   1) Per-CPU kthreads must stay affine to a single CPU and never
      execute relevant code on any other CPU. This is currently handled
      by smpboot code which takes care of CPU-hotplug operations.
      Affinity here is a correctness constraint.

   2) Some kthreads _have_ to be affine to a specific set of CPUs and
      can't run anywhere else. The affinity is set through
      kthread_bind_mask() and the subsystem takes care by itself to
      handle CPU-hotplug operations. Affinity here is assumed to be a
      correctness constraint.

   3) Per-node kthreads _prefer_ to be affine to a specific NUMA node.
      This is not a correctness constraint but merely a preference in
      terms of memory locality. kswapd and kcompactd both fall into this
      category. The affinity is set manually like for any other task and
      CPU-hotplug is supposed to be handled by the relevant subsystem so
      that the task is properly reaffined whenever a given CPU from the
      node comes up. Also care should be taken so that the node affinity
      doesn't cross isolated (nohz_full) cpumask boundaries.

   4) Similar to the previous point except kthreads have a _preferred_
      affinity different than a node. Both RCU boost kthreads and RCU
      exp kworkers fall into this category as they refer to "RCU nodes"
      from a distinctly distributed tree.

  Currently the preferred affinity patterns (3 and 4) have at least 4
  identified users, with more or less success when it comes to handle
  CPU-hotplug operations and CPU isolation. Each of which do it in its
  own ad-hoc way.

  This is an infrastructure proposal to handle this with the following
  API changes:

   - kthread_create_on_node() automatically affines the created kthread
     to its target node unless it has been set as per-cpu or bound with
     kthread_bind[_mask]() before the first wake-up.

   - kthread_affine_preferred() is a new function that can be called
     right after kthread_create_on_node() to specify a preferred
     affinity different than the specified node.

  When the preferred affinity can't be applied because the possible
  targets are offline or isolated (nohz_full), the kthread is affine to
  the housekeeping CPUs (which means to all online CPUs most of the time
  or only the non-nohz_full CPUs when nohz_full= is set).

  kswapd, kcompactd, RCU boost kthreads and RCU exp kworkers have been
  converted, along with a few old drivers.

  Summary of the changes:

   - Consolidate a bunch of ad-hoc implementations of
     kthread_run_on_cpu()

   - Introduce task_cpu_fallback_mask() that defines the default last
     resort affinity of a task to become nohz_full aware

   - Add some correctness check to ensure kthread_bind() is always
     called before the first kthread wake up.

   - Default affine kthread to its preferred node.

   - Convert kswapd / kcompactd and remove their halfway working ad-hoc
     affinity implementation

   - Implement kthreads preferred affinity

   - Unify kthread worker and kthread API's style

   - Convert RCU kthreads to the new API and remove the ad-hoc affinity
     implementation"

* tag 'kthread-for-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks:
  kthread: modify kernel-doc function name to match code
  rcu: Use kthread preferred affinity for RCU exp kworkers
  treewide: Introduce kthread_run_worker[_on_cpu]()
  kthread: Unify kthread_create_on_cpu() and kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() automatic format
  rcu: Use kthread preferred affinity for RCU boost
  kthread: Implement preferred affinity
  mm: Create/affine kswapd to its preferred node
  mm: Create/affine kcompactd to its preferred node
  kthread: Default affine kthread to its preferred NUMA node
  kthread: Make sure kthread hasn't started while binding it
  sched,arm64: Handle CPU isolation on last resort fallback rq selection
  arm64: Exclude nohz_full CPUs from 32bits el0 support
  lib: test_objpool: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()
  kallsyms: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()
  soc/qman: test: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()
  arm/bL_switcher: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()
2025-01-21 17:10:05 -08:00
Linus Torvalds fadc3ed9ce execve updates for v6.14-rc1
- exec: fix up /proc/pid/comm in the execveat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) case
   (Tycho Andersen, Kees Cook)
 
 - binfmt_misc: Fix comment typos (Christophe JAILLET)
 
 - exec: move empty argv[0] warning closer to actual logic (Nir Lichtman)
 
 - exec: remove legacy custom binfmt modules autoloading (Nir Lichtman)
 
 - binfmt_flat: Fix integer overflow bug on 32 bit systems (Dan Carpenter)
 
 - exec: Make sure set_task_comm() always NUL-terminates
 
 - coredump: Do not lock when copying "comm"
 
 - MAINTAINERS: add auxvec.h and set myself as maintainer
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Merge tag 'execve-v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

Pull execve updates from Kees Cook:

 - fix up /proc/pid/comm in the execveat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) case (Tycho
   Andersen, Kees Cook)

 - binfmt_misc: Fix comment typos (Christophe JAILLET)

 - move empty argv[0] warning closer to actual logic (Nir Lichtman)

 - remove legacy custom binfmt modules autoloading (Nir Lichtman)

 - Make sure set_task_comm() always NUL-terminates

 - binfmt_flat: Fix integer overflow bug on 32 bit systems (Dan
   Carpenter)

 - coredump: Do not lock when copying "comm"

 - MAINTAINERS: add auxvec.h and set myself as maintainer

* tag 'execve-v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  binfmt_flat: Fix integer overflow bug on 32 bit systems
  selftests/exec: add a test for execveat()'s comm
  exec: fix up /proc/pid/comm in the execveat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) case
  exec: Make sure task->comm is always NUL-terminated
  exec: remove legacy custom binfmt modules autoloading
  exec: move warning of null argv to be next to the relevant code
  fs: binfmt: Fix a typo
  MAINTAINERS: exec: Mark Kees as maintainer
  MAINTAINERS: exec: Add auxvec.h UAPI
  coredump: Do not lock during 'comm' reporting
2025-01-20 13:27:58 -08:00
Randy Dunlap d8b4bf4ea0 kthread: modify kernel-doc function name to match code
kthread.c:1073: warning: expecting prototype for kthread_create_worker(). Prototype was for kthread_create_worker_on_node() instead

Fixes: 41f70d8e16 ("kthread: Unify kthread_create_on_cpu() and kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() automatic format")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
2025-01-13 11:33:26 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker b04e317b52 treewide: Introduce kthread_run_worker[_on_cpu]()
kthread_create() creates a kthread without running it yet. kthread_run()
creates a kthread and runs it.

On the other hand, kthread_create_worker() creates a kthread worker and
runs it.

This difference in behaviours is confusing. Also there is no way to
create a kthread worker and affine it using kthread_bind_mask() or
kthread_affine_preferred() before starting it.

Consolidate the behaviours and introduce kthread_run_worker[_on_cpu]()
that behaves just like kthread_run(). kthread_create_worker[_on_cpu]()
will now only create a kthread worker without starting it.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
2025-01-08 18:15:03 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 41f70d8e16 kthread: Unify kthread_create_on_cpu() and kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() automatic format
kthread_create_on_cpu() uses the CPU argument as an implicit and unique
printf argument to add to the format whereas
kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() still relies on explicitly passing the
printf arguments. This difference in behaviour is error prone and
doesn't help standardizing per-CPU kthread names.

Unify the behaviours and convert kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() to
use the printf behaviour of kthread_create_on_cpu().

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
2025-01-08 18:15:03 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 4d13f4304f kthread: Implement preferred affinity
Affining kthreads follow either of four existing different patterns:

1) Per-CPU kthreads must stay affine to a single CPU and never execute
   relevant code on any other CPU. This is currently handled by smpboot
   code which takes care of CPU-hotplug operations.

2) Kthreads that _have_ to be affine to a specific set of CPUs and can't
   run anywhere else. The affinity is set through kthread_bind_mask()
   and the subsystem takes care by itself to handle CPU-hotplug operations.

3) Kthreads that prefer to be affine to a specific NUMA node. That
   preferred affinity is applied by default when an actual node ID is
   passed on kthread creation, provided the kthread is not per-CPU and
   no call to kthread_bind_mask() has been issued before the first
   wake-up.

4) Similar to the previous point but kthreads have a preferred affinity
   different than a node. It is set manually like any other task and
   CPU-hotplug is supposed to be handled by the relevant subsystem so
   that the task is properly reaffined whenever a given CPU from the
   preferred affinity comes up. Also care must be taken so that the
   preferred affinity doesn't cross housekeeping cpumask boundaries.

Provide a function to handle the last usecase, mostly reusing the
current node default affinity infrastructure. kthread_affine_preferred()
is introduced, to be used just like kthread_bind_mask(), right after
kthread creation and before the first wake up. The kthread is then
affine right away to the cpumask passed through the API if it has online
housekeeping CPUs. Otherwise it will be affine to all online
housekeeping CPUs as a last resort.

As with node affinity, it is aware of CPU hotplug events such that:

* When a housekeeping CPU goes up that is part of the preferred affinity
  of a given kthread, the related task is re-affined to that preferred
  affinity if it was previously running on the default last resort
  online housekeeping set.

* When a housekeeping CPU goes down while it was part of the preferred
  affinity of a kthread, the running task is migrated (or the sleeping
  task is woken up) automatically by the scheduler to other housekeepers
  within the preferred affinity or, as a last resort, to all
  housekeepers from other nodes.

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
2025-01-08 18:15:03 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker d1a8919758 kthread: Default affine kthread to its preferred NUMA node
Kthreads attached to a preferred NUMA node for their task structure
allocation can also be assumed to run preferrably within that same node.

A more precise affinity is usually notified by calling
kthread_create_on_cpu() or kthread_bind[_mask]() before the first wakeup.

For the others, a default affinity to the node is desired and sometimes
implemented with more or less success when it comes to deal with hotplug
events and nohz_full / CPU Isolation interactions:

- kcompactd is affine to its node and handles hotplug but not CPU Isolation
- kswapd is affine to its node and ignores hotplug and CPU Isolation
- A bunch of drivers create their kthreads on a specific node and
  don't take care about affining further.

Handle that default node affinity preference at the generic level
instead, provided a kthread is created on an actual node and doesn't
apply any specific affinity such as a given CPU or a custom cpumask to
bind to before its first wake-up.

This generic handling is aware of CPU hotplug events and CPU isolation
such that:

* When a housekeeping CPU goes up that is part of the node of a given
  kthread, the related task is re-affined to that own node if it was
  previously running on the default last resort online housekeeping set
  from other nodes.

* When a housekeeping CPU goes down while it was part of the node of a
  kthread, the running task is migrated (or the sleeping task is woken
  up) automatically by the scheduler to other housekeepers within the
  same node or, as a last resort, to all housekeepers from other nodes.

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
2025-01-08 18:15:03 +01:00
Frederic Weisbecker 5eacb68a35 kthread: Make sure kthread hasn't started while binding it
Make sure the kthread is sleeping in the schedule_preempt_disabled()
call before calling its handler when kthread_bind[_mask]() is called
on it. This provides a sanity check verifying that the task is not
randomly blocked later at some point within its function handler, in
which case it could be just concurrently awaken, leaving the call to
do_set_cpus_allowed() without any effect until the next voluntary sleep.

Rely on the wake-up ordering to ensure that the newly introduced "started"
field returns the expected value:

    TASK A                                   TASK B
    ------                                   ------
READ kthread->started
wake_up_process(B)
   rq_lock()
   ...
   rq_unlock() // RELEASE
                                           schedule()
                                              rq_lock() // ACQUIRE
                                              // schedule task B
                                              rq_unlock()
                                              WRITE kthread->started

Similarly, writing kthread->started before subsequent voluntary sleeps
will be visible after calling wait_task_inactive() in
__kthread_bind_mask(), reporting potential misuse of the API.

Upcoming patches will make further use of this facility.

Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
2025-01-08 18:15:03 +01:00
Kees Cook 3a3f61ce5e exec: Make sure task->comm is always NUL-terminated
Using strscpy() meant that the final character in task->comm may be
non-NUL for a moment before the "string too long" truncation happens.

Instead of adding a new use of the ambiguous strncpy(), we'd want to
use memtostr_pad() which enforces being able to check at compile time
that sizes are sensible, but this requires being able to see string
buffer lengths. Instead of trying to inline __set_task_comm() (which
needs to call trace and perf functions), just open-code it. But to
make sure we're always safe, add compile-time checking like we already
do for get_task_comm().

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Suggested-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2024-12-16 16:53:00 -08:00
Yafang Shao 4cc0473d77 get rid of __get_task_comm()
Patch series "Improve the copy of task comm", v8.

Using {memcpy,strncpy,strcpy,kstrdup} to copy the task comm relies on the
length of task comm.  Changes in the task comm could result in a
destination string that is overflow.  Therefore, we should explicitly
ensure the destination string is always NUL-terminated, regardless of the
task comm.  This approach will facilitate future extensions to the task
comm.

As suggested by Linus [0], we can identify all relevant code with the
following git grep command:

  git grep 'memcpy.*->comm\>'
  git grep 'kstrdup.*->comm\>'
  git grep 'strncpy.*->comm\>'
  git grep 'strcpy.*->comm\>'

PATCH #2~#4:   memcpy
PATCH #5~#6:   kstrdup
PATCH #7:      strcpy

Please note that strncpy() is not included in this series as it is being
tracked by another effort. [1]


This patch (of 7):

We want to eliminate the use of __get_task_comm() for the following
reasons:

- The task_lock() is unnecessary
  Quoted from Linus [0]:
  : Since user space can randomly change their names anyway, using locking
  : was always wrong for readers (for writers it probably does make sense
  : to have some lock - although practically speaking nobody cares there
  : either, but at least for a writer some kind of race could have
  : long-term mixed results

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241007144911.27693-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241007144911.27693-2-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wivfrF0_zvf+oj6==Sh=-npJooP8chLPEfaFV0oNYTTBA@mail.gmail.com [0]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whWtUC-AjmGJveAETKOMeMFSTwKwu99v7+b6AyHMmaDFA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjAmmHUg6vho1KjzQi2=psR30+CogFd4aXrThr2gsiS4g@mail.gmail.com/ [0]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 [1]
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Matus Jokay <matus.jokay@stuba.sk>
Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Cc: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-11-05 17:12:28 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker 214e01ad4e kthread: unpark only parked kthread
Calling into kthread unparking unconditionally is mostly harmless when
the kthread is already unparked. The wake up is then simply ignored
because the target is not in TASK_PARKED state.

However if the kthread is per CPU, the wake up is preceded by a call
to kthread_bind() which expects the task to be inactive and in
TASK_PARKED state, which obviously isn't the case if it is unparked.

As a result, calling kthread_stop() on an unparked per-cpu kthread
triggers such a warning:

	WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 11 at kernel/kthread.c:525 __kthread_bind_mask kernel/kthread.c:525
	 <TASK>
	 kthread_stop+0x17a/0x630 kernel/kthread.c:707
	 destroy_workqueue+0x136/0xc40 kernel/workqueue.c:5810
	 wg_destruct+0x1e2/0x2e0 drivers/net/wireguard/device.c:257
	 netdev_run_todo+0xe1a/0x1000 net/core/dev.c:10693
	 default_device_exit_batch+0xa14/0xa90 net/core/dev.c:11769
	 ops_exit_list net/core/net_namespace.c:178 [inline]
	 cleanup_net+0x89d/0xcc0 net/core/net_namespace.c:640
	 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3231 [inline]
	 process_scheduled_works+0xa2c/0x1830 kernel/workqueue.c:3312
	 worker_thread+0x86d/0xd70 kernel/workqueue.c:3393
	 kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389
	 ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147
	 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244
	 </TASK>

Fix this with skipping unecessary unparking while stopping a kthread.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240913214634.12557-1-frederic@kernel.org
Fixes: 5c25b5ff89 ("workqueue: Tag bound workers with KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU")
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reported-by: syzbot+943d34fa3cf2191e3068@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: syzbot+943d34fa3cf2191e3068@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-10-09 12:47:19 -07:00
Chen Yu 6b9ccbc033 kthread: Fix task state in kthread worker if being frozen
When analyzing a kernel waring message, Peter pointed out that there is a race
condition when the kworker is being frozen and falls into try_to_freeze() with
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, which could trigger a might_sleep() warning in try_to_freeze().
Although the root cause is not related to freeze()[1], it is still worthy to fix
this issue ahead.

One possible race scenario:

        CPU 0                                           CPU 1
        -----                                           -----

        // kthread_worker_fn
        set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
                                                       suspend_freeze_processes()
                                                         freeze_processes
                                                           static_branch_inc(&freezer_active);
                                                         freeze_kernel_threads
                                                           pm_nosig_freezing = true;
        if (work) { //false
          __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);

        } else if (!freezing(current)) //false, been frozen

                      freezing():
                      if (static_branch_unlikely(&freezer_active))
                        if (pm_nosig_freezing)
                          return true;
          schedule()
	}

        // state is still TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE
        try_to_freeze()
          might_sleep() <--- warning

Fix this by explicitly set the TASK_RUNNING before entering
try_to_freeze().

Fixes: b56c0d8937 ("kthread: implement kthread_worker")
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Zs2ZoAcUsZMX2B%2FI@chenyu5-mobl2/ [1]
2024-09-10 09:51:14 +02:00
Mickaël Salaün 3a35c13007 kunit: Handle test faults
Previously, when a kernel test thread crashed (e.g. NULL pointer
dereference, general protection fault), the KUnit test hanged for 30
seconds and exited with a timeout error.

Fix this issue by waiting on task_struct->vfork_done instead of the
custom kunit_try_catch.try_completion, and track the execution state by
initially setting try_result with -EINTR and only setting it to 0 if
the test passed.

Fix kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter() signature by returning 0
instead of calling kthread_complete_and_exit().  Because thread's exit
code is never checked, always set it to 0 to make it clear.  To make
this explicit, export kthread_exit() for KUnit tests built as module.

Fix the -EINTR error message, which couldn't be reached until now.

This is tested with a following patch.

Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Tested-by: Rae Moar <rmoar@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408074625.65017-5-mic@digikod.net
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
2024-05-06 14:22:02 -06:00
Linus Torvalds 8f6f76a6a2 As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree and
there's little I can say which isn't in the individual changelogs.
 
 The lengthier patch series are
 
 - "kdump: use generic functions to simplify crashkernel reservation in
   arch", from Baoquan He.  This is mainly cleanups and consolidation of
   the "crashkernel=" kernel parameter handling.
 
 - After much discussion, David Laight's "minmax: Relax type checks in
   min() and max()" is here.  Hopefully reduces some typecasting and the
   use of min_t() and max_t().
 
 - A group of patches from Oleg Nesterov which clean up and slightly fix
   our handling of reads from /proc/PID/task/...  and which remove
   task_struct.therad_group.
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree
  and there's little I can say which isn't in the individual changelogs.

  The lengthier patch series are

   - 'kdump: use generic functions to simplify crashkernel reservation
     in arch', from Baoquan He. This is mainly cleanups and
     consolidation of the 'crashkernel=' kernel parameter handling

   - After much discussion, David Laight's 'minmax: Relax type checks in
     min() and max()' is here. Hopefully reduces some typecasting and
     the use of min_t() and max_t()

   - A group of patches from Oleg Nesterov which clean up and slightly
     fix our handling of reads from /proc/PID/task/... and which remove
     task_struct.thread_group"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (64 commits)
  scripts/gdb/vmalloc: disable on no-MMU
  scripts/gdb: fix usage of MOD_TEXT not defined when CONFIG_MODULES=n
  .mailmap: add address mapping for Tomeu Vizoso
  mailmap: update email address for Claudiu Beznea
  tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh: lower the ptrace permissions
  .mailmap: map Benjamin Poirier's address
  scripts/gdb: add lx_current support for riscv
  ocfs2: fix a spelling typo in comment
  proc: test ProtectionKey in proc-empty-vm test
  proc: fix proc-empty-vm test with vsyscall
  fs/proc/base.c: remove unneeded semicolon
  do_io_accounting: use sig->stats_lock
  do_io_accounting: use __for_each_thread()
  ocfs2: replace BUG_ON() at ocfs2_num_free_extents() with ocfs2_error()
  ocfs2: fix a typo in a comment
  scripts/show_delta: add __main__ judgement before main code
  treewide: mark stuff as __ro_after_init
  fs: ocfs2: check status values
  proc: test /proc/${pid}/statm
  compiler.h: move __is_constexpr() to compiler.h
  ...
2023-11-02 20:53:31 -10:00
Andreas Gruenbacher 6309727ef2 kthread: add kthread_stop_put
Add a kthread_stop_put() helper that stops a thread and puts its task
struct.  Use it to replace the various instances of kthread_stop()
followed by put_task_struct().

Remove the kthread_stop_put() macro in usbip that is similar but doesn't
return the result of kthread_stop().

[agruenba@redhat.com: fix kerneldoc comment]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230911111730.2565537-1-agruenba@redhat.com
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: document kthread_stop_put()'s argument]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907234048.2499820-1-agruenba@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-10-04 10:41:57 -07:00
Mateusz Guzik bc0c335760 mm: remove remnants of SPLIT_RSS_COUNTING
The feature got retired in f1a7941243 ("mm: convert mm's rss stats into
percpu_counter"), but the patch failed to fully clean it up.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230823170556.2281747-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-10-04 10:32:20 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman be33db2142 kthread: unexport __kthread_should_park()
There are no in-kernel users of __kthread_should_park() so mark it as
static and do not export it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2023080450-handcuff-stump-1d6e@gregkh
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Christian Brauner (Microsoft)" <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Prathu Baronia <quic_pbaronia@quicinc.com>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-18 10:18:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 77b1a7f7a0 - Arnd Bergmann has fixed a bunch of -Wmissing-prototypes in
top-level directories.
 
 - Douglas Anderson has added a new "buddy" mode to the hardlockup
   detector.  It permits the detector to work on architectures which
   cannot provide the required interrupts, by having CPUs periodically
   perform checks on other CPUs.
 
 - Zhen Lei has enhanced kexec's ability to support two crash regions.
 
 - Petr Mladek has done a lot of cleanup on the hard lockup detector's
   Kconfig entries.
 
 - And the usual bunch of singleton patches in various places.
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-06-24-19-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull non-mm updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Arnd Bergmann has fixed a bunch of -Wmissing-prototypes in top-level
   directories

 - Douglas Anderson has added a new "buddy" mode to the hardlockup
   detector. It permits the detector to work on architectures which
   cannot provide the required interrupts, by having CPUs periodically
   perform checks on other CPUs

 - Zhen Lei has enhanced kexec's ability to support two crash regions

 - Petr Mladek has done a lot of cleanup on the hard lockup detector's
   Kconfig entries

 - And the usual bunch of singleton patches in various places

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-06-24-19-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (72 commits)
  kernel/time/posix-stubs.c: remove duplicated include
  ocfs2: remove redundant assignment to variable bit_off
  watchdog/hardlockup: fix typo in config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PREFER_BUDDY
  powerpc: move arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace from nmi.h to irq.h
  devres: show which resource was invalid in __devm_ioremap_resource()
  watchdog/hardlockup: define HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH
  watchdog/sparc64: define HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_SPARC64
  watchdog/hardlockup: make HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG sparc64-specific
  watchdog/hardlockup: declare arch_touch_nmi_watchdog() only in linux/nmi.h
  watchdog/hardlockup: make the config checks more straightforward
  watchdog/hardlockup: sort hardlockup detector related config values a logical way
  watchdog/hardlockup: move SMP barriers from common code to buddy code
  watchdog/buddy: simplify the dependency for HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PREFER_BUDDY
  watchdog/buddy: don't copy the cpumask in watchdog_next_cpu()
  watchdog/buddy: cleanup how watchdog_buddy_check_hardlockup() is called
  watchdog/hardlockup: remove softlockup comment in touch_nmi_watchdog()
  watchdog/hardlockup: in watchdog_hardlockup_check() use cpumask_copy()
  watchdog/hardlockup: don't use raw_cpu_ptr() in watchdog_hardlockup_kick()
  watchdog/hardlockup: HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG must implement watchdog_hardlockup_probe()
  watchdog/hardlockup: keep kernel.nmi_watchdog sysctl as 0444 if probe fails
  ...
2023-06-28 10:59:38 -07:00
Arve Hjønnevåg ef73d6a4ef sched/wait: Fix a kthread_park race with wait_woken()
kthread_park and wait_woken have a similar race that
kthread_stop and wait_woken used to have before it was fixed in
commit cb6538e740 ("sched/wait: Fix a kthread race with
wait_woken()"). Extend that fix to also cover kthread_park.

[jstultz: Made changes suggested by Peter to optimize
 memory loads]

Signed-off-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230602212350.535358-1-jstultz@google.com
2023-06-16 17:08:01 +02:00
Prathu Baronia 6a25212dc3 kthread: fix spelling typo and grammar in comments
- `If present` -> `If present,'
- `reuturn` -> `return`
- `function exit safely` -> `function to exit safely`

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230502090242.3037194-1-quic_pbaronia@quicinc.com
Signed-off-by: Prathu Baronia <quic_pbaronia@quicinc.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-09 17:44:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 7fa8a8ee94 - Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of
switching from a user process to a kernel thread.
 
 - More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj Raghav.
 
 - zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky.
 
 - Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the
   alteration of memcg userspace tunables.
 
 - VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig:
 
   - removal of most of the callers of write_one_page().
 
   - make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful
 
 - Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap
   backing.  Use `mount -o noswap'.
 
 - Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing
   some scalability benefits.
 
 - Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its
   operations O(1) rather than O(n).
 
 - Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd,
   permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes.
 
 - Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive rather
   than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were caused by its
   unintuitive meaning.
 
 - Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature,
   which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte.
 
 - Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge():
   cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test
   harness.
 
 - Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes.
 
 - Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various
   mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c.
 
 - Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for
   DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more.
 
 - Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators
   and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases.
 
 - Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge().
 
 - Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code.
 
 - Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping
   locks in ->map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults.
 
 - Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to
   per-VMA locking.
 
 - Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it
   no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads.
 
 - Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig
   logic.
 
 - Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a
   chunk of memory if zswap is not being used.
 
 - Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics flushing.
 
 - David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged,
   userfaultfd and shmem.
 
 - Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related
   code paths.
 
 - David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's
   testing of our pte state changing.
 
 - Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it.
 
 - Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd
   selftests.
 
 - Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim accounting.
 
 - Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the
   selftests/mm code.
 
 - Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned
   pages.
 
 - Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time.
 
 - Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a
   per-process and per-cgroup basis.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of
   switching from a user process to a kernel thread.

 - More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj
   Raghav.

 - zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky.

 - Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the
   alteration of memcg userspace tunables.

 - VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig:
     - removal of most of the callers of write_one_page()
     - make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful

 - Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap
   backing. Use `mount -o noswap'.

 - Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing
   some scalability benefits.

 - Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its
   operations O(1) rather than O(n).

 - Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd,
   permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes.

 - Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive
   rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were
   caused by its unintuitive meaning.

 - Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature,
   which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte.

 - Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge():
   cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test
   harness.

 - Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes.

 - Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various
   mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c.

 - Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for
   DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more.

 - Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators
   and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases.

 - Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge().

 - Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code.

 - Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping
   locks in ->map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults.

 - Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to
   per-VMA locking.

 - Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it
   no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads.

 - Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig
   logic.

 - Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a
   chunk of memory if zswap is not being used.

 - Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics
   flushing.

 - David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged,
   userfaultfd and shmem.

 - Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related
   code paths.

 - David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's
   testing of our pte state changing.

 - Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it.

 - Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd
   selftests.

 - Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim
   accounting.

 - Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the
   selftests/mm code.

 - Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned
   pages.

 - Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time.

 - Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a
   per-process and per-cgroup basis.

