linux-toradex.git/include/linux/kthread.h, branch v6.0-rc1

kthread: unexport kthread_blkcg

2022-05-02T20:06:20+00:00

kthread_blkcg is only used by the built-in blk-cgroup code.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420042723.1010598-16-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

linux/kthread.h: remove unused macros

2022-03-22T22:57:00+00:00

Ever since these macros were introduced in commit b56c0d8937e6
("kthread: implement kthread_worker"), there has been precisely one user
(commit 4d115420707a, "NVMe: Async IO queue deletion"), and that user
went away in 2016 with db3cbfff5bcc ("NVMe: IO queue deletion
re-write").

Apart from being unused, these macros are also awkward to use (which may
contribute to them not being used): Having a way to statically (or
on-stack) allocating the storage for the struct kthread_worker itself
doesn't help much, since obviously one needs to have some code for
actually _spawning_ the worker thread, which must have error checking.
And these days we have the kthread_create_worker() interface which both
allocates the struct kthread_worker and spawns the kthread.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220314145343.494694-1-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Petr Mladek 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Yafang Shao 
Cc: Cai Huoqing 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2022-01-20T08:41:01+00:00

Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "55 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: percpu, procfs, sysctl,
  misc, core-kernel, get_maintainer, lib, checkpatch, binfmt, nilfs2,
  hfs, fat, adfs, panic, delayacct, kconfig, kcov, and ubsan"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (55 commits)
  lib: remove redundant assignment to variable ret
  ubsan: remove CONFIG_UBSAN_OBJECT_SIZE
  kcov: fix generic Kconfig dependencies if ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR
  lib/Kconfig.debug: make TEST_KMOD depend on PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB
  btrfs: use generic Kconfig option for 256kB page size limit
  arch/Kconfig: split PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_256KB from PAGE_SIZE_LESS_THAN_64KB
  configs: introduce debug.config for CI-like setup
  delayacct: track delays from memory compact
  Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.rst: add thrashing page cache and direct compact
  delayacct: cleanup flags in struct task_delay_info and functions use it
  delayacct: fix incomplete disable operation when switch enable to disable
  delayacct: support swapin delay accounting for swapping without blkio
  panic: remove oops_id
  panic: use error_report_end tracepoint on warnings
  fs/adfs: remove unneeded variable make code cleaner
  FAT: use io_schedule_timeout() instead of congestion_wait()
  hfsplus: use struct_group_attr() for memcpy() region
  nilfs2: remove redundant pointer sbufs
  fs/binfmt_elf: use PT_LOAD p_align values for static PIE
  const_structs.checkpatch: add frequently used ops structs
  ...

kthread: dynamically allocate memory to store kthread's full name

2022-01-20T06:52:53+00:00

When I was implementing a new per-cpu kthread cfs_migration, I found the
comm of it "cfs_migration/%u" is truncated due to the limitation of
TASK_COMM_LEN.  For example, the comm of the percpu thread on CPU10~19
all have the same name "cfs_migration/1", which will confuse the user.
This issue is not critical, because we can get the corresponding CPU
from the task's Cpus_allowed.  But for kthreads corresponding to other
hardware devices, it is not easy to get the detailed device info from
task comm, for example,

    jbd2/nvme0n1p2-
    xfs-reclaim/sdf

Currently there are so many truncated kthreads:

    rcu_tasks_kthre
    rcu_tasks_rude_
    rcu_tasks_trace
    poll_mpt3sas0_s
    ext4-rsv-conver
    xfs-reclaim/sd{a, b, c, ...}
    xfs-blockgc/sd{a, b, c, ...}
    xfs-inodegc/sd{a, b, c, ...}
    audit_send_repl
    ecryptfs-kthrea
    vfio-irqfd-clea
    jbd2/nvme0n1p2-
    ...

We can shorten these names to work around this problem, but it may be
not applied to all of the truncated kthreads.  Take 'jbd2/nvme0n1p2-'
for example, it is a nice name, and it is not a good idea to shorten it.

One possible way to fix this issue is extending the task comm size, but
as task->comm is used in lots of places, that may cause some potential
buffer overflows.  Another more conservative approach is introducing a
new pointer to store kthread's full name if it is truncated, which won't
introduce too much overhead as it is in the non-critical path.  Finally
we make a dicision to use the second approach.  See also the discussions
in this thread:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20211101060419.4682-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com/

After this change, the full name of these truncated kthreads will be
displayed via /proc/[pid]/comm:

    rcu_tasks_kthread
    rcu_tasks_rude_kthread
    rcu_tasks_trace_kthread
    poll_mpt3sas0_statu
    ext4-rsv-conversion
    xfs-reclaim/sdf1
    xfs-blockgc/sdf1
    xfs-inodegc/sdf1
    audit_send_reply
    ecryptfs-kthread
    vfio-irqfd-cleanup
    jbd2/nvme0n1p2-8

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211120112850.46047-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao 
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand 
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek 
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek 
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko 
Cc: Michal Miroslaw 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'signal-for-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

2022-01-17T03:49:30+00:00

Pull signal/exit/ptrace updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This set of changes deletes some dead code, makes a lot of cleanups
  which hopefully make the code easier to follow, and fixes bugs found
  along the way.

  The end-game which I have not yet reached yet is for fatal signals
  that generate coredumps to be short-circuit deliverable from
  complete_signal, for force_siginfo_to_task not to require changing
  userspace configured signal delivery state, and for the ptrace stops
  to always happen in locations where we can guarantee on all
  architectures that the all of the registers are saved and available on
  the stack.

  Removal of profile_task_ext, profile_munmap, and profile_handoff_task
  are the big successes for dead code removal this round.

  A bunch of small bug fixes are included, as most of the issues
  reported were small enough that they would not affect bisection so I
  simply added the fixes and did not fold the fixes into the changes
  they were fixing.

  There was a bug that broke coredumps piped to systemd-coredump. I
  dropped the change that caused that bug and replaced it entirely with
  something much more restrained. Unfortunately that required some
  rebasing.

  Some successes after this set of changes: There are few enough calls
  to do_exit to audit in a reasonable amount of time. The lifetime of
  struct kthread now matches the lifetime of struct task, and the
  pointer to struct kthread is no longer stored in set_child_tid. The
  flag SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP is removed. The field group_exit_task is
  removed. Issues where task->exit_code was examined with
  signal->group_exit_code should been examined were fixed.

  There are several loosely related changes included because I am
  cleaning up and if I don't include them they will probably get lost.

  The original postings of these changes can be found at:
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87a6ha4zsd.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bl1kunjj.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
     https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87r19opkx1.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org

  I trimmed back the last set of changes to only the obviously correct
  once. Simply because there was less time for review than I had hoped"

* 'signal-for-v5.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (44 commits)
  ptrace/m68k: Stop open coding ptrace_report_syscall
  ptrace: Remove unused regs argument from ptrace_report_syscall
  ptrace: Remove second setting of PT_SEIZED in ptrace_attach
  taskstats: Cleanup the use of task->exit_code
  exit: Use the correct exit_code in /proc//stat
  exit: Fix the exit_code for wait_task_zombie
  exit: Coredumps reach do_group_exit
  exit: Remove profile_handoff_task
  exit: Remove profile_task_exit & profile_munmap
  signal: clean up kernel-doc comments
  signal: Remove the helper signal_group_exit
  signal: Rename group_exit_task group_exec_task
  coredump: Stop setting signal->group_exit_task
  signal: Remove SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP
  signal: During coredumps set SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT in zap_process
  signal: Make coredump handling explicit in complete_signal
  signal: Have prepare_signal detect coredumps using signal->core_state
  signal: Have the oom killer detect coredumps using signal->core_state
  exit: Move force_uaccess back into do_exit
  exit: Guarantee make_task_dead leaks the tsk when calling do_task_exit
  ...

kthread: add the helper function kthread_run_on_cpu()

2022-01-15T14:30:23+00:00

Add a new helper function kthread_run_on_cpu(), which includes
kthread_create_on_cpu/wake_up_process().

