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<title>linux-toradex.git/kernel/time/timer_migration.c, branch v7.0-rc7</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'cgroup-for-7.0-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2026-03-03T22:25:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-03T22:25:18+00:00</published>
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Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:

 - Fix circular locking dependency in cpuset partition code by
   deferring housekeeping_update() calls to a workqueue instead
   of calling them directly under cpus_read_lock

 - Fix null-ptr-deref in rebuild_sched_domains_cpuslocked() when
   generate_sched_domains() returns NULL due to kmalloc failure

 - Fix incorrect cpuset behavior for effective_xcpus in
   partition_xcpus_del() and cpuset_update_tasks_cpumask()
   in update_cpumasks_hier()

 - Fix race between task migration and cgroup iteration

* tag 'cgroup-for-7.0-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup/cpuset: fix null-ptr-deref in rebuild_sched_domains_cpuslocked
  cgroup/cpuset: Call housekeeping_update() without holding cpus_read_lock
  cgroup/cpuset: Defer housekeeping_update() calls from CPU hotplug to workqueue
  cgroup/cpuset: Move housekeeping_update()/rebuild_sched_domains() together
  kselftest/cgroup: Simplify test_cpuset_prs.sh by removing "S+" command
  cgroup/cpuset: Set isolated_cpus_updating only if isolated_cpus is changed
  cgroup/cpuset: Clarify exclusion rules for cpuset internal variables
  cgroup/cpuset: Fix incorrect use of cpuset_update_tasks_cpumask() in update_cpumasks_hier()
  cgroup/cpuset: Fix incorrect change to effective_xcpus in partition_xcpus_del()
  cgroup: fix race between task migration and iteration
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Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:

 - Fix circular locking dependency in cpuset partition code by
   deferring housekeeping_update() calls to a workqueue instead
   of calling them directly under cpus_read_lock

 - Fix null-ptr-deref in rebuild_sched_domains_cpuslocked() when
   generate_sched_domains() returns NULL due to kmalloc failure

 - Fix incorrect cpuset behavior for effective_xcpus in
   partition_xcpus_del() and cpuset_update_tasks_cpumask()
   in update_cpumasks_hier()

 - Fix race between task migration and cgroup iteration

* tag 'cgroup-for-7.0-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup/cpuset: fix null-ptr-deref in rebuild_sched_domains_cpuslocked
  cgroup/cpuset: Call housekeeping_update() without holding cpus_read_lock
  cgroup/cpuset: Defer housekeeping_update() calls from CPU hotplug to workqueue
  cgroup/cpuset: Move housekeeping_update()/rebuild_sched_domains() together
  kselftest/cgroup: Simplify test_cpuset_prs.sh by removing "S+" command
  cgroup/cpuset: Set isolated_cpus_updating only if isolated_cpus is changed
  cgroup/cpuset: Clarify exclusion rules for cpuset internal variables
  cgroup/cpuset: Fix incorrect use of cpuset_update_tasks_cpumask() in update_cpumasks_hier()
  cgroup/cpuset: Fix incorrect change to effective_xcpus in partition_xcpus_del()
  cgroup: fix race between task migration and iteration
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<entry>
<title>cgroup/cpuset: Call housekeeping_update() without holding cpus_read_lock</title>
<updated>2026-02-23T20:46:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Waiman Long</name>
<email>longman@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T18:54:18+00:00</published>
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The current cpuset partition code is able to dynamically update
the sched domains of a running system and the corresponding
HK_TYPE_DOMAIN housekeeping cpumask to perform what is essentially the
"isolcpus=domain,..." boot command line feature at run time.

The housekeeping cpumask update requires flushing a number of different
workqueues which may not be safe with cpus_read_lock() held as the
workqueue flushing code may acquire cpus_read_lock() or acquiring locks
which have locking dependency with cpus_read_lock() down the chain. Below
is an example of such circular locking problem.

  ======================================================
  WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
  6.18.0-test+ #2 Tainted: G S
  ------------------------------------------------------
  test_cpuset_prs/10971 is trying to acquire lock:
  ffff888112ba4958 ((wq_completion)sync_wq){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: touch_wq_lockdep_map+0x7a/0x180

  but task is already holding lock:
  ffffffffae47f450 (cpuset_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: cpuset_partition_write+0x85/0x130

  which lock already depends on the new lock.

  the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
  -&gt; #4 (cpuset_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}:
  -&gt; #3 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}:
  -&gt; #2 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}:
  -&gt; #1 ((work_completion)(&amp;arg.work)){+.+.}-{0:0}:
  -&gt; #0 ((wq_completion)sync_wq){+.+.}-{0:0}:

  Chain exists of:
    (wq_completion)sync_wq --&gt; cpu_hotplug_lock --&gt; cpuset_mutex

