Add SCX_ENQ_IMMED enqueue flag for local DSQ insertions. Once a task is
dispatched with IMMED, it either gets on the CPU immediately and stays on it,
or gets reenqueued back to the BPF scheduler. It will never linger on a local
DSQ behind other tasks or on a CPU taken by a higher-priority class.
rq_is_open() uses rq->next_class to determine whether the rq is available,
and wakeup_preempt_scx() triggers reenqueue when a higher-priority class task
arrives. These capture all higher class preemptions. Combined with reenqueue
points in the dispatch path, all cases where an IMMED task would not execute
immediately are covered.
SCX_TASK_IMMED persists in p->scx.flags until the next fresh enqueue, so the
guarantee survives SAVE/RESTORE cycles. If preempted while running,
put_prev_task_scx() reenqueues through ops.enqueue() with
SCX_TASK_REENQ_PREEMPTED instead of silently placing the task back on the
local DSQ.
This enables tighter scheduling latency control by preventing tasks from
piling up on local DSQs. It also enables opportunistic CPU sharing across
sub-schedulers - without this, a sub-scheduler can stuff the local DSQ of a
shared CPU, making it difficult for others to use.
v2: - Rewrite is_curr_done() as rq_is_open() using rq->next_class and
implement wakeup_preempt_scx() to achieve complete coverage of all
cases where IMMED tasks could get stranded.
- Track IMMED persistently in p->scx.flags and reenqueue
preempted-while-running tasks through ops.enqueue().
- Bound deferred reenq cycles (SCX_REENQ_LOCAL_MAX_REPEAT).
- Misc renames, documentation.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Pull sched/core to resolve conflicts between:
c2a57380df ("sched: Replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq")
from the tip tree and commit:
cde94c032b ("sched_ext: Make watchdog sub-sched aware")
The latter moves around code modiefied by the former. Apply the changes in
the new locations.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
SCX_ENQ_REENQ indicates that a task is being re-enqueued but doesn't tell the
BPF scheduler why. Add SCX_TASK_REENQ_REASON flags using bits 12-13 of
p->scx.flags to communicate the reason during ops.enqueue():
- NONE: Not being reenqueued
- KFUNC: Reenqueued by scx_bpf_dsq_reenq() and friends
More reasons will be added.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Task states (NONE, INIT, READY, ENABLED) were defined in a separate enum with
unshifted values and then shifted when stored in scx_entity.flags. Simplify by
defining them as pre-shifted values directly in scx_ent_flags and removing the
separate scx_task_state enum. This removes the need for shifting when
reading/writing state values.
scx_get_task_state() now returns the masked flags value directly.
scx_set_task_state() accepts the pre-shifted state value. scx_dump_task()
shifts down for display to maintain readable output.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
scx_bpf_dsq_reenq() currently only supports local DSQs. Extend it to support
user-defined DSQs by adding a deferred re-enqueue mechanism similar to the
local DSQ handling.
Add per-cpu deferred_reenq_user_node/flags to scx_dsq_pcpu and
deferred_reenq_users list to scx_rq. When scx_bpf_dsq_reenq() is called on a
user DSQ, the DSQ's per-cpu node is added to the current rq's deferred list.
process_deferred_reenq_users() then iterates the DSQ using the cursor helpers
and re-enqueues each task.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Factor out cursor-based DSQ iteration from bpf_iter_scx_dsq_next() into
nldsq_cursor_next_task() and the task-lost check from scx_dsq_move() into
nldsq_cursor_lost_task() to prepare for reuse.
As ->priv is only used to record dsq->seq for cursors, update
INIT_DSQ_LIST_CURSOR() to take the DSQ pointer and set ->priv from dsq->seq
so that users don't have to read it manually. Move scx_dsq_iter_flags enum
earlier so nldsq_cursor_next_task() can use SCX_DSQ_ITER_REV.
bypass_lb_cpu() now sets cursor.priv to dsq->seq but doesn't use it.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Add per-CPU data structure to dispatch queues. Each DSQ now has a percpu
scx_dsq_pcpu which contains a back-pointer to the DSQ. This will be used by
future changes to implement per-CPU reenqueue tracking for user DSQs.
init_dsq() now allocates the percpu data and can fail, so it returns an
error code. All callers are updated to handle failures. exit_dsq() is added
to free the percpu data and is called from all DSQ cleanup paths.
In scx_bpf_create_dsq(), init_dsq() is called before rcu_read_lock() since
alloc_percpu() requires GFP_KERNEL context, and dsq->sched is set
afterwards.
v2: Fix err_free_pcpu to only exit_dsq() initialized bypass DSQs (Andrea
Righi).
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
The preceding changes implemented the framework to support cgroup
sub-scheds and updated scheduling paths and kfuncs so that they have
minimal but working support for sub-scheds. However, actual sub-sched
enabling/disabling hasn't been implemented yet and all tasks stayed on
scx_root.
Implement cgroup sub-sched enabling and disabling to actually activate
sub-scheds:
- Both enable and disable operations bypass only the tasks in the subtree
of the child being enabled or disabled to limit disruptions.
- When enabling, all candidate tasks are first initialized for the child
sched. Once that succeeds, the tasks are exited for the parent and then
switched over to the child. This adds a bit of complication but
guarantees that child scheduler failures are always contained.
- Disabling works the same way in the other direction. However, when the
parent may fail to initialize a task, disabling is propagated up to the
parent. While this means that a parent sched fail due to a child sched
event, the failure can only originate from the parent itself (its
ops.init_task()). The only effect a malfunctioning child can have on the
parent is attempting to move the tasks back to the parent.
After this change, although not all the necessary mechanisms are in place
yet, sub-scheds can take control of their tasks and schedule them.
v2: Fix missing scx_cgroup_unlock()/percpu_up_write() in abort path
(Cheng-Yang Chou).
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
In preparation of multiple scheduler support, add p->scx.sched which points
to the scx_sched instance that the task is scheduled by, which is currently
always scx_root. Add scx_task_sched[_rcu]() accessors which return the
associated scx_sched of the specified task and replace the raw scx_root
dereferences with it where applicable. scx_task_on_sched() is also added to
test whether a given task is on the specified sched.
As scx_root is still the only scheduler, this shouldn't introduce
user-visible behavior changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
A system often runs multiple workloads especially in multi-tenant server
environments where a system is split into partitions servicing separate
more-or-less independent workloads each requiring an application-specific
scheduler. To support such and other use cases, sched_ext is in the process
of growing multiple scheduler support.
When partitioning a system in terms of CPUs for such use cases, an
oft-taken approach is hard partitioning the system using cpuset. While it
would be possible to tie sched_ext multiple scheduler support to cpuset
partitions, such an approach would have fundamental limitations stemming
from the lack of dynamism and flexibility.
Users often don't care which specific CPUs are assigned to which workload
and want to take advantage of optimizations which are enabled by running
workloads on a larger machine - e.g. opportunistic over-commit, improving
latency critical workload characteristics while maintaining bandwidth
fairness, employing control mechanisms based on different criteria than
on-CPU time for e.g. flexible memory bandwidth isolation, packing similar
parts from different workloads on same L3s to improve cache efficiency,
and so on.
As this sort of dynamic behaviors are impossible or difficult to implement
with hard partitioning, sched_ext is implementing cgroup sub-sched support
where schedulers can be attached to the cgroup hierarchy and a parent
scheduler is responsible for controlling the CPUs that each child can use
at any given moment. This makes CPU distribution dynamically controlled by
BPF allowing high flexibility.
This patch adds the skeletal sched_ext cgroup sub-sched support:
- sched_ext_ops.sub_cgroup_id and .sub_attach/detach() are added. Non-zero
sub_cgroup_id indicates that the scheduler is to be attached to the
identified cgroup. A sub-sched is attached to the cgroup iff the nearest
ancestor scheduler implements .sub_attach() and grants the attachment. Max
nesting depth is limited by SCX_SUB_MAX_DEPTH.
- When a scheduler exits, all its descendant schedulers are exited
together. Also, cgroup.scx_sched added which points to the effective
scheduler instance for the cgroup. This is updated on scheduler
init/exit and inherited on cgroup online. When a cgroup is offlined, the
attached scheduler is automatically exited.
- Sub-sched support is gated on CONFIG_EXT_SUB_SCHED which is
automatically enabled if both SCX and cgroups are enabled. Sub-sched
support is not tied to the CPU controller but rather the cgroup
hierarchy itself. This is intentional as the support for cpu.weight and
cpu.max based resource control is orthogonal to sub-sched support. Note
that CONFIG_CGROUPS around cgroup subtree iteration support for
scx_task_iter is replaced with CONFIG_EXT_SUB_SCHED for consistency.
- This allows loading sub-scheds and most framework operations such as
propagating disable down the hierarchy work. However, sub-scheds are not
operational yet and all tasks stay with the root sched. This will serve
as the basis for building up full sub-sched support.
- DSQs point to the scx_sched they belong to.
- scx_qmap is updated to allow attachment of sub-scheds and also serving
as sub-scheds.
- scx_is_descendant() is added but not yet used in this patch. It is used by
later changes in the series and placed here as this is where the function
belongs.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Reorder struct sched_ext_entity to place ops_state, ddsp_dsq_id, and
ddsp_enq_flags immediately after dsq. These fields are accessed together
in the do_enqueue_task() and finish_dispatch() hot paths but were
previously spread across three different cache lines. Grouping them on
the same cache line reduces cache misses on every enqueue and dispatch
operation.
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Currently, ops.dequeue() is only invoked when the sched_ext core knows
that a task resides in BPF-managed data structures, which causes it to
miss scheduling property change events. In addition, ops.dequeue()
callbacks are completely skipped when tasks are dispatched to non-local
DSQs from ops.select_cpu(). As a result, BPF schedulers cannot reliably
track task state.
Fix this by guaranteeing that each task entering the BPF scheduler's
custody triggers exactly one ops.dequeue() call when it leaves that
custody, whether the exit is due to a dispatch (regular or via a core
scheduling pick) or to a scheduling property change (e.g.
sched_setaffinity(), sched_setscheduler(), set_user_nice(), NUMA
balancing, etc.).
BPF scheduler custody concept: a task is considered to be in the BPF
scheduler's custody when the scheduler is responsible for managing its
lifecycle. This includes tasks dispatched to user-created DSQs or stored
in the BPF scheduler's internal data structures from ops.enqueue().
Custody ends when the task is dispatched to a terminal DSQ (such as the
local DSQ or %SCX_DSQ_GLOBAL), selected by core scheduling, or removed
due to a property change.
Tasks directly dispatched to terminal DSQs bypass the BPF scheduler
entirely and are never in its custody. Terminal DSQs include:
- Local DSQs (%SCX_DSQ_LOCAL or %SCX_DSQ_LOCAL_ON): per-CPU queues
where tasks go directly to execution.
- Global DSQ (%SCX_DSQ_GLOBAL): the built-in fallback queue where the
BPF scheduler is considered "done" with the task.
As a result, ops.dequeue() is not invoked for tasks directly dispatched
to terminal DSQs.
To identify dequeues triggered by scheduling property changes, introduce
the new ops.dequeue() flag %SCX_DEQ_SCHED_CHANGE: when this flag is set,
the dequeue was caused by a scheduling property change.
New ops.dequeue() semantics:
- ops.dequeue() is invoked exactly once when the task leaves the BPF
scheduler's custody, in one of the following cases:
a) regular dispatch: a task dispatched to a user DSQ or stored in
internal BPF data structures is moved to a terminal DSQ
(ops.dequeue() called without any special flags set),
b) core scheduling dispatch: core-sched picks task before dispatch
(ops.dequeue() called with %SCX_DEQ_CORE_SCHED_EXEC flag set),
c) property change: task properties modified before dispatch,
(ops.dequeue() called with %SCX_DEQ_SCHED_CHANGE flag set).
This allows BPF schedulers to:
- reliably track task ownership and lifecycle,
- maintain accurate accounting of managed tasks,
- update internal state when tasks change properties.
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Cc: Kuba Piecuch <jpiecuch@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
It turns out that a few workloads (easyWave, fio) have a fairly low
success rate on newidle balance, but still benefit greatly from having
it anyway.
Luckliky these workloads have a faily low newidle rate, so the cost if
doing the newidle is relatively low, even if unsuccessfull.
Add a simple rate based part to the newidle ratio compute, such that
low rate newidle will still have a high newidle ratio.
This cures the easyWave and fio workloads while not affecting the
schbench numbers either (which have a very high newidle rate).
Reported-by: Mario Roy <marioeroy@gmail.com>
Reported-by: "Mohamed Abuelfotoh, Hazem" <abuehaze@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Mario Roy <marioeroy@gmail.com>
Tested-by: "Mohamed Abuelfotoh, Hazem" <abuehaze@amazon.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260127151748.GA1079264@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
clock interface, taming the include hell by splitting the pv_ops structure
and removing of a bunch of obsolete code. Work by Juergen Gross.
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Merge tag 'x86_paravirt_for_v7.0_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 paravirt updates from Borislav Petkov:
- A nice cleanup to the paravirt code containing a unification of the
paravirt clock interface, taming the include hell by splitting the
pv_ops structure and removing of a bunch of obsolete code (Juergen
Gross)
* tag 'x86_paravirt_for_v7.0_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
x86/paravirt: Use XOR r32,r32 to clear register in pv_vcpu_is_preempted()
x86/paravirt: Remove trailing semicolons from alternative asm templates
x86/pvlocks: Move paravirt spinlock functions into own header
x86/paravirt: Specify pv_ops array in paravirt macros
x86/paravirt: Allow pv-calls outside paravirt.h
objtool: Allow multiple pv_ops arrays
x86/xen: Drop xen_mmu_ops
x86/xen: Drop xen_cpu_ops
x86/xen: Drop xen_irq_ops
x86/paravirt: Move pv_native_*() prototypes to paravirt.c
x86/paravirt: Introduce new paravirt-base.h header
x86/paravirt: Move paravirt_sched_clock() related code into tsc.c
x86/paravirt: Use common code for paravirt_steal_clock()
riscv/paravirt: Use common code for paravirt_steal_clock()
loongarch/paravirt: Use common code for paravirt_steal_clock()
arm64/paravirt: Use common code for paravirt_steal_clock()
arm/paravirt: Use common code for paravirt_steal_clock()
sched: Move clock related paravirt code to kernel/sched
paravirt: Remove asm/paravirt_api_clock.h
x86/paravirt: Move thunk macros to paravirt_types.h
...
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
...
It doesn't make sense to use nohz_full without also isolating the
related CPUs from the domain topology, either through the use of
isolcpus= or cpuset isolated partitions.
And now HK_TYPE_DOMAIN includes all kinds of domain isolated CPUs.
This means that HK_TYPE_DOMAIN should always be a subset of
HK_TYPE_KERNEL_NOISE (of which HK_TYPE_TICK is only an alias).
Therefore if a CPU is not HK_TYPE_DOMAIN, it shouldn't be
HK_TYPE_KERNEL_NOISE either. Testing the former is then enough.
Simplify cpu_is_isolated() accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@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>
The set of cpuset isolated CPUs is now included in HK_TYPE_DOMAIN
housekeeping cpumask. There is no usecase left interested in just
checking what is isolated by cpuset and not by the isolcpus= kernel
boot parameter.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.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
Until now, HK_TYPE_DOMAIN used to only include boot defined isolated
CPUs passed through isolcpus= boot option. Users interested in also
knowing the runtime defined isolated CPUs through cpuset must use
different APIs: cpuset_cpu_is_isolated(), cpu_is_isolated(), etc...
There are many drawbacks to that approach:
1) Most interested subsystems want to know about all isolated CPUs, not
just those defined on boot time.
2) cpuset_cpu_is_isolated() / cpu_is_isolated() are not synchronized with
concurrent cpuset changes.
3) Further cpuset modifications are not propagated to subsystems
Solve 1) and 2) and centralize all isolated CPUs within the
HK_TYPE_DOMAIN housekeeping cpumask.
Subsystems can rely on RCU to synchronize against concurrent changes.
The propagation mentioned in 3) will be handled in further patches.
[Chen Ridong: Fix cpu_hotplug_lock deadlock and use correct static
branch API]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.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
HK_TYPE_DOMAIN will soon integrate not only boot defined isolcpus= CPUs
but also cpuset isolated partitions.
Housekeeping still needs a way to record what was initially passed
to isolcpus= in order to keep these CPUs isolated after a cpuset
isolated partition is modified or destroyed while containing some of
them.
Create a new HK_TYPE_DOMAIN_BOOT to keep track of those.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@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>
Patch series "mm kernel-doc fixes".
Here are kernel-doc fixes for mm subsystem. I'm also including textsearch
fix since there's currently no maintainer for include/linux/textsearch.h
(get_maintainer.pl only shows LKML).
This patch (of 4):
Sphinx reports kernel-doc warning:
WARNING: ./include/linux/sched/mm.h:332 function parameter 'flags' not described in 'memalloc_flags_save'
Describe @flags to fix it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251219014006.16328-2-bagasdotme@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251219014006.16328-3-bagasdotme@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Fixes: 3f6d5e6a46 ("mm: introduce memalloc_flags_{save,restore}")
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Paravirt clock related functions are available in multiple archs.
In order to share the common parts, move the common static keys
to kernel/sched/ and remove them from the arch specific files.
Make a common paravirt_steal_clock() implementation available in
kernel/sched/cputime.c, guarding it with a new config option
CONFIG_HAVE_PV_STEAL_CLOCK_GEN, which can be selected by an arch
in case it wants to use that common variant.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260105110520.21356-7-jgross@suse.com
This demonstrates a larger conversion to use Clang's context
analysis. The benefit is additional static checking of locking rules,
along with better documentation.
Notably, kernel/sched contains sufficiently complex synchronization
patterns, and application to core.c & fair.c demonstrates that the
latest Clang version has become powerful enough to start applying this
to more complex subsystems (with some modest annotations and changes).
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-37-elver@google.com
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
- The 10 patch series "__vmalloc()/kvmalloc() and no-block support" from
Uladzislau Rezki reworks the vmalloc() code to support non-blocking
allocations (GFP_ATOIC, GFP_NOWAIT).
- The 2 patch series "ksm: fix exec/fork inheritance" from xu xin fixes
a rare case where the KSM MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY prctl state is not inherited
across fork/exec.
- The 4 patch series "mm/zswap: misc cleanup of code and documentations"
from SeongJae Park does some light maintenance work on the zswap code.
- The 5 patch series "mm/page_owner: add debugfs files 'show_handles'
and 'show_stacks_handles'" from Mauricio Faria de Oliveira enhances the
/sys/kernel/debug/page_owner debug feature. It adds unique identifiers
to differentiate the various stack traces so that userspace monitoring
tools can better match stack traces over time.
- The 2 patch series "mm/page_alloc: pcp->batch cleanups" from Joshua
Hahn makes some minor alterations to the page allocator's per-cpu-pages
feature.
- The 2 patch series "Improve UFFDIO_MOVE scalability by removing
anon_vma lock" from Lokesh Gidra addresses a scalability issue in
userfaultfd's UFFDIO_MOVE operation.
- The 2 patch series "kasan: cleanups for kasan_enabled() checks" from
Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov performs some cleanup in the KASAN code.
- The 2 patch series "drivers/base/node: fold node register and
unregister functions" from Donet Tom cleans up the NUMA node handling
code a little.
- The 4 patch series "mm: some optimizations for prot numa" from Kefeng
Wang provides some cleanups and small optimizations to the NUMA
allocation hinting code.
- The 5 patch series "mm/page_alloc: Batch callers of
free_pcppages_bulk" from Joshua Hahn addresses long lock hold times at
boot on large machines. These were causing (harmless) softlockup
warnings.
- The 2 patch series "optimize the logic for handling dirty file folios
during reclaim" from Baolin Wang removes some now-unnecessary work from
page reclaim.
- The 10 patch series "mm/damon: allow DAMOS auto-tuned for per-memcg
per-node memory usage" from SeongJae Park enhances the DAMOS auto-tuning
feature.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon: fixes for address alignment issues in
DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from Quanmin Yan fixes DAMON_LRU_SORT
and DAMON_RECLAIM with certain userspace configuration.
- The 15 patch series "expand mmap_prepare functionality, port more
users" from Lorenzo Stoakes enhances the new(ish)
file_operations.mmap_prepare() method and ports additional callsites
from the old ->mmap() over to ->mmap_prepare().
- The 8 patch series "Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space"
from Lu Baolu fixes a bug (and possible security issue on non-x86) in
the IOMMU code. In some situations the IOMMU could be left hanging onto
a stale kernel pagetable entry.
- The 4 patch series "mm/huge_memory: cleanup __split_unmapped_folio()"
from Wei Yang cleans up and optimizes the folio splitting code.
- The 5 patch series "mm, swap: misc cleanup and bugfix" from Kairui
Song implements some cleanups and a minor fix in the swap discard code.
- The 8 patch series "mm/damon: misc documentation fixups" from SeongJae
Park does as advertised.
- The 9 patch series "mm/damon: support pin-point targets removal" from
SeongJae Park permits userspace to remove a specific monitoring target
in the middle of the current targets list.
- The 2 patch series "mm: MISC follow-up patches for linux/pgalloc.h"
from Harry Yoo implements a couple of cleanups related to mm header file
inclusion.
- The 2 patch series "mm/swapfile.c: select swap devices of default
priority round robin" from Baoquan He improves the selection of swap
devices for NUMA machines.
- The 3 patch series "mm: Convert memory block states (MEM_*) macros to
enums" from Israel Batista changes the memory block labels from macros
to enums so they will appear in kernel debug info.
- The 3 patch series "ksm: perform a range-walk to jump over holes in
break_ksm" from Pedro Demarchi Gomes addresses an inefficiency when KSM
unmerges an address range.
- The 22 patch series "mm/damon/tests: fix memory bugs in kunit tests"
from SeongJae Park fixes leaks and unhandled malloc() failures in DAMON
userspace unit tests.
- The 2 patch series "some cleanups for pageout()" from Baolin Wang
cleans up a couple of minor things in the page scanner's
writeback-for-eviction code.
- The 2 patch series "mm/hugetlb: refactor sysfs/sysctl interfaces" from
Hui Zhu moves hugetlb's sysfs/sysctl handling code into a new file.
- The 9 patch series "introduce VM_MAYBE_GUARD and make it sticky" from
Lorenzo Stoakes makes the VMA guard regions available in /proc/pid/smaps
and improves the mergeability of guarded VMAs.
- The 2 patch series "mm: perform guard region install/remove under VMA
lock" from Lorenzo Stoakes reduces mmap lock contention for callers
performing VMA guard region operations.
- The 2 patch series "vma_start_write_killable" from Matthew Wilcox
starts work in permitting applications to be killed when they are
waiting on a read_lock on the VMA lock.
- The 11 patch series "mm/damon/tests: add more tests for online
parameters commit" from SeongJae Park adds additional userspace testing
of DAMON's "commit" feature.
- The 9 patch series "mm/damon: misc cleanups" from SeongJae Park does
that.
- The 2 patch series "make VM_SOFTDIRTY a sticky VMA flag" from Lorenzo
Stoakes addresses the possible loss of a VMA's VM_SOFTDIRTY flag when
that VMA is merged with another.
- The 16 patch series "mm: support device-private THP" from Balbir Singh
introduces support for Transparent Huge Page (THP) migration in zone
device-private memory.
- The 3 patch series "Optimize folio split in memory failure" from Zi
Yan optimizes folio split operations in the memory failure code.
- The 2 patch series "mm/huge_memory: Define split_type and consolidate
split support checks" from Wei Yang provides some more cleanups in the
folio splitting code.
- The 16 patch series "mm: remove is_swap_[pte, pmd]() + non-swap
entries, introduce leaf entries" from Lorenzo Stoakes cleans up our
handling of pagetable leaf entries by introducing the concept of
'software leaf entries', of type softleaf_t.
- The 4 patch series "reparent the THP split queue" from Muchun Song
reparents the THP split queue to its parent memcg. This is in
preparation for addressing the long-standing "dying memcg" problem,
wherein dead memcg's linger for too long, consuming memory resources.
- The 3 patch series "unify PMD scan results and remove redundant
cleanup" from Wei Yang does a little cleanup in the hugepage collapse
code.
- The 6 patch series "zram: introduce writeback bio batching" from
Sergey Senozhatsky improves zram writeback efficiency by introducing
batched bio writeback support.
- The 4 patch series "memcg: cleanup the memcg stats interfaces" from
Shakeel Butt cleans up our handling of the interrupt safety of some
memcg stats.
- The 4 patch series "make vmalloc gfp flags usage more apparent" from
Vishal Moola cleans up vmalloc's handling of incoming GFP flags.
- The 6 patch series "mm: Add soft-dirty and uffd-wp support for RISC-V"
from Chunyan Zhang teches soft dirty and userfaultfd write protect
tracking to use RISC-V's Svrsw60t59b extension.
- The 5 patch series "mm: swap: small fixes and comment cleanups" from
Youngjun Park fixes a small bug and cleans up some of the swap code.
- The 4 patch series "initial work on making VMA flags a bitmap" from
Lorenzo Stoakes starts work on converting the vma struct's flags to a
bitmap, so we stop running out of them, especially on 32-bit.
- The 2 patch series "mm/swapfile: fix and cleanup swap list iterations"
from Youngjun Park addresses a possible bug in the swap discard code and
cleans things up a little.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"__vmalloc()/kvmalloc() and no-block support" (Uladzislau Rezki)
Rework the vmalloc() code to support non-blocking allocations
(GFP_ATOIC, GFP_NOWAIT)
"ksm: fix exec/fork inheritance" (xu xin)
Fix a rare case where the KSM MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY prctl state is not
inherited across fork/exec
"mm/zswap: misc cleanup of code and documentations" (SeongJae Park)
Some light maintenance work on the zswap code
"mm/page_owner: add debugfs files 'show_handles' and 'show_stacks_handles'" (Mauricio Faria de Oliveira)
Enhance the /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner debug feature by adding
unique identifiers to differentiate the various stack traces so
that userspace monitoring tools can better match stack traces over
time
"mm/page_alloc: pcp->batch cleanups" (Joshua Hahn)
Minor alterations to the page allocator's per-cpu-pages feature
"Improve UFFDIO_MOVE scalability by removing anon_vma lock" (Lokesh Gidra)
Address a scalability issue in userfaultfd's UFFDIO_MOVE operation
"kasan: cleanups for kasan_enabled() checks" (Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov)
"drivers/base/node: fold node register and unregister functions" (Donet Tom)
Clean up the NUMA node handling code a little
"mm: some optimizations for prot numa" (Kefeng Wang)
Cleanups and small optimizations to the NUMA allocation hinting
code
"mm/page_alloc: Batch callers of free_pcppages_bulk" (Joshua Hahn)
Address long lock hold times at boot on large machines. These were
causing (harmless) softlockup warnings
"optimize the logic for handling dirty file folios during reclaim" (Baolin Wang)
Remove some now-unnecessary work from page reclaim
"mm/damon: allow DAMOS auto-tuned for per-memcg per-node memory usage" (SeongJae Park)
Enhance the DAMOS auto-tuning feature
"mm/damon: fixes for address alignment issues in DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" (Quanmin Yan)
Fix DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM with certain userspace
configuration
"expand mmap_prepare functionality, port more users" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Enhance the new(ish) file_operations.mmap_prepare() method and port
additional callsites from the old ->mmap() over to ->mmap_prepare()
"Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space" (Lu Baolu)
Fix a bug (and possible security issue on non-x86) in the IOMMU
code. In some situations the IOMMU could be left hanging onto a
stale kernel pagetable entry
"mm/huge_memory: cleanup __split_unmapped_folio()" (Wei Yang)
Clean up and optimize the folio splitting code
"mm, swap: misc cleanup and bugfix" (Kairui Song)
Some cleanups and a minor fix in the swap discard code
"mm/damon: misc documentation fixups" (SeongJae Park)
"mm/damon: support pin-point targets removal" (SeongJae Park)
Permit userspace to remove a specific monitoring target in the
middle of the current targets list
"mm: MISC follow-up patches for linux/pgalloc.h" (Harry Yoo)
A couple of cleanups related to mm header file inclusion
"mm/swapfile.c: select swap devices of default priority round robin" (Baoquan He)
improve the selection of swap devices for NUMA machines
"mm: Convert memory block states (MEM_*) macros to enums" (Israel Batista)
Change the memory block labels from macros to enums so they will
appear in kernel debug info
"ksm: perform a range-walk to jump over holes in break_ksm" (Pedro Demarchi Gomes)
Address an inefficiency when KSM unmerges an address range
"mm/damon/tests: fix memory bugs in kunit tests" (SeongJae Park)
Fix leaks and unhandled malloc() failures in DAMON userspace unit
tests
"some cleanups for pageout()" (Baolin Wang)
Clean up a couple of minor things in the page scanner's
writeback-for-eviction code
"mm/hugetlb: refactor sysfs/sysctl interfaces" (Hui Zhu)
Move hugetlb's sysfs/sysctl handling code into a new file
"introduce VM_MAYBE_GUARD and make it sticky" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Make the VMA guard regions available in /proc/pid/smaps and
improves the mergeability of guarded VMAs
"mm: perform guard region install/remove under VMA lock" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Reduce mmap lock contention for callers performing VMA guard region
operations
"vma_start_write_killable" (Matthew Wilcox)
Start work on permitting applications to be killed when they are
waiting on a read_lock on the VMA lock
"mm/damon/tests: add more tests for online parameters commit" (SeongJae Park)
Add additional userspace testing of DAMON's "commit" feature
"mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park)
"make VM_SOFTDIRTY a sticky VMA flag" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Address the possible loss of a VMA's VM_SOFTDIRTY flag when that
VMA is merged with another
"mm: support device-private THP" (Balbir Singh)
Introduce support for Transparent Huge Page (THP) migration in zone
device-private memory
"Optimize folio split in memory failure" (Zi Yan)
"mm/huge_memory: Define split_type and consolidate split support checks" (Wei Yang)
Some more cleanups in the folio splitting code
"mm: remove is_swap_[pte, pmd]() + non-swap entries, introduce leaf entries" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Clean up our handling of pagetable leaf entries by introducing the
concept of 'software leaf entries', of type softleaf_t
"reparent the THP split queue" (Muchun Song)
Reparent the THP split queue to its parent memcg. This is in
preparation for addressing the long-standing "dying memcg" problem,
wherein dead memcg's linger for too long, consuming memory
resources
"unify PMD scan results and remove redundant cleanup" (Wei Yang)
A little cleanup in the hugepage collapse code
"zram: introduce writeback bio batching" (Sergey Senozhatsky)
Improve zram writeback efficiency by introducing batched bio
writeback support
"memcg: cleanup the memcg stats interfaces" (Shakeel Butt)
Clean up our handling of the interrupt safety of some memcg stats
"make vmalloc gfp flags usage more apparent" (Vishal Moola)
Clean up vmalloc's handling of incoming GFP flags
"mm: Add soft-dirty and uffd-wp support for RISC-V" (Chunyan Zhang)
Teach soft dirty and userfaultfd write protect tracking to use
RISC-V's Svrsw60t59b extension
"mm: swap: small fixes and comment cleanups" (Youngjun Park)
Fix a small bug and clean up some of the swap code
"initial work on making VMA flags a bitmap" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Start work on converting the vma struct's flags to a bitmap, so we
stop running out of them, especially on 32-bit
"mm/swapfile: fix and cleanup swap list iterations" (Youngjun Park)
Address a possible bug in the swap discard code and clean things
up a little
[ This merge also reverts commit ebb9aeb980 ("vfio/nvgrace-gpu:
register device memory for poison handling") because it looks
broken to me, I've asked for clarification - Linus ]
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
mm: fix vma_start_write_killable() signal handling
mm/swapfile: use plist_for_each_entry in __folio_throttle_swaprate
mm/swapfile: fix list iteration when next node is removed during discard
fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() huge pte handling
mm/kfence: add reboot notifier to disable KFENCE on shutdown
memcg: remove inc/dec_lruvec_kmem_state helpers
selftests/mm/uffd: initialize char variable to Null
mm: fix DEBUG_RODATA_TEST indentation in Kconfig
mm: introduce VMA flags bitmap type
tools/testing/vma: eliminate dependency on vma->__vm_flags
mm: simplify and rename mm flags function for clarity
mm: declare VMA flags by bit
zram: fix a spelling mistake
mm/page_alloc: optimize lowmem_reserve max lookup using its semantic monotonicity
mm/vmscan: skip increasing kswapd_failures when reclaim was boosted
pagemap: update BUDDY flag documentation
mm: swap: remove scan_swap_map_slots() references from comments
mm: swap: change swap_alloc_slow() to void
mm, swap: remove redundant comment for read_swap_cache_async
mm, swap: use SWP_SOLIDSTATE to determine if swap is rotational
...
- Improve recovery from misbehaving BPF schedulers. When a scheduler puts many
tasks with varying affinity restrictions on a shared DSQ, CPUs scanning
through tasks they cannot run can overwhelm the system, causing lockups.
Bypass mode now uses per-CPU DSQs with a load balancer to avoid this, and
hooks into the hardlockup detector to attempt recovery. Add scx_cpu0 example
scheduler to demonstrate this scenario.
- Add lockless peek operation for DSQs to reduce lock contention for schedulers
that need to query queue state during load balancing.
- Allow scx_bpf_reenqueue_local() to be called from anywhere in preparation for
deprecating cpu_acquire/release() callbacks in favor of generic BPF hooks.
- Prepare for hierarchical scheduler support: add scx_bpf_task_set_slice() and
scx_bpf_task_set_dsq_vtime() kfuncs, make scx_bpf_dsq_insert*() return bool,
and wrap kfunc args in structs for future aux__prog parameter.
- Implement cgroup_set_idle() callback to notify BPF schedulers when a cgroup's
idle state changes.
- Fix migration tasks being incorrectly downgraded from stop_sched_class to
rt_sched_class across sched_ext enable/disable. Applied late as the fix is
low risk and the bug subtle but needs stable backporting.
- Various fixes and cleanups including cgroup exit ordering, SCX_KICK_WAIT
reliability, and backward compatibility improvements.
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Merge tag 'sched_ext-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext
Pull sched_ext updates from Tejun Heo:
- Improve recovery from misbehaving BPF schedulers.
When a scheduler puts many tasks with varying affinity restrictions
on a shared DSQ, CPUs scanning through tasks they cannot run can
overwhelm the system, causing lockups.
Bypass mode now uses per-CPU DSQs with a load balancer to avoid this,
and hooks into the hardlockup detector to attempt recovery.
Add scx_cpu0 example scheduler to demonstrate this scenario.
- Add lockless peek operation for DSQs to reduce lock contention for
schedulers that need to query queue state during load balancing.
- Allow scx_bpf_reenqueue_local() to be called from anywhere in
preparation for deprecating cpu_acquire/release() callbacks in favor
of generic BPF hooks.
- Prepare for hierarchical scheduler support: add
scx_bpf_task_set_slice() and scx_bpf_task_set_dsq_vtime() kfuncs,
make scx_bpf_dsq_insert*() return bool, and wrap kfunc args in
structs for future aux__prog parameter.
- Implement cgroup_set_idle() callback to notify BPF schedulers when a
cgroup's idle state changes.
- Fix migration tasks being incorrectly downgraded from
stop_sched_class to rt_sched_class across sched_ext enable/disable.
Applied late as the fix is low risk and the bug subtle but needs
stable backporting.
- Various fixes and cleanups including cgroup exit ordering,
SCX_KICK_WAIT reliability, and backward compatibility improvements.
* tag 'sched_ext-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext: (44 commits)
sched_ext: Fix incorrect sched_class settings for per-cpu migration tasks
sched_ext: tools: Removing duplicate targets during non-cross compilation
sched_ext: Use kvfree_rcu() to release per-cpu ksyncs object
sched_ext: Pass locked CPU parameter to scx_hardlockup() and add docs
sched_ext: Update comments replacing breather with aborting mechanism
sched_ext: Implement load balancer for bypass mode
sched_ext: Factor out abbreviated dispatch dequeue into dispatch_dequeue_locked()
sched_ext: Factor out scx_dsq_list_node cursor initialization into INIT_DSQ_LIST_CURSOR
sched_ext: Add scx_cpu0 example scheduler
sched_ext: Hook up hardlockup detector
sched_ext: Make handle_lockup() propagate scx_verror() result
sched_ext: Refactor lockup handlers into handle_lockup()
sched_ext: Make scx_exit() and scx_vexit() return bool
sched_ext: Exit dispatch and move operations immediately when aborting
sched_ext: Simplify breather mechanism with scx_aborting flag
sched_ext: Use per-CPU DSQs instead of per-node global DSQs in bypass mode
sched_ext: Refactor do_enqueue_task() local and global DSQ paths
sched_ext: Use shorter slice in bypass mode
sched_ext: Mark racy bitfields to prevent adding fields that can't tolerate races
sched_ext: Minor cleanups to scx_task_iter
...
Add a randomized algorithm that runs newidle balancing proportional to
its success rate.
This improves schbench significantly:
6.18-rc4: 2.22 Mrps/s
6.18-rc4+revert: 2.04 Mrps/s
6.18-rc4+revert+random: 2.18 Mrps/S
Conversely, per Adam Li this affects SpecJBB slightly, reducing it by 1%:
6.17: -6%
6.17+revert: 0%
6.17+revert+random: -1%
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Tested-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6825c50d-7fa7-45d8-9b81-c6e7e25738e2@meta.com
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251107161739.770122091@infradead.org
mm_get_unmapped_area() is a wrapper around arch_get_unmapped_area() /
arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown(), both of which search current->mm for
some free space. Neither take an mm_struct - they implicitly operate on
current->mm.
But the wrapper takes an mm_struct and uses it to decide whether to search
bottom up or top down. All callers pass in current->mm for this, so
everything is working consistently. But it feels like an accident waiting
to happen; eventually someone will call that function with a different mm,
expecting to find free space in it, but what gets returned is free space
in the current mm.
So let's simplify by removing the parameter and have the wrapper use
current->mm to decide which end to start at. Now everything is consistent
and self-documenting.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251003155306.2147572-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
might_alloc() catches invalid blocking allocations in contexts where
sleeping is not allowed.
However when PF_MEMALLOC is set, the page allocator already skips reclaim
and other blocking paths. In such cases, a blocking gfp_mask does not
actually lead to blocking, so triggering might_alloc() splats is
misleading.
Adjust might_alloc() to skip warnings when the current task has
PF_MEMALLOC set, matching the allocator's actual blocking behaviour.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251007122035.56347-9-urezki@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
With the buddy lockup detector, smp_processor_id() returns the detecting CPU,
not the locked CPU, making scx_hardlockup()'s printouts confusing. Pass the
locked CPU number from watchdog_hardlockup_check() as a parameter instead.
Also add kerneldoc comments to handle_lockup(), scx_hardlockup(), and
scx_rcu_cpu_stall() documenting their return value semantics.
Suggested-by: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Factor out scx_dsq_list_node cursor initialization into INIT_DSQ_LIST_CURSOR
macro in preparation for additional users.
Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Cc: Dan Schatzberg <schatzberg.dan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
A poorly behaving BPF scheduler can trigger hard lockup. For example, on a
large system with many tasks pinned to different subsets of CPUs, if the BPF
scheduler puts all tasks in a single DSQ and lets all CPUs at it, the DSQ lock
can be contended to the point where hardlockup triggers. Unfortunately,
hardlockup can be the first signal out of such situations, thus requiring
hardlockup handling.
Hook scx_hardlockup() into the hardlockup detector to try kicking out the
current scheduler in an attempt to recover the system to a good state. The
handling strategy can delay watchdog taking its own action by one polling
period; however, given that the only remediation for hardlockup is crash, this
is likely an acceptable trade-off.
v2: Add missing dummy scx_hardlockup() definition for
!CONFIG_SCHED_CLASS_EXT (kernel test bot).
Reported-by: Dan Schatzberg <schatzberg.dan@gmail.com>
Cc: Emil Tsalapatis <etsal@meta.com>
Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Bypass mode routes tasks through fallback dispatch queues. Originally a single
global DSQ, b7b3b2dbae ("sched_ext: Split the global DSQ per NUMA node")
changed this to per-node DSQs to resolve NUMA-related livelocks.
Dan Schatzberg found per-node DSQs can still livelock when many threads are
pinned to different small CPU subsets: each CPU must scan many incompatible
tasks to find runnable ones, causing severe contention with high CPU counts.
Switch to per-CPU bypass DSQs. Each task queues on its current CPU. Default
idle CPU selection and direct dispatch handle most cases well.
This introduces a failure mode when tasks concentrate on one CPU in
over-saturated systems. If the BPF scheduler severely skews placement before
triggering bypass, that CPU's queue may be too long to drain, causing RCU
stalls. A load balancer in a future patch will address this. The bypass DSQ is
separate from local DSQ to enable load balancing: local DSQs use rq locks,
preventing efficient scanning and transfer across CPUs, especially problematic
when systems are already contended.
v2: Clarified why bypass DSQ is separate from local DSQ (Andrea Righi).
Reported-by: Dan Schatzberg <schatzberg.dan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Schatzberg <schatzberg.dan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
There have been reported cases of bypass mode not making forward progress fast
enough. The 20ms default slice is unnecessarily long for bypass mode where the
primary goal is ensuring all tasks can make forward progress.
Introduce SCX_SLICE_BYPASS set to 5ms and make the scheduler automatically
switch to it when entering bypass mode. Also make the bypass slice value
tunable through the slice_bypass_us module parameter (adjustable between 100us
and 100ms) to make it easier to test whether slice durations are a factor in
problem cases.
v3: Use READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE for scx_slice_dfl access (Dan).
v2: Removed slice_dfl_us module parameter. Fixed typos (Andrea).
Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Cc: Dan Schatzberg <schatzberg.dan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
sched_ext_free() was called from __put_task_struct() when the last reference
to the task is dropped, which could be long after the task has finished
running. This causes cgroup-related problems:
- ops.init_task() can be called on a cgroup which didn't get ops.cgroup_init()'d
during scheduler load, because the cgroup might be destroyed/unlinked
while the zombie or dead task is still lingering on the scx_tasks list.
- ops.cgroup_exit() could be called before ops.exit_task() is called on all
member tasks, leading to incorrect exit ordering.
Fix by moving it to finish_task_switch() to be called right after the final
context switch away from the dying task, matching when sched_class->task_dead()
is called. Rename it to sched_ext_dead() to match the new calling context.
By calling sched_ext_dead() before cgroup_task_dead(), we ensure that:
- Tasks visible on scx_tasks list have valid cgroups during scheduler load,
as cgroup_mutex prevents cgroup destruction while the task is still linked.
- All member tasks have ops.exit_task() called and are removed from scx_tasks
before the cgroup can be destroyed and trigger ops.cgroup_exit().
This fix is made possible by the cgroup_task_dead() split in the previous patch.
This also makes more sense resource-wise as there's no point in keeping
scheduler side resources around for dead tasks.
Reported-by: Dan Schatzberg <dschatzberg@meta.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
The builtin DSQ queue data structures are meant to be used by a wide
range of different sched_ext schedulers with different demands on these
data structures. They might be per-cpu with low-contention, or
high-contention shared queues. Unfortunately, DSQs have a coarse-grained
lock around the whole data structure. Without going all the way to a
lock-free, more scalable implementation, a small step we can take to
reduce lock contention is to allow a lockless, small-fixed-cost peek at
the head of the queue.
This change allows certain custom SCX schedulers to cheaply peek at
queues, e.g. during load balancing, before locking them. But it
represents a few extra memory operations to update the pointer each
time the DSQ is modified, including a memory barrier on ARM so the write
appears correctly ordered.
This commit adds a first_task pointer field which is updated
atomically when the DSQ is modified, and allows any thread to peek at
the head of the queue without holding the lock.
Signed-off-by: Ryan Newton <newton@meta.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Loehle <christian.loehle@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Implement the missing cgroup_set_idle() callback that was marked as a
TODO. This allows BPF schedulers to be notified when a cgroup's idle
state changes, enabling them to adjust their scheduling behavior
accordingly.
The implementation follows the same pattern as other cgroup callbacks
like cgroup_set_weight() and cgroup_set_bandwidth(). It checks if the
BPF scheduler has implemented the callback and invokes it with the
appropriate parameters.
Fixes a spelling error in the cgroup_set_bandwidth() documentation.
tj: s/scx_cgroup_rwsem/scx_cgroup_ops_rwsem/ to fix build breakage.
Signed-off-by: zhidao su <soolaugust@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
- The 3 patch series "ida: Remove the ida_simple_xxx() API" from
Christophe Jaillet completes the removal of this legacy IDR API.
- The 9 patch series "panic: introduce panic status function family"
from Jinchao Wang provides a number of cleanups to the panic code and
its various helpers, which were rather ad-hoc and scattered all over the
place.
- The 5 patch series "tools/delaytop: implement real-time keyboard
interaction support" from Fan Yu adds a few nice user-facing usability
changes to the delaytop monitoring tool.
- The 3 patch series "efi: Fix EFI boot with kexec handover (KHO)" from
Evangelos Petrongonas fixes a panic which was happening with the
combination of EFI and KHO.
- The 2 patch series "Squashfs: performance improvement and a sanity
check" from Phillip Lougher teaches squashfs's lseek() about
SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE. A mere 150x speedup was measured for a well-chosen
microbenchmark.
- Plus another 50-odd singleton patches all over the place.
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Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "ida: Remove the ida_simple_xxx() API" from Christophe Jaillet
completes the removal of this legacy IDR API
- "panic: introduce panic status function family" from Jinchao Wang
provides a number of cleanups to the panic code and its various
helpers, which were rather ad-hoc and scattered all over the place
- "tools/delaytop: implement real-time keyboard interaction support"
from Fan Yu adds a few nice user-facing usability changes to the
delaytop monitoring tool
- "efi: Fix EFI boot with kexec handover (KHO)" from Evangelos
Petrongonas fixes a panic which was happening with the combination of
EFI and KHO
- "Squashfs: performance improvement and a sanity check" from Phillip
Lougher teaches squashfs's lseek() about SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE. A mere
150x speedup was measured for a well-chosen microbenchmark
- plus another 50-odd singleton patches all over the place
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-10-02-15-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (75 commits)
Squashfs: reject negative file sizes in squashfs_read_inode()
kallsyms: use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc()
MAINTAINERS: update Sibi Sankar's email address
Squashfs: add SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE support
Squashfs: add additional inode sanity checking
lib/genalloc: fix device leak in of_gen_pool_get()
panic: remove CONFIG_PANIC_ON_OOPS_VALUE
ocfs2: fix double free in user_cluster_connect()
checkpatch: suppress strscpy warnings for userspace tools
cramfs: fix incorrect physical page address calculation
kernel: prevent prctl(PR_SET_PDEATHSIG) from racing with parent process exit
Squashfs: fix uninit-value in squashfs_get_parent
kho: only fill kimage if KHO is finalized
ocfs2: avoid extra calls to strlen() after ocfs2_sprintf_system_inode_name()
kernel/sys.c: fix the racy usage of task_lock(tsk->group_leader) in sys_prlimit64() paths
sched/task.h: fix the wrong comment on task_lock() nesting with tasklist_lock
coccinelle: platform_no_drv_owner: handle also built-in drivers
coccinelle: of_table: handle SPI device ID tables
lib/decompress: use designated initializers for struct compress_format
efi: support booting with kexec handover (KHO)
...
- The 3 patch series "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from
Kairui Song improves performance and reduces the failure rate of swap
cluster allocation.
- The 4 patch series "support large align and nid in Rust allocators"
from Vitaly Wool permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large
alignment when perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from
Yueyang Pan extend DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets
for virtual address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters.
- The 3 patch series "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock"
from Suren Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
/proc/pid/maps.
- The 2 patch series "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache
checking" from Kairui Song performs some cleanup in the swap code.
- The 11 patch series "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David
Hildenbrand provides code cleanup in the pagemap code.
- The 5 patch series "add persistent huge zero folio support" from
Pankaj Raghav provides a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
falls to zero.
- The 3 patch series "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a
few touchups to the recently added Kexec Handover feature.
- The 10 patch series "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all
arches" from Lorenzo Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To
end the constant struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with
64-bit's needs.
- The 2 patch series "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li
cleans up some swap code.
- The 7 patch series "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip
unsupported tests" from Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests
code.
- The 7 patch series "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide
THPs when advised" from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes
to opt-out of THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other
workloads on the system".
It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations.
- The 11 patch series "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox
gets us started on the memdesc project. Please see
https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc.
- The 3 patch series "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from
Chi Zhiling improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path.
- The 5 patch series "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi
Yan improves our folio splitting selftest code.
- The 2 patch series "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang
adds some rmap selftests.
- The 3 patch series "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig
removes that function and converts its two remaining callers.
- The 2 patch series "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain
fixes some UFFD selftests issues.
- The 3 patch series "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris
Burkov introduces the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these
permits btrfs to account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather
than to the cgroups of random inappropriate tasks.
- The 2 patch series "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some
pageblock handling" from Wei Yang provides some readability improvements
to the page allocator code.
- The 11 patch series "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae
Park teaches DAMON to understand arm32 highmem.
- The 4 patch series "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for
vma/maple tests" from Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and
deduplication under tools/testing/.
- The 2 patch series "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from
Liam Howlett fixes a couple of 32-bit issues in
tools/testing/radix-tree.c.
- The 2 patch series "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove
arch-specific implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN
arch-specific initialization code into a common arch-neutral
implementation.
- The 3 patch series "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes
zspool - an indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
(zsmalloc).
- The 2 patch series "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from
Pasha Tatashin makes a couple of cleanups in the fork code.
- The 37 patch series "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand
makes rather a lot of adjustments at various nth_page() callsites,
eventually permitting the removal of that undesirable helper function.
- The 2 patch series "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from
Yeoreum Yun creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that
architecture's memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode
KASAN is suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only.
- The 3 patch series "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation"
from Kefeng Wang does some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code.
- The 12 patch series "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer
parameters" from Max Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API
functions more accurate about the constness of their arguments. This
was getting in the way of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they
attempt to improving their own const/non-const accuracy.
- The 7 patch series "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola
fixes a number of code sites which were confused over when to use
free_pages() vs __free_pages().
- The 3 patch series "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice
Ryhl makes the mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau
and by its forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver.
- The 2 patch series "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test:
split_pte_mapped_thp improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and
some cleanups to the thp selftesting code.
- The 14 patch series "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache
(phase I)" from Chris Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the
path to implementing "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation
and state tracking which is expected to yield speed and space
improvements. This patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit
in some situations.
- The 3 patch series "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes
the new memdesc layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little.
- The 3 patch series "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from
Chunyu Hu fixes some issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code.
- The 2 patch series "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from
Suren Baghdasaryan addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new
memory allocation profiling feature.
- The 3 patch series "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few
cleanups in preparation for more memdesc work.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and
DAMON_RECLAIM" from Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in
furtherance of supporting arm highmem.
- The 2 patch series "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix
warnings" from Muhammad Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code
and fixes the fallout, by removing dead code.
- The 10 patch series "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM
Reaper Traversal Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements
in the OOM killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim
threads so they can release resources.
- The 5 patch series "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18"
from SeongJae Park is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON.
- The 7 patch series "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization
check function" from SeongJae Park implement reliability and
maintainability improvements to a recently-added bug fix.
- The 2 patch series "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and
non-idle ages" from SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to
userspace clients of the DAMON_STAT information.
- The 2 patch series "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse"
from Dev Jain removes some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of
anon VMAs. It also increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against
an anon vma.
- The 2 patch series "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in
compat_vma_mmap_prepare()" from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards
removal of file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon
clearing up the treatment of stacked filesystems.
- The 6 patch series "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from
Kiryl Shutsemau provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking
of large folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate.
- The 2 patch series "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters
during fork" from Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats
inaccuracies across forks and adds selftest code to verify these
counters.
- The 2 patch series "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei
Yang addresses some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's
mm_slot handling.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation
- "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs
- "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters
- "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
/proc/pid/maps
- "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
performs some cleanup in the swap code
- "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
code cleanup in the pagemap code
- "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
falls to zero
- "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
the recently added Kexec Handover feature
- "mm: make mm->flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
needs
- "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
code
- "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code
- "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
system".
It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations
- "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
the memdesc project. Please see
https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc
- "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path
- "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
folio splitting selftest code
- "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
selftests
- "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
function and converts its two remaining callers
- "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
selftests issues
- "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
cgroups of random inappropriate tasks
- "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
code
- "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
to understand arm32 highmem
- "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
tools/testing/
- "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c
- "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation
- "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
(zsmalloc)
- "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
couple of cleanups in the fork code
- "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
the removal of that undesirable helper function
- "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only
- "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code
- "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
their own const/non-const accuracy
- "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
__free_pages()
- "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver
- "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
the thp selftesting code
- "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
"swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations
- "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little
- "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code
- "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
allocation profiling feature
- "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
preparation for more memdesc work
- "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
arm highmem
- "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
fallout, by removing dead code
- "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
they can release resources
- "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON
- "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
to a recently-added bug fix
- "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
of the DAMON_STAT information
- "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma
- "mm: do not assume file == vma->vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
the treatment of stacked filesystems
- "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate
- "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters
- "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -> 'especially'
mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
...
Core scheduler changes:
- Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline, to improve performance
(Menglong Dong)
- Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line (Peter Zijlstra)
- Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig (Peter Zijlstra)
Fair scheduling:
- Defer throttling when tasks exit to user-space, to reduce the
chance & impact of throttle-preemption with held locks and
other resources. (Aaron Lu, Valentin Schneider)
- Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl->cpumask(),
as the warning was getting triggered on certain topologies.
(Peter Zijlstra)
Misc cleanups & fixes:
- Header cleanups (Menglong Dong)
- Fix race in push_dl_task() (Harshit Agarwal)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Core scheduler changes:
- Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline, to improve performance
(Menglong Dong)
- Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line (Peter Zijlstra)
- Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig (Peter Zijlstra)
Fair scheduling:
- Defer throttling to when tasks exit to user-space, to reduce the
chance & impact of throttle-preemption with held locks and other
resources (Aaron Lu, Valentin Schneider)
- Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl->cpumask(), as the
warning was getting triggered on certain topologies (Peter
Zijlstra)
Misc cleanups & fixes:
- Header cleanups (Menglong Dong)
- Fix race in push_dl_task() (Harshit Agarwal)"
* tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched: Fix some typos in include/linux/preempt.h
sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline
rcu: Replace preempt.h with sched.h in include/linux/rcupdate.h
arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c
sched/fair: Do not balance task to a throttled cfs_rq
sched/fair: Do not special case tasks in throttled hierarchy
sched/fair: update_cfs_group() for throttled cfs_rqs
sched/fair: Propagate load for throttled cfs_rq
sched/fair: Get rid of throttled_lb_pair()
sched/fair: Task based throttle time accounting
sched/fair: Switch to task based throttle model
sched/fair: Implement throttle task work and related helpers
sched/fair: Add related data structure for task based throttle
sched: Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig
sched: Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line
sched/fair: Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl->cpumask()
sched/deadline: Fix race in push_dl_task()
- Extensive cpuset code cleanup and refactoring work with no functional
changes: CPU mask computation logic refactoring, introducing new helpers,
removing redundant code paths, and improving error handling for better
maintainability.
- A few bug fixes to cpuset including fixes for partition creation failures
when isolcpus is in use, missing error returns, and null pointer access
prevention in free_tmpmasks().
- Core cgroup changes include replacing the global percpu_rwsem with
per-threadgroup rwsem when writing to cgroup.procs for better scalability,
workqueue conversions to use WQ_PERCPU and system_percpu_wq to prepare for
workqueue default switching from percpu to unbound, and removal of unused
code including the post_attach callback.
- New cgroup.stat.local time accounting feature that tracks frozen time
duration.
- Misc changes including selftests updates (new freezer time tests and
backward compatibility fixes), documentation sync, string function safety
improvements, and 64-bit division fixes.
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Merge tag 'cgroup-for-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
- Extensive cpuset code cleanup and refactoring work with no functional
changes: CPU mask computation logic refactoring, introducing new
helpers, removing redundant code paths, and improving error handling
for better maintainability.
- A few bug fixes to cpuset including fixes for partition creation
failures when isolcpus is in use, missing error returns, and null
pointer access prevention in free_tmpmasks().
- Core cgroup changes include replacing the global percpu_rwsem with
per-threadgroup rwsem when writing to cgroup.procs for better
scalability, workqueue conversions to use WQ_PERCPU and
system_percpu_wq to prepare for workqueue default switching from
percpu to unbound, and removal of unused code including the
post_attach callback.
- New cgroup.stat.local time accounting feature that tracks frozen time
duration.
- Misc changes including selftests updates (new freezer time tests and
backward compatibility fixes), documentation sync, string function
safety improvements, and 64-bit division fixes.
* tag 'cgroup-for-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (39 commits)
cpuset: remove is_prs_invalid helper
cpuset: remove impossible warning in update_parent_effective_cpumask
cpuset: remove redundant special case for null input in node mask update
cpuset: fix missing error return in update_cpumask
cpuset: Use new excpus for nocpu error check when enabling root partition
cpuset: fix failure to enable isolated partition when containing isolcpus
Documentation: cgroup-v2: Sync manual toctree
cpuset: use partition_cpus_change for setting exclusive cpus
cpuset: use parse_cpulist for setting cpus.exclusive
cpuset: introduce partition_cpus_change
cpuset: refactor cpus_allowed_validate_change
cpuset: refactor out validate_partition
cpuset: introduce cpus_excl_conflict and mems_excl_conflict helpers
cpuset: refactor CPU mask buffer parsing logic
cpuset: Refactor exclusive CPU mask computation logic
cpuset: change return type of is_partition_[in]valid to bool
cpuset: remove unused assignment to trialcs->partition_root_state
cpuset: move the root cpuset write check earlier
cgroup/cpuset: Remove redundant rcu_read_lock/unlock() in spin_lock
cgroup: Remove redundant rcu_read_lock/unlock() in spin_lock
...
- Code organization cleanup. Separate internal types and accessors to
ext_internal.h to reduce the size of ext.c and improve maintainability.
