user/sven/linux.git/kernel/kthread.c, branch v5.10.32

kthread: Extract KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU

2021-02-07T14:37:17Z

[ Upstream commit ac687e6e8c26181a33270efd1a2e2241377924b0 ] There is a need to distinguish geniune per-cpu kthreads from kthreads that happen to have a single CPU affinity. Geniune per-cpu kthreads are kthreads that are CPU affine for correctness, these will obviously have PF_KTHREAD set, but must also have PF_NO_SETAFFINITY set, lest userspace modify their affinity and ruins things. However, these two things are not sufficient, PF_NO_SETAFFINITY is also set on other tasks that have their affinities controlled through other means, like for instance workqueues. Therefore another bit is needed; it turns out kthread_create_per_cpu() already has such a bit: KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU, which is used to make kthread_park()/kthread_unpark() work correctly. Expose this flag and remove the implicit setting of it from kthread_create_on_cpu(); the io_uring usage of it seems dubious at best. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider Tested-by: Valentin Schneider Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210121103506.557620262@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

kthread_worker: prevent queuing delayed work from timer_fn when it is being canceled

2020-11-02T20:14:19Z

There is a small race window when a delayed work is being canceled and the work still might be queued from the timer_fn: CPU0 CPU1 kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync() __kthread_cancel_work_sync() __kthread_cancel_work() work->canceling++; kthread_delayed_work_timer_fn() kthread_insert_work(); BUG: kthread_insert_work() should not get called when work->canceling is set. Signed-off-by: Zqiang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Acked-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201014083030.16895-1-qiang.zhang@windriver.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel/: fix repeated words in comments

2020-10-16T18:11:19Z

Fix multiple occurrences of duplicated words in kernel/. Fix one typo/spello on the same line as a duplicate word. Change one instance of "the the" to "that the". Otherwise just drop one of the repeated words. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/98202fa6-8919-ef63-9efe-c0fad5ca7af1@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

uaccess: add force_uaccess_{begin,end} helpers

2020-08-12T17:57:59Z

Add helpers to wrap the get_fs/set_fs magic for undoing any damange done by set_fs(KERNEL_DS). There is no real functional benefit, but this documents the intent of these calls better, and will allow stubbing the functions out easily for kernels builds that do not allow address space overrides in the future. [hch@lst.de: drop two incorrect hunks, fix a commit log typo] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200714105505.935079-6-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Acked-by: Mark Rutland Acked-by: Greentime Hu Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Nick Hu Cc: Vincent Chen Cc: Paul Walmsley Cc: Palmer Dabbelt Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200710135706.537715-6-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kthread: remove incorrect comment in kthread_create_on_cpu()

2020-08-07T18:33:21Z

Originally kthread_create_on_cpu() parked and woke up the new thread. However, since commit a65d40961dc7 ("kthread/smpboot: do not park in kthread_create_on_cpu()") this is no longer the case. This patch removes the comment that has been left behind and is now incorrect / stale. Fixes: a65d40961dc7 ("kthread/smpboot: do not park in kthread_create_on_cpu()") Signed-off-by: Ilias Stamatis Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200611135920.240551-1-stamatis.iliass@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: fix kthread_use_mm() vs TLB invalidate

2020-08-07T18:33:21Z

For SMP systems using IPI based TLB invalidation, looking at current->active_mm is entirely reasonable. This then presents the following race condition: CPU0 CPU1 flush_tlb_mm(mm) use_mm(mm) tsk->active_mm = mm; if (tsk->active_mm == mm) // flush TLBs switch_mm(old_mm,mm,tsk); Where it is possible the IPI flushed the TLBs for @old_mm, not @mm, because the IPI lands before we actually switched. Avoid this by disabling IRQs across changing ->active_mm and switch_mm(). Of the (SMP) architectures that have IPI based TLB invalidate: Alpha - checks active_mm ARC - ASID specific IA64 - checks active_mm MIPS - ASID specific flush OpenRISC - shoots down world PARISC - shoots down world SH - ASID specific SPARC - ASID specific x86 - N/A xtensa - checks active_mm So at the very least Alpha, IA64 and Xtensa are suspect. On top of this, for scheduler consistency we need at least preemption disabled across changing tsk->mm and doing switch_mm(), which is currently provided by task_lock(), but that's not sufficient for PREEMPT_RT. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment] Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Nicholas Piggin Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Jann Horn Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200721154106.GE10769@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'sched/urgent'

2020-07-08T09:38:59Z

maccess: rename probe_kernel_{read,write} to copy_{from,to}_kernel_nofault

2020-06-17T17:57:41Z

Better describe what these functions do. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

isolcpus: Affine unbound kernel threads to housekeeping cpus

2020-06-15T12:10:03Z

This is a kernel enhancement that configures the cpu affinity of kernel threads via kernel boot option nohz_full=. When this option is specified, the cpumask is immediately applied upon kthread launch. This does not affect kernel threads that specify cpu and node. This allows CPU isolation (that is not allowing certain threads to execute on certain CPUs) without using the isolcpus=domain parameter, making it possible to enable load balancing on such CPUs during runtime (see kernel-parameters.txt). Note-1: this is based off on Wind River's patch at https://github.com/starlingx-staging/stx-integ/blob/master/kernel/kernel-std/centos/patches/affine-compute-kernel-threads.patch Difference being that this patch is limited to modifying kernel thread cpumask. Behaviour of other threads can be controlled via cgroups or sched_setaffinity. Note-2: Wind River's patch was based off Christoph Lameter's patch at https://lwn.net/Articles/565932/ with the only difference being the kernel parameter changed from kthread to kthread_cpus. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200527142909.23372-3-frederic@kernel.org

kthread: Switch to cpu_possible_mask

2020-06-15T12:10:03Z

Next patch will switch unbound kernel threads mask to housekeeping_cpumask(), a subset of cpu_possible_mask. So in order to ease bisection, lets first switch kthreads default affinity from cpu_all_mask to cpu_possible_mask. It looks safe to do so as cpu_possible_mask seem to be initialized at setup_arch() time, way before kthreadd is created. Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200527142909.23372-2-frederic@kernel.org