  5 locks held by test_cpuset_prs/10971:
   #0: ffff88816810e440 (sb_writers#7){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: ksys_write+0xf9/0x1d0
   #1: ffff8891ab620890 (&amp;of-&gt;mutex#2){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x260/0x5f0
   #2: ffff8890a78b83e8 (kn-&gt;active#187){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x2b6/0x5f0
   #3: ffffffffadf32900 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: cpuset_partition_write+0x77/0x130
   #4: ffffffffae47f450 (cpuset_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: cpuset_partition_write+0x85/0x130

  Call Trace:
   &lt;TASK&gt;
     :
   touch_wq_lockdep_map+0x93/0x180
   __flush_workqueue+0x111/0x10b0
   housekeeping_update+0x12d/0x2d0
   update_parent_effective_cpumask+0x595/0x2440
   update_prstate+0x89d/0xce0
   cpuset_partition_write+0xc5/0x130
   cgroup_file_write+0x1a5/0x680
   kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3df/0x5f0
   vfs_write+0x525/0xfd0
   ksys_write+0xf9/0x1d0
   do_syscall_64+0x95/0x520
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

To avoid such a circular locking dependency problem, we have to
call housekeeping_update() without holding the cpus_read_lock() and
cpuset_mutex. The current set of wq's flushed by housekeeping_update()
may not have work functions that call cpus_read_lock() directly,
but we are likely to extend the list of wq's that are flushed in the
future. Moreover, the current set of work functions may hold locks that
may have cpu_hotplug_lock down the dependency chain.

So housekeeping_update() is now called after releasing cpus_read_lock
and cpuset_mutex at the end of a cpuset operation. These two locks are
then re-acquired later before calling rebuild_sched_domains_locked().

To enable mutual exclusion between the housekeeping_update() call and
other cpuset control file write actions, a new top level cpuset_top_mutex
is introduced. This new mutex will be acquired first to allow sharing
variables used by both code paths. However, cpuset update from CPU
hotplug can still happen in parallel with the housekeeping_update()
call, though that should be rare in production environment.

As cpus_read_lock() is now no longer held when
tmigr_isolated_exclude_cpumask() is called, it needs to acquire it
directly.

The lockdep_is_cpuset_held() is also updated to return true if either
cpuset_top_mutex or cpuset_mutex is held.

Fixes: 03ff73510169 ("cpuset: Update HK_TYPE_DOMAIN cpumask from cpuset")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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The current cpuset partition code is able to dynamically update
the sched domains of a running system and the corresponding
HK_TYPE_DOMAIN housekeeping cpumask to perform what is essentially the
"isolcpus=domain,..." boot command line feature at run time.

The housekeeping cpumask update requires flushing a number of different
workqueues which may not be safe with cpus_read_lock() held as the
workqueue flushing code may acquire cpus_read_lock() or acquiring locks
which have locking dependency with cpus_read_lock() down the chain. Below
is an example of such circular locking problem.

  ======================================================
  WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
  6.18.0-test+ #2 Tainted: G S
  ------------------------------------------------------
  test_cpuset_prs/10971 is trying to acquire lock:
  ffff888112ba4958 ((wq_completion)sync_wq){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: touch_wq_lockdep_map+0x7a/0x180

  but task is already holding lock:
  ffffffffae47f450 (cpuset_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: cpuset_partition_write+0x85/0x130

  which lock already depends on the new lock.

  the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
  -&gt; #4 (cpuset_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}:
  -&gt; #3 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}:
  -&gt; #2 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}:
  -&gt; #1 ((work_completion)(&amp;arg.work)){+.+.}-{0:0}:
  -&gt; #0 ((wq_completion)sync_wq){+.+.}-{0:0}:

  Chain exists of:
    (wq_completion)sync_wq --&gt; cpu_hotplug_lock --&gt; cpuset_mutex

  5 locks held by test_cpuset_prs/10971:
   #0: ffff88816810e440 (sb_writers#7){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: ksys_write+0xf9/0x1d0
   #1: ffff8891ab620890 (&amp;of-&gt;mutex#2){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x260/0x5f0
   #2: ffff8890a78b83e8 (kn-&gt;active#187){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x2b6/0x5f0
   #3: ffffffffadf32900 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: cpuset_partition_write+0x77/0x130
   #4: ffffffffae47f450 (cpuset_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: cpuset_partition_write+0x85/0x130

  Call Trace:
   &lt;TASK&gt;
     :
   touch_wq_lockdep_map+0x93/0x180
   __flush_workqueue+0x111/0x10b0
   housekeeping_update+0x12d/0x2d0
   update_parent_effective_cpumask+0x595/0x2440
   update_prstate+0x89d/0xce0
   cpuset_partition_write+0xc5/0x130
   cgroup_file_write+0x1a5/0x680
   kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x3df/0x5f0
   vfs_write+0x525/0xfd0
   ksys_write+0xf9/0x1d0
   do_syscall_64+0x95/0x520
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

To avoid such a circular locking dependency problem, we have to
call housekeeping_update() without holding the cpus_read_lock() and
cpuset_mutex. The current set of wq's flushed by housekeeping_update()
may not have work functions that call cpus_read_lock() directly,
but we are likely to extend the list of wq's that are flushed in the
future. Moreover, the current set of work functions may hold locks that
may have cpu_hotplug_lock down the dependency chain.

So housekeeping_update() is now called after releasing cpus_read_lock
and cpuset_mutex at the end of a cpuset operation. These two locks are
then re-acquired later before calling rebuild_sched_domains_locked().

To enable mutual exclusion between the housekeeping_update() call and
other cpuset control file write actions, a new top level cpuset_top_mutex
is introduced. This new mutex will be acquired first to allow sharing
variables used by both code paths. However, cpuset update from CPU
hotplug can still happen in parallel with the housekeeping_update()
call, though that should be rare in production environment.

As cpus_read_lock() is now no longer held when
tmigr_isolated_exclude_cpumask() is called, it needs to acquire it
directly.

The lockdep_is_cpuset_held() is also updated to return true if either
cpuset_top_mutex or cpuset_mutex is held.

Fixes: 03ff73510169 ("cpuset: Update HK_TYPE_DOMAIN cpumask from cpuset")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T16:26:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T07:46:04+00:00</published>
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Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timers/migration: Remove superfluous cpuset isolation test</title>
<updated>2026-02-03T14:23:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-22T15:22:56+00:00</published>
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Cpuset isolated partitions are now included in HK_TYPE_DOMAIN. Testing
if a CPU is part of an isolated partition alone is now useless.

Remove the superflous test.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
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Cpuset isolated partitions are now included in HK_TYPE_DOMAIN. Testing
if a CPU is part of an isolated partition alone is now useless.

Remove the superflous test.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timers/migration: Prevent from lockdep false positive warning</title>
<updated>2026-02-03T14:23:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-23T14:12:46+00:00</published>
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Testing housekeeping_cpu() will soon require that either the RCU "lock"
is held or the cpuset mutex.

When CPUs get isolated through cpuset, the change is propagated to
timer migration such that isolation is also performed from the migration
tree. However that propagation is done using workqueue which tests if
the target is actually isolated before proceeding.

Lockdep doesn't know that the workqueue caller holds cpuset mutex and
that it waits for the work, making the housekeeping cpumask read safe.

Shut down the future warning by removing this test. It is unecessary
beyond hotplug, the workqueue is already targeted towards isolated CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Gabriele Monaco &lt;gmonaco@redhat.com&gt;
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Testing housekeeping_cpu() will soon require that either the RCU "lock"
is held or the cpuset mutex.

When CPUs get isolated through cpuset, the change is propagated to
timer migration such that isolation is also performed from the migration
tree. However that propagation is done using workqueue which tests if
the target is actually isolated before proceeding.

Lockdep doesn't know that the workqueue caller holds cpuset mutex and
that it waits for the work, making the housekeeping cpumask read safe.

Shut down the future warning by removing this test. It is unecessary
beyond hotplug, the workqueue is already targeted towards isolated CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Gabriele Monaco &lt;gmonaco@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>timers/migration: Exclude isolated cpus from hierarchy</title>
<updated>2025-11-20T19:17:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gabriele Monaco</name>
<email>gmonaco@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-20T14:56:53+00:00</published>
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The timer migration mechanism allows active CPUs to pull timers from
idle ones to improve the overall idle time. This is however undesired
when CPU intensive workloads run on isolated cores, as the algorithm
would move the timers from housekeeping to isolated cores, negatively
affecting the isolation.

Exclude isolated cores from the timer migration algorithm, extend the
concept of unavailable cores, currently used for offline ones, to
isolated ones:
* A core is unavailable if isolated or offline;
* A core is available if non isolated and online;

A core is considered unavailable as isolated if it belongs to:
* the isolcpus (domain) list
* an isolated cpuset
Except if it is:
* in the nohz_full list (already idle for the hierarchy)
* the nohz timekeeper core (must be available to handle global timers)

CPUs are added to the hierarchy during late boot, excluding isolated
ones, the hierarchy is also adapted when the cpuset isolation changes.

Due to how the timer migration algorithm works, any CPU part of the
hierarchy can have their global timers pulled by remote CPUs and have to
pull remote timers, only skipping pulling remote timers would break the
logic.
For this reason, prevent isolated CPUs from pulling remote global
timers, but also the other way around: any global timer started on an
isolated CPU will run there. This does not break the concept of
isolation (global timers don't come from outside the CPU) and, if
considered inappropriate, can usually be mitigated with other isolation
techniques (e.g. IRQ pinning).

This effect was noticed on a 128 cores machine running oslat on the
isolated cores (1-31,33-63,65-95,97-127). The tool monopolises CPUs,
and the CPU with lowest count in a timer migration hierarchy (here 1
and 65) appears as always active and continuously pulls global timers,
from the housekeeping CPUs. This ends up moving driver work (e.g.
delayed work) to isolated CPUs and causes latency spikes:

before the change:

 # oslat -c 1-31,33-63,65-95,97-127 -D 62s
 ...
  Maximum:     1203 10 3 4 ... 5 (us)

after the change:

 # oslat -c 1-31,33-63,65-95,97-127 -D 62s
 ...
  Maximum:      10 4 3 4 3 ... 5 (us)

The same behaviour was observed on a machine with as few as 20 cores /
40 threads with isocpus set to: 1-9,11-39 with rtla-osnoise-top.

Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco &lt;gmonaco@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: John B. Wyatt IV &lt;jwyatt@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251120145653.296659-8-gmonaco@redhat.com
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The timer migration mechanism allows active CPUs to pull timers from
idle ones to improve the overall idle time. This is however undesired
when CPU intensive workloads run on isolated cores, as the algorithm
would move the timers from housekeeping to isolated cores, negatively
affecting the isolation.

Exclude isolated cores from the timer migration algorithm, extend the
concept of unavailable cores, currently used for offline ones, to
isolated ones:
* A core is unavailable if isolated or offline;
* A core is available if non isolated and online;

A core is considered unavailable as isolated if it belongs to:
* the isolcpus (domain) list
* an isolated cpuset
Except if it is:
* in the nohz_full list (already idle for the hierarchy)
* the nohz timekeeper core (must be available to handle global timers)

CPUs are added to the hierarchy during late boot, excluding isolated
ones, the hierarchy is also adapted when the cpuset isolation changes.

Due to how the timer migration algorithm works, any CPU part of the
hierarchy can have their global timers pulled by remote CPUs and have to
pull remote timers, only skipping pulling remote timers would break the
logic.
For this reason, prevent isolated CPUs from pulling remote global
timers, but also the other way around: any global timer started on an
isolated CPU will run there. This does not break the concept of
isolation (global timers don't come from outside the CPU) and, if
considered inappropriate, can usually be mitigated with other isolation
techniques (e.g. IRQ pinning).

This effect was noticed on a 128 cores machine running oslat on the
isolated cores (1-31,33-63,65-95,97-127). The tool monopolises CPUs,
and the CPU with lowest count in a timer migration hierarchy (here 1
and 65) appears as always active and continuously pulls global timers,
from the housekeeping CPUs. This ends up moving driver work (e.g.
delayed work) to isolated CPUs and causes latency spikes:

before the change:

 # oslat -c 1-31,33-63,65-95,97-127 -D 62s
 ...
  Maximum:     1203 10 3 4 ... 5 (us)

after the change:

 # oslat -c 1-31,33-63,65-95,97-127 -D 62s
 ...
  Maximum:      10 4 3 4 3 ... 5 (us)

The same behaviour was observed on a machine with as few as 20 cores /
40 threads with isocpus set to: 1-9,11-39 with rtla-osnoise-top.

Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco &lt;gmonaco@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: John B. Wyatt IV &lt;jwyatt@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251120145653.296659-8-gmonaco@redhat.com
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timers/migration: Use scoped_guard on available flag set/clear</title>
<updated>2025-11-20T19:17:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gabriele Monaco</name>
<email>gmonaco@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-20T14:56:49+00:00</published>
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Cleanup tmigr_clear_cpu_available() and tmigr_set_cpu_available() to
prepare for easier checks on the available flag.

Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco &lt;gmonaco@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251120145653.296659-4-gmonaco@redhat.com
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Cleanup tmigr_clear_cpu_available() and tmigr_set_cpu_available() to
prepare for easier checks on the available flag.

Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco &lt;gmonaco@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251120145653.296659-4-gmonaco@redhat.com
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>timers/migration: Add mask for CPUs available in the hierarchy</title>
<updated>2025-11-20T19:17:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gabriele Monaco</name>
<email>gmonaco@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-11-20T14:56:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.toradex.cn/cgit/linux-toradex.git/commit/?id=a048ca5f00ebd5a44f8551d546a3cd81fed7a204'/>
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Keep track of the CPUs available for timer migration in a cpumask. This
prepares the ground to generalise the concept of unavailable CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco &lt;gmonaco@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251120145653.296659-3-gmonaco@redhat.com
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Keep track of the CPUs available for timer migration in a cpumask. This
prepares the ground to generalise the concept of unavailable CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco &lt;gmonaco@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251120145653.296659-3-gmonaco@redhat.com
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