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2026-02-26kthread: consolidate kthread exit paths to prevent use-after-freeChristian Brauner
Guillaume reported crashes via corrupted RCU callback function pointers during KUnit testing. The crash was traced back to the pidfs rhashtable conversion which replaced the 24-byte rb_node with an 8-byte rhash_head in struct pid, shrinking it from 160 to 144 bytes. struct kthread (without CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP) is also 144 bytes. With CONFIG_SLAB_MERGE_DEFAULT and SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN both round up to 192 bytes and share the same slab cache. struct pid.rcu.func and struct kthread.affinity_node both sit at offset 0x78. When a kthread exits via make_task_dead() it bypasses kthread_exit() and misses the affinity_node cleanup. free_kthread_struct() frees the memory while the node is still linked into the global kthread_affinity_list. A subsequent list_del() by another kthread writes through dangling list pointers into the freed and reused memory, corrupting the pid's rcu.func pointer. Instead of patching free_kthread_struct() to handle the missed cleanup, consolidate all kthread exit paths. Turn kthread_exit() into a macro that calls do_exit() and add kthread_do_exit() which is called from do_exit() for any task with PF_KTHREAD set. This guarantees that kthread-specific cleanup always happens regardless of the exit path - make_task_dead(), direct do_exit(), or kthread_exit(). Replace __to_kthread() with a new tsk_is_kthread() accessor in the public header. Export do_exit() since module code using the kthread_exit() macro now needs it directly. Reported-by: Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io> Tested-by: Guillaume Tucker <gtucker@gtucker.io> Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Tested-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260224-mittlerweile-besessen-2738831ae7f6@brauner Co-developed-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Fixes: 4d13f4304fa4 ("kthread: Implement preferred affinity") Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-02-21Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argumentLinus Torvalds
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\<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 <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2026-02-21treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar typesKees Cook
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 <kees@kernel.org>
2026-02-09Merge tag 'kthread-for-7.0' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks Pull kthread updates from Frederic Weisbecker: "The kthread code provides an infrastructure which manages the preferred affinity of unbound kthreads (node or custom cpumask) against housekeeping (CPU isolation) constraints and CPU hotplug events. One crucial missing piece is the handling of cpuset: when an isolated partition is created, deleted, or its CPUs updated, all the unbound kthreads in the top cpuset become indifferently affine to _all_ the non-isolated CPUs, possibly breaking their preferred affinity along the way. Solve this with performing the kthreads affinity update from cpuset to the kthreads consolidated relevant code instead so that preferred affinities are honoured and applied against the updated cpuset isolated partitions. The dispatch of the new isolated cpumasks to timers, workqueues and kthreads is performed by housekeeping, as per the nice Tejun's suggestion. As a welcome side effect, HK_TYPE_DOMAIN then integrates both the set from boot defined domain isolation (through isolcpus=) and cpuset isolated partitions. Housekeeping cpumasks are now modifiable with a specific RCU based synchronization. A big step toward making nohz_full= also mutable through cpuset in the future" * tag 'kthread-for-7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks: (33 commits) doc: Add housekeeping documentation kthread: Document kthread_affine_preferred() kthread: Comment on the purpose and placement of kthread_affine_node() call kthread: Honour kthreads preferred affinity after cpuset changes sched/arm64: Move fallback task cpumask to HK_TYPE_DOMAIN sched: Switch the fallback task allowed cpumask to HK_TYPE_DOMAIN kthread: Rely on HK_TYPE_DOMAIN for preferred affinity management kthread: Include kthreadd to the managed affinity list kthread: Include unbound kthreads in the managed affinity list kthread: Refine naming of affinity related fields PCI: Remove superfluous HK_TYPE_WQ check sched/isolation: Remove HK_TYPE_TICK test from cpu_is_isolated() cpuset: Remove cpuset_cpu_is_isolated() timers/migration: Remove superfluous cpuset isolation test cpuset: Propagate cpuset isolation update to timers through housekeeping cpuset: Propagate cpuset isolation update to workqueue through housekeeping PCI: Flush PCI probe workqueue on cpuset isolated partition change sched/isolation: Flush vmstat workqueues on cpuset isolated partition change sched/isolation: Flush memcg workqueues on cpuset isolated partition change cpuset: Update HK_TYPE_DOMAIN cpumask from cpuset ...
2026-02-03kthread: Document kthread_affine_preferred()Frederic Weisbecker
The documentation of this new API has been overlooked during its introduction. Fill the gap. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
2026-02-03kthread: Comment on the purpose and placement of kthread_affine_node() callFrederic Weisbecker
It may not appear obvious why kthread_affine_node() is not called before the kthread creation completion instead of after the first wake-up. The reason is that kthread_affine_node() applies a default affinity behaviour that only takes place if no affinity preference have already been passed by the kthread creation call site. Add a comment to clarify that. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
2026-02-03kthread: Honour kthreads preferred affinity after cpuset changesFrederic Weisbecker
When cpuset isolated partitions get updated, unbound kthreads get indifferently affine to all non isolated CPUs, regardless of their individual affinity preferences. For example kswapd is a per-node kthread that prefers to be affine to the node it refers to. Whenever an isolated partition is created, updated or deleted, kswapd's node affinity is going to be broken if any CPU in the related node is not isolated because kswapd will be affine globally. Fix this with letting the consolidated kthread managed affinity code do the affinity update on behalf of cpuset. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
2026-02-03kthread: Rely on HK_TYPE_DOMAIN for preferred affinity managementFrederic Weisbecker
Unbound kthreads want to run neither on nohz_full CPUs nor on domain isolated CPUs. And since nohz_full implies domain isolation, checking the latter is enough to verify both. Therefore exclude kthreads from domain isolation. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
2026-02-03kthread: Include kthreadd to the managed affinity listFrederic Weisbecker
The unbound kthreads affinity management performed by cpuset is going to be imported to the kthread core code for consolidation purposes. Treat kthreadd just like any other kthread. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
2026-02-03kthread: Include unbound kthreads in the managed affinity listFrederic Weisbecker
The managed affinity list currently contains only unbound kthreads that have affinity preferences. Unbound kthreads globally affine by default are outside of the list because their affinity is automatically managed by the scheduler (through the fallback housekeeping mask) and by cpuset. However in order to preserve the preferred affinity of kthreads, cpuset will delegate the isolated partition update propagation to the housekeeping and kthread code. Prepare for that with including all unbound kthreads in the managed affinity list. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
2026-02-03kthread: Refine naming of affinity related fieldsFrederic Weisbecker
The kthreads preferred affinity related fields use "hotplug" as the base of their naming because the affinity management was initially deemed to deal with CPU hotplug. The scope of this role is going to broaden now and also deal with cpuset isolated partition updates. Switch the naming accordingly. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
2025-12-24kthread: Warn if mm_struct lacks user_ns in kthread_use_mm()Breno Leitao
Add a WARN_ON_ONCE() check to detect mm_struct instances that are missing user_ns initialization when passed to kthread_use_mm(). When a kthread adopts an mm via kthread_use_mm(), LSM hooks and capability checks may access current->mm->user_ns for credential validation. If user_ns is NULL, this leads to a NULL pointer dereference crash. This was observed with efi_mm on arm64, where commit a5baf582f4c0 ("arm64/efi: Call EFI runtime services without disabling preemption") introduced kthread_use_mm(&efi_mm), but efi_mm lacked user_ns initialization, causing crashes during /proc access. Adding this warning helps catch similar bugs early during development rather than waiting for hard-to-debug NULL pointer crashes in production. Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
2025-10-16sched: Rename do_set_cpus_allowed()Peter Zijlstra
Hopefully saner naming. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
2025-10-16sched: Fix do_set_cpus_allowed() lockingPeter Zijlstra
All callers of do_set_cpus_allowed() only take p->pi_lock, which is not sufficient to actually change the cpumask. Again, this is mostly ok in these cases, but it results in unnecessarily complicated reasoning. Furthermore, there is no reason what so ever to not just take all the required locks, so do just that. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
2025-08-13ipvs: Fix estimator kthreads preferred affinityFrederic Weisbecker
The estimator kthreads' affinity are defined by sysctl overwritten preferences and applied through a plain call to the scheduler's affinity API. However since the introduction of managed kthreads preferred affinity, such a practice shortcuts the kthreads core code which eventually overwrites the target to the default unbound affinity. Fix this with using the appropriate kthread's API. Fixes: d1a89197589c ("kthread: Default affine kthread to its preferred NUMA node") Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
2025-07-09kthread: update comment for __to_kthreadJiazi Li
With commit 343f4c49f243 ("kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh") and commit 753550eb0ce1 ("fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD"), umh task no longer have struct kthread and PF_KTHREAD flag. Update the comment to describe what the current rules are to detect is something is a kthread. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250620100801.23185-1-jqqlijiazi@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jiazi Li <jqqlijiazi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: mingzhu.wang <mingzhu.wang@transsion.com> Suggested-by Eric W . Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-06-08treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of()Ingo Molnar
Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace. [ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com
2025-04-05treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()Thomas Gleixner
timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree over and remove the historical wrapper inlines. Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2025-02-04kthread: Fix return value on kzalloc() failure in kthread_affine_preferred()Yu-Chun Lin
kthread_affine_preferred() incorrectly returns 0 instead of -ENOMEM when kzalloc() fails. Return 'ret' to ensure the correct error code is propagated. Fixes: 4d13f4304fa4 ("kthread: Implement preferred affinity") Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202501301528.t0cZVbnq-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Yu-Chun Lin <eleanor15x@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
2025-01-26Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-01-24-23-16' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Mainly individually changelogged singleton patches. The patch series in this pull are: - "lib min_heap: Improve min_heap safety, testing, and documentation" from Kuan-Wei Chiu provides various tightenings to the min_heap library code - "xarray: extract __xa_cmpxchg_raw" from Tamir Duberstein preforms some cleanup and Rust preparation in the xarray library code - "Update reference to include/asm-<arch>" from Geert Uytterhoeven fixes pathnames in some code comments - "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies()" from Easwar Hariharan uses the new secs_to_jiffies() in various places where that is appropriate - "ocfs2, dlmfs: convert to the new mount API" from Eric Sandeen switches two filesystems to the new mount API - "Convert ocfs2 to use folios" from Matthew Wilcox does that - "Remove get_task_comm() and print task comm directly" from Yafang Shao removes now-unneeded calls to get_task_comm() in various places - "squashfs: reduce memory usage and update docs" from Phillip Lougher implements some memory savings in squashfs and performs some maintainability work - "lib: clarify comparison function requirements" from Kuan-Wei Chiu tightens the sort code's behaviour and adds some maintenance work - "nilfs2: protect busy buffer heads from being force-cleared" from Ryusuke Konishi fixes an issues in nlifs when the fs is presented with a corrupted image - "nilfs2: fix kernel-doc comments for function return values" from Ryusuke Konishi fixes some nilfs kerneldoc - "nilfs2: fix issues with rename operations" from Ryusuke Konishi addresses some nilfs BUG_ONs which syzbot was able to trigger - "minmax.h: Cleanups and minor optimisations" from David Laight does some maintenance work on the min/max library code - "Fixes and cleanups to xarray" from Kemeng Shi does maintenance work on the xarray library code" * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-01-24-23-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (131 commits) ocfs2: use str_yes_no() and str_no_yes() helper functions include/linux/lz4.h: add some missing macros Xarray: use xa_mark_t in xas_squash_marks() to keep code consistent Xarray: remove repeat check in xas_squash_marks() Xarray: distinguish large entries correctly in xas_split_alloc() Xarray: move forward index correctly in xas_pause() Xarray: do not return sibling entries from xas_find_marked() ipc/util.c: complete the kernel-doc function descriptions gcov: clang: use correct function param names latencytop: use correct kernel-doc format for func params minmax.h: remove some #defines that are only expanded once minmax.h: simplify the variants of clamp() minmax.h: move all the clamp() definitions after the min/max() ones minmax.h: use BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG() for the lo < hi test in clamp() minmax.h: reduce the #define expansion of min(), max() and clamp() minmax.h: update some comments minmax.h: add whitespace around operators and after commas nilfs2: do not update mtime of renamed directory that is not moved nilfs2: handle errors that nilfs_prepare_chunk() may return CREDITS: fix spelling mistake ...
2025-01-24kthread: correct comments before kthread_queue_work()Tio Zhang
s/kthread_worker_create/kthread_create_worker/ to avoid confusion when reading comments before kthread_queue_work(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241224095344.GA7587@didi-ThinkCentre-M930t-N000 Signed-off-by: Tio Zhang <tiozhang@didiglobal.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-01-21Merge tag 'kthread-for-6.14-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks Pull kthread updates from Frederic Weisbecker: "Kthreads affinity follow either of 4 existing different patterns: 1) Per-CPU kthreads must stay affine to a single CPU and never execute relevant code on any other CPU. This is currently handled by smpboot code which takes care of CPU-hotplug operations. Affinity here is a correctness constraint. 2) Some kthreads _have_ to be affine to a specific set of CPUs and can't run anywhere else. The affinity is set through kthread_bind_mask() and the subsystem takes care by itself to handle CPU-hotplug operations. Affinity here is assumed to be a correctness constraint. 3) Per-node kthreads _prefer_ to be affine to a specific NUMA node. This is not a correctness constraint but merely a preference in terms of memory locality. kswapd and kcompactd both fall into this category. The affinity is set manually like for any other task and CPU-hotplug is supposed to be handled by the relevant subsystem so that the task is properly reaffined whenever a given CPU from the node comes up. Also care should be taken so that the node affinity doesn't cross isolated (nohz_full) cpumask boundaries. 4) Similar to the previous point except kthreads have a _preferred_ affinity different than a node. Both RCU boost kthreads and RCU exp kworkers fall into this category as they refer to "RCU nodes" from a distinctly distributed tree. Currently the preferred affinity patterns (3 and 4) have at least 4 identified users, with more or less success when it comes to handle CPU-hotplug operations and CPU isolation. Each of which do it in its own ad-hoc way. This is an infrastructure proposal to handle this with the following API changes: - kthread_create_on_node() automatically affines the created kthread to its target node unless it has been set as per-cpu or bound with kthread_bind[_mask]() before the first wake-up. - kthread_affine_preferred() is a new function that can be called right after kthread_create_on_node() to specify a preferred affinity different than the specified node. When the preferred affinity can't be applied because the possible targets are offline or isolated (nohz_full), the kthread is affine to the housekeeping CPUs (which means to all online CPUs most of the time or only the non-nohz_full CPUs when nohz_full= is set). kswapd, kcompactd, RCU boost kthreads and RCU exp kworkers have been converted, along with a few old drivers. Summary of the changes: - Consolidate a bunch of ad-hoc implementations of kthread_run_on_cpu() - Introduce task_cpu_fallback_mask() that defines the default last resort affinity of a task to become nohz_full aware - Add some correctness check to ensure kthread_bind() is always called before the first kthread wake up. - Default affine kthread to its preferred node. - Convert kswapd / kcompactd and remove their halfway working ad-hoc affinity implementation - Implement kthreads preferred affinity - Unify kthread worker and kthread API's style - Convert RCU kthreads to the new API and remove the ad-hoc affinity implementation" * tag 'kthread-for-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks: kthread: modify kernel-doc function name to match code rcu: Use kthread preferred affinity for RCU exp kworkers treewide: Introduce kthread_run_worker[_on_cpu]() kthread: Unify kthread_create_on_cpu() and kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() automatic format rcu: Use kthread preferred affinity for RCU boost kthread: Implement preferred affinity mm: Create/affine kswapd to its preferred node mm: Create/affine kcompactd to its preferred node kthread: Default affine kthread to its preferred NUMA node kthread: Make sure kthread hasn't started while binding it sched,arm64: Handle CPU isolation on last resort fallback rq selection arm64: Exclude nohz_full CPUs from 32bits el0 support lib: test_objpool: Use kthread_run_on_cpu() kallsyms: Use kthread_run_on_cpu() soc/qman: test: Use kthread_run_on_cpu() arm/bL_switcher: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()
2025-01-20Merge tag 'execve-v6.14-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux Pull execve updates from Kees Cook: - fix up /proc/pid/comm in the execveat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) case (Tycho Andersen, Kees Cook) - binfmt_misc: Fix comment typos (Christophe JAILLET) - move empty argv[0] warning closer to actual logic (Nir Lichtman) - remove legacy custom binfmt modules autoloading (Nir Lichtman) - Make sure set_task_comm() always NUL-terminates - binfmt_flat: Fix integer overflow bug on 32 bit systems (Dan Carpenter) - coredump: Do not lock when copying "comm" - MAINTAINERS: add auxvec.h and set myself as maintainer * tag 'execve-v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: binfmt_flat: Fix integer overflow bug on 32 bit systems selftests/exec: add a test for execveat()'s comm exec: fix up /proc/pid/comm in the execveat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) case exec: Make sure task->comm is always NUL-terminated exec: remove legacy custom binfmt modules autoloading exec: move warning of null argv to be next to the relevant code fs: binfmt: Fix a typo MAINTAINERS: exec: Mark Kees as maintainer MAINTAINERS: exec: Add auxvec.h UAPI coredump: Do not lock during 'comm' reporting
2025-01-13kthread: modify kernel-doc function name to match codeRandy Dunlap
kthread.c:1073: warning: expecting prototype for kthread_create_worker(). Prototype was for kthread_create_worker_on_node() instead Fixes: 41f70d8e1634 ("kthread: Unify kthread_create_on_cpu() and kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() automatic format") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
2025-01-08treewide: Introduce kthread_run_worker[_on_cpu]()Frederic Weisbecker
kthread_create() creates a kthread without running it yet. kthread_run() creates a kthread and runs it. On the other hand, kthread_create_worker() creates a kthread worker and runs it. This difference in behaviours is confusing. Also there is no way to create a kthread worker and affine it using kthread_bind_mask() or kthread_affine_preferred() before starting it. Consolidate the behaviours and introduce kthread_run_worker[_on_cpu]() that behaves just like kthread_run(). kthread_create_worker[_on_cpu]() will now only create a kthread worker without starting it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
2025-01-08kthread: Unify kthread_create_on_cpu() and kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() ↵Frederic Weisbecker
automatic format kthread_create_on_cpu() uses the CPU argument as an implicit and unique printf argument to add to the format whereas kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() still relies on explicitly passing the printf arguments. This difference in behaviour is error prone and doesn't help standardizing per-CPU kthread names. Unify the behaviours and convert kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() to use the printf behaviour of kthread_create_on_cpu(). Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
2025-01-08kthread: Implement preferred affinityFrederic Weisbecker
Affining kthreads follow either of four existing different patterns: 1) Per-CPU kthreads must stay affine to a single CPU and never execute relevant code on any other CPU. This is currently handled by smpboot code which takes care of CPU-hotplug operations. 2) Kthreads that _have_ to be affine to a specific set of CPUs and can't run anywhere else. The affinity is set through kthread_bind_mask() and the subsystem takes care by itself to handle CPU-hotplug operations. 3) Kthreads that prefer to be affine to a specific NUMA node. That preferred affinity is applied by default when an actual node ID is passed on kthread creation, provided the kthread is not per-CPU and no call to kthread_bind_mask() has been issued before the first wake-up. 4) Similar to the previous point but kthreads have a preferred affinity different than a node. It is set manually like any other task and CPU-hotplug is supposed to be handled by the relevant subsystem so that the task is properly reaffined whenever a given CPU from the preferred affinity comes up. Also care must be taken so that the preferred affinity doesn't cross housekeeping cpumask boundaries. Provide a function to handle the last usecase, mostly reusing the current node default affinity infrastructure. kthread_affine_preferred() is introduced, to be used just like kthread_bind_mask(), right after kthread creation and before the first wake up. The kthread is then affine right away to the cpumask passed through the API if it has online housekeeping CPUs. Otherwise it will be affine to all online housekeeping CPUs as a last resort. As with node affinity, it is aware of CPU hotplug events such that: * When a housekeeping CPU goes up that is part of the preferred affinity of a given kthread, the related task is re-affined to that preferred affinity if it was previously running on the default last resort online housekeeping set. * When a housekeeping CPU goes down while it was part of the preferred affinity of a kthread, the running task is migrated (or the sleeping task is woken up) automatically by the scheduler to other housekeepers within the preferred affinity or, as a last resort, to all housekeepers from other nodes. Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
2025-01-08kthread: Default affine kthread to its preferred NUMA nodeFrederic Weisbecker
Kthreads attached to a preferred NUMA node for their task structure allocation can also be assumed to run preferrably within that same node. A more precise affinity is usually notified by calling kthread_create_on_cpu() or kthread_bind[_mask]() before the first wakeup. For the others, a default affinity to the node is desired and sometimes implemented with more or less success when it comes to deal with hotplug events and nohz_full / CPU Isolation interactions: - kcompactd is affine to its node and handles hotplug but not CPU Isolation - kswapd is affine to its node and ignores hotplug and CPU Isolation - A bunch of drivers create their kthreads on a specific node and don't take care about affining further. Handle that default node affinity preference at the generic level instead, provided a kthread is created on an actual node and doesn't apply any specific affinity such as a given CPU or a custom cpumask to bind to before its first wake-up. This generic handling is aware of CPU hotplug events and CPU isolation such that: * When a housekeeping CPU goes up that is part of the node of a given kthread, the related task is re-affined to that own node if it was previously running on the default last resort online housekeeping set from other nodes. * When a housekeeping CPU goes down while it was part of the node of a kthread, the running task is migrated (or the sleeping task is woken up) automatically by the scheduler to other housekeepers within the same node or, as a last resort, to all housekeepers from other nodes. Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
2025-01-08kthread: Make sure kthread hasn't started while binding itFrederic Weisbecker
Make sure the kthread is sleeping in the schedule_preempt_disabled() call before calling its handler when kthread_bind[_mask]() is called on it. This provides a sanity check verifying that the task is not randomly blocked later at some point within its function handler, in which case it could be just concurrently awaken, leaving the call to do_set_cpus_allowed() without any effect until the next voluntary sleep. Rely on the wake-up ordering to ensure that the newly introduced "started" field returns the expected value: TASK A TASK B ------ ------ READ kthread->started wake_up_process(B) rq_lock() ... rq_unlock() // RELEASE schedule() rq_lock() // ACQUIRE // schedule task B rq_unlock() WRITE kthread->started Similarly, writing kthread->started before subsequent voluntary sleeps will be visible after calling wait_task_inactive() in __kthread_bind_mask(), reporting potential misuse of the API. Upcoming patches will make further use of this facility. Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
2024-12-16exec: Make sure task->comm is always NUL-terminatedKees Cook
Using strscpy() meant that the final character in task->comm may be non-NUL for a moment before the "string too long" truncation happens. Instead of adding a new use of the ambiguous strncpy(), we'd want to use memtostr_pad() which enforces being able to check at compile time that sizes are sensible, but this requires being able to see string buffer lengths. Instead of trying to inline __set_task_comm() (which needs to call trace and perf functions), just open-code it. But to make sure we're always safe, add compile-time checking like we already do for get_task_comm(). Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Suggested-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2024-11-05get rid of __get_task_comm()Yafang Shao
Patch series "Improve the copy of task comm", v8. Using {memcpy,strncpy,strcpy,kstrdup} to copy the task comm relies on the length of task comm. Changes in the task comm could result in a destination string that is overflow. Therefore, we should explicitly ensure the destination string is always NUL-terminated, regardless of the task comm. This approach will facilitate future extensions to the task comm. As suggested by Linus [0], we can identify all relevant code with the following git grep command: git grep 'memcpy.*->comm\>' git grep 'kstrdup.*->comm\>' git grep 'strncpy.*->comm\>' git grep 'strcpy.*->comm\>' PATCH #2~#4: memcpy PATCH #5~#6: kstrdup PATCH #7: strcpy Please note that strncpy() is not included in this series as it is being tracked by another effort. [1] This patch (of 7): We want to eliminate the use of __get_task_comm() for the following reasons: - The task_lock() is unnecessary Quoted from Linus [0]: : Since user space can randomly change their names anyway, using locking : was always wrong for readers (for writers it probably does make sense : to have some lock - although practically speaking nobody cares there : either, but at least for a writer some kind of race could have : long-term mixed results Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241007144911.27693-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241007144911.27693-2-laoar.shao@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wivfrF0_zvf+oj6==Sh=-npJooP8chLPEfaFV0oNYTTBA@mail.gmail.com [0] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whWtUC-AjmGJveAETKOMeMFSTwKwu99v7+b6AyHMmaDFA@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjAmmHUg6vho1KjzQi2=psR30+CogFd4aXrThr2gsiS4g@mail.gmail.com/ [0] Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 [1] Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> Cc: Matus Jokay <matus.jokay@stuba.sk> Cc: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org> Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Cc: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Cc: Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-10-09kthread: unpark only parked kthreadFrederic Weisbecker
Calling into kthread unparking unconditionally is mostly harmless when the kthread is already unparked. The wake up is then simply ignored because the target is not in TASK_PARKED state. However if the kthread is per CPU, the wake up is preceded by a call to kthread_bind() which expects the task to be inactive and in TASK_PARKED state, which obviously isn't the case if it is unparked. As a result, calling kthread_stop() on an unparked per-cpu kthread triggers such a warning: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 11 at kernel/kthread.c:525 __kthread_bind_mask kernel/kthread.c:525 <TASK> kthread_stop+0x17a/0x630 kernel/kthread.c:707 destroy_workqueue+0x136/0xc40 kernel/workqueue.c:5810 wg_destruct+0x1e2/0x2e0 drivers/net/wireguard/device.c:257 netdev_run_todo+0xe1a/0x1000 net/core/dev.c:10693 default_device_exit_batch+0xa14/0xa90 net/core/dev.c:11769 ops_exit_list net/core/net_namespace.c:178 [inline] cleanup_net+0x89d/0xcc0 net/core/net_namespace.c:640 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3231 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0xa2c/0x1830 kernel/workqueue.c:3312 worker_thread+0x86d/0xd70 kernel/workqueue.c:3393 kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:389 ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:244 </TASK> Fix this with skipping unecessary unparking while stopping a kthread. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240913214634.12557-1-frederic@kernel.org Fixes: 5c25b5ff89f0 ("workqueue: Tag bound workers with KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU") Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Reported-by: syzbot+943d34fa3cf2191e3068@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Tested-by: syzbot+943d34fa3cf2191e3068@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-09-10kthread: Fix task state in kthread worker if being frozenChen Yu
When analyzing a kernel waring message, Peter pointed out that there is a race condition when the kworker is being frozen and falls into try_to_freeze() with TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, which could trigger a might_sleep() warning in try_to_freeze(). Although the root cause is not related to freeze()[1], it is still worthy to fix this issue ahead. One possible race scenario: CPU 0 CPU 1 ----- ----- // kthread_worker_fn set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE); suspend_freeze_processes() freeze_processes static_branch_inc(&freezer_active); freeze_kernel_threads pm_nosig_freezing = true; if (work) { //false __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); } else if (!freezing(current)) //false, been frozen freezing(): if (static_branch_unlikely(&freezer_active)) if (pm_nosig_freezing) return true; schedule() } // state is still TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE try_to_freeze() might_sleep() <--- warning Fix this by explicitly set the TASK_RUNNING before entering try_to_freeze(). Fixes: b56c0d8937e6 ("kthread: implement kthread_worker") Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Zs2ZoAcUsZMX2B%2FI@chenyu5-mobl2/ [1]
2024-05-06kunit: Handle test faultsMickaël Salaün
Previously, when a kernel test thread crashed (e.g. NULL pointer dereference, general protection fault), the KUnit test hanged for 30 seconds and exited with a timeout error. Fix this issue by waiting on task_struct->vfork_done instead of the custom kunit_try_catch.try_completion, and track the execution state by initially setting try_result with -EINTR and only setting it to 0 if the test passed. Fix kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter() signature by returning 0 instead of calling kthread_complete_and_exit(). Because thread's exit code is never checked, always set it to 0 to make it clear. To make this explicit, export kthread_exit() for KUnit tests built as module. Fix the -EINTR error message, which couldn't be reached until now. This is tested with a following patch. Cc: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com> Tested-by: Rae Moar <rmoar@google.com> Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <mic@digikod.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408074625.65017-5-mic@digikod.net Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-11-02Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: "As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree and there's little I can say which isn't in the individual changelogs. The lengthier patch series are - 'kdump: use generic functions to simplify crashkernel reservation in arch', from Baoquan He. This is mainly cleanups and consolidation of the 'crashkernel=' kernel parameter handling - After much discussion, David Laight's 'minmax: Relax type checks in min() and max()' is here. Hopefully reduces some typecasting and the use of min_t() and max_t() - A group of patches from Oleg Nesterov which clean up and slightly fix our handling of reads from /proc/PID/task/... and which remove task_struct.thread_group" * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (64 commits) scripts/gdb/vmalloc: disable on no-MMU scripts/gdb: fix usage of MOD_TEXT not defined when CONFIG_MODULES=n .mailmap: add address mapping for Tomeu Vizoso mailmap: update email address for Claudiu Beznea tools/testing/selftests/mm/run_vmtests.sh: lower the ptrace permissions .mailmap: map Benjamin Poirier's address scripts/gdb: add lx_current support for riscv ocfs2: fix a spelling typo in comment proc: test ProtectionKey in proc-empty-vm test proc: fix proc-empty-vm test with vsyscall fs/proc/base.c: remove unneeded semicolon do_io_accounting: use sig->stats_lock do_io_accounting: use __for_each_thread() ocfs2: replace BUG_ON() at ocfs2_num_free_extents() with ocfs2_error() ocfs2: fix a typo in a comment scripts/show_delta: add __main__ judgement before main code treewide: mark stuff as __ro_after_init fs: ocfs2: check status values proc: test /proc/${pid}/statm compiler.h: move __is_constexpr() to compiler.h ...
2023-10-04kthread: add kthread_stop_putAndreas Gruenbacher
Add a kthread_stop_put() helper that stops a thread and puts its task struct. Use it to replace the various instances of kthread_stop() followed by put_task_struct(). Remove the kthread_stop_put() macro in usbip that is similar but doesn't return the result of kthread_stop(). [agruenba@redhat.com: fix kerneldoc comment] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230911111730.2565537-1-agruenba@redhat.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: document kthread_stop_put()'s argument] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230907234048.2499820-1-agruenba@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-10-04mm: remove remnants of SPLIT_RSS_COUNTINGMateusz Guzik
The feature got retired in f1a7941243c1 ("mm: convert mm's rss stats into percpu_counter"), but the patch failed to fully clean it up. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230823170556.2281747-1-mjguzik@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-18kthread: unexport __kthread_should_park()Greg Kroah-Hartman
There are no in-kernel users of __kthread_should_park() so mark it as static and do not export it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2023080450-handcuff-stump-1d6e@gregkh Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com> Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: "Christian Brauner (Microsoft)" <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com> Cc: Prathu Baronia <quic_pbaronia@quicinc.com> Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-06-28Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-06-24-19-23' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-mm updates from Andrew Morton: - Arnd Bergmann has fixed a bunch of -Wmissing-prototypes in top-level directories - Douglas Anderson has added a new "buddy" mode to the hardlockup detector. It permits the detector to work on architectures which cannot provide the required interrupts, by having CPUs periodically perform checks on other CPUs - Zhen Lei has enhanced kexec's ability to support two crash regions - Petr Mladek has done a lot of cleanup on the hard lockup detector's Kconfig entries - And the usual bunch of singleton patches in various places * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-06-24-19-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (72 commits) kernel/time/posix-stubs.c: remove duplicated include ocfs2: remove redundant assignment to variable bit_off watchdog/hardlockup: fix typo in config HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PREFER_BUDDY powerpc: move arch_trigger_cpumask_backtrace from nmi.h to irq.h devres: show which resource was invalid in __devm_ioremap_resource() watchdog/hardlockup: define HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_ARCH watchdog/sparc64: define HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_SPARC64 watchdog/hardlockup: make HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG sparc64-specific watchdog/hardlockup: declare arch_touch_nmi_watchdog() only in linux/nmi.h watchdog/hardlockup: make the config checks more straightforward watchdog/hardlockup: sort hardlockup detector related config values a logical way watchdog/hardlockup: move SMP barriers from common code to buddy code watchdog/buddy: simplify the dependency for HARDLOCKUP_DETECTOR_PREFER_BUDDY watchdog/buddy: don't copy the cpumask in watchdog_next_cpu() watchdog/buddy: cleanup how watchdog_buddy_check_hardlockup() is called watchdog/hardlockup: remove softlockup comment in touch_nmi_watchdog() watchdog/hardlockup: in watchdog_hardlockup_check() use cpumask_copy() watchdog/hardlockup: don't use raw_cpu_ptr() in watchdog_hardlockup_kick() watchdog/hardlockup: HAVE_NMI_WATCHDOG must implement watchdog_hardlockup_probe() watchdog/hardlockup: keep kernel.nmi_watchdog sysctl as 0444 if probe fails ...
2023-06-16sched/wait: Fix a kthread_park race with wait_woken()Arve Hjønnevåg
kthread_park and wait_woken have a similar race that kthread_stop and wait_woken used to have before it was fixed in commit cb6538e740d7 ("sched/wait: Fix a kthread race with wait_woken()"). Extend that fix to also cover kthread_park. [jstultz: Made changes suggested by Peter to optimize memory loads] Signed-off-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230602212350.535358-1-jstultz@google.com
2023-06-09kthread: fix spelling typo and grammar in commentsPrathu Baronia
- `If present` -> `If present,' - `reuturn` -> `return` - `function exit safely` -> `function to exit safely` Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230502090242.3037194-1-quic_pbaronia@quicinc.com Signed-off-by: Prathu Baronia <quic_pbaronia@quicinc.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-04-27Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - Nick Piggin's "shoot lazy tlbs" series, to improve the peformance of switching from a user process to a kernel thread. - More folio conversions from Kefeng Wang, Zhang Peng and Pankaj Raghav. - zsmalloc performance improvements from Sergey Senozhatsky. - Yue Zhao has found and fixed some data race issues around the alteration of memcg userspace tunables. - VFS rationalizations from Christoph Hellwig: - removal of most of the callers of write_one_page() - make __filemap_get_folio()'s return value more useful - Luis Chamberlain has changed tmpfs so it no longer requires swap backing. Use `mount -o noswap'. - Qi Zheng has made the slab shrinkers operate locklessly, providing some scalability benefits. - Keith Busch has improved dmapool's performance, making part of its operations O(1) rather than O(n). - Peter Xu adds the UFFD_FEATURE_WP_UNPOPULATED feature to userfaultd, permitting userspace to wr-protect anon memory unpopulated ptes. - Kirill Shutemov has changed MAX_ORDER's meaning to be inclusive rather than exclusive, and has fixed a bunch of errors which were caused by its unintuitive meaning. - Axel Rasmussen give userfaultfd the UFFDIO_CONTINUE_MODE_WP feature, which causes minor faults to install a write-protected pte. - Vlastimil Babka has done some maintenance work on vma_merge(): cleanups to the kernel code and improvements to our userspace test harness. - Cleanups to do_fault_around() by Lorenzo Stoakes. - Mike Rapoport has moved a lot of initialization code out of various mm/ files and into mm/mm_init.c. - Lorenzo Stoakes removd vmf_insert_mixed_prot(), which was added for DRM, but DRM doesn't use it any more. - Lorenzo has also coverted read_kcore() and vread() to use iterators and has thereby removed the use of bounce buffers in some cases. - Lorenzo has also contributed further cleanups of vma_merge(). - Chaitanya Prakash provides some fixes to the mmap selftesting code. - Matthew Wilcox changes xfs and afs so they no longer take sleeping locks in ->map_page(), a step towards RCUification of pagefaults. - Suren Baghdasaryan has improved mmap_lock scalability by switching to per-VMA locking. - Frederic Weisbecker has reworked the percpu cache draining so that it no longer causes latency glitches on cpu isolated workloads. - Mike Rapoport cleans up and corrects the ARCH_FORCE_MAX_ORDER Kconfig logic. - Liu Shixin has changed zswap's initialization so we no longer waste a chunk of memory if zswap is not being used. - Yosry Ahmed has improved the performance of memcg statistics flushing. - David Stevens has fixed several issues involving khugepaged, userfaultfd and shmem. - Christoph Hellwig has provided some cleanup work to zram's IO-related code paths. - David Hildenbrand has fixed up some issues in the selftest code's testing of our pte state changing. - Pankaj Raghav has made page_endio() unneeded and has removed it. - Peter Xu contributed some rationalizations of the userfaultfd selftests. - Yosry Ahmed has fixed an issue around memcg's page recalim accounting. - Chaitanya Prakash has fixed some arm-related issues in the selftests/mm code. - Longlong Xia has improved the way in which KSM handles hwpoisoned pages. - Peter Xu fixes a few issues with uffd-wp at fork() time. - Stefan Roesch has changed KSM so that it may now be used on a per-process and per-cgroup basis. * tag 'mm-stable-2023-04-27-15-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (369 commits) mm,unmap: avoid flushing TLB in batch if PTE is inaccessible shmem: restrict noswap option to initial user namespace mm/khugepaged: fix conflicting mods to collapse_file() sparse: remove unnecessary 0 values from rc mm: move 'mmap_min_addr' logic from callers into vm_unmapped_area() hugetlb: pte_alloc_huge() to replace huge pte_alloc_map() maple_tree: fix allocation in mas_sparse_area() mm: do not increment pgfault stats when page fault handler retries zsmalloc: allow only one active pool compaction context selftests/mm: add new selftests for KSM mm: add new KSM process and sysfs knobs mm: add new api to enable ksm per process mm: shrinkers: fix debugfs file permissions mm: don't check VMA write permissions if the PTE/PMD indicates write permissions migrate_pages_batch: fix statistics for longterm pin retry userfaultfd: use helper function range_in_vma() lib/show_mem.c: use for_each_populated_zone() simplify code mm: correct arg in reclaim_pages()/reclaim_clean_pages_from_list() fs/buffer: convert create_page_buffers to folio_create_buffers fs/buffer: add folio_create_empty_buffers helper ...
2023-03-28lazy tlb: introduce lazy tlb mm refcount helper functionsNicholas Piggin
Add explicit _lazy_tlb annotated functions for lazy tlb mm refcounting. This makes the lazy tlb mm references more obvious, and allows the refcounting scheme to be modified in later changes. There is no functional change with this patch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230203071837.1136453-3-npiggin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-03-28kthread: simplify kthread_use_mm refcountingNicholas Piggin
Patch series "shoot lazy tlbs (lazy tlb refcount scalability improvement)", v7. This series improves scalability of context switching between user and kernel threads on large systems with a threaded process spread across a lot of CPUs. Discussion of v6 here: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20230118080011.2258375-1-npiggin@gmail.com/ This patch (of 5): Remove the special case avoiding refcounting when the mm to be used is the same as the kernel thread's active (lazy tlb) mm. kthread_use_mm() should not be such a performance critical path that this matters much. This simplifies a later change to lazy tlb mm refcounting. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230203071837.1136453-1-npiggin@gmail.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230203071837.1136453-2-npiggin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-03-12kthread: Pass in the thread's name during creationMike Christie
This has us pass in the thread's name during creation in kernel_thread. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
2023-03-12kernel: Allow a kernel thread's name to be set in copy_processMike Christie
This patch allows kernel users to pass in the thread name so it can be set during creation instead of having to use set_task_comm after the thread is created. Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
2023-02-02kthread_worker: check all delayed works when destroy kthread workerZqiang
When destroying a kthread worker warn if there are still some pending delayed works. This indicates that the caller should clear all pending delayed works before destroying the kthread worker. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230104144230.938521-1-qiang1.zhang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-10-09Merge tag 'interrupting_kthread_stop-for-v5.20' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace Pull kthread update from Eric Biederman: "Break out of wait loops on kthread_stop() This is a small tweak to kthread_stop so it breaks out of interruptible waits, that don't explicitly test for kthread_stop. These interruptible waits occassionaly occur in kernel threads do to code sharing" * tag 'interrupting_kthread_stop-for-v5.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: signal: break out of wait loops on kthread_stop()
2022-09-26treewide: Drop WARN_ON_FUNCTION_MISMATCHSami Tolvanen
CONFIG_CFI_CLANG no longer breaks cross-module function address equality, which makes WARN_ON_FUNCTION_MISMATCH unnecessary. Remove the definition and switch back to WARN_ON_ONCE. Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220908215504.3686827-15-samitolvanen@google.com
2022-07-18signal: break out of wait loops on kthread_stop()Jason A. Donenfeld
I was recently surprised to learn that msleep_interruptible(), wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(), and related functions simply hung when I called kthread_stop() on kthreads using them. The solution to fixing the case with msleep_interruptible() was more simply to move to schedule_timeout_interruptible(). Why? The reason is that msleep_interruptible(), and many functions just like it, has a loop like this: while (timeout && !signal_pending(current)) timeout = schedule_timeout_interruptible(timeout); The call to kthread_stop() woke up the thread, so schedule_timeout_ interruptible() returned early, but because signal_pending() returned true, it went back into another timeout, which was never woken up. This wait loop pattern is common to various pieces of code, and I suspect that the subtle misuse in a kthread that caused a deadlock in the code I looked at last week is also found elsewhere. So this commit causes signal_pending() to return true when kthread_stop() is called, by setting TIF_NOTIFY_SIGNAL. The same also probably applies to the similar kthread_park() functionality, but that can be addressed later, as its semantics are slightly different. Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220627120020.608117-1-Jason@zx2c4.com v2: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220627145716.641185-1-Jason@zx2c4.com v3: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220628161441.892925-1-Jason@zx2c4.com v4: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220711202136.64458-1-Jason@zx2c4.com v5: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220711232123.136330-1-Jason@zx2c4.com Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>