linux-toradex.git/include/linux/sched.h, branch v4.18

kthread, sched/core: Fix kthread_parkme() (again...)

2018-07-03T07:17:30+00:00

Gaurav reports that commit:

  85f1abe0019f ("kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue")

isn't working for him. Because of the following race:

> controller Thread                               CPUHP Thread
> takedown_cpu
> kthread_park
> kthread_parkme
> Set KTHREAD_SHOULD_PARK
>                                                 smpboot_thread_fn
>                                                 set Task interruptible
>
>
> wake_up_process
>  if (!(p->state & state))
>                 goto out;
>
>                                                 Kthread_parkme
>                                                 SET TASK_PARKED
>                                                 schedule
>                                                 raw_spin_lock(&rq->lock)
> ttwu_remote
> waiting for __task_rq_lock
>                                                 context_switch
>
>                                                 finish_lock_switch
>
>
>
>                                                 Case TASK_PARKED
>                                                 kthread_park_complete
>
>
> SET Running

Furthermore, Oleg noticed that the whole scheduler TASK_PARKED
handling is buggered because the TASK_DEAD thing is done with
preemption disabled, the current code can still complete early on
preemption :/

So basically revert that earlier fix and go with a variant of the
alternative mentioned in the commit. Promote TASK_PARKED to special
state to avoid the store-store issue on task->state leading to the
WARN in kthread_unpark() -> __kthread_bind().

But in addition, add wait_task_inactive() to kthread_park() to ensure
the task really is PARKED when we return from kthread_park(). This
avoids the whole kthread still gets migrated nonsense -- although it
would be really good to get this done differently.

Reported-by: Gaurav Kohli 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Fixes: 85f1abe0019f ("kthread, sched/wait: Fix kthread_parkme() completion issue")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

rseq: Avoid infinite recursion when delivering SIGSEGV

2018-06-22T17:04:22+00:00

When delivering a signal to a task that is using rseq, we call into
__rseq_handle_notify_resume() so that the registers pushed in the
sigframe are updated to reflect the state of the restartable sequence
(for example, ensuring that the signal returns to the abort handler if
necessary).

However, if the rseq management fails due to an unrecoverable fault when
accessing userspace or certain combinations of RSEQ_CS_* flags, then we
will attempt to deliver a SIGSEGV. This has the potential for infinite
recursion if the rseq code continuously fails on signal delivery.

Avoid this problem by using force_sigsegv() instead of force_sig(), which
is explicitly designed to reset the SEGV handler to SIG_DFL in the case
of a recursive fault. In doing so, remove rseq_signal_deliver() from the
internal rseq API and have an optional struct ksignal * parameter to
rseq_handle_notify_resume() instead.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1529664307-983-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com

rseq/cleanup: Do not abort rseq c.s. in child on fork()

2018-06-21T10:40:13+00:00

Considering that we explicitly forbid system calls in rseq critical
sections, it is not valid to issue a fork or clone system call within a
rseq critical section, so rseq_fork() is not required to restart an
active rseq c.s. in the child process.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Ben Maurer 
Cc: Boqun Feng 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chris Lameter 
Cc: Dave Watson 
Cc: Joel Fernandes 
Cc: Josh Triplett 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Michael Kerrisk 
Cc: Paul E . McKenney 
Cc: Paul Turner 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Shuah Khan 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180619133230.4087-4-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

sched/core / kcov: avoid kcov_area during task switch

2018-06-14T22:55:24+00:00

During a context switch, we first switch_mm() to the next task's mm,
then switch_to() that new task.  This means that vmalloc'd regions which
had previously been faulted in can transiently disappear in the context
of the prev task.

Functions instrumented by KCOV may try to access a vmalloc'd kcov_area
during this window, and as the fault handling code is instrumented, this
results in a recursive fault.

We must avoid accessing any kcov_area during this window.  We can do so
with a new flag in kcov_mode, set prior to switching the mm, and cleared
once the new task is live.  Since task_struct::kcov_mode isn't always a
specific enum kcov_mode value, this is made an unsigned int.

The manipulation is hidden behind kcov_{prepare,finish}_switch() helpers,
which are empty for !CONFIG_KCOV kernels.

The code uses macros because I can't use static inline functions without a
circular include dependency between  and ,
since the definition of task_struct uses things defined in 

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180504135535.53744-4-mark.rutland@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland 
Acked-by: Andrey Ryabinin 
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Kbuild: rename CC_STACKPROTECTOR[_STRONG] config variables

2018-06-14T03:21:18+00:00

The changes to automatically test for working stack protector compiler
support in the Kconfig files removed the special STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO
option that picked the strongest stack protector that the compiler
supported.

That was all a nice cleanup - it makes no sense to have the AUTO case
now that the Kconfig phase can just determine the compiler support
directly.

HOWEVER.

It also meant that doing "make oldconfig" would now _disable_ the strong
stackprotector if you had AUTO enabled, because in a legacy config file,
the sane stack protector configuration would look like

  CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE is not set
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR is not set
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG is not set
  CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO=y

and when you ran this through "make oldconfig" with the Kbuild changes,
it would ask you about the regular CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR (that had
been renamed from CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_REGULAR to just
CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR), but it would think that the STRONG version
used to be disabled (because it was really enabled by AUTO), and would
disable it in the new config, resulting in:

  CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE=y
  CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  # CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG is not set
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR=y

That's dangerously subtle - people could suddenly find themselves with
the weaker stack protector setup without even realizing.

The solution here is to just rename not just the old RECULAR stack
protector option, but also the strong one.  This does that by just
removing the CC_ prefix entirely for the user choices, because it really
is not about the compiler support (the compiler support now instead
automatially impacts _visibility_ of the options to users).

This results in "make oldconfig" actually asking the user for their
choice, so that we don't have any silent subtle security model changes.
The end result would generally look like this:

  CONFIG_HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE=y
  CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR=y
  CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG=y
  CONFIG_CC_HAS_SANE_STACKPROTECTOR=y

where the "CC_" versions really are about internal compiler
infrastructure, not the user selections.

Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2018-06-12T18:34:04+00:00

Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Small update for KVM:

  ARM:
   - lazy context-switching of FPSIMD registers on arm64
   - "split" regions for vGIC redistributor

  s390:
   - cleanups for nested
   - clock handling
   - crypto
   - storage keys
   - control register bits

  x86:
   - many bugfixes
   - implement more Hyper-V super powers
   - implement lapic_timer_advance_ns even when the LAPIC timer is
     emulated using the processor's VMX preemption timer.
   - two security-related bugfixes at the top of the branch"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (79 commits)
  kvm: fix typo in flag name
  kvm: x86: use correct privilege level for sgdt/sidt/fxsave/fxrstor access
  KVM: x86: pass kvm_vcpu to kvm_read_guest_virt and kvm_write_guest_virt_system
  KVM: x86: introduce linear_{read,write}_system
  kvm: nVMX: Enforce cpl=0 for VMX instructions
  kvm: nVMX: Add support for "VMWRITE to any supported field"
  kvm: nVMX: Restrict VMX capability MSR changes
  KVM: VMX: Optimize tscdeadline timer latency
  KVM: docs: nVMX: Remove known limitations as they do not exist now
  KVM: docs: mmu: KVM support exposing SLAT to guests
  kvm: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  kvm: Make VM ioctl do valloc for some archs
  kvm: Change return type to vm_fault_t
  KVM: docs: mmu: Fix link to NPT presentation from KVM Forum 2008
  kvm: x86: Amend the KVM_GET_SUPPORTED_CPUID API documentation
  KVM: x86: hyperv: declare KVM_CAP_HYPERV_TLBFLUSH capability
  KVM: x86: hyperv: simplistic HVCALL_FLUSH_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS_{LIST,SPACE}_EX implementation
  KVM: x86: hyperv: simplistic HVCALL_FLUSH_VIRTUAL_ADDRESS_{LIST,SPACE} implementation
  KVM: introduce kvm_make_vcpus_request_mask() API
  KVM: x86: hyperv: do rep check for each hypercall separately
  ...

rseq: Introduce restartable sequences system call

2018-06-06T09:58:31+00:00

Expose a new system call allowing each thread to register one userspace
memory area to be used as an ABI between kernel and user-space for two
purposes: user-space restartable sequences and quick access to read the
current CPU number value from user-space.

* Restartable sequences (per-cpu atomics)

Restartables sequences allow user-space to perform update operations on
per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.

The restartable critical sections (percpu atomics) work has been started
by Paul Turner and Andrew Hunter. It lets the kernel handle restart of
critical sections. [1] [2] The re-implementation proposed here brings a
few simplifications to the ABI which facilitates porting to other
architectures and speeds up the user-space fast path.

Here are benchmarks of various rseq use-cases.

Test hardware:

arm32: ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l) "Cubietruck", 2-core
x86-64: Intel E5-2630 v3@2.40GHz, 16-core, hyperthreading

The following benchmarks were all performed on a single thread.

* Per-CPU statistic counter increment

                getcpu+atomic (ns/op)    rseq (ns/op)    speedup
arm32:                344.0                 31.4          11.0
x86-64:                15.3                  2.0           7.7

* LTTng-UST: write event 32-bit header, 32-bit payload into tracer
             per-cpu buffer

                getcpu+atomic (ns/op)    rseq (ns/op)    speedup
arm32:               2502.0                 2250.0         1.1
x86-64:               117.4                   98.0         1.2

* liburcu percpu: lock-unlock pair, dereference, read/compare word

                getcpu+atomic (ns/op)    rseq (ns/op)    speedup
arm32:                751.0                 128.5          5.8
x86-64:                53.4                  28.6          1.9

* jemalloc memory allocator adapted to use rseq

Using rseq with per-cpu memory pools in jemalloc at Facebook (based on
rseq 2016 implementation):

The production workload response-time has 1-2% gain avg. latency, and
the P99 overall latency drops by 2-3%.

* Reading the current CPU number

Speeding up reading the current CPU number on which the caller thread is
running is done by keeping the current CPU number up do date within the
cpu_id field of the memory area registered by the thread. This is done
by making scheduler preemption set the TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME flag on the
current thread. Upon return to user-space, a notify-resume handler
updates the current CPU value within the registered user-space memory
area. User-space can then read the current CPU number directly from
memory.

Keeping the current cpu id in a memory area shared between kernel and
user-space is an improvement over current mechanisms available to read
the current CPU number, which has the following benefits over
alternative approaches:

- 35x speedup on ARM vs system call through glibc
- 20x speedup on x86 compared to calling glibc, which calls vdso
  executing a "lsl" instruction,
- 14x speedup on x86 compared to inlined "lsl" instruction,
- Unlike vdso approaches, this cpu_id value can be read from an inline
  assembly, which makes it a useful building block for restartable
  sequences.
- The approach of reading the cpu id through memory mapping shared
  between kernel and user-space is portable (e.g. ARM), which is not the
  case for the lsl-based x86 vdso.

On x86, yet another possible approach would be to use the gs segment
selector to point to user-space per-cpu data. This approach performs
similarly to the cpu id cache, but it has two disadvantages: it is
not portable, and it is incompatible with existing applications already
using the gs segment selector for other purposes.

Benchmarking various approaches for reading the current CPU number:

ARMv7 Processor rev 4 (v7l)
Machine model: Cubietruck
- Baseline (empty loop):                                    8.4 ns
- Read CPU from rseq cpu_id:                               16.7 ns
- Read CPU from rseq cpu_id (lazy register):               19.8 ns
- glibc 2.19-0ubuntu6.6 getcpu:                           301.8 ns
- getcpu system call:                                     234.9 ns

x86-64 Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz:
- Baseline (empty loop):                                    0.8 ns
- Read CPU from rseq cpu_id:                                0.8 ns
- Read CPU from rseq cpu_id (lazy register):                0.8 ns
- Read using gs segment selector:                           0.8 ns
- "lsl" inline assembly:                                   13.0 ns
- glibc 2.19-0ubuntu6 getcpu:                              16.6 ns
- getcpu system call:                                      53.9 ns

- Speed (benchmark taken on v8 of patchset)

Running 10 runs of hackbench -l 100000 seems to indicate, contrary to
expectations, that enabling CONFIG_RSEQ slightly accelerates the
scheduler:

Configuration: 2 sockets * 8-core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @
2.40GHz (directly on hardware, hyperthreading disabled in BIOS, energy
saving disabled in BIOS, turboboost disabled in BIOS, cpuidle.off=1
kernel parameter), with a Linux v4.6 defconfig+localyesconfig,
restartable sequences series applied.

* CONFIG_RSEQ=n

avg.:      41.37 s
std.dev.:   0.36 s

* CONFIG_RSEQ=y

avg.:      40.46 s
std.dev.:   0.33 s

- Size

On x86-64, between CONFIG_RSEQ=n/y, the text size increase of vmlinux is
567 bytes, and the data size increase of vmlinux is 5696 bytes.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/650333/
[2] http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2013/ocw/system/presentations/1695/original/LPC%20-%20PerCpu%20Atomics.pdf

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Joel Fernandes 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Dave Watson 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Chris Lameter 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Andrew Hunter 
Cc: Michael Kerrisk 
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" 
Cc: Paul Turner 
Cc: Boqun Feng 
Cc: Josh Triplett 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Ben Maurer 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151027235635.16059.11630.stgit@pjt-glaptop.roam.corp.google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150624222609.6116.86035.stgit@kitami.mtv.corp.google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180602124408.8430-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com

Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-06-05T00:45:38+00:00

Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - power-aware scheduling improvements (Patrick Bellasi)

 - NUMA balancing improvements (Mel Gorman)

 - vCPU scheduling fixes (Rohit Jain)

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/fair: Update util_est before updating schedutil
  sched/cpufreq: Modify aggregate utilization to always include blocked FAIR utilization
  sched/deadline/Documentation: Add overrun signal and GRUB-PA documentation
  sched/core: Distinguish between idle_cpu() calls based on desired effect, introduce available_idle_cpu()
  sched/wait: Include  in 
  sched/numa: Stagger NUMA balancing scan periods for new threads
  sched/core: Don't schedule threads on pre-empted vCPUs
  sched/fair: Avoid calling sync_entity_load_avg() unnecessarily
  sched/fair: Rearrange select_task_rq_fair() to optimize it

Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-06-04T22:54:04+00:00

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - updates to the handling of expedited grace periods

 - updates to reduce lock contention in the rcu_node combining tree

   [ These are in preparation for the consolidation of RCU-bh,
     RCU-preempt, and RCU-sched into a single flavor, which was
     requested by Linus in response to a security flaw whose root cause
     included confusion between the multiple flavors of RCU ]

 - torture-test updates that save their users some time and effort

 - miscellaneous fixes

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits)
  rcu/x86: Provide early rcu_cpu_starting() callback
  torture: Make kvm-find-errors.sh find build warnings
  rcutorture: Abbreviate kvm.sh summary lines
  rcutorture: Print end-of-test state in kvm.sh summary
  rcutorture: Print end-of-test state
  torture: Fold parse-torture.sh into parse-console.sh
  torture: Add a script to edit output from failed runs
  rcu: Update list of rcu_future_grace_period() trace events
  rcu: Drop early GP request check from rcu_gp_kthread()
  rcu: Simplify and inline cpu_needs_another_gp()
  rcu: The rcu_gp_cleanup() function does not need cpu_needs_another_gp()
  rcu: Make rcu_start_this_gp() check for out-of-range requests
  rcu: Add funnel locking to rcu_start_this_gp()
  rcu: Make rcu_start_future_gp() caller select grace period
  rcu: Inline rcu_start_gp_advanced() into rcu_start_future_gp()
  rcu: Clear request other than RCU_GP_FLAG_INIT at GP end
  rcu: Cleanup, don't put ->completed into an int
  rcu: Switch __rcu_process_callbacks() to rcu_accelerate_cbs()
  rcu: Avoid __call_rcu_core() root rcu_node ->lock acquisition
  rcu: Make rcu_migrate_callbacks wake GP kthread when needed
  ...

Merge tag 'kvmarm-for-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD

2018-06-01T17:17:22+00:00

KVM/ARM updates for 4.18

- Lazy context-switching of FPSIMD registers on arm64
- Allow virtual redistributors to be part of two or more MMIO ranges