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<title>sched/fair: Fix pelt lost idle time detection</title>
<updated>2025-10-14T11:43:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vincent Guittot</name>
<email>vincent.guittot@linaro.org</email>
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<published>2025-10-08T13:12:14+00:00</published>
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The check for some lost idle pelt time should be always done when
pick_next_task_fair() fails to pick a task and not only when we call it
from the fair fast-path.

The case happens when the last running task on rq is a RT or DL task. When
the latter goes to sleep and the /Sum of util_sum of the rq is at the max
value, we don't account the lost of idle time whereas we should.

Fixes: 67692435c411 ("sched: Rework pick_next_task() slow-path")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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The check for some lost idle pelt time should be always done when
pick_next_task_fair() fails to pick a task and not only when we call it
from the fair fast-path.

The case happens when the last running task on rq is a RT or DL task. When
the latter goes to sleep and the /Sum of util_sum of the rq is at the max
value, we don't account the lost of idle time whereas we should.

Fixes: 67692435c411 ("sched: Rework pick_next_task() slow-path")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/deadline: Stop dl_server before CPU goes offline</title>
<updated>2025-10-14T11:43:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra (Intel)</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-09T18:47:27+00:00</published>
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IBM CI tool reported kernel warning[1] when running a CPU removal
operation through drmgr[2]. i.e "drmgr -c cpu -r -q 1"

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c:219 cpudl_set+0x58/0x170
NIP [c0000000002b6ed8] cpudl_set+0x58/0x170
LR [c0000000002b7cb8] dl_server_timer+0x168/0x2a0
Call Trace:
[c000000002c2f8c0] init_stack+0x78c0/0x8000 (unreliable)
[c0000000002b7cb8] dl_server_timer+0x168/0x2a0
[c00000000034df84] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x1a4/0x390
[c00000000034f624] hrtimer_interrupt+0x124/0x300
[c00000000002a230] timer_interrupt+0x140/0x320

Git bisects to: commit 4ae8d9aa9f9d ("sched/deadline: Fix dl_server getting stuck")

This happens since:
- dl_server hrtimer gets enqueued close to cpu offline, when
  kthread_park enqueues a fair task.
- CPU goes offline and drmgr removes it from cpu_present_mask.
- hrtimer fires and warning is hit.

Fix it by stopping the dl_server before CPU is marked dead.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8218e149-7718-4432-9312-f97297c352b9@linux.ibm.com/
[2]: https://github.com/ibm-power-utilities/powerpc-utils/tree/next/src/drmgr

[sshegde: wrote the changelog and tested it]
Fixes: 4ae8d9aa9f9d ("sched/deadline: Fix dl_server getting stuck")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8218e149-7718-4432-9312-f97297c352b9@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde &lt;sshegde@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shrikanth Hegde &lt;sshegde@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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IBM CI tool reported kernel warning[1] when running a CPU removal
operation through drmgr[2]. i.e "drmgr -c cpu -r -q 1"

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 0 at kernel/sched/cpudeadline.c:219 cpudl_set+0x58/0x170
NIP [c0000000002b6ed8] cpudl_set+0x58/0x170
LR [c0000000002b7cb8] dl_server_timer+0x168/0x2a0
Call Trace:
[c000000002c2f8c0] init_stack+0x78c0/0x8000 (unreliable)
[c0000000002b7cb8] dl_server_timer+0x168/0x2a0
[c00000000034df84] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x1a4/0x390
[c00000000034f624] hrtimer_interrupt+0x124/0x300
[c00000000002a230] timer_interrupt+0x140/0x320

Git bisects to: commit 4ae8d9aa9f9d ("sched/deadline: Fix dl_server getting stuck")

This happens since:
- dl_server hrtimer gets enqueued close to cpu offline, when
  kthread_park enqueues a fair task.
- CPU goes offline and drmgr removes it from cpu_present_mask.
- hrtimer fires and warning is hit.

Fix it by stopping the dl_server before CPU is marked dead.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8218e149-7718-4432-9312-f97297c352b9@linux.ibm.com/
[2]: https://github.com/ibm-power-utilities/powerpc-utils/tree/next/src/drmgr

[sshegde: wrote the changelog and tested it]
Fixes: 4ae8d9aa9f9d ("sched/deadline: Fix dl_server getting stuck")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8218e149-7718-4432-9312-f97297c352b9@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reported-by: Venkat Rao Bagalkote &lt;venkat88@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde &lt;sshegde@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski &lt;m.szyprowski@samsung.com&gt;
Tested-by: Shrikanth Hegde &lt;sshegde@linux.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-10-03T01:18:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-10-03T01:18:33+00:00</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
   performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation

 - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
   permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
   perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs

 - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
   DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
   address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters

 - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
   /proc/pid/maps

 - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
   performs some cleanup in the swap code

 - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
   code cleanup in the pagemap code

 - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
   a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
   huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
   falls to zero

 - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
   the recently added Kexec Handover feature

 - "mm: make mm-&gt;flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
   struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
   needs

 - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
   code

 - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
   Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code

 - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
   from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
   THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
   system".

