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2026-05-14ptrace: slightly saner 'get_dumpable()' logicLinus Torvalds1-0/+3
The 'dumpability' of a task is fundamentally about the memory image of the task - the concept comes from whether it can core dump or not - and makes no sense when you don't have an associated mm. And almost all users do in fact use it only for the case where the task has a mm pointer. But we have one odd special case: ptrace_may_access() uses 'dumpable' to check various other things entirely independently of the MM (typically explicitly using flags like PTRACE_MODE_READ_FSCREDS). Including for threads that no longer have a VM (and maybe never did, like most kernel threads). It's not what this flag was designed for, but it is what it is. The ptrace code does check that the uid/gid matches, so you do have to be uid-0 to see kernel thread details, but this means that the traditional "drop capabilities" model doesn't make any difference for this all. Make it all make a *bit* more sense by saying that if you don't have a MM pointer, we'll use a cached "last dumpability" flag if the thread ever had a MM (it will be zero for kernel threads since it is never set), and require a proper CAP_SYS_PTRACE capability to override. Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-19Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-18-02-14' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "Eliminate Dying Memory Cgroup" (Qi Zheng and Muchun Song) Address the longstanding "dying memcg problem". A situation wherein a no-longer-used memory control group will hang around for an extended period pointlessly consuming memory - "fix unexpected type conversions and potential overflows" (Qi Zheng) Fix a couple of potential 32-bit/64-bit issues which were identified during review of the "Eliminate Dying Memory Cgroup" series - "kho: history: track previous kernel version and kexec boot count" (Breno Leitao) Use Kexec Handover (KHO) to pass the previous kernel's version string and the number of kexec reboots since the last cold boot to the next kernel, and print it at boot time - "liveupdate: prevent double preservation" (Pasha Tatashin) Teach LUO to avoid managing the same file across different active sessions - "liveupdate: Fix module unloading and unregister API" (Pasha Tatashin) Address an issue with how LUO handles module reference counting and unregistration during module unloading - "zswap pool per-CPU acomp_ctx simplifications" (Kanchana Sridhar) Simplify and clean up the zswap crypto compression handling and improve the lifecycle management of zswap pool's per-CPU acomp_ctx resources - "mm/damon/core: fix damon_call()/damos_walk() vs kdmond exit race" (SeongJae Park) Address unlikely but possible leaks and deadlocks in damon_call() and damon_walk() - "mm/damon/core: validate damos_quota_goal->nid" (SeongJae Park) Fix a couple of root-only wild pointer dereferences - "Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon: warn commit_inputs vs other params race" (SeongJae Park) Update the DAMON documentation to warn operators about potential races which can occur if the commit_inputs parameter is altered at the wrong time - "Minor hmm_test fixes and cleanups" (Alistair Popple) Bugfixes and a cleanup for the HMM kernel selftests - "Modify memfd_luo code" (Chenghao Duan) Cleanups, simplifications and speedups to the memfd_lou code - "mm, kvm: allow uffd support in guest_memfd" (Mike Rapoport) Support for userfaultfd in guest_memfd - "selftests/mm: skip several tests when thp is not available" (Chunyu Hu) Fix several issues in the selftests code which were causing breakage when the tests were run on CONFIG_THP=n kernels - "mm/mprotect: micro-optimization work" (Pedro Falcato) A couple of nice speedups for mprotect() - "MAINTAINERS: update KHO and LIVE UPDATE entries" (Pratyush Yadav) Document upcoming changes in the maintenance of KHO, LUO, memfd_luo, kexec, crash, kdump and probably other kexec-based things - they are being moved out of mm.git and into a new git tree * tag 'mm-stable-2026-04-18-02-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (121 commits) MAINTAINERS: add page cache reviewer mm/vmscan: avoid false-positive -Wuninitialized warning MAINTAINERS: update Dave's kdump reviewer email address MAINTAINERS: drop include/linux/liveupdate from LIVE UPDATE MAINTAINERS: drop include/linux/kho/abi/ from KHO MAINTAINERS: update KHO and LIVE UPDATE maintainers MAINTAINERS: update kexec/kdump maintainers entries mm/migrate_device: remove dead migration entry check in migrate_vma_collect_huge_pmd() selftests: mm: skip charge_reserved_hugetlb without killall userfaultfd: allow registration of ranges below mmap_min_addr mm/vmstat: fix vmstat_shepherd double-scheduling vmstat_update mm/hugetlb: fix early boot crash on parameters without '=' separator zram: reject unrecognized type= values in recompress_store() docs: proc: document ProtectionKey in smaps mm/mprotect: special-case small folios when applying permissions mm/mprotect: move softleaf code out of the main function mm: remove '!root_reclaim' checking in should_abort_scan() mm/sparse: fix comment for section map alignment mm/page_io: use sio->len for PSWPIN accounting in sio_read_complete() selftests/mm: transhuge_stress: skip the test when thp not available ...
2026-04-18mm: memcontrol: convert objcg to be per-memcg per-node typeQi Zheng1-1/+1
Convert objcg to be per-memcg per-node type, so that when reparent LRU folios later, we can hold the lru lock at the node level, thus avoiding holding too many lru locks at once. [zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com: reset pn->orig_objcg to NULL] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260309112939.31937-1-qi.zheng@linux.dev [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment typo, per Usama. Reflow comment to 80 cols] [devnexen@gmail.com: fix obj_cgroup leak in mem_cgroup_css_online() error path] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260322193631.45457-1-devnexen@gmail.com [devnexen@gmail.com: add newline, per Qi Zheng] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260323063007.7783-1-devnexen@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/56c04b1c5d54f75ccdc12896df6c1ca35403ecc3.1772711148.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com> Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Cc: Allen Pais <apais@linux.microsoft.com> Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev> Cc: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org> Cc: Hamza Mahfooz <hamzamahfooz@linux.microsoft.com> Cc: Harry Yoo <harry.yoo@oracle.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh.babulal@oracle.com> Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev> Cc: Liam Howlett <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com> Cc: Yosry Ahmed <yosry@kernel.org> Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Usama Arif <usama.arif@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-04-14Merge tag 'sched-core-2026-04-13' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-29/+62
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "Fair scheduling updates: - Skip SCHED_IDLE rq for SCHED_IDLE tasks (Christian Loehle) - Remove superfluous rcu_read_lock() in the wakeup path (K Prateek Nayak) - Simplify the entry condition for update_idle_cpu_scan() (K Prateek Nayak) - Simplify SIS_UTIL handling in select_idle_cpu() (K Prateek Nayak) - Avoid overflow in enqueue_entity() (K Prateek Nayak) - Update overutilized detection (Vincent Guittot) - Prevent negative lag increase during delayed dequeue (Vincent Guittot) - Clear buddies for preempt_short (Vincent Guittot) - Implement more complex proportional newidle balance (Peter Zijlstra) - Increase weight bits for avg_vruntime (Peter Zijlstra) - Use full weight to __calc_delta() (Peter Zijlstra) RT and DL scheduling updates: - Fix incorrect schedstats for rt and dl thread (Dengjun Su) - Skip group schedulable check with rt_group_sched=0 (Michal Koutný) - Move group schedulability check to sched_rt_global_validate() (Michal Koutný) - Add reporting of runtime left & abs deadline to sched_getattr() for DEADLINE tasks (Tommaso Cucinotta) Scheduling topology updates by K Prateek Nayak: - Compute sd_weight considering cpuset partitions - Extract "imb_numa_nr" calculation into a separate helper - Allocate per-CPU sched_domain_shared in s_data - Switch to assigning "sd->shared" from s_data - Remove sched_domain_shared allocation with sd_data Energy-aware scheduling updates: - Filter false overloaded_group case for EAS (Vincent Guittot) - PM: EM: Switch to rcu_dereference_all() in wakeup path (Dietmar Eggemann) Infrastructure updates: - Replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq (Marco Crivellari) Proxy scheduling updates by John Stultz: - Make class_schedulers avoid pushing current, and get rid of proxy_tag_curr() - Minimise repeated sched_proxy_exec() checking - Fix potentially missing balancing with Proxy Exec - Fix and improve task::blocked_on et al handling - Add assert_balance_callbacks_empty() helper - Add logic to zap balancing callbacks if we pick again - Move attach_one_task() and attach_task() helpers to sched.h - Handle blocked-waiter migration (and return migration) - Add K Prateek Nayak to scheduler reviewers for proxy execution Misc cleanups and fixes by John Stultz, Joseph Salisbury, Peter Zijlstra, K Prateek Nayak, Michal Koutný, Randy Dunlap, Shrikanth Hegde, Vincent Guittot, Zhan Xusheng, Xie Yuanbin and Vincent Guittot" * tag 'sched-core-2026-04-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits) sched/eevdf: Clear buddies for preempt_short sched/rt: Cleanup global RT bandwidth functions sched/rt: Move group schedulability check to sched_rt_global_validate() sched/rt: Skip group schedulable check with rt_group_sched=0 sched/fair: Avoid overflow in enqueue_entity() sched: Use u64 for bandwidth ratio calculations sched/fair: Prevent negative lag increase during delayed dequeue sched/fair: Use sched_energy_enabled() sched: Handle blocked-waiter migration (and return migration) sched: Move attach_one_task and attach_task helpers to sched.h sched: Add logic to zap balance callbacks if we pick again sched: Add assert_balance_callbacks_empty helper sched/locking: Add special p->blocked_on==PROXY_WAKING value for proxy return-migration sched: Fix modifying donor->blocked on without proper locking locking: Add task::blocked_lock to serialize blocked_on state sched: Fix potentially missing balancing with Proxy Exec sched: Minimise repeated sched_proxy_exec() checking sched: Make class_schedulers avoid pushing current, and get rid of proxy_tag_curr() MAINTAINERS: Add K Prateek Nayak to scheduler reviewers sched/core: Get this cpu once in ttwu_queue_cond() ...
2026-04-14Merge tag 'execve-v7.1-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-6/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux Pull execve updates from Kees Cook: - use strnlen() in __set_task_comm (Thorsten Blum) - update task_struct->comm comment (Thorsten Blum) * tag 'execve-v7.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: sched: update task_struct->comm comment exec: use strnlen() in __set_task_comm
2026-04-03sched/locking: Add special p->blocked_on==PROXY_WAKING value for proxy ↵John Stultz1-2/+49
return-migration As we add functionality to proxy execution, we may migrate a donor task to a runqueue where it can't run due to cpu affinity. Thus, we must be careful to ensure we return-migrate the task back to a cpu in its cpumask when it becomes unblocked. Peter helpfully provided the following example with pictures: "Suppose we have a ww_mutex cycle: ,-+-* Mutex-1 <-. Task-A ---' | | ,-- Task-B `-> Mutex-2 *-+-' Where Task-A holds Mutex-1 and tries to acquire Mutex-2, and where Task-B holds Mutex-2 and tries to acquire Mutex-1. Then the blocked_on->owner chain will go in circles. Task-A -> Mutex-2 ^ | | v Mutex-1 <- Task-B We need two things: - find_proxy_task() to stop iterating the circle; - the woken task to 'unblock' and run, such that it can back-off and re-try the transaction. Now, the current code [without this patch] does: __clear_task_blocked_on(); wake_q_add(); And surely clearing ->blocked_on is sufficient to break the cycle. Suppose it is Task-B that is made to back-off, then we have: Task-A -> Mutex-2 -> Task-B (no further blocked_on) and it would attempt to run Task-B. Or worse, it could directly pick Task-B and run it, without ever getting into find_proxy_task(). Now, here is a problem because Task-B might not be runnable on the CPU it is currently on; and because !task_is_blocked() we don't get into the proxy paths, so nobody is going to fix this up. Ideally we would have dequeued Task-B alongside of clearing ->blocked_on, but alas, [the lock ordering prevents us from getting the task_rq_lock() and] spoils things." Thus we need more than just a binary concept of the task being blocked on a mutex or not. So allow setting blocked_on to PROXY_WAKING as a special value which specifies the task is no longer blocked, but needs to be evaluated for return migration *before* it can be run. This will then be used in a later patch to handle proxy return-migration. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324191337.1841376-7-jstultz@google.com
2026-04-03locking: Add task::blocked_lock to serialize blocked_on stateJohn Stultz1-31/+17
So far, we have been able to utilize the mutex::wait_lock for serializing the blocked_on state, but when we move to proxying across runqueues, we will need to add more state and a way to serialize changes to this state in contexts where we don't hold the mutex::wait_lock. So introduce the task::blocked_lock, which nests under the mutex::wait_lock in the locking order, and rework the locking to use it. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260324191337.1841376-5-jstultz@google.com
2026-04-01sched: update task_struct->comm commentThorsten Blum1-6/+3
Since commit 3a3f61ce5e0b ("exec: Make sure task->comm is always NUL-terminated"), __set_task_comm() is unlocked and no longer uses strscpy_pad() - update the stale comment accordingly. Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260401152039.724811-4-thorsten.blum@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2026-03-30rcutorture: Add a textbook-style trivial preemptible RCUPaul E. McKenney1-0/+4
This commit adds a trivial textbook implementation of preemptible RCU to rcutorture ("torture_type=trivial-preempt"), similar in spirit to the existing "torture_type=trivial" textbook implementation of non-preemptible RCU. Neither trivial RCU implementation has any value for production use, and are intended only to keep Paul honest in his introductory writings and presentations. [ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot feedback. ] Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
2026-03-11sched/mmcid: Prevent CID stalls due to concurrent forksThomas Gleixner1-2/+0
A newly forked task is accounted as MMCID user before the task is visible in the process' thread list and the global task list. This creates the following problem: CPU1 CPU2 fork() sched_mm_cid_fork(tnew1) tnew1->mm.mm_cid_users++; tnew1->mm_cid.cid = getcid() -> preemption fork() sched_mm_cid_fork(tnew2) tnew2->mm.mm_cid_users++; // Reaches the per CPU threshold mm_cid_fixup_tasks_to_cpus() for_each_other(current, p) .... As tnew1 is not visible yet, this fails to fix up the already allocated CID of tnew1. As a consequence a subsequent schedule in might fail to acquire a (transitional) CID and the machine stalls. Move the invocation of sched_mm_cid_fork() after the new task becomes visible in the thread and the task list to prevent this. This also makes it symmetrical vs. exit() where the task is removed as CID user before the task is removed from the thread and task lists. Fixes: fbd0e71dc370 ("sched/mmcid: Provide CID ownership mode fixup functions") Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Matthieu Baerts (NGI0) <matttbe@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260310202525.969061974@kernel.org
2026-02-23sched/fair: Fix lag clampPeter Zijlstra1-0/+1
Vincent reported that he was seeing undue lag clamping in a mixed slice workload. Implement the max_slice tracking as per the todo comment. Fixes: 147f3efaa241 ("sched/fair: Implement an EEVDF-like scheduling policy") Reported-off-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Tested-by: K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@amd.com> Tested-by: Shubhang Kaushik <shubhang@os.amperecomputing.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250422101628.GA33555@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
2026-02-12Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+5
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group space (Heming Zhao) - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar) - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the page size (Pnina Feder) - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek) - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli) - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport) - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain) - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav) - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into more appropriate places (Yury Norov) - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of ->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov) - "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin) * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits) watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat() watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs() kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages() tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list list: add kunit test for private list primitives list: add primitives for private list manipulations delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task() RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap() android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas ...
2026-02-12Merge tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+45
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "powerpc/64s: do not re-activate batched TLB flush" makes arch_{enter|leave}_lazy_mmu_mode() nest properly (Alexander Gordeev) It adds a generic enter/leave layer and switches architectures to use it. Various hacks were removed in the process. - "zram: introduce compressed data writeback" implements data compression for zram writeback (Richard Chang and Sergey Senozhatsky) - "mm: folio_zero_user: clear page ranges" adds clearing of contiguous page ranges for hugepages. Large improvements during demand faulting are demonstrated (David Hildenbrand) - "memcg cleanups" tidies up some memcg code (Chen Ridong) - "mm/damon: introduce {,max_}nr_snapshots and tracepoint for damos stats" improves DAMOS stat's provided information, deterministic control, and readability (SeongJae Park) - "selftests/mm: hugetlb cgroup charging: robustness fixes" fixes a few issues in the hugetlb cgroup charging selftests (Li Wang) - "Fix va_high_addr_switch.sh test failure - again" addresses several issues in the va_high_addr_switch test (Chunyu Hu) - "mm/damon/tests/core-kunit: extend existing test scenarios" improves the KUnit test coverage for DAMON (Shu Anzai) - "mm/khugepaged: fix dirty page handling for MADV_COLLAPSE" fixes a glitch in khugepaged which was causing madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE) to transiently return -EAGAIN (Shivank Garg) - "arch, mm: consolidate hugetlb early reservation" reworks and consolidates a pile of straggly code related to reservation of hugetlb memory from bootmem and creation of CMA areas for hugetlb (Mike Rapoport) - "mm: clean up anon_vma implementation" cleans up the anon_vma implementation in various ways (Lorenzo Stoakes) - "tweaks for __alloc_pages_slowpath()" does a little streamlining of the page allocator's slowpath code (Vlastimil Babka) - "memcg: separate private and public ID namespaces" cleans up the memcg ID code and prevents the internal-only private IDs from being exposed to userspace (Shakeel Butt) - "mm: hugetlb: allocate frozen gigantic folio" cleans up the allocation of frozen folios and avoids some atomic refcount operations (Kefeng Wang) - "mm/damon: advance DAMOS-based LRU sorting" improves DAMOS's movement of memory betewwn the active and inactive LRUs and adds auto-tuning of the ratio-based quotas and of monitoring intervals (SeongJae Park) - "Support page table check on PowerPC" makes CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK_ENFORCED work on powerpc (Andrew Donnellan) - "nodemask: align nodes_and{,not} with underlying bitmap ops" makes nodes_and() and nodes_andnot() propagate the return values from the underlying bit operations, enabling some cleanup in calling code (Yury Norov) - "mm/damon: hide kdamond and kdamond_lock from API callers" cleans up some DAMON internal interfaces (SeongJae Park) - "mm/khugepaged: cleanups and scan limit fix" does some cleanup work in khupaged and fixes a scan limit accounting issue (Shivank Garg) - "mm: balloon infrastructure cleanups" goes to town on the balloon infrastructure and its page migration function. Mainly cleanups, also some locking simplification (David Hildenbrand) - "mm/vmscan: add tracepoint and reason for kswapd_failures reset" adds additional tracepoints to the page reclaim code (Jiayuan Chen) - "Replace wq users and add WQ_PERCPU to alloc_workqueue() users" is part of Marco's kernel-wide migration from the legacy workqueue APIs over to the preferred unbound workqueues (Marco Crivellari) - "Various mm kselftests improvements/fixes" provides various unrelated improvements/fixes for the mm kselftests (Kevin Brodsky) - "mm: accelerate gigantic folio allocation" greatly speeds up gigantic folio allocation, mainly by avoiding unnecessary work in pfn_range_valid_contig() (Kefeng Wang) - "selftests/damon: improve leak detection and wss estimation reliability" improves the reliability of two of the DAMON selftests (SeongJae Park) - "mm/damon: cleanup kdamond, damon_call(), damos filter and DAMON_MIN_REGION" does some cleanup work in the core DAMON code (SeongJae Park) - "Docs/mm/damon: update intro, modules, maintainer profile, and misc" performs maintenance work on the DAMON documentation (SeongJae Park) - "mm: add and use vma_assert_stabilised() helper" refactors and cleans up the core VMA code. The main aim here is to be able to use the mmap write lock's lockdep state to perform various assertions regarding the locking which the VMA code requires (Lorenzo Stoakes) - "mm, swap: swap table phase II: unify swapin use" removes some old swap code (swap cache bypassing and swap synchronization) which wasn't working very well. Various other cleanups and simplifications were made. The end result is a 20% speedup in one benchmark (Kairui Song) - "enable PT_RECLAIM on more 64-bit architectures" makes PT_RECLAIM available on 64-bit alpha, loongarch, mips, parisc, and um. Various cleanups were performed along the way (Qi Zheng) * tag 'mm-stable-2026-02-11-19-22' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (325 commits) mm/memory: handle non-split locks correctly in zap_empty_pte_table() mm: move pte table reclaim code to memory.c mm: make PT_RECLAIM depends on MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mm: convert __HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE to CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TLB_REMOVE_TABLE config um: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE parisc: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mips: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE LoongArch: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE alpha: mm: enable MMU_GATHER_RCU_TABLE_FREE mm: change mm/pt_reclaim.c to use asm/tlb.h instead of asm-generic/tlb.h mm/damon/stat: remove __read_mostly from memory_idle_ms_percentiles zsmalloc: make common caches global mm: add SPDX id lines to some mm source files mm/zswap: use %pe to print error pointers mm/vmscan: use %pe to print error pointers mm/readahead: fix typo in comment mm: khugepaged: fix NR_FILE_PAGES and NR_SHMEM in collapse_file() mm: refactor vma_map_pages to use vm_insert_pages mm/damon: unify address range representation with damon_addr_range mm/cma: replace snprintf with strscpy in cma_new_area ...
2026-02-10Merge tag 'sched-core-2026-02-09' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-10/+4
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "Scheduler Kconfig space updates: - Further consolidate configurable preemption modes (Peter Zijlstra) Reduce the number of architectures that are allowed to offer PREEMPT_NONE and PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY, reducing the number of preemption models from four to just two: 'full' and 'lazy' on up-to-date architectures (arm64, loongarch, powerpc, riscv, s390, x86). None and voluntary are only available as legacy features on platforms that don't implement lazy preemption yet, or which don't even support preemption. The goal is to eventually remove cond_resched() and voluntary preemption altogether. RSEQ based 'scheduler time slice extension' support (Thomas Gleixner and Peter Zijlstra): This allows a thread to request a time slice extension when it enters a critical section to avoid contention on a resource when the thread is scheduled out inside of the critical section. - Add fields and constants for time slice extension - Provide static branch for time slice extensions - Add statistics for time slice extensions - Add prctl() to enable time slice extensions - Implement sys_rseq_slice_yield() - Implement syscall entry work for time slice extensions - Implement time slice extension enforcement timer - Reset slice extension when scheduled - Implement rseq_grant_slice_extension() - entry: Hook up rseq time slice extension - selftests: Implement time slice extension test - Allow registering RSEQ with slice extension - Move slice_ext_nsec to debugfs - Lower default slice extension - selftests/rseq: Add rseq slice histogram script Scheduler performance/scalability improvements: - Update rq->avg_idle when a task is moved to an idle CPU, which improves the scalability of various workloads (Shubhang Kaushik) - Reorder fields in 'struct rq' for better caching (Blake Jones) - Fair scheduler SMP NOHZ balancing code speedups (Shrikanth Hegde): - Move checking for nohz cpus after time check - Change likelyhood of nohz.nr_cpus - Remove nohz.nr_cpus and use weight of cpumask instead - Avoid false sharing for sched_clock_irqtime (Wangyang Guo) - Cleanups (Yury Norov): - Drop useless cpumask_empty() in find_energy_efficient_cpu() - Simplify task_numa_find_cpu() - Use cpumask_weight_and() in sched_balance_find_dst_group() DL scheduler updates: - Add a deadline server for sched_ext tasks (by Andrea Righi and Joel Fernandes, with fixes by Peter Zijlstra) RT scheduler updates: - Skip currently executing CPU in rto_next_cpu() (Chen Jinghuang) Entry code updates and performance improvements (Jinjie Ruan) This is part of the scheduler tree in this cycle due to inter- dependencies with the RSEQ based time slice extension work: - Remove unused syscall argument from syscall_trace_enter() - Rework syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work() for architecture reuse - Add arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry/exit() - Inline syscall_exit_work() and syscall_trace_enter() Scheduler core updates (Peter Zijlstra): - Rework sched_class::wakeup_preempt() and rq_modified_*() - Avoid rq->lock bouncing in sched_balance_newidle() - Rename rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain() => rcu_dereference_sched_domain() - <linux/compiler_types.h>: Add the __signed_scalar_typeof() helper Fair scheduler updates/refactoring (Peter Zijlstra and Ingo Molnar): - Fold the sched_avg update - Change rcu_dereference_check_sched_domain() to rcu-sched - Switch to rcu_dereference_all() - Remove superfluous rcu_read_lock() - Limit hrtick work - Join two #ifdef CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED blocks - Clean up comments in 'struct cfs_rq' - Separate se->vlag from se->vprot - Rename cfs_rq::avg_load to cfs_rq::sum_weight - Rename cfs_rq::avg_vruntime to ::sum_w_vruntime & helper functions - Introduce and use the vruntime_cmp() and vruntime_op() wrappers for wrapped-signed aritmetics - Sort out 'blocked_load*' namespace noise Scheduler debugging code updates: - Export hidden tracepoints to modules (Gabriele Monaco) - Convert copy_from_user() + kstrtouint() to kstrtouint_from_user() (Fushuai Wang) - Add assertions to QUEUE_CLASS (Peter Zijlstra) - hrtimer: Fix tracing oddity (Thomas Gleixner) Misc fixes and cleanups: - Re-evaluate scheduling when migrating queued tasks out of throttled cgroups (Zicheng Qu) - Remove task_struct->faults_disabled_mapping (Christoph Hellwig) - Fix math notation errors in avg_vruntime comment (Zhan Xusheng) - sched/cpufreq: Use %pe format for PTR_ERR() printing (zenghongling)" * tag 'sched-core-2026-02-09' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits) sched: Re-evaluate scheduling when migrating queued tasks out of throttled cgroups sched/cpufreq: Use %pe format for PTR_ERR() printing sched/rt: Skip currently executing CPU in rto_next_cpu() sched/clock: Avoid false sharing for sched_clock_irqtime selftests/sched_ext: Add test for DL server total_bw consistency selftests/sched_ext: Add test for sched_ext dl_server sched/debug: Fix dl_server (re)start conditions sched/debug: Add support to change sched_ext server params sched_ext: Add a DL server for sched_ext tasks sched/debug: Stop and start server based on if it was active sched/debug: Fix updating of ppos on server write ops sched/deadline: Clear the defer params entry: Inline syscall_exit_work() and syscall_trace_enter() entry: Add arch_ptrace_report_syscall_entry/exit() entry: Rework syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work() for architecture reuse entry: Remove unused syscall argument from syscall_trace_enter() sched: remove task_struct->faults_disabled_mapping sched: Update rq->avg_idle when a task is moved to an idle CPU selftests/rseq: Add rseq slice histogram script hrtimer: Fix trace oddity ...
2026-02-10Merge tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-3/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar: "Lock debugging: - Implement compiler-driven static analysis locking context checking, using the upcoming Clang 22 compiler's context analysis features (Marco Elver) We removed Sparse context analysis support, because prior to removal even a defconfig kernel produced 1,700+ context tracking Sparse warnings, the overwhelming majority of which are false positives. On an allmodconfig kernel the number of false positive context tracking Sparse warnings grows to over 5,200... On the plus side of the balance actual locking bugs found by Sparse context analysis is also rather ... sparse: I found only 3 such commits in the last 3 years. So the rate of false positives and the maintenance overhead is rather high and there appears to be no active policy in place to achieve a zero-warnings baseline to move the annotations & fixers to developers who introduce new code. Clang context analysis is more complete and more aggressive in trying to find bugs, at least in principle. Plus it has a different model to enabling it: it's enabled subsystem by subsystem, which results in zero warnings on all relevant kernel builds (as far as our testing managed to cover it). Which allowed us to enable it by default, similar to other compiler warnings, with the expectation that there are no warnings going forward. This enforces a zero-warnings baseline on clang-22+ builds (Which are still limited in distribution, admittedly) Hopefully the Clang approach can lead to a more maintainable zero-warnings status quo and policy, with more and more subsystems and drivers enabling the feature. Context tracking can be enabled for all kernel code via WARN_CONTEXT_ANALYSIS_ALL=y (default disabled), but this will generate a lot of false positives. ( Having said that, Sparse support could still be added back, if anyone is interested - the removal patch is still relatively straightforward to revert at this stage. ) Rust integration updates: (Alice Ryhl, Fujita Tomonori, Boqun Feng) - Add support for Atomic<i8/i16/bool> and replace most Rust native AtomicBool usages with Atomic<bool> - Clean up LockClassKey and improve its documentation - Add missing Send and Sync trait implementation for SetOnce - Make ARef Unpin as it is supposed to be - Add __rust_helper to a few Rust helpers as a preparation for helper LTO - Inline various lock related functions to avoid additional function calls WW mutexes: - Extend ww_mutex tests and other test-ww_mutex updates (John Stultz) Misc fixes and cleanups: - rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline (Arnd Bergmann) - locking/local_lock: Include more missing headers (Peter Zijlstra) - seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc (Randy Dunlap) - rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings (Tamir Duberstein)" * tag 'locking-core-2026-02-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (90 commits) locking/rwlock: Fix write_trylock_irqsave() with CONFIG_INLINE_WRITE_TRYLOCK rcu: Mark lockdep_assert_rcu_helper() __always_inline compiler-context-analysis: Remove __assume_ctx_lock from initializers tomoyo: Use scoped init guard crypto: Use scoped init guard kcov: Use scoped init guard compiler-context-analysis: Introduce scoped init guards cleanup: Make __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD handle commas in initializers seqlock: fix scoped_seqlock_read kernel-doc tools: Update context analysis macros in compiler_types.h rust: sync: Replace `kernel::c_str!` with C-Strings rust: sync: Inline various lock related methods rust: helpers: Move #define __rust_helper out of atomic.c rust: wait: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: time: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: task: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: sync: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: refcount: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: rcu: Add __rust_helper to helpers rust: processor: Add __rust_helper to helpers ...
2026-02-10Merge tag 'io_uring-bpf-restrictions.4-20260206' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux Pull io_uring bpf filters from Jens Axboe: "This adds support for both cBPF filters for io_uring, as well as task inherited restrictions and filters. seccomp and io_uring don't play along nicely, as most of the interesting data to filter on resides somewhat out-of-band, in the submission queue ring. As a result, things like containers and systemd that apply seccomp filters, can't filter io_uring operations. That leaves them with just one choice if filtering is critical - filter the actual io_uring_setup(2) system call to simply disallow io_uring. That's rather unfortunate, and has limited us because of it. io_uring already has some filtering support. It requires the ring to be setup in a disabled state, and then a filter set can be applied. This filter set is completely bi-modal - an opcode is either enabled or it's not. Once a filter set is registered, the ring can be enabled. This is very restrictive, and it's not useful at all to systemd or containers which really want both broader and more specific control. This first adds support for cBPF filters for opcodes, which enables tighter control over what exactly a specific opcode may do. As examples, specific support is added for IORING_OP_OPENAT/OPENAT2, allowing filtering on resolve flags. And another example is added for IORING_OP_SOCKET, allowing filtering on domain/type/protocol. These are both common use cases. cBPF was chosen rather than eBPF, because the latter is often restricted in containers as well. These filters are run post the init phase of the request, which allows filters to even dip into data that is being passed in struct in user memory, as the init side of requests make that data stable by bringing it into the kernel. This allows filtering without needing to copy this data twice, or have filters etc know about the exact layout of the user data. The filters get the already copied and sanitized data passed. On top of that support is added for per-task filters, meaning that any ring created with a task that has a per-task filter will get those filters applied when it's created. These filters are inherited across fork as well. Once a filter has been registered, any further added filters may only further restrict what operations are permitted. Filters cannot change the return value of an operation, they can only permit or deny it based on the contents" * tag 'io_uring-bpf-restrictions.4-20260206' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/axboe/linux: io_uring: allow registration of per-task restrictions io_uring: add task fork hook io_uring/bpf_filter: add ref counts to struct io_bpf_filter io_uring/bpf_filter: cache lookup table in ctx->bpf_filters io_uring/bpf_filter: allow filtering on contents of struct open_how io_uring/net: allow filtering on IORING_OP_SOCKET data io_uring: add support for BPF filtering for opcode restrictions
2026-02-09Merge tag 'rcu.release.v7.0' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-5/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux Pull RCU updates from Boqun Feng: - RCU Tasks Trace: Re-implement RCU tasks trace in term of SRCU-fast, not only more than 500 lines of code are saved because of the reimplementation, a new set of API, rcu_read_{,un}lock_tasks_trace(), becomes possible as well. Compared to the previous rcu_read_{,un}lock_trace(), the new API avoid the task_struct accesses thanks to the SRCU-fast semantics. As a result, the old rcu_read{,un}lock_trace() API is now deprecated. - RCU Torture Test: - Multiple improvements on kvm-series.sh (parallel run and progress showing metrics) - Add context checks to rcu_torture_timer() - Make config2csv.sh properly handle comments in .boot files - Include commit discription in testid.txt - Miscellaneous RCU changes: - Reduce synchronize_rcu() latency by reporting GP kthread's CPU QS early - Use suitable gfp_flags for the init_srcu_struct_nodes() - Fix rcu_read_unlock() deadloop due to softirq - Correctly compute probability to invoke ->exp_current() in rcutorture - Make expedited RCU CPU stall warnings detect stall-end races - RCU nocb: - Remove unnecessary WakeOvfIsDeferred wake path and callback overload handling - Extract nocb_defer_wakeup_cancel() helper * tag 'rcu.release.v7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: (25 commits) rcu/nocb: Extract nocb_defer_wakeup_cancel() helper rcu/nocb: Remove dead callback overload handling rcu/nocb: Remove unnecessary WakeOvfIsDeferred wake path rcu: Reduce synchronize_rcu() latency by reporting GP kthread's CPU QS early srcu: Use suitable gfp_flags for the init_srcu_struct_nodes() rcu: Fix rcu_read_unlock() deadloop due to softirq rcutorture: Correctly compute probability to invoke ->exp_current() rcu: Make expedited RCU CPU stall warnings detect stall-end races rcutorture: Add --kill-previous option to terminate previous kvm.sh runs rcutorture: Prevent concurrent kvm.sh runs on same source tree torture: Include commit discription in testid.txt torture: Make config2csv.sh properly handle comments in .boot files torture: Make kvm-series.sh give run numbers and totals torture: Make kvm-series.sh give build numbers and totals torture: Parallelize kvm-series.sh guest-OS execution rcutorture: Add context checks to rcu_torture_timer() rcutorture: Test rcu_tasks_trace_expedite_current() srcu: Create an rcu_tasks_trace_expedite_current() function checkpatch: Deprecate rcu_read_{,un}lock_trace() rcu: Update Requirements.rst for RCU Tasks Trace ...
2026-02-06io_uring: add task fork hookJens Axboe1-0/+1
Called when copy_process() is called to copy state to a new child. Right now this is just a stub, but will be used shortly to properly handle fork'ing of task based io_uring restrictions. Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2026-02-03Merge branch 'v6.19-rc8'Peter Zijlstra1-1/+5
Update to avoid conflicts with /urgent patches. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2026-02-01delayacct: add timestamp of delay maxWang Yaxin1-0/+5
Problem ======= Commit 658eb5ab916d ("delayacct: add delay max to record delay peak") introduced the delay max for getdelays, which records abnormal latency peaks and helps us understand the magnitude of such delays. However, the peak latency value alone is insufficient for effective root cause analysis. Without the precise timestamp of when the peak occurred, we still lack the critical context needed to correlate it with other system events. Solution ======== To address this, we need to additionally record a precise timestamp when the maximum latency occurs. By correlating this timestamp with system logs and monitoring metrics, we can identify processes with abnormal resource usage at the same moment, which can help us to pinpoint root causes. Use Case ======== bash-4.4# ./getdelays -d -t 227 print delayacct stats ON TGID 227 CPU count real total virtual total delay total delay average delay max delay min delay max timestamp 46 188000000 192348334 4098012 0.089ms 0.429260ms 0.051205ms 2026-01-15T15:06:58 IO count delay total delay average delay max delay min delay max timestamp 0 0 0.000ms 0.000000ms 0.000000ms N/A SWAP count delay total delay average delay max delay min delay max timestamp 0 0 0.000ms 0.000000ms 0.000000ms N/A RECLAIM count delay total delay average delay max delay min delay max timestamp 0 0 0.000ms 0.000000ms 0.000000ms N/A THRAS HING count delay total delay average delay max delay min delay max timestamp 0 0 0.000ms 0.000000ms 0.000000ms N/A COMPACT count delay total delay average delay max delay min delay max timestamp 0 0 0.000ms 0.000000ms 0.000000ms N/A WPCOPY count delay total delay average delay max delay min delay max timestamp 182 19413338 0.107ms 0.547353ms 0.022462ms 2026-01-15T15:05:24 IRQ count delay total delay average delay max delay min delay max timestamp 0 0 0.000ms 0.000000ms 0.000000ms N/A Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260119100241520gWubW8-5QfhSf9gjqcc_E@zte.com.cn Signed-off-by: Wang Yaxin <wang.yaxin@zte.com.cn> Cc: Fan Yu <fan.yu9@zte.com.cn> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: xu xin <xu.xin16@zte.com.cn> Cc: Yang Yang <yang.yang29@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-31perf: sched: Fix perf crash with new is_user_task() helperSteven Rostedt1-0/+5
In order to do a user space stacktrace the current task needs to be a user task that has executed in user space. It use to be possible to test if a task is a user task or not by simply checking the task_struct mm field. If it was non NULL, it was a user task and if not it was a kernel task. But things have changed over time, and some kernel tasks now have their own mm field. An idea was made to instead test PF_KTHREAD and two functions were used to wrap this check in case it became more complex to test if a task was a user task or not[1]. But this was rejected and the C code simply checked the PF_KTHREAD directly. It was later found that not all kernel threads set PF_KTHREAD. The io-uring helpers instead set PF_USER_WORKER and this needed to be added as well. But checking the flags is still not enough. There's a very small window when a task exits that it frees its mm field and it is set back to NULL. If perf were to trigger at this moment, the flags test would say its a user space task but when perf would read the mm field it would crash with at NULL pointer dereference. Now there are flags that can be used to test if a task is exiting, but they are set in areas that perf may still want to profile the user space task (to see where it exited). The only real test is to check both the flags and the mm field. Instead of making this modification in every location, create a new is_user_task() helper function that does all the tests needed to know if it is safe to read the user space memory or not. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250425204120.639530125@goodmis.org/ Fixes: 90942f9fac05 ("perf: Use current->flags & PF_KTHREAD|PF_USER_WORKER instead of current->mm == NULL") Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/0d877e6f-41a7-4724-875d-0b0a27b8a545@roeck-us.net/ Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260129102821.46484722@gandalf.local.home
2026-01-22sched: remove task_struct->faults_disabled_mappingChristoph Hellwig1-1/+0
This reverts commit 2b69987be575 ("sched: Add task_struct->faults_disabled_mapping"), which added this field without review or maintainer signoff. With bcachefs removed from the tree it is also unused now. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260122085223.487092-1-hch@lst.de
2026-01-21mm: enable lazy_mmu sections to nestKevin Brodsky1-0/+45
Despite recent efforts to prevent lazy_mmu sections from nesting, it remains difficult to ensure that it never occurs - and in fact it does occur on arm64 in certain situations (CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC). Commit 1ef3095b1405 ("arm64/mm: Permit lazy_mmu_mode to be nested") made nesting tolerable on arm64, but without truly supporting it: the inner call to leave() disables the batching optimisation before the outer section ends. This patch actually enables lazy_mmu sections to nest by tracking the nesting level in task_struct, in a similar fashion to e.g. pagefault_{enable,disable}(). This is fully handled by the generic lazy_mmu helpers that were recently introduced. lazy_mmu sections were not initially intended to nest, so we need to clarify the semantics w.r.t. the arch_*_lazy_mmu_mode() callbacks. This patch takes the following approach: * The outermost calls to lazy_mmu_mode_{enable,disable}() trigger calls to arch_{enter,leave}_lazy_mmu_mode() - this is unchanged. * Nested calls to lazy_mmu_mode_{enable,disable}() are not forwarded to the arch via arch_{enter,leave} - lazy MMU remains enabled so the assumption is that these callbacks are not relevant. However, existing code may rely on a call to disable() to flush any batched state, regardless of nesting. arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode() is therefore called in that situation. A separate interface was recently introduced to temporarily pause the lazy MMU mode: lazy_mmu_mode_{pause,resume}(). pause() fully exits the mode *regardless of the nesting level*, and resume() restores the mode at the same nesting level. pause()/resume() are themselves allowed to nest, so we actually store two nesting levels in task_struct: enable_count and pause_count. A new helper is_lazy_mmu_mode_active() is introduced to determine whether we are currently in lazy MMU mode; this will be used in subsequent patches to replace the various ways arch's currently track whether the mode is enabled. In summary (enable/pause represent the values *after* the call): lazy_mmu_mode_enable() -> arch_enter() enable=1 pause=0 lazy_mmu_mode_enable() -> ø enable=2 pause=0 lazy_mmu_mode_pause() -> arch_leave() enable=2 pause=1 lazy_mmu_mode_resume() -> arch_enter() enable=2 pause=0 lazy_mmu_mode_disable() -> arch_flush() enable=1 pause=0 lazy_mmu_mode_disable() -> arch_leave() enable=0 pause=0 Note: is_lazy_mmu_mode_active() is added to <linux/sched.h> to allow arch headers included by <linux/pgtable.h> to use it. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251215150323.2218608-10-kevin.brodsky@arm.com Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Red Hat) <david@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Yeoreum Yun <yeoreum.yun@arm.com> Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Borislav Betkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Juegren Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Thomas Gleinxer <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Venkat Rao Bagalkote <venkat88@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-13sched: Provide idle_rq() helperPeter Zijlstra1-1/+0
A fix for the dl_server 'requires' idle_cpu() usage, which made me note that it and available_idle_cpu() are extern function calls. And while idle_cpu() is used outside of kernel/sched/, available_idle_cpu() is not. This makes it hard to make idle_cpu() an inline helper, so provide idle_rq() and implement idle_cpu() and available_idle_cpu() using that. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
2026-01-05sched: Enable context analysis for core.c and fair.cMarco Elver1-3/+3
This demonstrates a larger conversion to use Clang's context analysis. The benefit is additional static checking of locking rules, along with better documentation. Notably, kernel/sched contains sufficiently complex synchronization patterns, and application to core.c & fair.c demonstrates that the latest Clang version has become powerful enough to start applying this to more complex subsystems (with some modest annotations and changes). Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-37-elver@google.com
2026-01-01rcu: Clean up after the SRCU-fastification of RCU Tasks TracePaul E. McKenney1-5/+0
Now that RCU Tasks Trace has been re-implemented in terms of SRCU-fast, the ->trc_ipi_to_cpu, ->trc_blkd_cpu, ->trc_blkd_node, ->trc_holdout_list, and ->trc_reader_special task_struct fields are no longer used. In addition, the rcu_tasks_trace_qs(), rcu_tasks_trace_qs_blkd(), exit_tasks_rcu_finish_trace(), and rcu_spawn_tasks_trace_kthread(), show_rcu_tasks_trace_gp_kthread(), rcu_tasks_trace_get_gp_data(), rcu_tasks_trace_torture_stats_print(), and get_rcu_tasks_trace_gp_kthread() functions and all the other functions that they invoke are no longer used. Also, the TRC_NEED_QS and TRC_NEED_QS_CHECKED CPP macros are no longer used. Neither are the rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms and rcu_task_ipi_delay rcupdate module parameters and the TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB Kconfig option. This commit therefore removes all of them. [ paulmck: Apply Alexei Starovoitov feedback. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
2026-01-01rcu: Re-implement RCU Tasks Trace in terms of SRCU-fastPaul E. McKenney1-0/+1
This commit saves more than 500 lines of RCU code by re-implementing RCU Tasks Trace in terms of SRCU-fast. Follow-up work will remove more code that does not cause problems by its presence, but that is no longer required. This variant places smp_mb() in rcu_read_{,un}lock_trace(), and in the same place that srcu_read_{,un}lock() would put them. These smp_mb() calls will be removed on common-case architectures in a later commit. In the meantime, it serves to enforce ordering between the underlying srcu_read_{,un}lock_fast() markers and the intervening critical section, even on architectures that permit attaching tracepoints on regions of code not watched by RCU. Such architectures defeat SRCU-fast's use of implicit single-instruction, interrupts-disabled, and atomic-operation RCU read-side critical sections, which have no effect when RCU is not watching. The aforementioned later commit will insert these smp_mb() calls only on architectures that have not used noinstr to prevent attaching tracepoints to code where RCU is not watching. [ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot, Boqun Feng, and Zqiang feedback. ] [ paulmck: Split out Tiny SRCU fixes per Andrii Nakryiko feedback. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
2025-12-15sched/fair: Separate se->vlag from se->vprotIngo Molnar1-9/+4
There's no real space concerns here and keeping these fields in a union makes reading (and tracing) the scheduler code harder. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251201064647.1851919-4-mingo@kernel.org
2025-12-04Merge tag 'cgroup-for-6.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+4
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: - Defer task cgroup unlink until after the dying task's final context switch so that controllers see the cgroup properly populated until the task is truly gone - cpuset cleanups and simplifications. Enforce that domain isolated CPUs stay in root or isolated partitions and fail if isolated+nohz_full would leave no housekeeping CPU. Fix sched/deadline root domain handling during CPU hot-unplug and race for tasks in attaching cpusets - Misc fixes including memory reclaim protection documentation and selftest KTAP conformance * tag 'cgroup-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (21 commits) cpuset: Treat cpusets in attaching as populated sched/deadline: Walk up cpuset hierarchy to decide root domain when hot-unplug cgroup/cpuset: Introduce cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked() docs: cgroup: No special handling of unpopulated memcgs docs: cgroup: Note about sibling relative reclaim protection docs: cgroup: Explain reclaim protection target selftests/cgroup: conform test to KTAP format output cpuset: remove need_rebuild_sched_domains cpuset: remove global remote_children list cpuset: simplify node setting on error cgroup: include missing header for struct irq_work cgroup: Fix sleeping from invalid context warning on PREEMPT_RT cgroup/cpuset: Globally track isolated_cpus update cgroup/cpuset: Ensure domain isolated CPUs stay in root or isolated partition cgroup/cpuset: Move up prstate_housekeeping_conflict() helper cgroup/cpuset: Fail if isolated and nohz_full don't leave any housekeeping cgroup/cpuset: Rename update_unbound_workqueue_cpumask() to update_isolation_cpumasks() cgroup: Defer task cgroup unlink until after the task is done switching out cgroup: Move dying_tasks cleanup from cgroup_task_release() to cgroup_task_free() cgroup: Rename cgroup lifecycle hooks to cgroup_task_*() ...
2025-12-02Merge tag 'irq-core-2025-11-30' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull irq core updates from Thomas Gleixner: "Updates for the interrupt core and treewide cleanups: - Rework of the Per Processor Interrupt (PPI) management on ARM[64] PPI support was built under the assumption that the systems are homogenous so that the same CPU local device types are connected to them. That's unfortunately wishful thinking and created horrible workarounds. This rework provides affinity management for PPIs so that they can be individually configured in the firmware tables and mops up the related drivers all over the place. - Prevent CPUSET/isolation changes to arbitrarily affine interrupt threads to random CPUs, which ignores user or driver settings. - Plug a harmless race in the interrupt affinity proc interface, which allows to see a half updated mask - Adjust the priority of secondary interrupt threads on RT, so that the combination of primary and secondary thread emulates the hardware interrupt plus thread scenario. Having them at the same priority can cause starvation issues in some drivers" * tag 'irq-core-2025-11-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits) genirq: Remove cpumask availability check on kthread affinity setting genirq: Fix interrupt threads affinity vs. cpuset isolated partitions genirq: Prevent early spurious wake-ups of interrupt threads genirq: Use raw_spinlock_irq() in irq_set_affinity_notifier() genirq/manage: Reduce priority of forced secondary interrupt handler genirq/proc: Fix race in show_irq_affinity() genirq: Fix percpu_devid irq affinity documentation perf: arm_pmu: Kill last use of per-CPU cpu_armpmu pointer irqdomain: Kill of_node_to_fwnode() helper genirq: Kill irq_{g,s}et_percpu_devid_partition() irqchip: Kill irq-partition-percpu irqchip/apple-aic: Drop support for custom PMU irq partitions irqchip/gic-v3: Drop support for custom PPI partitions coresight: trbe: Request specific affinities for per CPU interrupts perf: arm_spe_pmu: Request specific affinities for per CPU interrupts perf: arm_pmu: Request specific affinities for per CPU NMIs/interrupts genirq: Add request_percpu_irq_affinity() helper genirq: Allow per-cpu interrupt sharing for non-overlapping affinities genirq: Update request_percpu_nmi() to take an affinity genirq: Add affinity to percpu_devid interrupt requests ...
2025-12-02Merge tag 'core-rseq-2025-11-30' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-28/+29
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull rseq updates from Thomas Gleixner: "A large overhaul of the restartable sequences and CID management: The recent enablement of RSEQ in glibc resulted in regressions which are caused by the related overhead. It turned out that the decision to invoke the exit to user work was not really a decision. More or less each context switch caused that. There is a long list of small issues which sums up nicely and results in a 3-4% regression in I/O benchmarks. The other detail which caused issues due to extra work in context switch and task migration is the CID (memory context ID) management. It also requires to use a task work to consolidate the CID space, which is executed in the context of an arbitrary task and results in sporadic uncontrolled exit latencies. The rewrite addresses this by: - Removing deprecated and long unsupported functionality - Moving the related data into dedicated data structures which are optimized for fast path processing. - Caching values so actual decisions can be made - Replacing the current implementation with a optimized inlined variant. - Separating fast and slow path for architectures which use the generic entry code, so that only fault and error handling goes into the TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME handler. - Rewriting the CID management so that it becomes mostly invisible in the context switch path. That moves the work of switching modes into the fork/exit path, which is a reasonable tradeoff. That work is only required when a process creates more threads than the cpuset it is allowed to run on or when enough threads exit after that. An artificial thread pool benchmarks which triggers this did not degrade, it actually improved significantly. The main effect in migration heavy scenarios is that runqueue lock held time and therefore contention goes down significantly" * tag 'core-rseq-2025-11-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (54 commits) sched/mmcid: Switch over to the new mechanism sched/mmcid: Implement deferred mode change irqwork: Move data struct to a types header sched/mmcid: Provide CID ownership mode fixup functions sched/mmcid: Provide new scheduler CID mechanism sched/mmcid: Introduce per task/CPU ownership infrastructure sched/mmcid: Serialize sched_mm_cid_fork()/exit() with a mutex sched/mmcid: Provide precomputed maximal value sched/mmcid: Move initialization out of line signal: Move MMCID exit out of sighand lock sched/mmcid: Convert mm CID mask to a bitmap cpumask: Cache num_possible_cpus() sched/mmcid: Use cpumask_weighted_or() cpumask: Introduce cpumask_weighted_or() sched/mmcid: Prevent pointless work in mm_update_cpus_allowed() sched/mmcid: Move scheduler code out of global header sched: Fixup whitespace damage sched/mmcid: Cacheline align MM CID storage sched/mmcid: Use proper data structures sched/mmcid: Revert the complex CID management ...
2025-12-02Merge tag 'sched-core-2025-12-01' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-13/+20
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "Scalability and load-balancing improvements: - Enable scheduler feature NEXT_BUDDY (Mel Gorman) - Reimplement NEXT_BUDDY to align with EEVDF goals (Mel Gorman) - Skip sched_balance_running cmpxchg when balance is not due (Tim Chen) - Implement generic code for architecture specific sched domain NUMA distances (Tim Chen) - Optimize the NUMA distances of the sched-domains builds of Intel Granite Rapids (GNR) and Clearwater Forest (CWF) platforms (Tim Chen) - Implement proportional newidle balance: a randomized algorithm that runs newidle balancing proportional to its success rate. (Peter Zijlstra) Scheduler infrastructure changes: - Implement the 'sched_change' scoped_guard() pattern for the entire scheduler (Peter Zijlstra) - More broadly utilize the sched_change guard (Peter Zijlstra) - Add support to pick functions to take runqueue-flags (Joel Fernandes) - Provide and use set_need_resched_current() (Peter Zijlstra) Fair scheduling enhancements: - Forfeit vruntime on yield (Fernand Sieber) - Only update stats for allowed CPUs when looking for dst group (Adam Li) CPU-core scheduling enhancements: - Optimize core cookie matching check (Fernand Sieber) Deadline scheduler fixes: - Only set free_cpus for online runqueues (Doug Berger) - Fix dl_server time accounting (Peter Zijlstra) - Fix dl_server stop condition (Peter Zijlstra) Proxy scheduling fixes: - Yield the donor task (Fernand Sieber) Fixes and cleanups: - Fix do_set_cpus_allowed() locking (Peter Zijlstra) - Fix migrate_disable_switch() locking (Peter Zijlstra) - Remove double update_rq_clock() in __set_cpus_allowed_ptr_locked() (Hao Jia) - Increase sched_tick_remote timeout (Phil Auld) - sched/deadline: Use cpumask_weight_and() in dl_bw_cpus() (Shrikanth Hegde) - sched/deadline: Clean up select_task_rq_dl() (Shrikanth Hegde)" * tag 'sched-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits) sched: Provide and use set_need_resched_current() sched/fair: Proportional newidle balance sched/fair: Small cleanup to update_newidle_cost() sched/fair: Small cleanup to sched_balance_newidle() sched/fair: Revert max_newidle_lb_cost bump sched/fair: Reimplement NEXT_BUDDY to align with EEVDF goals sched/fair: Enable scheduler feature NEXT_BUDDY sched: Increase sched_tick_remote timeout sched/fair: Have SD_SERIALIZE affect newidle balancing sched/fair: Skip sched_balance_running cmpxchg when balance is not due sched/deadline: Minor cleanup in select_task_rq_dl() sched/deadline: Use cpumask_weight_and() in dl_bw_cpus sched/deadline: Document dl_server sched/deadline: Fix dl_server stop condition sched/deadline: Fix dl_server time accounting sched/core: Remove double update_rq_clock() in __set_cpus_allowed_ptr_locked() sched/eevdf: Fix min_vruntime vs avg_vruntime sched/core: Add comment explaining force-idle vruntime snapshots sched/core: Optimize core cookie matching check sched/proxy: Yield the donor task ...
2025-11-25sched/mmcid: Introduce per task/CPU ownership infrastructureThomas Gleixner1-3/+3
The MM CID management has two fundamental requirements: 1) It has to guarantee that at no given point in time the same CID is used by concurrent tasks in userspace. 2) The CID space must not exceed the number of possible CPUs in a system. While most allocators (glibc, tcmalloc, jemalloc) do not care about that, there seems to be at least librseq depending on it. The CID space compaction itself is not a functional correctness requirement, it is only a useful optimization mechanism to reduce the memory foot print in unused user space pools. The optimal CID space is: min(nr_tasks, nr_cpus_allowed); Where @nr_tasks is the number of actual user space threads associated to the mm and @nr_cpus_allowed is the superset of all task affinities. It is growth only as it would be insane to take a racy snapshot of all task affinities when the affinity of one task changes just do redo it 2 milliseconds later when the next task changes its affinity. That means that as long as the number of tasks is lower or equal than the number of CPUs allowed, each task owns a CID. If the number of tasks exceeds the number of CPUs allowed it switches to per CPU mode, where the CPUs own the CIDs and the tasks borrow them as long as they are scheduled in. For transition periods CIDs can go beyond the optimal space as long as they don't go beyond the number of possible CPUs. The current upstream implementation adds overhead into task migration to keep the CID with the task. It also has to do the CID space consolidation work from a task work in the exit to user space path. As that work is assigned to a random task related to a MM this can inflict unwanted exit latencies. This can be done differently by implementing a strict CID ownership mechanism. Either the CIDs are owned by the tasks or by the CPUs. The latter provides less locality when tasks are heavily migrating, but there is no justification to optimize for overcommit scenarios and thereby penalizing everyone else. Provide the basic infrastructure to implement this: - Change the UNSET marker to BIT(31) from ~0U - Add the ONCPU marker as BIT(30) - Add the TRANSIT marker as BIT(29) That allows to check for ownership trivially and provides a simple check for UNSET as well. The TRANSIT marker is required to prevent CID space exhaustion when switching from per CPU to per task mode. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119172549.960252358@linutronix.de
2025-11-25signal: Move MMCID exit out of sighand lockThomas Gleixner1-2/+2
There is no need anymore to keep this under sighand lock as the current code and the upcoming replacement are not depending on the exit state of a task anymore. That allows to use a mutex in the exit path. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119172549.706439391@linutronix.de
2025-11-21sched: Provide and use set_need_resched_current()Peter Zijlstra1-0/+7
set_tsk_need_resched(current) requires set_preempt_need_resched(current) to work correctly outside of the scheduler. Provide set_need_resched_current() which wraps this correctly and replace all the open coded instances. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251116174750.665769842@linutronix.de
2025-11-20sched/mmcid: Use proper data structuresThomas Gleixner1-9/+2
Having a lot of CID functionality specific members in struct task_struct and struct mm_struct is not really making the code easier to read. Encapsulate the CID specific parts in data structures and keep them separate from the stuff they are embedded in. No functional change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251119172549.131573768@linutronix.de
2025-11-11sched/deadline: Fix dl_server stop conditionPeter Zijlstra1-6/+9
Gabriel reported that the dl_server doesn't stop as expected. The problem was found to be the fact that idle time and fair runtime are treated equally. Both will count towards dl_server runtime and push the activation forwards when it is in the zero-laxity wait state. Notably: dl_server_update_idle() update_curr_dl_se() if (dl_defer && dl_throttled && dl_runtime_exceeded()) hrtimer_try_to_cancel(); // stop timer replenish_dl_new_period() deadline = now + dl_deadline; // fwd period runtime = dl_runtime; start_dl_timer(); // restart timer And while we do want idle time accounted towards the *current* activation of the dl_server -- after all, a fair task could've ran if we had any -- we don't necessarily want idle time to cause or push forward an activation. Introduce dl_defer_idle to make this distinction. It will be set once idle time pushed the activation forward, once set idle time will only be allowed to consume any runtime but not push the activation. This will then cause dl_server_timer() to fire, which will stop the dl_server. Any non-idle time accounting during this phase will clear dl_defer_idle, so only a full period of idle will cause the dl_server to stop. Reported-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251101000057.GA2184199@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
2025-11-07cgroup: Fix sleeping from invalid context warning on PREEMPT_RTTejun Heo1-1/+4
cgroup_task_dead() is called from finish_task_switch() which runs with preemption disabled and doesn't allow scheduling even on PREEMPT_RT. The function needs to acquire css_set_lock which is a regular spinlock that can sleep on RT kernels, leading to "sleeping function called from invalid context" warnings. css_set_lock is too large in scope to convert to a raw_spinlock. However, the unlinking operations don't need to run synchronously - they just need to complete after the task is done running. On PREEMPT_RT, defer the work through irq_work. While the work doesn't need to happen immediately, it can't be delayed indefinitely either as the dead task pins the cgroup and task_struct can be pinned indefinitely. Use the lazy version of irq_work to allow batching and lower impact while ensuring timely completion. v2: Use IRQ_WORK_INIT_LAZY instead of immediate irq_work and add explanation for why the work can't be delayed indefinitely (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior). Fixes: d245698d727a ("cgroup: Defer task cgroup unlink until after the task is done switching out") Reported-by: Calvin Owens <calvin@wbinvd.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251104181114.489391-1-calvin@wbinvd.org Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-11-04rseq: Provide and use rseq_set_ids()Thomas Gleixner1-10/+0
Provide a new and straight forward implementation to set the IDs (CPU ID, Node ID and MM CID), which can be later inlined into the fast path. It does all operations in one scoped_user_rw_access() section and retrieves also the critical section member (rseq::cs_rseq) from user space to avoid another user..begin/end() pair. This is in preparation for optimizing the fast path to avoid extra work when not required. On rseq registration set the CPU ID fields to RSEQ_CPU_ID_UNINITIALIZED and node and MM CID to zero. That's the same as the kernel internal reset values. That makes the debug validation in the exit code work correctly on the first exit to user space. Use it to replace the whole related zoo in rseq.c Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027084307.393972266@linutronix.de
2025-11-04sched: Move MM CID related functions to sched.hThomas Gleixner1-0/+26
There is nothing mm specific in that and including mm.h can cause header recursion hell. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027084306.778457951@linutronix.de
2025-11-04rseq: Introduce struct rseq_dataThomas Gleixner1-11/+3
In preparation for a major rewrite of this code, provide a data structure for rseq management. Put all the rseq related data into it (except for the debug part), which allows to simplify fork/execve by using memset() and memcpy() instead of adding new fields to initialize over and over. Create a storage struct for event management as well and put the sched_switch event and a indicator for RSEQ on a task into it as a start. That uses a union, which allows to mask and clear the whole lot efficiently. The indicators are explicitly not a bit field. Bit fields generate abysmal code. The boolean members are defined as u8 as that actually guarantees that it fits. There seem to be strange architecture ABIs which need more than 8 bits for a boolean. The has_rseq member is redundant vs. task::rseq, but it turns out that boolean operations and quick checks on the union generate better code than fiddling with separate entities and data types. This struct will be extended over time to carry more information. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027084306.527086690@linutronix.de
2025-11-04rseq: Simplify the event notificationThomas Gleixner1-5/+5
Since commit 0190e4198e47 ("rseq: Deprecate RSEQ_CS_FLAG_NO_RESTART_ON_* flags") the bits in task::rseq_event_mask are meaningless and just extra work in terms of setting them individually. Aside of that the only relevant point where an event has to be raised is context switch. Neither the CPU nor MM CID can change without going through a context switch. Collapse them all into a single boolean which simplifies the code a lot and remove the pointless invocations which have been sprinkled all over the place for no value. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251027084306.336978188@linutronix.de
2025-11-01genirq/manage: Reduce priority of forced secondary interrupt handlerLukas Wunner1-0/+1
Crystal reports that the PCIe Advanced Error Reporting driver gets stuck in an infinite loop on PREEMPT_RT: Both the primary interrupt handler aer_irq() as well as the secondary handler aer_isr() are forced into threads with identical priority. Crystal writes that on the ARM system in question, the primary handler has to clear an error in the Root Error Status register... "before the next error happens, or else the hardware will set the Multiple ERR_COR Received bit. If that bit is set, then aer_isr() can't rely on the Error Source Identification register, so it scans through all devices looking for errors -- and for some reason, on this system, accessing the AER registers (or any Config Space above 0x400, even though there are capabilities located there) generates an Unsupported Request Error (but returns valid data). Since this happens more than once, without aer_irq() preempting, it causes another multi error and we get stuck in a loop." The issue does not show on non-PREEMPT_RT because the primary handler runs in hardirq context and thus can preempt the threaded secondary handler, clear the Root Error Status register and prevent the secondary handler from getting stuck. Emulate the same behavior on PREEMPT_RT by assigning a lower default priority to the secondary handler if the primary handler is forced into a thread. Reported-by: Crystal Wood <crwood@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Crystal Wood <crwood@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/f6dcdb41be2694886b8dbf4fe7b3ab89e9d5114c.1761569303.git.lukas@wunner.de Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250902224441.368483-1-crwood@redhat.com/
2025-10-31bpf: Make migrate_disable always inline to avoid partial inliningYonghong Song1-2/+2
The build fails with llvm 21/22: $ make LLVM=1 -j ... LD vmlinux.o GEN .vmlinux.objs ... BTF .tmp_vmlinux1.btf.o ... AS .tmp_vmlinux2.kallsyms.o LD vmlinux.unstripped BTFIDS vmlinux.unstripped WARN: resolve_btfids: unresolved symbol migrate_enable WARN: resolve_btfids: unresolved symbol migrate_disable make[2]: *** [vmlinux.unstripped] Error 255 make[2]: *** Deleting file 'vmlinux.unstripped' make[1]: *** [Makefile:1242: vmlinux] Error 2 make: *** [Makefile:248: __sub-make] Error 2 Two functions with identical names but different addresses are considered ambiguous and removed by "pahole" from vmlinux BTF. Later resolve_btfids warns since it cannot find them. Commit 378b7708194f ("sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline") made them inlineable in most places, but in vmlinux built with llvm 21 and 22 there are four symbols for migrate_{enable,disable}: three static functions and one global function. Fix the issue by marking migrate_{enable,disable} as always inline. The alternative is to mark them as notrace/nokprobe which is more drastic. Only bpf programs are prevented from attaching to these functions. The rest of the tracing shouldn't be affected. [note: Peter ok-ed the patch, Alexei rewrote commit log] Fixes: 378b7708194f ("sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline") Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> Acked-by: Menglong Dong <menglong.dong@linux.dev> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251029183646.3811774-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-10-16sched: Add support to pick functions to take rfJoel Fernandes1-5/+2
Some pick functions like the internal pick_next_task_fair() already take rf but some others dont. We need this for scx's server pick function. Prepare for this by having pick functions accept it. [peterz: - added RETRY_TASK handling - removed pick_next_task_fair indirection] Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-10-16sched: Rename do_set_cpus_allowed()Peter Zijlstra1-2/+2
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>
2025-09-30Merge tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+118
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "Core scheduler changes: - Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline, to improve performance (Menglong Dong) - Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line (Peter Zijlstra) - Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig (Peter Zijlstra) Fair scheduling: - Defer throttling to when tasks exit to user-space, to reduce the chance & impact of throttle-preemption with held locks and other resources (Aaron Lu, Valentin Schneider) - Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl->cpumask(), as the warning was getting triggered on certain topologies (Peter Zijlstra) Misc cleanups & fixes: - Header cleanups (Menglong Dong) - Fix race in push_dl_task() (Harshit Agarwal)" * tag 'sched-core-2025-09-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: sched: Fix some typos in include/linux/preempt.h sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline rcu: Replace preempt.h with sched.h in include/linux/rcupdate.h arch: Add the macro COMPILE_OFFSETS to all the asm-offsets.c sched/fair: Do not balance task to a throttled cfs_rq sched/fair: Do not special case tasks in throttled hierarchy sched/fair: update_cfs_group() for throttled cfs_rqs sched/fair: Propagate load for throttled cfs_rq sched/fair: Get rid of throttled_lb_pair() sched/fair: Task based throttle time accounting sched/fair: Switch to task based throttle model sched/fair: Implement throttle task work and related helpers sched/fair: Add related data structure for task based throttle sched: Unify the SCHED_{SMT,CLUSTER,MC} Kconfig sched: Move STDL_INIT() functions out-of-line sched/fair: Get rid of sched_domains_curr_level hack for tl->cpumask() sched/deadline: Fix race in push_dl_task()
2025-09-25sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inlineMenglong Dong1-0/+113
For now, migrate_enable and migrate_disable are global, which makes them become hotspots in some case. Take BPF for example, the function calling to migrate_enable and migrate_disable in BPF trampoline can introduce significant overhead, and following is the 'perf top' of FENTRY's benchmark (./tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bench trig-fentry): 54.63% bpf_prog_2dcccf652aac1793_bench_trigger_fentry [k] bpf_prog_2dcccf652aac1793_bench_trigger_fentry 10.43% [kernel] [k] migrate_enable 10.07% bpf_trampoline_6442517037 [k] bpf_trampoline_6442517037 8.06% [kernel] [k] __bpf_prog_exit_recur 4.11% libc.so.6 [.] syscall 2.15% [kernel] [k] entry_SYSCALL_64 1.48% [kernel] [k] memchr_inv 1.32% [kernel] [k] fput 1.16% [kernel] [k] _copy_to_user 0.73% [kernel] [k] bpf_prog_test_run_raw_tp So in this commit, we make migrate_enable/migrate_disable inline to obtain better performance. The struct rq is defined internally in kernel/sched/sched.h, and the field "nr_pinned" is accessed in migrate_enable/migrate_disable, which makes it hard to make them inline. Alexei Starovoitov suggests to generate the offset of "nr_pinned" in [1], so we can define the migrate_enable/migrate_disable in include/linux/sched.h and access "this_rq()->nr_pinned" with "(void *)this_rq() + RQ_nr_pinned". The offset of "nr_pinned" is generated in include/generated/rq-offsets.h by kernel/sched/rq-offsets.c. Generally speaking, we move the definition of migrate_enable and migrate_disable to include/linux/sched.h from kernel/sched/core.c. The calling to __set_cpus_allowed_ptr() is leaved in ___migrate_enable(). The "struct rq" is not available in include/linux/sched.h, so we can't access the "runqueues" with this_cpu_ptr(), as the compilation will fail in this_cpu_ptr() -> raw_cpu_ptr() -> __verify_pcpu_ptr(): typeof((ptr) + 0) So we introduce the this_rq_raw() and access the runqueues with arch_raw_cpu_ptr/PERCPU_PTR directly. The variable "runqueues" is not visible in the kernel modules, and export it is not a good idea. As Peter Zijlstra advised in [2], we define and export migrate_enable/migrate_disable in kernel/sched/core.c too, and use them for the modules. Before this patch, the performance of BPF FENTRY is: fentry : 113.030 ± 0.149M/s fentry : 112.501 ± 0.187M/s fentry : 112.828 ± 0.267M/s fentry : 115.287 ± 0.241M/s After this patch, the performance of BPF FENTRY increases to: fentry : 143.644 ± 0.670M/s fentry : 149.764 ± 0.362M/s fentry : 149.642 ± 0.156M/s fentry : 145.263 ± 0.221M/s Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong <dongml2@chinatelecom.cn> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAADnVQ+5sEDKHdsJY5ZsfGDO_1SEhhQWHrt2SMBG5SYyQ+jt7w@mail.gmail.com/ [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250819123214.GH4067720@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net/ [2]
2025-09-25sched/deadline: Fix dl_server behaviourPeter Zijlstra1-1/+0
John reported undesirable behaviour with the dl_server since commit: cccb45d7c4295 ("sched/deadline: Less agressive dl_server handling"). When starving fair tasks on purpose (starting spinning FIFO tasks), his fair workload, which often goes (briefly) idle, would delay fair invocations for a second, running one invocation per second was both unexpected and terribly slow. The reason this happens is that when dl_se->server_pick_task() returns NULL, indicating no runnable tasks, it would yield, pushing any later jobs out a whole period (1 second). Instead simply stop the server. This should restore behaviour in that a later wakeup (which restarts the server) will be able to continue running (subject to the CBS wakeup rules). Notably, this does not re-introduce the behaviour cccb45d7c4295 set out to solve, any start/stop cycle is naturally throttled by the timer period (no active cancel). Fixes: cccb45d7c4295 ("sched/deadline: Less agressive dl_server handling") Reported-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
2025-09-25sched/deadline: Fix dl_server getting stuckPeter Zijlstra1-1/+0
John found it was easy to hit lockup warnings when running locktorture on a 2 CPU VM, which he bisected down to: commit cccb45d7c429 ("sched/deadline: Less agressive dl_server handling"). While debugging it seems there is a chance where we end up with the dl_server dequeued, with dl_se->dl_server_active. This causes dl_server_start() to return without enqueueing the dl_server, thus it fails to run when RT tasks starve the cpu. When this happens, dl_server_timer() catches the '!dl_se->server_has_tasks(dl_se)' case, which then calls replenish_dl_entity() and dl_server_stopped() and finally return HRTIMER_NO_RESTART. This ends in no new timer and also no enqueue, leaving the dl_server 'dead', allowing starvation. What should have happened is for the bandwidth timer to start the zero-laxity timer, which in turn would enqueue the dl_server and cause dl_se->server_pick_task() to be called -- which will stop the dl_server if no fair tasks are observed for a whole period. IOW, it is totally irrelevant if there are fair tasks at the moment of bandwidth refresh. This removes all dl_se->server_has_tasks() users, so remove the whole thing. Fixes: cccb45d7c4295 ("sched/deadline: Less agressive dl_server handling") Reported-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>