linux-toradex.git/kernel/kthread.c, branch v5.9-rc6

uaccess: add force_uaccess_{begin,end} helpers

2020-08-12T17:57:59+00:00

Add helpers to wrap the get_fs/set_fs magic for undoing any damange done
by set_fs(KERNEL_DS).  There is no real functional benefit, but this
documents the intent of these calls better, and will allow stubbing the
functions out easily for kernels builds that do not allow address space
overrides in the future.

[hch@lst.de: drop two incorrect hunks, fix a commit log typo]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200714105505.935079-6-hch@lst.de

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Acked-by: Mark Rutland 
Acked-by: Greentime Hu 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Nick Hu 
Cc: Vincent Chen 
Cc: Paul Walmsley 
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200710135706.537715-6-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kthread: remove incorrect comment in kthread_create_on_cpu()

2020-08-07T18:33:21+00:00

Originally kthread_create_on_cpu() parked and woke up the new thread.
However, since commit a65d40961dc7 ("kthread/smpboot: do not park in
kthread_create_on_cpu()") this is no longer the case.  This patch removes
the comment that has been left behind and is now incorrect / stale.

Fixes: a65d40961dc7 ("kthread/smpboot: do not park in kthread_create_on_cpu()")
Signed-off-by: Ilias Stamatis 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200611135920.240551-1-stamatis.iliass@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: fix kthread_use_mm() vs TLB invalidate

2020-08-07T18:33:21+00:00

For SMP systems using IPI based TLB invalidation, looking at
current->active_mm is entirely reasonable.  This then presents the
following race condition:

  CPU0			CPU1

  flush_tlb_mm(mm)	use_mm(mm)
    
			  tsk->active_mm = mm;
			  
			    if (tsk->active_mm == mm)
			      // flush TLBs
			  
			  switch_mm(old_mm,mm,tsk);

Where it is possible the IPI flushed the TLBs for @old_mm, not @mm,
because the IPI lands before we actually switched.

Avoid this by disabling IRQs across changing ->active_mm and
switch_mm().

Of the (SMP) architectures that have IPI based TLB invalidate:

  Alpha    - checks active_mm
  ARC      - ASID specific
  IA64     - checks active_mm
  MIPS     - ASID specific flush
  OpenRISC - shoots down world
  PARISC   - shoots down world
  SH       - ASID specific
  SPARC    - ASID specific
  x86      - N/A
  xtensa   - checks active_mm

So at the very least Alpha, IA64 and Xtensa are suspect.

On top of this, for scheduler consistency we need at least preemption
disabled across changing tsk->mm and doing switch_mm(), which is
currently provided by task_lock(), but that's not sufficient for
PREEMPT_RT.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]

Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Nicholas Piggin 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Jann Horn 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Cc: 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200721154106.GE10769@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'sched/urgent'

2020-07-08T09:38:59+00:00

maccess: rename probe_kernel_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_kernel_nofault

2020-06-17T17:57:41+00:00

Better describe what these functions do.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

isolcpus: Affine unbound kernel threads to housekeeping cpus

2020-06-15T12:10:03+00:00

This is a kernel enhancement that configures the cpu affinity of kernel
threads via kernel boot option nohz_full=.

When this option is specified, the cpumask is immediately applied upon
kthread launch. This does not affect kernel threads that specify cpu
and node.

This allows CPU isolation (that is not allowing certain threads
to execute on certain CPUs) without using the isolcpus=domain parameter,
making it possible to enable load balancing on such CPUs
during runtime (see kernel-parameters.txt).

Note-1: this is based off on Wind River's patch at
https://github.com/starlingx-staging/stx-integ/blob/master/kernel/kernel-std/centos/patches/affine-compute-kernel-threads.patch

Difference being that this patch is limited to modifying kernel thread
cpumask. Behaviour of other threads can be controlled via cgroups or
sched_setaffinity.

Note-2: Wind River's patch was based off Christoph Lameter's patch at
https://lwn.net/Articles/565932/ with the only difference being
the kernel parameter changed from kthread to kthread_cpus.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200527142909.23372-3-frederic@kernel.org

kthread: Switch to cpu_possible_mask

2020-06-15T12:10:03+00:00

Next patch will switch unbound kernel threads mask to
housekeeping_cpumask(), a subset of cpu_possible_mask. So in order to
ease bisection, lets first switch kthreads default affinity from
cpu_all_mask to cpu_possible_mask.

It looks safe to do so as cpu_possible_mask seem to be initialized
at setup_arch() time, way before kthreadd is created.

Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200527142909.23372-2-frederic@kernel.org

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2020-06-11T20:25:53+00:00

Merge some more updates from Andrew Morton:

 - various hotfixes and minor things

 - hch's use_mm/unuse_mm clearnups

Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm/hugetlb, scripts, kcov,
lib, nilfs, checkpatch, lib, mm/debug, ocfs2, lib, misc.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton :
  kernel: set USER_DS in kthread_use_mm
  kernel: better document the use_mm/unuse_mm API contract
  kernel: move use_mm/unuse_mm to kthread.c
  kernel: move use_mm/unuse_mm to kthread.c
  stacktrace: cleanup inconsistent variable type
  lib: test get_count_order/long in test_bitops.c
  mm: add comments on pglist_data zones
  ocfs2: fix spelling mistake and grammar
  mm/debug_vm_pgtable: fix kernel crash by checking for THP support
  lib: fix bitmap_parse() on 64-bit big endian archs
  checkpatch: correct check for kernel parameters doc
  nilfs2: fix null pointer dereference at nilfs_segctor_do_construct()
  lib/lz4/lz4_decompress.c: document deliberate use of `&'
  kcov: check kcov_softirq in kcov_remote_stop()
  scripts/spelling: add a few more typos
  khugepaged: selftests: fix timeout condition in wait_for_scan()

kernel: set USER_DS in kthread_use_mm

2020-06-11T02:14:18+00:00

Some architectures like arm64 and s390 require USER_DS to be set for
kernel threads to access user address space, which is the whole purpose of
kthread_use_mm, but other like x86 don't.  That has lead to a huge mess
where some callers are fixed up once they are tested on said
architectures, while others linger around and yet other like io_uring try
to do "clever" optimizations for what usually is just a trivial asignment
to a member in the thread_struct for most architectures.

Make kthread_use_mm set USER_DS, and kthread_unuse_mm restore to the
previous value instead.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Tested-by: Jens Axboe 
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe 
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Cc: Alex Deucher 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Felipe Balbi 
Cc: Felix Kuehling 
Cc: Jason Wang 
Cc: Zhenyu Wang 
Cc: Zhi Wang 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200404094101.672954-7-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel: better document the use_mm/unuse_mm API contract

2020-06-11T02:14:18+00:00

Switch the function documentation to kerneldoc comments, and add
WARN_ON_ONCE asserts that the calling thread is a kernel thread and does
not have ->mm set (or has ->mm set in the case of unuse_mm).

Also give the functions a kthread_ prefix to better document the use case.

[hch@lst.de: fix a comment typo, cover the newly merged use_mm/unuse_mm caller in vfio]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200416053158.586887-3-hch@lst.de
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: powerpc/vas: fix up for {un}use_mm() rename]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200422163935.5aa93ba5@canb.auug.org.au

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Tested-by: Jens Axboe 
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe 
Acked-by: Felix Kuehling 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman  [usb]
Acked-by: Haren Myneni 
Cc: Alex Deucher 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Felipe Balbi 
Cc: Jason Wang 
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" 
Cc: Zhenyu Wang 
Cc: Zhi Wang 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200404094101.672954-6-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds