linux-toradex.git/kernel/kthread.c, branch v5.12-rc5

Merge tag 'sched_urgent_for_v5.11_rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2021-01-24T18:09:20+00:00

Pull scheduler fixes from Borislav Petkov:

 - Correct the marking of kthreads which are supposed to run on a
   specific, single CPU vs such which are affine to only one CPU, mark
   per-cpu workqueue threads as such and make sure that marking
   "survives" CPU hotplug. Fix CPU hotplug issues with such kthreads.

 - A fix to not push away tasks on CPUs coming online.

 - Have workqueue CPU hotplug code use cpu_possible_mask when breaking
   affinity on CPU offlining so that pending workers can finish on newly
   arrived onlined CPUs too.

 - Dump tasks which haven't vacated a CPU which is currently being
   unplugged.

 - Register a special scale invariance callback which gets called on
   resume from RAM to read out APERF/MPERF after resume and thus make
   the schedutil scaling governor more precise.

* tag 'sched_urgent_for_v5.11_rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Relax the set_cpus_allowed_ptr() semantics
  sched: Fix CPU hotplug / tighten is_per_cpu_kthread()
  sched: Prepare to use balance_push in ttwu()
  workqueue: Restrict affinity change to rescuer
  workqueue: Tag bound workers with KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU
  kthread: Extract KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU
  sched: Don't run cpu-online with balance_push() enabled
  workqueue: Use cpu_possible_mask instead of cpu_active_mask to break affinity
  sched/core: Print out straggler tasks in sched_cpu_dying()
  x86: PM: Register syscore_ops for scale invariance

kthread: Extract KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU

2021-01-22T14:09:42+00:00

There is a need to distinguish geniune per-cpu kthreads from kthreads
that happen to have a single CPU affinity.

Geniune per-cpu kthreads are kthreads that are CPU affine for
correctness, these will obviously have PF_KTHREAD set, but must also
have PF_NO_SETAFFINITY set, lest userspace modify their affinity and
ruins things.

However, these two things are not sufficient, PF_NO_SETAFFINITY is
also set on other tasks that have their affinities controlled through
other means, like for instance workqueues.

Therefore another bit is needed; it turns out kthread_create_per_cpu()
already has such a bit: KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU, which is used to make
kthread_park()/kthread_unpark() work correctly.

Expose this flag and remove the implicit setting of it from
kthread_create_on_cpu(); the io_uring usage of it seems dubious at
best.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider 
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210121103506.557620262@infradead.org

kthread: remove comments about old _do_fork() helper

2021-01-11T14:11:56+00:00

The old _do_fork() helper has been removed in favor of kernel_clone().
Here correct some comments which still contain _do_fork()

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210111104807.18022-1-yanfei.xu@windriver.com
Cc: christian@brauner.io
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Christian Brauner 
Signed-off-by: Yanfei Xu 
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2020-12-15T20:53:37+00:00

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:

 - a few random little subsystems

 - almost all of the MM patches which are staged ahead of linux-next
   material. I'll trickle to post-linux-next work in as the dependents
   get merged up.

Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, kbuild, ide, ntfs,
ocfs2, arch, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, dax, debug, pagecache,
gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, hmm, vmalloc, documentation,
kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, vmscan, z3fold, compaction,
oom-kill, migration, cma, page-poison, userfaultfd, zswap, zsmalloc,
uaccess, zram, and cleanups).

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (200 commits)
  mm: cleanup kstrto*() usage
  mm: fix fall-through warnings for Clang
  mm: slub: convert sysfs sprintf family to sysfs_emit/sysfs_emit_at
  mm: shmem: convert shmem_enabled_show to use sysfs_emit_at
  mm:backing-dev: use sysfs_emit in macro defining functions
  mm: huge_memory: convert remaining use of sprintf to sysfs_emit and neatening
  mm: use sysfs_emit for struct kobject * uses
  mm: fix kernel-doc markups
  zram: break the strict dependency from lzo
  zram: add stat to gather incompressible pages since zram set up
  zram: support page writeback
  mm/process_vm_access: remove redundant initialization of iov_r
  mm/zsmalloc.c: rework the list_add code in insert_zspage()
  mm/zswap: move to use crypto_acomp API for hardware acceleration
  mm/zswap: fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
  mm/zswap: make struct kernel_param_ops definitions const
  userfaultfd/selftests: hint the test runner on required privilege
  userfaultfd/selftests: fix retval check for userfaultfd_open()
  userfaultfd/selftests: always dump something in modes
  userfaultfd: selftests: make __{s,u}64 format specifiers portable
  ...

kthread_worker: document CPU hotplug handling

2020-12-15T20:13:36+00:00

The kthread worker API is simple.  In short, it allows to create, use, and
destroy workers.  kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() just allows to bind a
newly created worker to a given CPU.

It is up to the API user how to handle CPU hotplug.  They have to decide
how to handle pending work items, prevent queuing new ones, and restore
the functionality when the CPU goes off and on.  There are few catches:

   + The CPU affinity gets lost when it is scheduled on an offline CPU.

   + The worker might not exist when the CPU was off when the user
     created the workers.

A good practice is to implement two CPU hotplug callbacks and
destroy/create the worker when CPU goes down/up.

Mention this in the function description.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: grammar tweaks]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201028073031.4536-1-qiang.zhang@windriver.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201102101039.19227-1-pmladek@suse.com
Reported-by: Zhang Qiang 
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kthread: add kthread_work tracepoints

2020-12-15T20:13:36+00:00

While migrating some code from wq to kthread_worker, I found that I missed
the execute_start/end tracepoints.  So add similar tracepoints for
kthread_work.  And for completeness, queue_work tracepoint (although this
one differs slightly from the matching workqueue tracepoint).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201010180323.126634-1-robdclark@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Rob Clark 
Cc: Rob Clark 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" 
Cc: Phil Auld 
Cc: Valentin Schneider 
Cc: Thara Gopinath 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Vincent Donnefort 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti 
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker 
Cc: Ilias Stamatis 
Cc: Liang Chen 
Cc: Ben Dooks 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'linus' into sched/core, to resolve semantic conflict

2020-11-27T10:10:50+00:00

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kthread_worker: prevent queuing delayed work from timer_fn when it is being canceled

2020-11-02T20:14:19+00:00

There is a small race window when a delayed work is being canceled and
the work still might be queued from the timer_fn:

	CPU0						CPU1
kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync()
   __kthread_cancel_work_sync()
     __kthread_cancel_work()
        work->canceling++;
					      kthread_delayed_work_timer_fn()
						   kthread_insert_work();

BUG: kthread_insert_work() should not get called when work->canceling is
set.

Signed-off-by: Zqiang 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201014083030.16895-1-qiang.zhang@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched: membarrier: cover kthread_use_mm (v4)

2020-10-29T10:00:31+00:00

Add comments and memory barrier to kthread_use_mm and kthread_unuse_mm
to allow the effect of membarrier(2) to apply to kthreads accessing
user-space memory as well.

Given that no prior kthread use this guarantee and that it only affects
kthreads, adding this guarantee does not affect user-space ABI.

Refine the check in membarrier_global_expedited to exclude runqueues
running the idle thread rather than all kthreads from the IPI cpumask.

Now that membarrier_global_expedited can IPI kthreads, the scheduler
also needs to update the runqueue's membarrier_state when entering lazy
TLB state.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201020134715.13909-3-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com

kernel/: fix repeated words in comments

2020-10-16T18:11:19+00:00

Fix multiple occurrences of duplicated words in kernel/.

Fix one typo/spello on the same line as a duplicate word.  Change one
instance of "the the" to "that the".  Otherwise just drop one of the
repeated words.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/98202fa6-8919-ef63-9efe-c0fad5ca7af1@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds