linux-toradex.git/kernel/kthread.c, branch v6.19-rc2

sched: Rename do_set_cpus_allowed()

2025-10-16T09:13:53+00:00

Hopefully saner naming.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot

sched: Fix do_set_cpus_allowed() locking

2025-10-16T09:13:52+00:00

All callers of do_set_cpus_allowed() only take p->pi_lock, which is
not sufficient to actually change the cpumask. Again, this is mostly
ok in these cases, but it results in unnecessarily complicated
reasoning.

Furthermore, there is no reason what so ever to not just take all the
required locks, so do just that.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Vincent Guittot

ipvs: Fix estimator kthreads preferred affinity

2025-08-13T06:34:33+00:00

The estimator kthreads' affinity are defined by sysctl overwritten
preferences and applied through a plain call to the scheduler's affinity
API.

However since the introduction of managed kthreads preferred affinity,
such a practice shortcuts the kthreads core code which eventually
overwrites the target to the default unbound affinity.

Fix this with using the appropriate kthread's API.

Fixes: d1a89197589c ("kthread: Default affine kthread to its preferred NUMA node")
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov 
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal

kthread: update comment for __to_kthread

2025-07-10T05:57:55+00:00

With commit 343f4c49f243 ("kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init
and umh") and commit 753550eb0ce1 ("fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD"), umh
task no longer have struct kthread and PF_KTHREAD flag.

Update the comment to describe what the current rules are to detect
is something is a kthread.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250620100801.23185-1-jqqlijiazi@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jiazi Li 
Signed-off-by: mingzhu.wang 
Suggested-by Eric W . Biederman 
Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of()

2025-06-08T07:07:37+00:00

Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace.

[ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com

treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()

2025-04-05T08:30:12+00:00

timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree
over and remove the historical wrapper inlines.

Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kthread: Fix return value on kzalloc() failure in kthread_affine_preferred()

2025-02-04T00:42:27+00:00

kthread_affine_preferred() incorrectly returns 0 instead of -ENOMEM
when kzalloc() fails. Return 'ret' to ensure the correct error code is
propagated.

Fixes: 4d13f4304fa4 ("kthread: Implement preferred affinity")
Reported-by: kernel test robot 
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202501301528.t0cZVbnq-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Yu-Chun Lin 
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-01-24-23-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-01-27T01:50:53+00:00

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Mainly individually changelogged singleton patches. The patch series
  in this pull are:

   - "lib min_heap: Improve min_heap safety, testing, and documentation"
     from Kuan-Wei Chiu provides various tightenings to the min_heap
     library code

   - "xarray: extract __xa_cmpxchg_raw" from Tamir Duberstein preforms
     some cleanup and Rust preparation in the xarray library code

   - "Update reference to include/asm-" from Geert Uytterhoeven
     fixes pathnames in some code comments

   - "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies()" from Easwar Hariharan uses
     the new secs_to_jiffies() in various places where that is
     appropriate

   - "ocfs2, dlmfs: convert to the new mount API" from Eric Sandeen
     switches two filesystems to the new mount API

   - "Convert ocfs2 to use folios" from Matthew Wilcox does that

   - "Remove get_task_comm() and print task comm directly" from Yafang
     Shao removes now-unneeded calls to get_task_comm() in various
     places

   - "squashfs: reduce memory usage and update docs" from Phillip
     Lougher implements some memory savings in squashfs and performs
     some maintainability work

   - "lib: clarify comparison function requirements" from Kuan-Wei Chiu
     tightens the sort code's behaviour and adds some maintenance work

   - "nilfs2: protect busy buffer heads from being force-cleared" from
     Ryusuke Konishi fixes an issues in nlifs when the fs is presented
     with a corrupted image

   - "nilfs2: fix kernel-doc comments for function return values" from
     Ryusuke Konishi fixes some nilfs kerneldoc

   - "nilfs2: fix issues with rename operations" from Ryusuke Konishi
     addresses some nilfs BUG_ONs which syzbot was able to trigger

   - "minmax.h: Cleanups and minor optimisations" from David Laight does
     some maintenance work on the min/max library code

   - "Fixes and cleanups to xarray" from Kemeng Shi does maintenance
     work on the xarray library code"