In some cases, use kthread_run_on_cpu() directly instead of
kthread_create_on_node/kthread_bind/wake_up_process() or
kthread_create_on_cpu/wake_up_process() or
kthreadd_create/kthread_bind/wake_up_process() to simplify the code.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export kthread_create_on_cpu to modules]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022025711.3673-2-caihuoqing@baidu.com
Signed-off-by: Cai Huoqing 
Cc: Bernard Metzler 
Cc: Cai Huoqing 
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira 
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: Doug Ledford 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe 
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) 
Cc: Josh Triplett 
Cc: Lai Jiangshan 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kthread: Ensure struct kthread is present for all kthreads

2021-12-13T18:04:45+00:00

Today the rules are a bit iffy and arbitrary about which kernel
threads have struct kthread present.  Both idle threads and thread
started with create_kthread want struct kthread present so that is
effectively all kernel threads.  Make the rule that if PF_KTHREAD
and the task is running then struct kthread is present.

This will allow the kernel thread code to using tsk->exit_code
with different semantics from ordinary processes.

To make ensure that struct kthread is present for all
kernel threads move it's allocation into copy_process.

Add a deallocation of struct kthread in exec for processes
that were kernel threads.

Move the allocation of struct kthread for the initial thread
earlier so that it is not repeated for each additional idle
thread.

Move the initialization of struct kthread into set_kthread_struct
so that the structure is always and reliably initailized.

Clear set_child_tid in free_kthread_struct to ensure the kthread
struct is reliably freed during exec.  The function
free_kthread_struct does not need to clear vfork_done during exec as
exec_mm_release called from exec_mmap has already cleared vfork_done.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

exit: Rename complete_and_exit to kthread_complete_and_exit

2021-12-13T18:04:45+00:00

Update complete_and_exit to call kthread_exit instead of do_exit.

Change the name to reflect this change in functionality.  All of the
users of complete_and_exit are causing the current kthread to exit so
this change makes it clear what is happening.

Move the implementation of kthread_complete_and_exit from
kernel/exit.c to to kernel/kthread.c.  As this function is kthread
specific it makes most sense to live with the kthread functions.

There are no functional change.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

exit: Implement kthread_exit

2021-12-13T18:04:45+00:00

The way the per task_struct exit_code is used by kernel threads is not
quite compatible how it is used by userspace applications.  The low
byte of the userspace exit_code value encodes the exit signal.  While
kthreads just use the value as an int holding ordinary kernel function
exit status like -EPERM.

Add kthread_exit to clearly separate the two kinds of uses.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-06-30T00:29:11+00:00

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "191 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, ia64, scripts,
  ntfs, squashfs, ocfs2, kernel/watchdog, and mm (gup, pagealloc, slab,
  slub, kmemleak, dax, debug, pagecache, gup, swap, memcg, pagemap,
  mprotect, bootmem, dma, tracing, vmalloc, kasan, initialization,
  pagealloc, and memory-failure)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (191 commits)
  mm,hwpoison: make get_hwpoison_page() call get_any_page()
  mm,hwpoison: send SIGBUS with error virutal address
  mm/page_alloc: split pcp->high across all online CPUs for cpuless nodes
  mm/page_alloc: allow high-order pages to be stored on the per-cpu lists
  mm: replace CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP with CONFIG_FLATMEM
  mm: replace CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES with CONFIG_NUMA
  docs: remove description of DISCONTIGMEM
  arch, mm: remove stale mentions of DISCONIGMEM
  mm: remove CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
  m68k: remove support for DISCONTIGMEM
  arc: remove support for DISCONTIGMEM
  arc: update comment about HIGHMEM implementation
  alpha: remove DISCONTIGMEM and NUMA
  mm/page_alloc: move free_the_page
  mm/page_alloc: fix counting of managed_pages
  mm/page_alloc: improve memmap_pages dbg msg
  mm: drop SECTION_SHIFT in code comments
  mm/page_alloc: introduce vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction
  mm/page_alloc: limit the number of pages on PCP lists when reclaim is active
  mm/page_alloc: scale the number of pages that are batch freed
  ...