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<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-11-03T06:53:31Z</updated>
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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-&gt;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
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2023-11-03T05:38:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-03T05:38:47Z</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are
  included in this merge do the following:

   - Kemeng Shi has contributed some compation maintenance work in the
     series 'Fixes and cleanups to compaction'

   - Joel Fernandes has a patchset ('Optimize mremap during mutual
     alignment within PMD') which fixes an obscure issue with mremap()'s
     pagetable handling during a subsequent exec(), based upon an
     implementation which Linus suggested

   - More DAMON/DAMOS maintenance and feature work from SeongJae Park i
     the following patch series:

	mm/damon: misc fixups for documents, comments and its tracepoint
	mm/damon: add a tracepoint for damos apply target regions
	mm/damon: provide pseudo-moving sum based access rate
	mm/damon: implement DAMOS apply intervals
	mm/damon/core-test: Fix memory leaks in core-test
	mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: Do DAMOS tried regions update for only one apply interval

   - In the series 'Do not try to access unaccepted memory' Adrian
     Hunter provides some fixups for the recently-added 'unaccepted
     memory' feature. To increase the feature's checking coverage. 'Plug
     a few gaps where RAM is exposed without checking if it is
     unaccepted memory'

   - In the series 'cleanups for lockless slab shrink' Qi Zheng has done
     some maintenance work which is preparation for the lockless slab
     shrinking code

   - Qi Zheng has redone the earlier (and reverted) attempt to make slab
     shrinking lockless in the series 'use refcount+RCU method to
     implement lockless slab shrink'

   - David Hildenbrand contributes some maintenance work for the rmap
     code in the series 'Anon rmap cleanups'

   - Kefeng Wang does more folio conversions and some maintenance work
     in the migration code. Series 'mm: migrate: more folio conversion
     and unification'

   - Matthew Wilcox has fixed an issue in the buffer_head code which was
     causing long stalls under some heavy memory/IO loads. Some cleanups
     were added on the way. Series 'Add and use bdev_getblk()'

   - In the series 'Use nth_page() in place of direct struct page
     manipulation' Zi Yan has fixed a potential issue with the direct
     manipulation of hugetlb page frames

   - In the series 'mm: hugetlb: Skip initialization of gigantic tail
     struct pages if freed by HVO' has improved our handling of gigantic
     pages in the hugetlb vmmemmep optimizaton code. This provides
     significant boot time improvements when significant amounts of
     gigantic pages are in use

   - Matthew Wilcox has sent the series 'Small hugetlb cleanups' - code
     rationalization and folio conversions in the hugetlb code

   - Yin Fengwei has improved mlock()'s handling of large folios in the
     series 'support large folio for mlock'

   - In the series 'Expose swapcache stat for memcg v1' Liu Shixin has
     added statistics for memcg v1 users which are available (and
     useful) under memcg v2

   - Florent Revest has enhanced the MDWE (Memory-Deny-Write-Executable)
     prctl so that userspace may direct the kernel to not automatically
     propagate the denial to child processes. The series is named 'MDWE
     without inheritance'

   - Kefeng Wang has provided the series 'mm: convert numa balancing
     functions to use a folio' which does what it says

   - In the series 'mm/ksm: add fork-exec support for prctl' Stefan
     Roesch makes is possible for a process to propagate KSM treatment
     across exec()

   - Huang Ying has enhanced memory tiering's calculation of memory
     distances. This is used to permit the dax/kmem driver to use 'high
     bandwidth memory' in addition to Optane Data Center Persistent
     Memory Modules (DCPMM). The series is named 'memory tiering:
     calculate abstract distance based on ACPI HMAT'

   - In the series 'Smart scanning mode for KSM' Stefan Roesch has
     optimized KSM by teaching it to retain and use some historical
     information from previous scans

   - Yosry Ahmed has fixed some inconsistencies in memcg statistics in
     the series 'mm: memcg: fix tracking of pending stats updates
     values'

   - In the series 'Implement IOCTL to get and optionally clear info
     about PTEs' Peter Xu has added an ioctl to /proc/&lt;pid&gt;/pagemap
     which permits us to atomically read-then-clear page softdirty
     state. This is mainly used by CRIU

   - Hugh Dickins contributed the series 'shmem,tmpfs: general
     maintenance', a bunch of relatively minor maintenance tweaks to
     this code

   - Matthew Wilcox has increased the use of the VMA lock over
     file-backed page faults in the series 'Handle more faults under the
     VMA lock'. Some rationalizations of the fault path became possible
     as a result

   - In the series 'mm/rmap: convert page_move_anon_rmap() to
     folio_move_anon_rmap()' David Hildenbrand has implemented some
     cleanups and folio conversions

   - In the series 'various improvements to the GUP interface' Lorenzo
     Stoakes has simplified and improved the GUP interface with an eye
     to providing groundwork for future improvements

   - Andrey Konovalov has sent along the series 'kasan: assorted fixes
     and improvements' which does those things

   - Some page allocator maintenance work from Kemeng Shi in the series
     'Two minor cleanups to break_down_buddy_pages'

   - In thes series 'New selftest for mm' Breno Leitao has developed
     another MM self test which tickles a race we had between madvise()
     and page faults

   - In the series 'Add folio_end_read' Matthew Wilcox provides cleanups
     and an optimization to the core pagecache code

   - Nhat Pham has added memcg accounting for hugetlb memory in the
     series 'hugetlb memcg accounting'

   - Cleanups and rationalizations to the pagemap code from Lorenzo
     Stoakes, in the series 'Abstract vma_merge() and split_vma()'

   - Audra Mitchell has fixed issues in the procfs page_owner code's new
     timestamping feature which was causing some misbehaviours. In the
     series 'Fix page_owner's use of free timestamps'

   - Lorenzo Stoakes has fixed the handling of new mappings of sealed
     files in the series 'permit write-sealed memfd read-only shared
     mappings'

   - Mike Kravetz has optimized the hugetlb vmemmap optimization in the
     series 'Batch hugetlb vmemmap modification operations'

   - Some buffer_head folio conversions and cleanups from Matthew Wilcox
     in the series 'Finish the create_empty_buffers() transition'

   - As a page allocator performance optimization Huang Ying has added
     automatic tuning to the allocator's per-cpu-pages feature, in the
     series 'mm: PCP high auto-tuning'

   - Roman Gushchin has contributed the patchset 'mm: improve
     performance of accounted kernel memory allocations' which improves
     their performance by ~30% as measured by a micro-benchmark

   - folio conversions from Kefeng Wang in the series 'mm: convert page
     cpupid functions to folios'

   - Some kmemleak fixups in Liu Shixin's series 'Some bugfix about
     kmemleak'

   - Qi Zheng has improved our handling of memoryless nodes by keeping
     them off the allocation fallback list. This is done in the series
     'handle memoryless nodes more appropriately'

   - khugepaged conversions from Vishal Moola in the series 'Some
     khugepaged folio conversions'"

[ bcachefs conflicts with the dynamically allocated shrinkers have been
  resolved as per Stephen Rothwell in

     https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230913093553.4290421e@canb.auug.org.au/

  with help from Qi Zheng.

  The clone3 test filtering conflict was half-arsed by yours truly ]

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-11-01-14-33' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (406 commits)
  mm/damon/sysfs: update monitoring target regions for online input commit
  mm/damon/sysfs: remove requested targets when online-commit inputs
  selftests: add a sanity check for zswap
  Documentation: maple_tree: fix word spelling error
  mm/vmalloc: fix the unchecked dereference warning in vread_iter()
  zswap: export compression failure stats
  Documentation: ubsan: drop "the" from article title
  mempolicy: migration attempt to match interleave nodes
  mempolicy: mmap_lock is not needed while migrating folios
  mempolicy: alloc_pages_mpol() for NUMA policy without vma
  mm: add page_rmappable_folio() wrapper
  mempolicy: remove confusing MPOL_MF_LAZY dead code
  mempolicy: mpol_shared_policy_init() without pseudo-vma
  mempolicy trivia: use pgoff_t in shared mempolicy tree
  mempolicy trivia: slightly more consistent naming
  mempolicy trivia: delete those ancient pr_debug()s
  mempolicy: fix migrate_pages(2) syscall return nr_failed
  kernfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy hooks
  hugetlbfs: drop shared NUMA mempolicy pretence
  mm/damon/sysfs-test: add a unit test for damon_sysfs_set_targets()
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2023-10-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-10-30T23:12:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-30T23:12:15Z</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Fair scheduler (SCHED_OTHER) improvements:
   - Remove the old and now unused SIS_PROP code &amp; option
   - Scan cluster before LLC in the wake-up path
   - Use candidate prev/recent_used CPU if scanning failed for cluster
     wakeup

  NUMA scheduling improvements:
   - Improve the VMA access-PID code to better skip/scan VMAs
   - Extend tracing to cover VMA-skipping decisions
   - Improve/fix the recently introduced sched_numa_find_nth_cpu() code
   - Generalize numa_map_to_online_node()

  Energy scheduling improvements:
   - Remove the EM_MAX_COMPLEXITY limit
   - Add tracepoints to track energy computation
   - Make the behavior of the 'sched_energy_aware' sysctl more
     consistent
   - Consolidate and clean up access to a CPU's max compute capacity
   - Fix uclamp code corner cases

  RT scheduling improvements:
   - Drive dl_rq-&gt;overloaded with dl_rq-&gt;pushable_dl_tasks updates
   - Drive the -&gt;rto_mask with rt_rq-&gt;pushable_tasks updates

  Scheduler scalability improvements:
   - Rate-limit updates to tg-&gt;load_avg
   - On x86 disable IBRS when CPU is offline to improve single-threaded
     performance
   - Micro-optimize in_task() and in_interrupt()
   - Micro-optimize the PSI code
   - Avoid updating PSI triggers and -&gt;rtpoll_total when there are no
     state changes

  Core scheduler infrastructure improvements:
   - Use saved_state to reduce some spurious freezer wakeups
   - Bring in a handful of fast-headers improvements to scheduler
     headers
   - Make the scheduler UAPI headers more widely usable by user-space
   - Simplify the control flow of scheduler syscalls by using lock
     guards
   - Fix sched_setaffinity() vs. CPU hotplug race

  Scheduler debuggability improvements:
   - Disallow writing invalid values to sched_rt_period_us
   - Fix a race in the rq-clock debugging code triggering warnings
   - Fix a warning in the bandwidth distribution code
   - Micro-optimize in_atomic_preempt_off() checks
   - Enforce that the tasklist_lock is held in for_each_thread()
   - Print the TGID in sched_show_task()
   - Remove the /proc/sys/kernel/sched_child_runs_first sysctl

  ... and misc cleanups &amp; fixes"

* tag 'sched-core-2023-10-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (82 commits)
  sched/fair: Remove SIS_PROP
  sched/fair: Use candidate prev/recent_used CPU if scanning failed for cluster wakeup
  sched/fair: Scan cluster before scanning LLC in wake-up path
  sched: Add cpus_share_resources API
  sched/core: Fix RQCF_ACT_SKIP leak
  sched/fair: Remove unused 'curr' argument from pick_next_entity()
  sched/nohz: Update comments about NEWILB_KICK
  sched/fair: Remove duplicate #include
  sched/psi: Update poll =&gt; rtpoll in relevant comments
  sched: Make PELT acronym definition searchable
  sched: Fix stop_one_cpu_nowait() vs hotplug
  sched/psi: Bail out early from irq time accounting
  sched/topology: Rename 'DIE' domain to 'PKG'
  sched/psi: Delete the 'update_total' function parameter from update_triggers()
  sched/psi: Avoid updating PSI triggers and -&gt;rtpoll_total when there are no state changes
  sched/headers: Remove comment referring to rq::cpu_load, since this has been removed
  sched/numa: Complete scanning of inactive VMAs when there is no alternative
  sched/numa: Complete scanning of partial VMAs regardless of PID activity
  sched/numa: Move up the access pid reset logic
  sched/numa: Trace decisions related to skipping VMAs
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'locking-core-2023-10-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-10-30T22:38:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-30T22:38:48Z</published>
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Pull locking updates from Info Molnar:
 "Futex improvements:

   - Add the 'futex2' syscall ABI, which is an attempt to get away from
     the multiplex syscall and adds a little room for extentions, while
     lifting some limitations.

   - Fix futex PI recursive rt_mutex waiter state bug

   - Fix inter-process shared futexes on no-MMU systems

   - Use folios instead of pages

  Micro-optimizations of locking primitives:

   - Improve arch_spin_value_unlocked() on asm-generic ticket spinlock
     architectures, to improve lockref code generation

   - Improve the x86-32 lockref_get_not_zero() main loop by adding
     build-time CMPXCHG8B support detection for the relevant lockref
     code, and by better interfacing the CMPXCHG8B assembly code with
     the compiler

   - Introduce arch_sync_try_cmpxchg() on x86 to improve
     sync_try_cmpxchg() code generation. Convert some sync_cmpxchg()
     users to sync_try_cmpxchg().

   - Micro-optimize rcuref_put_slowpath()

  Locking debuggability improvements:

   - Improve CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES=y to have a fast-path as well

   - Enforce atomicity of sched_submit_work(), which is de-facto atomic
     but was un-enforced previously.

   - Extend &lt;linux/cleanup.h&gt;'s no_free_ptr() with __must_check
     semantics

   - Fix ww_mutex self-tests

   - Clean up const-propagation in &lt;linux/seqlock.h&gt; and simplify the
     API-instantiation macros a bit

  RT locking improvements:

   - Provide the rt_mutex_*_schedule() primitives/helpers and use them
     in the rtmutex code to avoid recursion vs. rtlock on the PI state.

   - Add nested blocking lockdep asserts to rt_mutex_lock(),
     rtlock_lock() and rwbase_read_lock()

  .. plus misc fixes &amp; cleanups"

* tag 'locking-core-2023-10-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits)
  futex: Don't include process MM in futex key on no-MMU
  locking/seqlock: Fix grammar in comment
  alpha: Fix up new futex syscall numbers
  locking/seqlock: Propagate 'const' pointers within read-only methods, remove forced type casts
  locking/lockdep: Fix string sizing bug that triggers a format-truncation compiler-warning
  locking/seqlock: Change __seqprop() to return the function pointer
  locking/seqlock: Simplify SEQCOUNT_LOCKNAME()
  locking/atomics: Use atomic_try_cmpxchg_release() to micro-optimize rcuref_put_slowpath()
  locking/atomic, xen: Use sync_try_cmpxchg() instead of sync_cmpxchg()
  locking/atomic/x86: Introduce arch_sync_try_cmpxchg()
  locking/atomic: Add generic support for sync_try_cmpxchg() and its fallback
  locking/seqlock: Fix typo in comment
  futex/requeue: Remove unnecessary ‘NULL’ initialization from futex_proxy_trylock_atomic()
  locking/local, arch: Rewrite local_add_unless() as a static inline function
  locking/debug: Fix debugfs API return value checks to use IS_ERR()
  locking/ww_mutex/test: Make sure we bail out instead of livelock
  locking/ww_mutex/test: Fix potential workqueue corruption
  locking/ww_mutex/test: Use prng instead of rng to avoid hangs at bootup
  futex: Add sys_futex_requeue()
  futex: Add flags2 argument to futex_requeue()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm: kmem: add direct objcg pointer to task_struct</title>
<updated>2023-10-25T23:47:11Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Roman Gushchin</name>
<email>roman.gushchin@linux.dev</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-19T22:53:42Z</published>
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To charge a freshly allocated kernel object to a memory cgroup, the kernel
needs to obtain an objcg pointer.  Currently it does it indirectly by
obtaining the memcg pointer first and then calling to
__get_obj_cgroup_from_memcg().

Usually tasks spend their entire life belonging to the same object cgroup.
So it makes sense to save the objcg pointer on task_struct directly, so
it can be obtained faster.  It requires some work on fork, exit and cgroup
migrate paths, but these paths are way colder.

To avoid any costly synchronization the following rules are applied:
1) A task sets it's objcg pointer itself.

2) If a task is being migrated to another cgroup, the least
   significant bit of the objcg pointer is set atomically.

3) On the allocation path the objcg pointer is obtained locklessly
   using the READ_ONCE() macro and the least significant bit is
   checked. If it's set, the following procedure is used to update
   it locklessly:
       - task-&gt;objcg is zeroed using cmpxcg
       - new objcg pointer is obtained
       - task-&gt;objcg is updated using try_cmpxchg
       - operation is repeated if try_cmpxcg fails
   It guarantees that no updates will be lost if task migration
   is racing against objcg pointer update. It also allows to keep
   both read and write paths fully lockless.

Because the task is keeping a reference to the objcg, it can't go away
while the task is alive.

This commit doesn't change the way the remote memcg charging works.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231019225346.1822282-3-roman.gushchin@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin (Cruise) &lt;roman.gushchin@linux.dev&gt;
Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju &lt;naresh.kamboju@linaro.org&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Muchun Song &lt;muchun.song@linux.dev&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kill task_struct-&gt;thread_group</title>
<updated>2023-10-04T17:41:56Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Oleg Nesterov</name>
<email>oleg@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-26T11:14:09Z</published>
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The last user was removed by the previous patch.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230826111409.GA23243@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/headers: Move 'struct sched_param' out of uapi, to work around glibc/musl breakage</title>
<updated>2023-10-02T18:48:16Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kir Kolyshkin</name>
<email>kolyshkin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-08T03:03:57Z</published>
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Both glibc and musl define 'struct sched_param' in sched.h, while kernel
has it in uapi/linux/sched/types.h, making it cumbersome to use
sched_getattr(2) or sched_setattr(2) from userspace.

For example, something like this:

	#include &lt;sched.h&gt;
	#include &lt;linux/sched/types.h&gt;

	struct sched_attr sa;

will result in "error: redefinition of ‘struct sched_param’" (note the
code doesn't need sched_param at all -- it needs struct sched_attr
plus some stuff from sched.h).

The situation is, glibc is not going to provide a wrapper for
sched_{get,set}attr, thus the need to include linux/sched_types.h
directly, which leads to the above problem.

Thus, the userspace is left with a few sub-par choices when it wants to
use e.g. sched_setattr(2), such as maintaining a copy of struct
sched_attr definition, or using some other ugly tricks.

OTOH, 'struct sched_param' is well known, defined in POSIX, and it won't
be ever changed (as that would break backward compatibility).

So, while 'struct sched_param' is indeed part of the kernel uapi,
exposing it the way it's done now creates an issue, and hiding it
(like this patch does) fixes that issue, hopefully without creating
another one: common userspace software rely on libc headers, and as
for "special" software (like libc), it looks like glibc and musl
do not rely on kernel headers for 'struct sched_param' definition
(but let's Cc their mailing lists in case it's otherwise).

The alternative to this patch would be to move struct sched_attr to,
say, linux/sched.h, or linux/sched/attr.h (the new file).

Oh, and here is the previous attempt to fix the issue:

  https://lore.kernel.org/all/20200528135552.GA87103@google.com/

While I support Linus arguments, the issue is still here
and needs to be fixed.

[ mingo: Linus is right, this shouldn't be needed - but on the other
         hand I agree that this header is not really helpful to
	 user-space as-is. So let's pretend that
	 &lt;uapi/linux/sched/types.h&gt; is only about sched_attr, and
	 call this commit a workaround for user-space breakage
	 that it in reality is ... Also, remove the Fixes tag. ]

Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin &lt;kolyshkin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230808030357.1213829-1-kolyshkin@gmail.com
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<title>sched: Provide rt_mutex specific scheduler helpers</title>
<updated>2023-09-20T07:31:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-08T16:22:51Z</published>
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With PREEMPT_RT there is a rt_mutex recursion problem where
sched_submit_work() can use an rtlock (aka spinlock_t). More
specifically what happens is:

  mutex_lock() /* really rt_mutex */
    ...
      __rt_mutex_slowlock_locked()
	task_blocks_on_rt_mutex()
          // enqueue current task as waiter
          // do PI chain walk
        rt_mutex_slowlock_block()
          schedule()
            sched_submit_work()
              ...
              spin_lock() /* really rtlock */
                ...
                  __rt_mutex_slowlock_locked()
                    task_blocks_on_rt_mutex()
                      // enqueue current task as waiter *AGAIN*
                      // *CONFUSION*

Fix this by making rt_mutex do the sched_submit_work() early, before
it enqueues itself as a waiter -- before it even knows *if* it will
wait.

[[ basically Thomas' patch but with different naming and a few asserts
   added ]]

Originally-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230908162254.999499-5-bigeasy@linutronix.de
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched/core: Remove ifdeffery for saved_state</title>
<updated>2023-09-18T06:13:57Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Elliot Berman</name>
<email>quic_eberman@quicinc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-08T22:49:15Z</published>
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In preparation for freezer to also use saved_state, remove the
CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT compilation guard around saved_state.

On the arm64 platform I tested which did not have CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT,
there was no statistically significant deviation by applying this patch.

Test methodology:

perf bench sched message -g 40 -l 40

Signed-off-by: Elliot Berman &lt;quic_eberman@quicinc.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched: Add task_struct-&gt;faults_disabled_mapping</title>
<updated>2023-09-12T03:59:46Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kent Overstreet</name>
<email>kent.overstreet@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-16T19:03:50Z</published>
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There has been a long standing page cache coherence bug with direct IO.
This provides part of a mechanism to fix it, currently just used by
bcachefs but potentially worth promoting to the VFS.

Direct IO evicts the range of the pagecache being read or written to.

For reads, we need dirty pages to be written to disk, so that the read
doesn't return stale data. For writes, we need to evict that range of
the pagecache so that it's not stale after the write completes.

However, without a locking mechanism to prevent those pages from being
re-added to the pagecache - by a buffered read or page fault - page
cache inconsistency is still possible.

This isn't necessarily just an issue for userspace when they're playing
games; filesystems may hang arbitrary state off the pagecache, and so
page cache inconsistency may cause real filesystem bugs, depending on
the filesystem. This is less of an issue for iomap based filesystems,
but e.g. buffer heads caches disk block mappings (!) and attaches them
to the pagecache, and bcachefs attaches disk reservations to pagecache
pages.

This issue has been hard to fix, because
 - we need to add a lock (henceforth called pagecache_add_lock), which
   would be held for the duration of the direct IO
 - page faults add pages to the page cache, thus need to take the same
   lock
 - dio -&gt; gup -&gt; page fault thus can deadlock

And we cannot enforce a lock ordering with this lock, since userspace
will be controlling the lock ordering (via the fd and buffer arguments
to direct IOs), so we need a different method of deadlock avoidance.

We need to tell the page fault handler that we're already holding a
pagecache_add_lock, and since plumbing it through the entire gup() path
would be highly impractical this adds a field to task_struct.

Then the full method is:
 - in the dio path, when we first take the pagecache_add_lock, note the
   mapping in the current task_struct
 - in the page fault handler, if faults_disabled_mapping is set, we
   check if it's the same mapping as the one we're taking a page fault
   for, and if so return an error.

   Then we check lock ordering: if there's a lock ordering violation and
   trylock fails, we'll have to cycle the locks and return an error that
   tells the DIO path to retry: faults_disabled_mapping is also used for
   signalling "locks were dropped, please retry".

Also relevant to this patch: mapping-&gt;invalidate_lock.
mapping-&gt;invalidate_lock provides most of the required semantics - it's
used by truncate/fallocate to block pages being added to the pagecache.
However, since it's a rwsem, direct IOs would need to take the write
side in order to block page cache adds, and would then be exclusive with
each other - we'll need a new type of lock to pair with this approach.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andreas Grünbacher &lt;andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com&gt;
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