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-01-24-23-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (131 commits)
  ocfs2: use str_yes_no() and str_no_yes() helper functions
  include/linux/lz4.h: add some missing macros
  Xarray: use xa_mark_t in xas_squash_marks() to keep code consistent
  Xarray: remove repeat check in xas_squash_marks()
  Xarray: distinguish large entries correctly in xas_split_alloc()
  Xarray: move forward index correctly in xas_pause()
  Xarray: do not return sibling entries from xas_find_marked()
  ipc/util.c: complete the kernel-doc function descriptions
  gcov: clang: use correct function param names
  latencytop: use correct kernel-doc format for func params
  minmax.h: remove some #defines that are only expanded once
  minmax.h: simplify the variants of clamp()
  minmax.h: move all the clamp() definitions after the min/max() ones
  minmax.h: use BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG() for the lo < hi test in clamp()
  minmax.h: reduce the #define expansion of min(), max() and clamp()
  minmax.h: update some comments
  minmax.h: add whitespace around operators and after commas
  nilfs2: do not update mtime of renamed directory that is not moved
  nilfs2: handle errors that nilfs_prepare_chunk() may return
  CREDITS: fix spelling mistake
  ...

kthread: correct comments before kthread_queue_work()

2025-01-25T06:47:22+00:00

s/kthread_worker_create/kthread_create_worker/ to avoid confusion when
reading comments before kthread_queue_work().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241224095344.GA7587@didi-ThinkCentre-M930t-N000
Signed-off-by: Tio Zhang 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'kthread-for-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks

2025-01-22T01:10:05+00:00

Pull kthread updates from Frederic Weisbecker:
 "Kthreads affinity follow either of 4 existing different patterns:

   1) Per-CPU kthreads must stay affine to a single CPU and never
      execute relevant code on any other CPU. This is currently handled
      by smpboot code which takes care of CPU-hotplug operations.
      Affinity here is a correctness constraint.

   2) Some kthreads _have_ to be affine to a specific set of CPUs and
      can't run anywhere else. The affinity is set through
      kthread_bind_mask() and the subsystem takes care by itself to
      handle CPU-hotplug operations. Affinity here is assumed to be a
      correctness constraint.

   3) Per-node kthreads _prefer_ to be affine to a specific NUMA node.
      This is not a correctness constraint but merely a preference in
      terms of memory locality. kswapd and kcompactd both fall into this
      category. The affinity is set manually like for any other task and
      CPU-hotplug is supposed to be handled by the relevant subsystem so
      that the task is properly reaffined whenever a given CPU from the
      node comes up. Also care should be taken so that the node affinity
      doesn't cross isolated (nohz_full) cpumask boundaries.

   4) Similar to the previous point except kthreads have a _preferred_
      affinity different than a node. Both RCU boost kthreads and RCU
      exp kworkers fall into this category as they refer to "RCU nodes"
      from a distinctly distributed tree.

  Currently the preferred affinity patterns (3 and 4) have at least 4
  identified users, with more or less success when it comes to handle
  CPU-hotplug operations and CPU isolation. Each of which do it in its
  own ad-hoc way.

  This is an infrastructure proposal to handle this with the following
  API changes:

   - kthread_create_on_node() automatically affines the created kthread
     to its target node unless it has been set as per-cpu or bound with
     kthread_bind[_mask]() before the first wake-up.

   - kthread_affine_preferred() is a new function that can be called
     right after kthread_create_on_node() to specify a preferred
     affinity different than the specified node.

  When the preferred affinity can't be applied because the possible
  targets are offline or isolated (nohz_full), the kthread is affine to
  the housekeeping CPUs (which means to all online CPUs most of the time
  or only the non-nohz_full CPUs when nohz_full= is set).

  kswapd, kcompactd, RCU boost kthreads and RCU exp kworkers have been
  converted, along with a few old drivers.

  Summary of the changes:

   - Consolidate a bunch of ad-hoc implementations of
     kthread_run_on_cpu()

   - Introduce task_cpu_fallback_mask() that defines the default last
     resort affinity of a task to become nohz_full aware

   - Add some correctness check to ensure kthread_bind() is always
     called before the first kthread wake up.

   - Default affine kthread to its preferred node.

   - Convert kswapd / kcompactd and remove their halfway working ad-hoc
     affinity implementation

   - Implement kthreads preferred affinity

   - Unify kthread worker and kthread API's style

   - Convert RCU kthreads to the new API and remove the ad-hoc affinity
     implementation"

* tag 'kthread-for-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks:
  kthread: modify kernel-doc function name to match code
  rcu: Use kthread preferred affinity for RCU exp kworkers
  treewide: Introduce kthread_run_worker[_on_cpu]()
  kthread: Unify kthread_create_on_cpu() and kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() automatic format
  rcu: Use kthread preferred affinity for RCU boost
  kthread: Implement preferred affinity
  mm: Create/affine kswapd to its preferred node
  mm: Create/affine kcompactd to its preferred node
  kthread: Default affine kthread to its preferred NUMA node
  kthread: Make sure kthread hasn't started while binding it
  sched,arm64: Handle CPU isolation on last resort fallback rq selection
  arm64: Exclude nohz_full CPUs from 32bits el0 support
  lib: test_objpool: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()
  kallsyms: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()
  soc/qman: test: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()
  arm/bL_switcher: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()