   It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations

 - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
   the memdesc project. Please see

      https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
      https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc

 - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
   improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path

 - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
   folio splitting selftest code

 - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
   selftests

 - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
   function and converts its two remaining callers

 - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
   selftests issues

 - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
   the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
   account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
   cgroups of random inappropriate tasks

 - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
   Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
   code

 - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
   to understand arm32 highmem

 - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
   Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
   tools/testing/

 - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
   a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c

 - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
   implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
   initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation

 - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
   indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
   (zsmalloc)

 - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
   couple of cleanups in the fork code

 - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
   adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
   the removal of that undesirable helper function

 - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
   creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
   memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
   suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only

 - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
   some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code

 - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
   Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
   about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
   of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
   their own const/non-const accuracy

 - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
   code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
   __free_pages()

 - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
   mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
   forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver

 - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
   improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
   the thp selftesting code

 - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
   Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
   "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
   which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
   patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations

 - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
   layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little

 - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
   issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code

 - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
   allocation profiling feature

 - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
   preparation for more memdesc work

 - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
   Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
   arm highmem

 - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
   Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
   fallout, by removing dead code

 - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
   Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
   killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
   they can release resources

 - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
   is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON

 - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
   SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
   to a recently-added bug fix

 - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
   SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
   of the DAMON_STAT information

 - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
   some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
   increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma

 - "mm: do not assume file == vma-&gt;vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
   file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
   the treatment of stacked filesystems

 - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
   provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
   folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate

 - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
   Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
   forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters

 - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
   some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
  mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
  mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
  mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
  hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
  alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
  mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
  mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
  mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
  mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
  hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
  selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
  mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
  drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
  mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
  mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -&gt; 'especially'
  mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
  mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
  mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
  mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
  mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
  ...
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "mm, swap: improve cluster scan strategy" from Kairui Song improves
   performance and reduces the failure rate of swap cluster allocation

 - "support large align and nid in Rust allocators" from Vitaly Wool
   permits Rust allocators to set NUMA node and large alignment when
   perforning slub and vmalloc reallocs

 - "mm/damon/vaddr: support stat-purpose DAMOS" from Yueyang Pan extend
   DAMOS_STAT's handling of the DAMON operations sets for virtual
   address spaces for ops-level DAMOS filters

 - "execute PROCMAP_QUERY ioctl under per-vma lock" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan reduces mmap_lock contention during reads of
   /proc/pid/maps

 - "mm/mincore: minor clean up for swap cache checking" from Kairui Song
   performs some cleanup in the swap code

 - "mm: vm_normal_page*() improvements" from David Hildenbrand provides
   code cleanup in the pagemap code

 - "add persistent huge zero folio support" from Pankaj Raghav provides
   a block layer speedup by optionalls making the
   huge_zero_pagepersistent, instead of releasing it when its refcount
   falls to zero

 - "kho: fixes and cleanups" from Mike Rapoport adds a few touchups to
   the recently added Kexec Handover feature

 - "mm: make mm-&gt;flags a bitmap and 64-bit on all arches" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes turns mm_struct.flags into a bitmap. To end the constant
   struggle with space shortage on 32-bit conflicting with 64-bit's
   needs

 - "mm/swapfile.c and swap.h cleanup" from Chris Li cleans up some swap
   code

 - "selftests/mm: Fix false positives and skip unsupported tests" from
   Donet Tom fixes a few things in our selftests code

 - "prctl: extend PR_SET_THP_DISABLE to only provide THPs when advised"
   from David Hildenbrand "allows individual processes to opt-out of
   THP=always into THP=madvise, without affecting other workloads on the
   system".

   It's a long story - the [1/N] changelog spells out the considerations

 - "Add and use memdesc_flags_t" from Matthew Wilcox gets us started on
   the memdesc project. Please see

      https://kernelnewbies.org/MatthewWilcox/Memdescs and
      https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/introducing-memdesc

 - "Tiny optimization for large read operations" from Chi Zhiling
   improves the efficiency of the pagecache read path

 - "Better split_huge_page_test result check" from Zi Yan improves our
   folio splitting selftest code

 - "test that rmap behaves as expected" from Wei Yang adds some rmap
   selftests

 - "remove write_cache_pages()" from Christoph Hellwig removes that
   function and converts its two remaining callers

 - "selftests/mm: uffd-stress fixes" from Dev Jain fixes some UFFD
   selftests issues

 - "introduce kernel file mapped folios" from Boris Burkov introduces
   the concept of "kernel file pages". Using these permits btrfs to
   account its metadata pages to the root cgroup, rather than to the
   cgroups of random inappropriate tasks

 - "mm/pageblock: improve readability of some pageblock handling" from
   Wei Yang provides some readability improvements to the page allocator
   code

 - "mm/damon: support ARM32 with LPAE" from SeongJae Park teaches DAMON
   to understand arm32 highmem

 - "tools: testing: Use existing atomic.h for vma/maple tests" from
   Brendan Jackman performs some code cleanups and deduplication under
   tools/testing/

 - "maple_tree: Fix testing for 32bit compiles" from Liam Howlett fixes
   a couple of 32-bit issues in tools/testing/radix-tree.c

 - "kasan: unify kasan_enabled() and remove arch-specific
   implementations" from Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov moves KASAN arch-specific
   initialization code into a common arch-neutral implementation

 - "mm: remove zpool" from Johannes Weiner removes zspool - an
   indirection layer which now only redirects to a single thing
   (zsmalloc)

 - "mm: task_stack: Stack handling cleanups" from Pasha Tatashin makes a
   couple of cleanups in the fork code

 - "mm: remove nth_page()" from David Hildenbrand makes rather a lot of
   adjustments at various nth_page() callsites, eventually permitting
   the removal of that undesirable helper function

 - "introduce kasan.write_only option in hw-tags" from Yeoreum Yun
   creates a KASAN read-only mode for ARM, using that architecture's
   memory tagging feature. It is felt that a read-only mode KASAN is
   suitable for use in production systems rather than debug-only

 - "mm: hugetlb: cleanup hugetlb folio allocation" from Kefeng Wang does
   some tidying in the hugetlb folio allocation code

 - "mm: establish const-correctness for pointer parameters" from Max
   Kellermann makes quite a number of the MM API functions more accurate
   about the constness of their arguments. This was getting in the way
   of subsystems (in this case CEPH) when they attempt to improving
   their own const/non-const accuracy

 - "Cleanup free_pages() misuse" from Vishal Moola fixes a number of
   code sites which were confused over when to use free_pages() vs
   __free_pages()

 - "Add Rust abstraction for Maple Trees" from Alice Ryhl makes the
   mapletree code accessible to Rust. Required by nouveau and by its
   forthcoming successor: the new Rust Nova driver

 - "selftests/mm: split_huge_page_test: split_pte_mapped_thp
   improvements" from David Hildenbrand adds a fix and some cleanups to
   the thp selftesting code

 - "mm, swap: introduce swap table as swap cache (phase I)" from Chris
   Li and Kairui Song is the first step along the path to implementing
   "swap tables" - a new approach to swap allocation and state tracking
   which is expected to yield speed and space improvements. This
   patchset itself yields a 5-20% performance benefit in some situations

 - "Some ptdesc cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox utilizes the new memdesc
   layer to clean up the ptdesc code a little

 - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure" from Chunyu Hu fixes some
   issues in our 5-level pagetable selftesting code

 - "Minor fixes for memory allocation profiling" from Suren Baghdasaryan
   addresses a couple of minor issues in relatively new memory
   allocation profiling feature

 - "Small cleanups" from Matthew Wilcox has a few cleanups in
   preparation for more memdesc work

 - "mm/damon: add addr_unit for DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" from
   Quanmin Yan makes some changes to DAMON in furtherance of supporting
   arm highmem

 - "selftests/mm: Add -Wunreachable-code and fix warnings" from Muhammad
   Anjum adds that compiler check to selftests code and fixes the
   fallout, by removing dead code

 - "Improvements to Victim Process Thawing and OOM Reaper Traversal
   Order" from zhongjinji makes a number of improvements in the OOM
   killer: mainly thawing a more appropriate group of victim threads so
   they can release resources

 - "mm/damon: misc fixups and improvements for 6.18" from SeongJae Park
   is a bunch of small and unrelated fixups for DAMON

 - "mm/damon: define and use DAMON initialization check function" from
   SeongJae Park implement reliability and maintainability improvements
   to a recently-added bug fix

 - "mm/damon/stat: expose auto-tuned intervals and non-idle ages" from
   SeongJae Park provides additional transparency to userspace clients
   of the DAMON_STAT information

 - "Expand scope of khugepaged anonymous collapse" from Dev Jain removes
   some constraints on khubepaged's collapsing of anon VMAs. It also
   increases the success rate of MADV_COLLAPSE against an anon vma

 - "mm: do not assume file == vma-&gt;vm_file in compat_vma_mmap_prepare()"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes moves us further towards removal of
   file_operations.mmap(). This patchset concentrates upon clearing up
   the treatment of stacked filesystems

 - "mm: Improve mlock tracking for large folios" from Kiryl Shutsemau
   provides some fixes and improvements to mlock's tracking of large
   folios. /proc/meminfo's "Mlocked" field became more accurate

 - "mm/ksm: Fix incorrect accounting of KSM counters during fork" from
   Donet Tom fixes several user-visible KSM stats inaccuracies across
   forks and adds selftest code to verify these counters

 - "mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry" from Wei Yang addresses
   some potential but presently benign issues in KSM's mm_slot handling

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-10-01-19-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (372 commits)
  mm: swap: check for stable address space before operating on the VMA
  mm: convert folio_page() back to a macro
  mm/khugepaged: use start_addr/addr for improved readability
  hugetlbfs: skip VMAs without shareable locks in hugetlb_vmdelete_list
  alloc_tag: fix boot failure due to NULL pointer dereference
  mm: silence data-race in update_hiwater_rss
  mm/memory-failure: don't select MEMORY_ISOLATION
  mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot
  mm/ksm: get mm_slot by mm_slot_entry() when slot is !NULL
  hugetlb: increase number of reserving hugepages via cmdline
  selftests/mm: add fork inheritance test for ksm_merging_pages counter
  mm/ksm: fix incorrect KSM counter handling in mm_struct during fork
  drivers/base/node: fix double free in register_one_node()
  mm: remove PMD alignment constraint in execmem_vmalloc()
  mm/memory_hotplug: fix typo 'esecially' -&gt; 'especially'
  mm/rmap: improve mlock tracking for large folios
  mm/filemap: map entire large folio faultaround
  mm/fault: try to map the entire file folio in finish_fault()
  mm/rmap: mlock large folios in try_to_unmap_one()
  mm/rmap: fix a mlock race condition in folio_referenced_one()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'timers-core-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T23:09:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T23:09:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=c5448d46b3995c0b477f6bb04f313af3d57665c4'/>
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Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Address the inconsistent shutdown sequence of per CPU clockevents on
   CPU hotplug, which only removed it from the core but failed to invoke
   the actual device driver shutdown callback. This kept the timer
   active, which prevented power savings and caused pointless noise in
   virtualization.

 - Encapsulate the open coded access to the hrtimer clock base, which is
   a private implementation detail, so that the implementation can be
   changed without breaking a lot of usage sites.

 - Enhance the debug output of the clocksource watchdog to provide
   better information for analysis.

 - The usual set of cleanups and enhancements all over the place

* tag 'timers-core-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  time: Fix spelling mistakes in comments
  clocksource: Print durations for sync check unconditionally
  LoongArch: Remove clockevents shutdown call on offlining
  tick: Do not set device to detached state in tick_shutdown()
  hrtimer: Reorder branches in hrtimer_clockid_to_base()
  hrtimer: Remove hrtimer_clock_base:: Get_time
  hrtimer: Use hrtimer_cb_get_time() helper
  media: pwm-ir-tx: Avoid direct access to hrtimer clockbase
  ALSA: hrtimer: Avoid direct access to hrtimer clockbase
  lib: test_objpool: Avoid direct access to hrtimer clockbase
  sched/core: Avoid direct access to hrtimer clockbase
  timers/itimer: Avoid direct access to hrtimer clockbase
  posix-timers: Avoid direct access to hrtimer clockbase
  jiffies: Remove obsolete SHIFTED_HZ comment
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<pre>
Pull timer core updates from Thomas Gleixner:

 - Address the inconsistent shutdown sequence of per CPU clockevents on
   CPU hotplug, which only removed it from the core but failed to invoke
   the actual device driver shutdown callback. This kept the timer
   active, which prevented power savings and caused pointless noise in
   virtualization.

 - Encapsulate the open coded access to the hrtimer clock base, which is
   a private implementation detail, so that the implementation can be
   changed without breaking a lot of usage sites.

 - Enhance the debug output of the clocksource watchdog to provide
   better information for analysis.

 - The usual set of cleanups and enhancements all over the place

* tag 'timers-core-2025-09-29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  time: Fix spelling mistakes in comments
  clocksource: Print durations for sync check unconditionally
  LoongArch: Remove clockevents shutdown call on offlining
  tick: Do not set device to detached state in tick_shutdown()
  hrtimer: Reorder branches in hrtimer_clockid_to_base()
  hrtimer: Remove hrtimer_clock_base:: Get_time
  hrtimer: Use hrtimer_cb_get_time() helper
  media: pwm-ir-tx: Avoid direct access to hrtimer clockbase
  ALSA: hrtimer: Avoid direct access to hrtimer clockbase
  lib: test_objpool: Avoid direct access to hrtimer clockbase
  sched/core: Avoid direct access to hrtimer clockbase
  timers/itimer: Avoid direct access to hrtimer clockbase
  posix-timers: Avoid direct access to hrtimer clockbase
  jiffies: Remove obsolete SHIFTED_HZ comment
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T17:35:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T17:35:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=6c7340a7a8d2b6ecad1ad108f6daa73ba1dc082f'/>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core scheduler changes:

   - Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline, to improve performance
     (Menglong Dong)

   - Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig (Peter Zijlstra)

  Fair scheduling:

   - Defer throttling to when tasks exit to user-space, to reduce the
     chance &amp; impact of throttle-preemption with held locks and other
     resources (Aaron Lu, Valentin Schneider)

   - Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl-&gt;cpumask(), as the
     warning was getting triggered on certain topologies (Peter
     Zijlstra)

  Misc cleanups &amp; fixes:

   - Header cleanups (Menglong Dong)

   - Fix race in push_dl_task() (Harshit Agarwal)"

* tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Fix some typos in include/linux/preempt.h
  sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline
  rcu: Replace preempt.h with sched.h in include/linux/rcupdate.h
  arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c
  sched/fair: Do not balance task to a throttled cfs_rq
  sched/fair: Do not special case tasks in throttled hierarchy
  sched/fair: update_cfs_group() for throttled cfs_rqs
  sched/fair: Propagate load for throttled cfs_rq
  sched/fair: Get rid of throttled_lb_pair()
  sched/fair: Task based throttle time accounting
  sched/fair: Switch to task based throttle model
  sched/fair: Implement throttle task work and related helpers
  sched/fair: Add related data structure for task based throttle
  sched: Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig
  sched: Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line
  sched/fair: Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl-&gt;cpumask()
  sched/deadline: Fix race in push_dl_task()
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<pre>
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core scheduler changes:

   - Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline, to improve performance
     (Menglong Dong)

   - Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig (Peter Zijlstra)

  Fair scheduling:

   - Defer throttling to when tasks exit to user-space, to reduce the
     chance &amp; impact of throttle-preemption with held locks and other
     resources (Aaron Lu, Valentin Schneider)

   - Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl-&gt;cpumask(), as the
     warning was getting triggered on certain topologies (Peter
     Zijlstra)

  Misc cleanups &amp; fixes:

   - Header cleanups (Menglong Dong)

   - Fix race in push_dl_task() (Harshit Agarwal)"

* tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Fix some typos in include/linux/preempt.h
  sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline
  rcu: Replace preempt.h with sched.h in include/linux/rcupdate.h
  arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c
  sched/fair: Do not balance task to a throttled cfs_rq
  sched/fair: Do not special case tasks in throttled hierarchy
  sched/fair: update_cfs_group() for throttled cfs_rqs
  sched/fair: Propagate load for throttled cfs_rq
  sched/fair: Get rid of throttled_lb_pair()
  sched/fair: Task based throttle time accounting
  sched/fair: Switch to task based throttle model
  sched/fair: Implement throttle task work and related helpers
  sched/fair: Add related data structure for task based throttle
  sched: Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig
  sched: Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line
  sched/fair: Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl-&gt;cpumask()
  sched/deadline: Fix race in push_dl_task()
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched_ext-for-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext</title>
<updated>2025-09-30T16:05:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-30T16:05:07+00:00</published>
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Pull sched_ext updates from Tejun Heo:

 - Code organization cleanup. Separate internal types and accessors to
   ext_internal.h to reduce the size of ext.c and improve
   maintainability.

 - Prepare for cgroup sub-scheduler support by adding @sch parameter to
   various functions and helpers, reorganizing scheduler instance
   handling, and dropping obsolete helpers like scx_kf_exit() and
   kf_cpu_valid().

 - Add new scx_bpf_cpu_curr() and scx_bpf_locked_rq() BPF helpers to
   provide safer access patterns with proper RCU protection.
   scx_bpf_cpu_rq() is deprecated with warnings due to potential race
   conditions.

 - Improve debugging with migration-disabled counter in error state
   dumps, SCX_EFLAG_INITIALIZED flag, bitfields for warning flags, and
   other enhancements to help diagnose issues.

 - Use cgroup_lock/unlock() for cgroup synchronization instead of
   scx_cgroup_rwsem based synchronization. This is simpler and allows
   enable/disable paths to synchronize against cgroup changes
   independent of the CPU controller.

 - rhashtable_lookup() replacement to avoid redundant RCU locking was
   reverted due to RCU usage warnings. Will be redone once rhashtable is
   updated to use rcu_dereference_all().

 - Other misc updates and fixes including bypass handling improvements,
   scx_task_iter_relock() improvements, tools/sched_ext updates, and
   compatibility helpers.

