user/sven/linux.git/kernel/kthread.c, branch v6.17.6

ipvs: Fix estimator kthreads preferred affinity

2025-08-13T06:34:33Z

The estimator kthreads' affinity are defined by sysctl overwritten preferences and applied through a plain call to the scheduler's affinity API. However since the introduction of managed kthreads preferred affinity, such a practice shortcuts the kthreads core code which eventually overwrites the target to the default unbound affinity. Fix this with using the appropriate kthread's API. Fixes: d1a89197589c ("kthread: Default affine kthread to its preferred NUMA node") Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: Julian Anastasov Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal

kthread: update comment for __to_kthread

2025-07-10T05:57:55Z

With commit 343f4c49f243 ("kthread: Don't allocate kthread_struct for init and umh") and commit 753550eb0ce1 ("fork: Explicitly set PF_KTHREAD"), umh task no longer have struct kthread and PF_KTHREAD flag. Update the comment to describe what the current rules are to detect is something is a kthread. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250620100801.23185-1-jqqlijiazi@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jiazi Li Signed-off-by: mingzhu.wang Suggested-by Eric W . Biederman Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of()

2025-06-08T07:07:37Z

Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace. [ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com

treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()

2025-04-05T08:30:12Z

timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree over and remove the historical wrapper inlines. Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kthread: Fix return value on kzalloc() failure in kthread_affine_preferred()

2025-02-04T00:42:27Z

kthread_affine_preferred() incorrectly returns 0 instead of -ENOMEM when kzalloc() fails. Return 'ret' to ensure the correct error code is propagated. Fixes: 4d13f4304fa4 ("kthread: Implement preferred affinity") Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202501301528.t0cZVbnq-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Yu-Chun Lin Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-01-24-23-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2025-01-27T01:50:53Z

Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Mainly individually changelogged singleton patches. The patch series in this pull are: - "lib min_heap: Improve min_heap safety, testing, and documentation" from Kuan-Wei Chiu provides various tightenings to the min_heap library code - "xarray: extract __xa_cmpxchg_raw" from Tamir Duberstein preforms some cleanup and Rust preparation in the xarray library code - "Update reference to include/asm-" from Geert Uytterhoeven fixes pathnames in some code comments - "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies()" from Easwar Hariharan uses the new secs_to_jiffies() in various places where that is appropriate - "ocfs2, dlmfs: convert to the new mount API" from Eric Sandeen switches two filesystems to the new mount API - "Convert ocfs2 to use folios" from Matthew Wilcox does that - "Remove get_task_comm() and print task comm directly" from Yafang Shao removes now-unneeded calls to get_task_comm() in various places - "squashfs: reduce memory usage and update docs" from Phillip Lougher implements some memory savings in squashfs and performs some maintainability work - "lib: clarify comparison function requirements" from Kuan-Wei Chiu tightens the sort code's behaviour and adds some maintenance work - "nilfs2: protect busy buffer heads from being force-cleared" from Ryusuke Konishi fixes an issues in nlifs when the fs is presented with a corrupted image - "nilfs2: fix kernel-doc comments for function return values" from Ryusuke Konishi fixes some nilfs kerneldoc - "nilfs2: fix issues with rename operations" from Ryusuke Konishi addresses some nilfs BUG_ONs which syzbot was able to trigger - "minmax.h: Cleanups and minor optimisations" from David Laight does some maintenance work on the min/max library code - "Fixes and cleanups to xarray" from Kemeng Shi does maintenance work on the xarray library code" * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-01-24-23-16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (131 commits) ocfs2: use str_yes_no() and str_no_yes() helper functions include/linux/lz4.h: add some missing macros Xarray: use xa_mark_t in xas_squash_marks() to keep code consistent Xarray: remove repeat check in xas_squash_marks() Xarray: distinguish large entries correctly in xas_split_alloc() Xarray: move forward index correctly in xas_pause() Xarray: do not return sibling entries from xas_find_marked() ipc/util.c: complete the kernel-doc function descriptions gcov: clang: use correct function param names latencytop: use correct kernel-doc format for func params minmax.h: remove some #defines that are only expanded once minmax.h: simplify the variants of clamp() minmax.h: move all the clamp() definitions after the min/max() ones minmax.h: use BUILD_BUG_ON_MSG() for the lo < hi test in clamp() minmax.h: reduce the #define expansion of min(), max() and clamp() minmax.h: update some comments minmax.h: add whitespace around operators and after commas nilfs2: do not update mtime of renamed directory that is not moved nilfs2: handle errors that nilfs_prepare_chunk() may return CREDITS: fix spelling mistake ...

kthread: correct comments before kthread_queue_work()

2025-01-25T06:47:22Z

s/kthread_worker_create/kthread_create_worker/ to avoid confusion when reading comments before kthread_queue_work(). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241224095344.GA7587@didi-ThinkCentre-M930t-N000 Signed-off-by: Tio Zhang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'kthread-for-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks

2025-01-22T01:10:05Z

Pull kthread updates from Frederic Weisbecker: "Kthreads affinity follow either of 4 existing different patterns: 1) Per-CPU kthreads must stay affine to a single CPU and never execute relevant code on any other CPU. This is currently handled by smpboot code which takes care of CPU-hotplug operations. Affinity here is a correctness constraint. 2) Some kthreads _have_ to be affine to a specific set of CPUs and can't run anywhere else. The affinity is set through kthread_bind_mask() and the subsystem takes care by itself to handle CPU-hotplug operations. Affinity here is assumed to be a correctness constraint. 3) Per-node kthreads _prefer_ to be affine to a specific NUMA node. This is not a correctness constraint but merely a preference in terms of memory locality. kswapd and kcompactd both fall into this category. The affinity is set manually like for any other task and CPU-hotplug is supposed to be handled by the relevant subsystem so that the task is properly reaffined whenever a given CPU from the node comes up. Also care should be taken so that the node affinity doesn't cross isolated (nohz_full) cpumask boundaries. 4) Similar to the previous point except kthreads have a _preferred_ affinity different than a node. Both RCU boost kthreads and RCU exp kworkers fall into this category as they refer to "RCU nodes" from a distinctly distributed tree. Currently the preferred affinity patterns (3 and 4) have at least 4 identified users, with more or less success when it comes to handle CPU-hotplug operations and CPU isolation. Each of which do it in its own ad-hoc way. This is an infrastructure proposal to handle this with the following API changes: - kthread_create_on_node() automatically affines the created kthread to its target node unless it has been set as per-cpu or bound with kthread_bind[_mask]() before the first wake-up. - kthread_affine_preferred() is a new function that can be called right after kthread_create_on_node() to specify a preferred affinity different than the specified node. When the preferred affinity can't be applied because the possible targets are offline or isolated (nohz_full), the kthread is affine to the housekeeping CPUs (which means to all online CPUs most of the time or only the non-nohz_full CPUs when nohz_full= is set). kswapd, kcompactd, RCU boost kthreads and RCU exp kworkers have been converted, along with a few old drivers. Summary of the changes: - Consolidate a bunch of ad-hoc implementations of kthread_run_on_cpu() - Introduce task_cpu_fallback_mask() that defines the default last resort affinity of a task to become nohz_full aware - Add some correctness check to ensure kthread_bind() is always called before the first kthread wake up. - Default affine kthread to its preferred node. - Convert kswapd / kcompactd and remove their halfway working ad-hoc affinity implementation - Implement kthreads preferred affinity - Unify kthread worker and kthread API's style - Convert RCU kthreads to the new API and remove the ad-hoc affinity implementation" * tag 'kthread-for-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks: kthread: modify kernel-doc function name to match code rcu: Use kthread preferred affinity for RCU exp kworkers treewide: Introduce kthread_run_worker[_on_cpu]() kthread: Unify kthread_create_on_cpu() and kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() automatic format rcu: Use kthread preferred affinity for RCU boost kthread: Implement preferred affinity mm: Create/affine kswapd to its preferred node mm: Create/affine kcompactd to its preferred node kthread: Default affine kthread to its preferred NUMA node kthread: Make sure kthread hasn't started while binding it sched,arm64: Handle CPU isolation on last resort fallback rq selection arm64: Exclude nohz_full CPUs from 32bits el0 support lib: test_objpool: Use kthread_run_on_cpu() kallsyms: Use kthread_run_on_cpu() soc/qman: test: Use kthread_run_on_cpu() arm/bL_switcher: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()

Merge tag 'execve-v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

2025-01-20T21:27:58Z

Pull execve updates from Kees Cook: - fix up /proc/pid/comm in the execveat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) case (Tycho Andersen, Kees Cook) - binfmt_misc: Fix comment typos (Christophe JAILLET) - move empty argv[0] warning closer to actual logic (Nir Lichtman) - remove legacy custom binfmt modules autoloading (Nir Lichtman) - Make sure set_task_comm() always NUL-terminates - binfmt_flat: Fix integer overflow bug on 32 bit systems (Dan Carpenter) - coredump: Do not lock when copying "comm" - MAINTAINERS: add auxvec.h and set myself as maintainer * tag 'execve-v6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: binfmt_flat: Fix integer overflow bug on 32 bit systems selftests/exec: add a test for execveat()'s comm exec: fix up /proc/pid/comm in the execveat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) case exec: Make sure task->comm is always NUL-terminated exec: remove legacy custom binfmt modules autoloading exec: move warning of null argv to be next to the relevant code fs: binfmt: Fix a typo MAINTAINERS: exec: Mark Kees as maintainer MAINTAINERS: exec: Add auxvec.h UAPI coredump: Do not lock during 'comm' reporting

kthread: modify kernel-doc function name to match code

2025-01-13T10:33:26Z

kthread.c:1073: warning: expecting prototype for kthread_create_worker(). Prototype was for kthread_create_worker_on_node() instead Fixes: 41f70d8e1634 ("kthread: Unify kthread_create_on_cpu() and kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() automatic format") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker