Pull timer fix from Ingo Molnar: "Fix CPU hotplug activation race in the timer migration code, by Frederic Weisbecker" * tag 'timers-urgent-2026-05-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: timers/migration: Fix another hotplug activation race
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar: - Fix spurious failures in rseq self-tests (Mark Brown) - Fix rseq rseq::cpu_id_start ABI regression due to TCMalloc's creative use of the supposedly read-only field The fix is to introduce a new ABI variant based on a new (larger) rseq area registration size, to keep the TCMalloc use of rseq backwards compatible on new kernels (Thomas Gleixner) - Fix wakeup_preempt_fair() for not waking up task (Vincent Guittot) - Fix s64 mult overflow in vruntime_eligible() (Zhan Xusheng) * tag 'sched-urgent-2026-05-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched/fair: Fix wakeup_preempt_fair() for not waking up task sched/fair: Fix overflow in vruntime_eligible() selftests/rseq: Expand for optimized RSEQ ABI v2 rseq: Reenable performance optimizations conditionally rseq: Implement read only ABI enforcement for optimized RSEQ V2 mode selftests/rseq: Validate legacy behavior selftests/rseq: Make registration flexible for legacy and optimized mode selftests/rseq: Skip tests if time slice extensions are not available rseq: Revert to historical performance killing behaviour rseq: Don't advertise time slice extensions if disabled rseq: Protect rseq_reset() against interrupts rseq: Set rseq::cpu_id_start to 0 on unregistration selftests/rseq: Don't run tests with runner scripts outside of the scripts
Pull perf events fixes from Ingo Molnar:
- Fix deadlock in the perf_mmap() failure path (Peter Zijlstra)
- Intel ACR (Auto Counter Reload) fixes (Dapeng Mi):
- Fix validation and configuration of ACR masks
- Fix ACR rescheduling bug causing stale masks
- Disable the PMI on ACR-enabled hardware
- Enable ACR on Panther Cover uarch too
* tag 'perf-urgent-2026-05-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/x86/intel: Enable auto counter reload for DMR
perf/x86/intel: Disable PMI for self-reloaded ACR events
perf/x86/intel: Always reprogram ACR events to prevent stale masks
perf/x86/intel: Improve validation and configuration of ACR masks
perf/core: Fix deadlock in perf_mmap() failure path
Make sure to only call pick_next_entity() on an non-empty cfs_rq.
The assumption that p is always enqueued and not delayed, is only true for
wakeup. If p was moved while delayed, pick_next_entity() will dequeue it and
the cfs might become empty. Test if there are still queued tasks before trying
again to determine if p could be the next one to be picked.
There are at least 2 cases:
When cfs becomes idle, it tries to pull tasks but if those pulled tasks are
delayed, they will be dequeued when attached to cfs. attach_tasks() ->
attach_task() -> wakeup_preempt(rq, p, 0);
A misfit task running on cfs A triggers a load balance to be pulled on a better
cpu, the load balance on cfs B starts an active load balance to pulled the
running misfit task. If there is a delayed dequeue task on cfs A, it can be
pulled instead of the previously running misfit task. attach_one_task() ->
attach_task() -> wakeup_preempt(rq, p, 0);
Fixes: ac8e69e69363 ("sched/fair: Fix wakeup_preempt_fair() vs delayed dequeue")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260503104503.1732682-1-vincent.guittot@linaro.org
Zhan Xusheng reported running into sporadic a s64 mult overflow in
vruntime_eligible().
When constructing a worst case scenario:
If you have cgroups, then you can have an entity of weight 2 (per
calc_group_shares()), and its vlag should then be bounded by: (slice+TICK_NSEC)
* NICE_0_LOAD, which is around 44 bits as per the comment on entity_key().
The other extreme is 100*NICE_0_LOAD, thus you get:
{key, weight}[] := {
puny: { (slice + TICK_NSEC) * NICE_0_LOAD, 2 },
max: { 0, 100*NICE_0_LOAD },
}
The avg_vruntime() would end up being very close to 0 (which is
zero_vruntime), so no real help making that more accurate.
vruntime_eligible(puny) ends up with:
avg = 2 * puny.key (+ 0)
load = 2 + 100 * NICE_0_LOAD
avg >= puny.key * load
And that is: (slice + TICK_NSEC) * NICE_0_LOAD * NICE_0_LOAD * 100, which will
overflow s64.
Zhan suggested using __builtin_mul_overflow(), however after staring at
compiler output for various architectures using godbolt, it seems that using an
__int128 multiplication often results in better code.
Specifically, a number of architectures already compute the __int128 product to
determine the overflow. Eg. arm64 already has the 'smulh' instruction used. By
explicitly doing an __int128 multiply, it will emit the 'mul; smulh' pattern,
which modern cores can fuse (armv8-a clang-22.1.0). x86_64 has less branches
(no OF handling).
Since Linux has ARCH_SUPPORTS_INT128 to gate __int128 usage, also provide the
__builtin_mul_overflow() variant as a fallback.
[peterz: Changelog and __int128 bits]
Fixes: 556146ce5e94 ("sched/fair: Avoid overflow in enqueue_entity()")
Reported-by: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng1024@gmail.com>
Closes: https://patch.msgid.link/20260415145742.10359-1-zhanxusheng%40xiaomi.com
Signed-off-by: Zhan Xusheng <zhanxusheng@xiaomi.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260505103155.GN3102924%40noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Due to the incompatibility with TCMalloc the RSEQ optimizations and
extended features (time slice extensions) have been disabled and made
run-time conditional.
The original RSEQ implementation, which TCMalloc depends on, registers a 32
byte region (ORIG_RSEG_SIZE). This region has a 32 byte alignment
requirement.
The extension safe newer variant exposes the kernel RSEQ feature size via
getauxval(AT_RSEQ_FEATURE_SIZE) and the alignment requirement via
getauxval(AT_RSEQ_ALIGN). The alignment requirement is that the registered
RSEQ region is aligned to the next power of two of the feature size. The
kernel currently has a feature size of 33 bytes, which means the alignment
requirement is 64 bytes.
The TCMalloc RSEQ region is embedded into a cache line aligned data
structure starting at offset 32 bytes so that bytes 28-31 and the
cpu_id_start field at bytes 32-35 form a 64-bit little endian pointer with
the top-most bit (63 set) to check whether the kernel has overwritten
cpu_id_start with an actual CPU id value, which is guaranteed to not have
the top most bit set.
As this is part of their performance tuned magic, it's a pretty safe
assumption, that TCMalloc won't use a larger RSEQ size.
This allows the kernel to declare that registrations with a size greater
than the original size of 32 bytes, which is the cases since time slice
extensions got introduced, as RSEQ ABI v2 with the following differences to
the original behaviour:
1) Unconditional updates of the user read only fields (CPU, node, MMCID)
are removed. Those fields are only updated on registration, task
migration and MMCID changes.
2) Unconditional evaluation of the criticial section pointer is
removed. It's only evaluated when user space was interrupted and was
scheduled out or before delivering a signal in the interrupted
context.
3) The read/only requirement of the ID fields is enforced. When the
kernel detects that userspace manipulated the fields, the process is
terminated. This ensures that multiple entities (libraries) can
utilize RSEQ without interfering.
4) Todays extended RSEQ feature (time slice extensions) and future
extensions are only enabled in the v2 enabled mode.
Registrations with the original size of 32 bytes operate in backwards
compatible legacy mode without performance improvements and extended
features.
Unfortunately that also affects users of older GLIBC versions which
register the original size of 32 bytes and do not evaluate the kernel
required size in the auxiliary vector AT_RSEQ_FEATURE_SIZE.
That's the result of the lack of enforcement in the original implementation
and the unwillingness of a single entity to cooperate with the larger
ecosystem for many years.
Implement the required registration changes by restructuring the spaghetti
code and adding the size/version check. Also add documentation about the
differences of legacy and optimized RSEQ V2 mode.
Thanks to Mathieu for pointing out the ORIG_RSEQ_SIZE constraints!
Fixes: d6200245c75e ("rseq: Allow registering RSEQ with slice extension")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260428224427.927160119%40kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
The optimized RSEQ V2 mode requires that user space adheres to the ABI
specification and does not modify the read-only fields cpu_id_start,
cpu_id, node_id and mm_cid behind the kernel's back.
While the kernel does not rely on these fields, the adherence to this is a
fundamental prerequisite to allow multiple entities, e.g. libraries, in an
application to utilize the full potential of RSEQ without stepping on each
other toes.
Validate this adherence on every update of these fields. If the kernel
detects that user space modified the fields, the application is force
terminated.
Fixes: d6200245c75e ("rseq: Allow registering RSEQ with slice extension")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260428224427.845230956%40kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
The hotplug control CPU is assumed to be active in the hierarchy but
that doesn't imply that the root is active. If the current CPU is not
the one that activated the current hierarchy, and the CPU performing
this duty is still halfway through the tree, the root may still be
observed inactive. And this can break the activation of a new root as in
the following scenario:
1) Initially, the whole system has 64 CPUs and only CPU 63 is awake.
[GRP1:0]
active
/ | \
/ | \
[GRP0:0] [...] [GRP0:7]
idle idle active
/ | \ |
CPU 0 CPU 1 ... CPU 63
idle idle active
2) CPU 63 goes idle _but_ due to a #VMEXIT it hasn't yet reached the
[GRP1:0]->parent dereference (that would be NULL and stop the walk)
in __walk_groups_from().
[GRP1:0]
idle
/ | \
/ | \
[GRP0:0] [...] [GRP0:7]
idle idle idle
/ | \ |
CPU 0 CPU 1 ... CPU 63
idle idle idle
3) CPU 1 wakes up, activates GRP0:0 but didn't yet manage to propagate
up to GRP1:0 due to yet another #VMEXIT.
[GRP1:0]
idle
/ | \
/ | \
[GRP0:0] [...] [GRP0:7]
active idle idle
/ | \ |
CPU 0 CPU 1 ... CPU 63
idle active idle
3) CPU 0 wakes up and doesn't need to walk above GRP0:0 as it's CPU 1
role.
[GRP1:0]
idle
/ | \
/ | \
[GRP0:0] [...] [GRP0:7]
active idle idle
/ | \ |
CPU 0 CPU 1 ... CPU 63
active active idle
4) CPU 0 boots CPU 64. It creates a new root for it.
[GRP2:0]
idle
/ \
/ \
[GRP1:0] [GRP1:1]
idle idle
/ | \ \
/ | \ \
[GRP0:0] [...] [GRP0:7] [GRP0:8]
active idle idle idle
/ | \ | |
CPU 0 CPU 1 ... CPU 63 CPU 64
active active idle offline
5) CPU 0 activates the new root, but note that GRP1:0 is still idle,
waiting for CPU 1 to resume from #VMEXIT and activate it.
[GRP2:0]
active
/ \
/ \
[GRP1:0] [GRP1:1]
idle idle
/ | \ \
/ | \ \
[GRP0:0] [...] [GRP0:7] [GRP0:8]
active idle idle idle
/ | \ | |
CPU 0 CPU 1 ... CPU 63 CPU 64
active active idle offline
6) CPU 63 resumes after #VMEXIT and sees the new GRP1:0 parent.
Therefore it propagates the stale inactive state of GRP1:0 up to
GRP2:0.
[GRP2:0]
idle
/ \
/ \
[GRP1:0] [GRP1:1]
idle idle
/ | \ \
/ | \ \
[GRP0:0] [...] [GRP0:7] [GRP0:8]
active idle idle idle
/ | \ | |
CPU 0 CPU 1 ... CPU 63 CPU 64
active active idle offline
7) CPU 1 resumes after #VMEXIT and finally activates GRP1:0. But it
doesn't observe its parent link because no ordering enforced that.
Therefore GRP2:0 is spuriously left idle.
[GRP2:0]
idle
/ \
/ \
[GRP1:0] [GRP1:1]
active idle
/ | \ \
/ | \ \
[GRP0:0] [...] [GRP0:7] [GRP0:8]
active idle idle idle
/ | \ | |
CPU 0 CPU 1 ... CPU 63 CPU 64
active active idle offline
Such races are highly theoretical and the problem would solve itself
once the old root ever becomes idle again. But it still leaves a taste
of discomfort.
Fix it with enforcing a fully ordered atomic read of the old root state
before propagating the activate state up to the new root. It has a two
directions ordering effect:
* Acquire + release of the latest old root state: If the hotplug control
CPU is not the one that woke up the old root, make sure to acquire its
active state and propagate it upwards through the ordered chain of
activation (the acquire pairs with the cmpxchg() in tmigr_active_up()
and subsequent releases will pair with atomic_read_acquire() and
smp_mb__after_atomic() in tmigr_inactive_up()).
* Release: If the hotplug control CPU is not the one that must wake up
the old root, but the CPU covering that is lagging behind its duty,
publish the links from the old root to the new parents. This way the
lagging CPU will propagate the active state itself.
Fixes: 7ee988770326 ("timers: Implement the hierarchical pull model")
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260423165354.95152-2-frederic@kernel.org
Pull workqueue fixes from Tejun Heo: - Fix devm_alloc_workqueue() passing a va_list as a positional arg to the variadic alloc_workqueue() macro, which garbled wq->name and skipped lockdep init on the devm path. Fold both noprof entry points onto a va_list helper. Also, annotate it using __printf(1, 0) * tag 'wq-for-7.1-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: Annotate alloc_workqueue_va() with __printf(1, 0) workqueue: fix devm_alloc_workqueue() va_list misuse
Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo: - During v6.19, cgroup task unlink was moved from do_exit() to after the final task switch to satisfy a controller invariant. That left the kernel seeing tasks past exit_signals() longer than userspace expected, and several v7.0 follow-ups tried to bridge the gap by making rmdir wait for the kernel side. None held up. The latest is an A-A deadlock when rmdir is invoked by the reaper of zombies whose pidns teardown the rmdir itself is waiting on, which points at the synchronizing approach being fundamentally wrong. Take a different approach: drop the wait, leave rmdir's user-visible side returning as soon as cgroup.procs is empty, and defer the css percpu_ref kill that drives ->css_offline() until the cgroup is fully depopulated. Tagged for stable. Somewhat invasive but contained. The hope is that fixing forward sticks. If not, the fallback is to revert the entire chain and rework on the development branch. Note that this doesn't plug a pre-existing analogous race in cgroup_apply_control_disable() (controller disable via subtree_control). Not a regression. The development branch will do the more invasive restructuring needed for that. - Documentation update for cgroup-v1 charge-commit section that still referenced functions removed when the memcg hugetlb try-commit-cancel protocol was retired. * tag 'cgroup-for-7.1-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: docs: cgroup-v1: Update charge-commit section cgroup: Defer css percpu_ref kill on rmdir until cgroup is depopulated