* tag 'sched_ext-for-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext: (28 commits)
  Revert "sched_ext: Use rhashtable_lookup() instead of rhashtable_lookup_fast()"
  sched_ext: Misc updates around scx_sched instance pointer
  sched_ext: Drop scx_kf_exit() and scx_kf_error()
  sched_ext: Add the @sch parameter to scx_dsq_insert_preamble/commit()
  sched_ext: Drop kf_cpu_valid()
  sched_ext: Add the @sch parameter to ext_idle helpers
  sched_ext: Add the @sch parameter to __bstr_format()
  sched_ext: Separate out scx_kick_cpu() and add @sch to it
  tools/sched_ext: scx_qmap: Make debug output quieter by default
  sched_ext: Make qmap dump operation non-destructive
  sched_ext: Add SCX_EFLAG_INITIALIZED to indicate successful ops.init()
  sched_ext: Use bitfields for boolean warning flags
  sched_ext: Fix stray scx_root usage in task_can_run_on_remote_rq()
  sched_ext: Improve SCX_KF_DISPATCH comment
  sched_ext: Use rhashtable_lookup() instead of rhashtable_lookup_fast()
  sched_ext: Verify RCU protection in scx_bpf_cpu_curr()
  sched_ext: Add migration-disabled counter to error state dump
  sched_ext: Fix NULL dereference in scx_bpf_cpu_rq() warning
  tools/sched_ext: Add compat helper for scx_bpf_cpu_curr()
  sched_ext: deprecation warn for scx_bpf_cpu_rq()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull sched_ext updates from Tejun Heo:

 - Code organization cleanup. Separate internal types and accessors to
   ext_internal.h to reduce the size of ext.c and improve
   maintainability.

 - Prepare for cgroup sub-scheduler support by adding @sch parameter to
   various functions and helpers, reorganizing scheduler instance
   handling, and dropping obsolete helpers like scx_kf_exit() and
   kf_cpu_valid().

 - Add new scx_bpf_cpu_curr() and scx_bpf_locked_rq() BPF helpers to
   provide safer access patterns with proper RCU protection.
   scx_bpf_cpu_rq() is deprecated with warnings due to potential race
   conditions.

 - Improve debugging with migration-disabled counter in error state
   dumps, SCX_EFLAG_INITIALIZED flag, bitfields for warning flags, and
   other enhancements to help diagnose issues.

 - Use cgroup_lock/unlock() for cgroup synchronization instead of
   scx_cgroup_rwsem based synchronization. This is simpler and allows
   enable/disable paths to synchronize against cgroup changes
   independent of the CPU controller.

 - rhashtable_lookup() replacement to avoid redundant RCU locking was
   reverted due to RCU usage warnings. Will be redone once rhashtable is
   updated to use rcu_dereference_all().

 - Other misc updates and fixes including bypass handling improvements,
   scx_task_iter_relock() improvements, tools/sched_ext updates, and
   compatibility helpers.

* tag 'sched_ext-for-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext: (28 commits)
  Revert "sched_ext: Use rhashtable_lookup() instead of rhashtable_lookup_fast()"
  sched_ext: Misc updates around scx_sched instance pointer
  sched_ext: Drop scx_kf_exit() and scx_kf_error()
  sched_ext: Add the @sch parameter to scx_dsq_insert_preamble/commit()
  sched_ext: Drop kf_cpu_valid()
  sched_ext: Add the @sch parameter to ext_idle helpers
  sched_ext: Add the @sch parameter to __bstr_format()
  sched_ext: Separate out scx_kick_cpu() and add @sch to it
  tools/sched_ext: scx_qmap: Make debug output quieter by default
  sched_ext: Make qmap dump operation non-destructive
  sched_ext: Add SCX_EFLAG_INITIALIZED to indicate successful ops.init()
  sched_ext: Use bitfields for boolean warning flags
  sched_ext: Fix stray scx_root usage in task_can_run_on_remote_rq()
  sched_ext: Improve SCX_KF_DISPATCH comment
  sched_ext: Use rhashtable_lookup() instead of rhashtable_lookup_fast()
  sched_ext: Verify RCU protection in scx_bpf_cpu_curr()
  sched_ext: Add migration-disabled counter to error state dump
  sched_ext: Fix NULL dereference in scx_bpf_cpu_rq() warning
  tools/sched_ext: Add compat helper for scx_bpf_cpu_curr()
  sched_ext: deprecation warn for scx_bpf_cpu_rq()
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kernel-6.18-rc1.clone3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-09-29T17:36:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-29T17:36:50+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=722df25ddf4f13e303dcc4cd65b3df5b197a79e6'/>
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Pull copy_process updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the changes to enable support for clone3() on nios2
  which apparently is still a thing.

  The more exciting part of this is that it cleans up the inconsistency
  in how the 64-bit flag argument is passed from copy_process() into the
  various other copy_*() helpers"

[ Fixed up rv ltl_monitor 32-bit support as per Sasha Levin in the merge ]

* tag 'kernel-6.18-rc1.clone3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  nios2: implement architecture-specific portion of sys_clone3
  arch: copy_thread: pass clone_flags as u64
  copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree
  copy_sighand: Handle architectures where sizeof(unsigned long) &lt; sizeof(u64)
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<pre>
Pull copy_process updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the changes to enable support for clone3() on nios2
  which apparently is still a thing.

  The more exciting part of this is that it cleans up the inconsistency
  in how the 64-bit flag argument is passed from copy_process() into the
  various other copy_*() helpers"

[ Fixed up rv ltl_monitor 32-bit support as per Sasha Levin in the merge ]

* tag 'kernel-6.18-rc1.clone3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  nios2: implement architecture-specific portion of sys_clone3
  arch: copy_thread: pass clone_flags as u64
  copy_process: pass clone_flags as u64 across calltree
  copy_sighand: Handle architectures where sizeof(unsigned long) &lt; sizeof(u64)
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched-urgent-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-09-26T19:30:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-26T19:30:23+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Fix two dl_server regressions: a race that can end up leaving the
  dl_server stuck, and a dl_server throttling bug causing lag to fair
  tasks"

* tag 'sched-urgent-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/deadline: Fix dl_server behaviour
  sched/deadline: Fix dl_server getting stuck
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<pre>
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Fix two dl_server regressions: a race that can end up leaving the
  dl_server stuck, and a dl_server throttling bug causing lag to fair
  tasks"

* tag 'sched-urgent-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/deadline: Fix dl_server behaviour
  sched/deadline: Fix dl_server getting stuck
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline</title>
<updated>2025-09-25T07:57:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Menglong Dong</name>
<email>menglong8.dong@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-17T06:09:15+00:00</published>
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For now, migrate_enable and migrate_disable are global, which makes them
become hotspots in some case. Take BPF for example, the function calling
to migrate_enable and migrate_disable in BPF trampoline can introduce
significant overhead, and following is the 'perf top' of FENTRY's
benchmark (./tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bench trig-fentry):

  54.63% bpf_prog_2dcccf652aac1793_bench_trigger_fentry [k]
                 bpf_prog_2dcccf652aac1793_bench_trigger_fentry
  10.43% [kernel] [k] migrate_enable
  10.07% bpf_trampoline_6442517037 [k] bpf_trampoline_6442517037
  8.06% [kernel] [k] __bpf_prog_exit_recur
  4.11% libc.so.6 [.] syscall
  2.15% [kernel] [k] entry_SYSCALL_64
  1.48% [kernel] [k] memchr_inv
  1.32% [kernel] [k] fput
  1.16% [kernel] [k] _copy_to_user
  0.73% [kernel] [k] bpf_prog_test_run_raw_tp

So in this commit, we make migrate_enable/migrate_disable inline to obtain
better performance. The struct rq is defined internally in
kernel/sched/sched.h, and the field "nr_pinned" is accessed in
migrate_enable/migrate_disable, which makes it hard to make them inline.

Alexei Starovoitov suggests to generate the offset of "nr_pinned" in [1],
so we can define the migrate_enable/migrate_disable in
include/linux/sched.h and access "this_rq()-&gt;nr_pinned" with
"(void *)this_rq() + RQ_nr_pinned".

The offset of "nr_pinned" is generated in include/generated/rq-offsets.h
by kernel/sched/rq-offsets.c.

Generally speaking, we move the definition of migrate_enable and
migrate_disable to include/linux/sched.h from kernel/sched/core.c. The
calling to __set_cpus_allowed_ptr() is leaved in ___migrate_enable().

The "struct rq" is not available in include/linux/sched.h, so we can't
access the "runqueues" with this_cpu_ptr(), as the compilation will fail
in this_cpu_ptr() -&gt; raw_cpu_ptr() -&gt; __verify_pcpu_ptr():
  typeof((ptr) + 0)

So we introduce the this_rq_raw() and access the runqueues with
arch_raw_cpu_ptr/PERCPU_PTR directly.

The variable "runqueues" is not visible in the kernel modules, and export
it is not a good idea. As Peter Zijlstra advised in [2], we define and
export migrate_enable/migrate_disable in kernel/sched/core.c too, and use
them for the modules.

Before this patch, the performance of BPF FENTRY is:

  fentry         :  113.030 ± 0.149M/s
  fentry         :  112.501 ± 0.187M/s
  fentry         :  112.828 ± 0.267M/s
  fentry         :  115.287 ± 0.241M/s

After this patch, the performance of BPF FENTRY increases to:

  fentry         :  143.644 ± 0.670M/s
  fentry         :  149.764 ± 0.362M/s
  fentry         :  149.642 ± 0.156M/s
  fentry         :  145.263 ± 0.221M/s

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;dongml2@chinatelecom.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAADnVQ+5sEDKHdsJY5ZsfGDO_1SEhhQWHrt2SMBG5SYyQ+jt7w@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250819123214.GH4067720@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/ [2]
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For now, migrate_enable and migrate_disable are global, which makes them
become hotspots in some case. Take BPF for example, the function calling
to migrate_enable and migrate_disable in BPF trampoline can introduce
significant overhead, and following is the 'perf top' of FENTRY's
benchmark (./tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bench trig-fentry):

  54.63% bpf_prog_2dcccf652aac1793_bench_trigger_fentry [k]
                 bpf_prog_2dcccf652aac1793_bench_trigger_fentry
  10.43% [kernel] [k] migrate_enable
  10.07% bpf_trampoline_6442517037 [k] bpf_trampoline_6442517037
  8.06% [kernel] [k] __bpf_prog_exit_recur
  4.11% libc.so.6 [.] syscall
  2.15% [kernel] [k] entry_SYSCALL_64
  1.48% [kernel] [k] memchr_inv
  1.32% [kernel] [k] fput
  1.16% [kernel] [k] _copy_to_user
  0.73% [kernel] [k] bpf_prog_test_run_raw_tp

So in this commit, we make migrate_enable/migrate_disable inline to obtain
better performance. The struct rq is defined internally in
kernel/sched/sched.h, and the field "nr_pinned" is accessed in
migrate_enable/migrate_disable, which makes it hard to make them inline.

Alexei Starovoitov suggests to generate the offset of "nr_pinned" in [1],
so we can define the migrate_enable/migrate_disable in
include/linux/sched.h and access "this_rq()-&gt;nr_pinned" with
"(void *)this_rq() + RQ_nr_pinned".

The offset of "nr_pinned" is generated in include/generated/rq-offsets.h
by kernel/sched/rq-offsets.c.

Generally speaking, we move the definition of migrate_enable and
migrate_disable to include/linux/sched.h from kernel/sched/core.c. The
calling to __set_cpus_allowed_ptr() is leaved in ___migrate_enable().

The "struct rq" is not available in include/linux/sched.h, so we can't
access the "runqueues" with this_cpu_ptr(), as the compilation will fail
in this_cpu_ptr() -&gt; raw_cpu_ptr() -&gt; __verify_pcpu_ptr():
  typeof((ptr) + 0)

So we introduce the this_rq_raw() and access the runqueues with
arch_raw_cpu_ptr/PERCPU_PTR directly.

The variable "runqueues" is not visible in the kernel modules, and export
it is not a good idea. As Peter Zijlstra advised in [2], we define and
export migrate_enable/migrate_disable in kernel/sched/core.c too, and use
them for the modules.

Before this patch, the performance of BPF FENTRY is:

  fentry         :  113.030 ± 0.149M/s
  fentry         :  112.501 ± 0.187M/s
  fentry         :  112.828 ± 0.267M/s
  fentry         :  115.287 ± 0.241M/s

After this patch, the performance of BPF FENTRY increases to:

  fentry         :  143.644 ± 0.670M/s
  fentry         :  149.764 ± 0.362M/s
  fentry         :  149.642 ± 0.156M/s
  fentry         :  145.263 ± 0.221M/s

Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong &lt;dongml2@chinatelecom.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAADnVQ+5sEDKHdsJY5ZsfGDO_1SEhhQWHrt2SMBG5SYyQ+jt7w@mail.gmail.com/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250819123214.GH4067720@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/ [2]
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<title>sched/deadline: Fix dl_server behaviour</title>
<updated>2025-09-25T07:51:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-17T10:03:20+00:00</published>
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John reported undesirable behaviour with the dl_server since commit:
cccb45d7c4295 ("sched/deadline: Less agressive dl_server handling").

When starving fair tasks on purpose (starting spinning FIFO tasks),
his fair workload, which often goes (briefly) idle, would delay fair
invocations for a second, running one invocation per second was both
unexpected and terribly slow.

The reason this happens is that when dl_se-&gt;server_pick_task() returns
NULL, indicating no runnable tasks, it would yield, pushing any later
jobs out a whole period (1 second).

Instead simply stop the server. This should restore behaviour in that
a later wakeup (which restarts the server) will be able to continue
running (subject to the CBS wakeup rules).

Notably, this does not re-introduce the behaviour cccb45d7c4295 set
out to solve, any start/stop cycle is naturally throttled by the timer
period (no active cancel).

Fixes: cccb45d7c4295 ("sched/deadline: Less agressive dl_server handling")
Reported-by: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
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John reported undesirable behaviour with the dl_server since commit:
cccb45d7c4295 ("sched/deadline: Less agressive dl_server handling").

When starving fair tasks on purpose (starting spinning FIFO tasks),
his fair workload, which often goes (briefly) idle, would delay fair
invocations for a second, running one invocation per second was both
unexpected and terribly slow.

The reason this happens is that when dl_se-&gt;server_pick_task() returns
NULL, indicating no runnable tasks, it would yield, pushing any later
jobs out a whole period (1 second).

Instead simply stop the server. This should restore behaviour in that
a later wakeup (which restarts the server) will be able to continue
running (subject to the CBS wakeup rules).

Notably, this does not re-introduce the behaviour cccb45d7c4295 set
out to solve, any start/stop cycle is naturally throttled by the timer
period (no active cancel).

Fixes: cccb45d7c4295 ("sched/deadline: Less agressive dl_server handling")
Reported-by: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: John Stultz &lt;jstultz@google.com&gt;
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