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits)
  mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible
  shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace
  mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file()
  sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc
  mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area()
  hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map()
  maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area()
  mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries
  zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context
  selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM
  mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs
  mm: add new api to enable ksm per process
  mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions
  mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions
  migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry
  userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma()
  lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code
  mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list()
  fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers
  fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper
  ...
2023-04-27 19:42:02 -07:00
Nicholas Piggin aa464ba9a1 lazy tlb: introduce lazy tlb mm refcount helper functions
Add explicit _lazy_tlb annotated functions for lazy tlb mm refcounting. 
This makes the lazy tlb mm references more obvious, and allows the
refcounting scheme to be modified in later changes.  There is no
functional change with this patch.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230203071837.1136453-3-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-03-28 16:20:08 -07:00
Nicholas Piggin 6cad87b0d2 kthread: simplify kthread_use_mm refcounting
Patch series "shoot lazy tlbs (lazy tlb refcount scalability
improvement)", v7.

This series improves scalability of context switching between user and
kernel threads on large systems with a threaded process spread across a
lot of CPUs.

Discussion of v6 here:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230118080011.2258375-1-npiggin@gmail.com/


This patch (of 5):

Remove the special case avoiding refcounting when the mm to be used is the
same as the kernel thread's active (lazy tlb) mm.  kthread_use_mm() should
not be such a performance critical path that this matters much.  This
simplifies a later change to lazy tlb mm refcounting.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230203071837.1136453-1-npiggin@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230203071837.1136453-2-npiggin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-03-28 16:20:07 -07:00
Mike Christie 73e0c11659
kthread: Pass in the thread's name during creation
This has us pass in the thread's name during creation in kernel_thread.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
2023-03-12 10:54:36 +01:00
Mike Christie cf587db2ee
kernel: Allow a kernel thread's name to be set in copy_process
This patch allows kernel users to pass in the thread name so it can be
set during creation instead of having to use set_task_comm after the
thread is created.

Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
2023-03-12 10:52:46 +01:00
Zqiang eb79fa7ea7 kthread_worker: check all delayed works when destroy kthread worker
When destroying a kthread worker warn if there are still some pending
delayed works.  This indicates that the caller should clear all pending
delayed works before destroying the kthread worker.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230104144230.938521-1-qiang1.zhang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-02-02 22:50:02 -08:00
Linus Torvalds c71370bde7 signal: break out of wait loops on kthread_stop()
This is a small tweak to kthread_stop so it breaks out of
 interruptible waits, that don't explicitly test for kthread_stop.
 These interruptible waits occassionaly occur in kernel threads do to
 code sharing.
 
 Jason A. Donenfeld (1):
       signal: break out of wait loops on kthread_stop()
 
  kernel/kthread.c | 1 +
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
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Merge tag 'interrupting_kthread_stop-for-v5.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

Pull kthread update from Eric Biederman:
 "Break out of wait loops on kthread_stop()

  This is a small tweak to kthread_stop so it breaks out of
  interruptible waits, that don't explicitly test for kthread_stop.

  These interruptible waits occassionaly occur in kernel threads do to
  code sharing"

* tag 'interrupting_kthread_stop-for-v5.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  signal: break out of wait loops on kthread_stop()
2022-10-09 16:01:59 -07:00
Sami Tolvanen 4b24356312 treewide: Drop WARN_ON_FUNCTION_MISMATCH
CONFIG_CFI_CLANG no longer breaks cross-module function address
equality, which makes WARN_ON_FUNCTION_MISMATCH unnecessary. Remove
the definition and switch back to WARN_ON_ONCE.

Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220908215504.3686827-15-samitolvanen@google.com
2022-09-26 10:13:14 -07:00
Jason A. Donenfeld a7c01fa93a signal: break out of wait loops on kthread_stop()
I was recently surprised to learn that msleep_interruptible(),
wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(), and related functions
simply hung when I called kthread_stop() on kthreads using them. The
solution to fixing the case with msleep_interruptible() was more simply
to move to schedule_timeout_interruptible(). Why?

The reason is that msleep_interruptible(), and many functions just like
it, has a loop like this:

        while (timeout && !signal_pending(current))
                timeout = schedule_timeout_interruptible(timeout);

The call to kthread_stop() woke up the thread, so schedule_timeout_
interruptible() returned early, but because signal_pending() returned
true, it went back into another timeout, which was never woken up.

This wait loop pattern is common to various pieces of code, and I
suspect that the subtle misuse in a kthread that caused a deadlock in
the code I looked at last week is also found elsewhere.

So this commit causes signal_pending() to return true when
kthread_stop() is called, by setting TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL.

The same also probably applies to the similar kthread_park()
functionality, but that can be addressed later, as its semantics are
slightly different.

Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>
v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220627120020.608117-1-Jason@zx2c4.com
v2: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220627145716.641185-1-Jason@zx2c4.com
v3: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220628161441.892925-1-Jason@zx2c4.com
v4: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220711202136.64458-1-Jason@zx2c4.com
v5: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220711232123.136330-1-Jason@zx2c4.com
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2022-07-18 09:53:38 -05:00
Petr Mladek d25c83c660 kthread: make it clear that kthread_create_on_node() might be terminated by any fatal signal
The comments in kernel/kthread.c create a feeling that only SIGKILL is
able to terminate the creation of kernel kthreads by
kthread_create()/_on_node()/_on_cpu() APIs.

In reality, wait_for_completion_killable() might be killed by any fatal
signal that does not have a custom handler:

	(!siginmask(signr, SIG_KERNEL_IGNORE_MASK|SIG_KERNEL_STOP_MASK) && \
	 (t)->sighand->action[(signr)-1].sa.sa_handler == SIG_DFL)

static inline void signal_wake_up(struct task_struct *t, bool resume)
{
	signal_wake_up_state(t, resume ? TASK_WAKEKILL : 0);
}

static void complete_signal(int sig, struct task_struct *p, enum pid_type type)
{
[...]
	/*
	 * Found a killable thread.  If the signal will be fatal,
	 * then start taking the whole group down immediately.
	 */
	if (sig_fatal(p, sig) ...) {
		if (!sig_kernel_coredump(sig)) {
		[...]
			do {
				task_clear_jobctl_pending(t, JOBCTL_PENDING_MASK);
				sigaddset(&t->pending.signal, SIGKILL);
				signal_wake_up(t, 1);
			} while_each_thread(p, t);
			return;
		}
	}
}

Update the comments in kernel/kthread.c to make this more obvious.

The motivation for this change was debugging why a module initialization
failed.  The module was being loaded from initrd.  It "magically" failed
when systemd was switching to the real root.  The clean up operations sent
SIGTERM to various pending processed that were started from initrd.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220315102444.2380-1-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-06-16 19:11:30 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig f624506f98 kthread: unexport kthread_blkcg
kthread_blkcg is only used by the built-in blk-cgroup code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420042723.1010598-16-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2022-05-02 14:06:20 -06:00
Linus Torvalds 194dfe88d6 asm-generic updates for 5.18
There are three sets of updates for 5.18 in the asm-generic tree:
 
  - The set_fs()/get_fs() infrastructure gets removed for good. This
    was already gone from all major architectures, but now we can
    finally remove it everywhere, which loses some particularly
    tricky and error-prone code.
    There is a small merge conflict against a parisc cleanup, the
    solution is to use their new version.
 
  - The nds32 architecture ends its tenure in the Linux kernel. The
    hardware is still used and the code is in reasonable shape, but
    the mainline port is not actively maintained any more, as all
    remaining users are thought to run vendor kernels that would never
    be updated to a future release.
    There are some obvious conflicts against changes to the removed
    files.
 
  - A series from Masahiro Yamada cleans up some of the uapi header
    files to pass the compile-time checks.
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Merge tag 'asm-generic-5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "There are three sets of updates for 5.18 in the asm-generic tree:

   - The set_fs()/get_fs() infrastructure gets removed for good.

     This was already gone from all major architectures, but now we can
     finally remove it everywhere, which loses some particularly tricky
     and error-prone code. There is a small merge conflict against a
     parisc cleanup, the solution is to use their new version.

   - The nds32 architecture ends its tenure in the Linux kernel.

     The hardware is still used and the code is in reasonable shape, but
     the mainline port is not actively maintained any more, as all
     remaining users are thought to run vendor kernels that would never
     be updated to a future release.

   - A series from Masahiro Yamada cleans up some of the uapi header
     files to pass the compile-time checks"

* tag 'asm-generic-5.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic: (27 commits)
  nds32: Remove the architecture
  uaccess: remove CONFIG_SET_FS
  ia64: remove CONFIG_SET_FS support
  sh: remove CONFIG_SET_FS support
  sparc64: remove CONFIG_SET_FS support
  lib/test_lockup: fix kernel pointer check for separate address spaces
  uaccess: generalize access_ok()
  uaccess: fix type mismatch warnings from access_ok()
  arm64: simplify access_ok()
  m68k: fix access_ok for coldfire
  MIPS: use simpler access_ok()
  MIPS: Handle address errors for accesses above CPU max virtual user address
  uaccess: add generic __{get,put}_kernel_nofault
  nios2: drop access_ok() check from __put_user()
  x86: use more conventional access_ok() definition
  x86: remove __range_not_ok()
  sparc64: add __{get,put}_kernel_nofault()
  nds32: fix access_ok() checks in get/put_user
  uaccess: fix nios2 and microblaze get_user_8()
  sparc64: fix building assembly files
  ...
2022-03-23 18:03:08 -07:00