- Prepare for cgroup sub-scheduler support by adding @sch parameter to
various functions and helpers, reorganizing scheduler instance handling,
and dropping obsolete helpers like scx_kf_exit() and kf_cpu_valid().
- Add new scx_bpf_cpu_curr() and scx_bpf_locked_rq() BPF helpers to provide
safer access patterns with proper RCU protection. scx_bpf_cpu_rq() is
deprecated with warnings due to potential race conditions.
- Improve debugging with migration-disabled counter in error state dumps,
SCX_EFLAG_INITIALIZED flag, bitfields for warning flags, and other
enhancements to help diagnose issues.
- Use cgroup_lock/unlock() for cgroup synchronization instead of
scx_cgroup_rwsem based synchronization. This is simpler and allows
enable/disable paths to synchronize against cgroup changes independent of
the CPU controller.
- rhashtable_lookup() replacement to avoid redundant RCU locking was
reverted due to RCU usage warnings. Will be redone once rhashtable is
updated to use rcu_dereference_all().
- Other misc updates and fixes including bypass handling improvements,
scx_task_iter_relock() improvements, tools/sched_ext updates, and
compatibility helpers.
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Merge tag 'sched_ext-for-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext
Pull sched_ext updates from Tejun Heo:
- Code organization cleanup. Separate internal types and accessors to
ext_internal.h to reduce the size of ext.c and improve
maintainability.
- Prepare for cgroup sub-scheduler support by adding @sch parameter to
various functions and helpers, reorganizing scheduler instance
handling, and dropping obsolete helpers like scx_kf_exit() and
kf_cpu_valid().
- Add new scx_bpf_cpu_curr() and scx_bpf_locked_rq() BPF helpers to
provide safer access patterns with proper RCU protection.
scx_bpf_cpu_rq() is deprecated with warnings due to potential race
conditions.
- Improve debugging with migration-disabled counter in error state
dumps, SCX_EFLAG_INITIALIZED flag, bitfields for warning flags, and
other enhancements to help diagnose issues.
- Use cgroup_lock/unlock() for cgroup synchronization instead of
scx_cgroup_rwsem based synchronization. This is simpler and allows
enable/disable paths to synchronize against cgroup changes
independent of the CPU controller.
- rhashtable_lookup() replacement to avoid redundant RCU locking was
reverted due to RCU usage warnings. Will be redone once rhashtable is
updated to use rcu_dereference_all().
- Other misc updates and fixes including bypass handling improvements,
scx_task_iter_relock() improvements, tools/sched_ext updates, and
compatibility helpers.
* tag 'sched_ext-for-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext: (28 commits)
Revert "sched_ext: Use rhashtable_lookup() instead of rhashtable_lookup_fast()"
sched_ext: Misc updates around scx_sched instance pointer
sched_ext: Drop scx_kf_exit() and scx_kf_error()
sched_ext: Add the @sch parameter to scx_dsq_insert_preamble/commit()
sched_ext: Drop kf_cpu_valid()
sched_ext: Add the @sch parameter to ext_idle helpers
sched_ext: Add the @sch parameter to __bstr_format()
sched_ext: Separate out scx_kick_cpu() and add @sch to it
tools/sched_ext: scx_qmap: Make debug output quieter by default
sched_ext: Make qmap dump operation non-destructive
sched_ext: Add SCX_EFLAG_INITIALIZED to indicate successful ops.init()
sched_ext: Use bitfields for boolean warning flags
sched_ext: Fix stray scx_root usage in task_can_run_on_remote_rq()
sched_ext: Improve SCX_KF_DISPATCH comment
sched_ext: Use rhashtable_lookup() instead of rhashtable_lookup_fast()
sched_ext: Verify RCU protection in scx_bpf_cpu_curr()
sched_ext: Add migration-disabled counter to error state dump
sched_ext: Fix NULL dereference in scx_bpf_cpu_rq() warning
tools/sched_ext: Add compat helper for scx_bpf_cpu_curr()
sched_ext: deprecation warn for scx_bpf_cpu_rq()
...
The comment for SCX_KF_DISPATCH was incomplete and didn't explain that
ops.dispatch() may temporarily release the rq lock, allowing ENQUEUE and
SELECT_CPU operations to be nested inside DISPATCH contexts.
Update the comment to clarify this nesting behavior and provide better
context for when these operations can occur within dispatch.
Acked-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
The ancient comment above task_lock() states that it can be nested outside
of read_lock(&tasklist_lock), but this is no longer true:
CPU_0 CPU_1 CPU_2
task_lock() read_lock(tasklist)
write_lock_irq(tasklist)
read_lock(tasklist) task_lock()
Unless CPU_0 calls read_lock() in IRQ context, queued_read_lock_slowpath()
won't get the lock immediately, it will spin waiting for the pending
writer on CPU_2, resulting in a deadlock.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250914110908.GA18769@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This function only reads from the rlimit pointer (but writes to the
mm_struct pointer which is kept without `const`).
All callees are already const-ified or (internal functions) are being
constified by this patch.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250901205021.3573313-9-max.kellermann@ionos.com
Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@ionos.com>
Reviewed-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Christian Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <james.bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jocelyn Falempe <jfalempe@redhat.com>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Nysal Jan K.A" <nysal@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russel King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The coredump logic is slightly different from other users in that it both
stores mm flags and additionally sets and gets using masks.
Since the MMF_DUMPABLE_* flags must remain as they are for uABI reasons,
and of course these are within the first 32-bits of the flags, it is
reasonable to provide access to these in the same fashion so this logic
can all still keep working as it has been.
Therefore, introduce coredump-specific helpers __mm_flags_get_dumpable()
and __mm_flags_set_mask_dumpable() for this purpose, and update all core
dump users of mm flags to use these.
[lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com: abstract set_mask_bits() invocation to mm_types.h to satisfy ARC]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0e7ad263-1ff7-446d-81fe-97cff9c0e7ed@lucifer.local
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2a5075f7e3c5b367d988178c79a3063d12ee53a9.1755012943.git.lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mariano Pache <npache@redhat.com>
Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Namhyung kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The static usage pattern of creating a cgroup, enabling controllers,
and then seeding it with CLONE_INTO_CGROUP doesn't require write
locking cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem and thus doesn't benefit from this
patch.
To avoid affecting other users, the per threadgroup rwsem is only used
when the favordynmods is enabled.
As computer hardware advances, modern systems are typically equipped
with many CPU cores and large amounts of memory, enabling the deployment
of numerous applications. On such systems, container creation and
deletion become frequent operations, making cgroup process migration no
longer a cold path. This leads to noticeable contention with common
process operations such as fork, exec, and exit.
To alleviate the contention between cgroup process migration and
operations like process fork, this patch modifies lock to take the write
lock on signal_struct->group_rwsem when writing pid to
cgroup.procs/threads instead of holding a global write lock.
Cgroup process migration has historically relied on
signal_struct->group_rwsem to protect thread group integrity. In commit
<1ed1328792ff> ("sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with
a global percpu_rwsem"), this was changed to a global
cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem. The advantage of using a global lock was
simplified handling of process group migrations. This patch retains the
use of the global lock for protecting process group migration, while
reducing contention by using per thread group lock during
cgroup.procs/threads writes.
The locking behavior is as follows:
write cgroup.procs/threads | process fork,exec,exit | process group migration
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cgroup_lock() | down_read(&g_rwsem) | cgroup_lock()
down_write(&p_rwsem) | down_read(&p_rwsem) | down_write(&g_rwsem)
critical section | critical section | critical section
up_write(&p_rwsem) | up_read(&p_rwsem) | up_write(&g_rwsem)
cgroup_unlock() | up_read(&g_rwsem) | cgroup_unlock()
g_rwsem denotes cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem, p_rwsem denotes
signal_struct->group_rwsem.
This patch eliminates contention between cgroup migration and fork
operations for threads that belong to different thread groups, thereby
reducing the long-tail latency of cgroup migrations and lowering system
load.
With this patch, under heavy fork and exec interference, the long-tail
latency of cgroup migration has been reduced from milliseconds to
microseconds. Under heavy cgroup migration interference, the multi-CPU
score of the spawn test case in UnixBench increased by 9%.
tj: Update comment in cgroup_favor_dynmods() and switch WARN_ONCE() to
pr_warn_once().
Signed-off-by: Yi Tao <escape@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Since all these functions are address-taken in SDTL_INIT() and called
indirectly, it doesn't really make sense for them to be inline.
Suggested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tejun Heo