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<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-03-30-18-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-04-01T17:06:52Z</updated>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "powerpc/crash: use generic crashkernel reservation" from
   Sourabh Jain changes powerpc's kexec code to use more of the generic
   layers.

 - The series "get_maintainer: report subsystem status separately" from
   Vlastimil Babka makes some long-requested improvements to the
   get_maintainer output.

 - The series "ucount: Simplify refcounting with rcuref_t" from
   Sebastian Siewior cleans up and optimizing the refcounting in the
   ucount code.

 - The series "reboot: support runtime configuration of emergency
   hw_protection action" from Ahmad Fatoum improves the ability for a
   driver to perform an emergency system shutdown or reboot.

 - The series "Converge on using secs_to_jiffies() part two" from Easwar
   Hariharan performs further migrations from msecs_to_jiffies() to
   secs_to_jiffies().

 - The series "lib/interval_tree: add some test cases and cleanup" from
   Wei Yang permits more userspace testing of kernel library code, adds
   some more tests and performs some cleanups.

 - The series "hung_task: Dump the blocking task stacktrace" from Masami
   Hiramatsu arranges for the hung_task detector to dump the stack of
   the blocking task and not just that of the blocked task.

 - The series "resource: Split and use DEFINE_RES*() macros" from Andy
   Shevchenko provides some cleanups to the resource definition macros.

 - Plus the usual shower of singleton patches - please see the
   individual changelogs for details.

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-03-30-18-23' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (77 commits)
  mailmap: consolidate email addresses of Alexander Sverdlin
  fs/procfs: fix the comment above proc_pid_wchan()
  relay: use kasprintf() instead of fixed buffer formatting
  resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES()
  resource: replace open coded variants of DEFINE_RES_*_NAMED()
  resource: replace open coded variant of DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC()
  resource: split DEFINE_RES_NAMED_DESC() out of DEFINE_RES_NAMED()
  samples: add hung_task detector mutex blocking sample
  hung_task: show the blocker task if the task is hung on mutex
  kexec_core: accept unaccepted kexec segments' destination addresses
  watchdog/perf: optimize bytes copied and remove manual NUL-termination
  lib/interval_tree: fix the comment of interval_tree_span_iter_next_gap()
  lib/interval_tree: skip the check before go to the right subtree
  lib/interval_tree: add test case for span iteration
  lib/interval_tree: add test case for interval_tree_iter_xxx() helpers
  lib/rbtree: add random seed
  lib/rbtree: split tests
  lib/rbtree: enable userland test suite for rbtree related data structure
  checkpatch: describe --min-conf-desc-length
  scripts/gdb/symbols: determine KASLR offset on s390
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2025-04-01T16:29:18Z</updated>
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<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-04-01T16:29:18Z</published>
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Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "Enable strict percpu address space checks" from Uros
   Bizjak uses x86 named address space qualifiers to provide
   compile-time checking of percpu area accesses.

   This has caused a small amount of fallout - two or three issues were
   reported. In all cases the calling code was found to be incorrect.

 - The series "Some cleanup for memcg" from Chen Ridong implements some
   relatively monir cleanups for the memcontrol code.

 - The series "mm: fixes for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from David
   Hildenbrand fixes a boatload of issues which David found then using
   device-exclusive PTE entries when THP is enabled. More work is
   needed, but this makes thins better - our own HMM selftests now
   succeed.

 - The series "mm: zswap: remove z3fold and zbud" from Yosry Ahmed
   remove the z3fold and zbud implementations. They have been deprecated
   for half a year and nobody has complained.

 - The series "mm: further simplify VMA merge operation" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes implements numerous simplifications in this area. No runtime
   effects are anticipated.

 - The series "mm/madvise: remove redundant mmap_lock operations from
   process_madvise()" from SeongJae Park rationalizes the locking in the
   madvise() implementation. Performance gains of 20-25% were observed
   in one MADV_DONTNEED microbenchmark.

 - The series "Tiny cleanup and improvements about SWAP code" from
   Baoquan He contains a number of touchups to issues which Baoquan
   noticed when working on the swap code.

 - The series "mm: kmemleak: Usability improvements" from Catalin
   Marinas implements a couple of improvements to the kmemleak
   user-visible output.

 - The series "mm/damon/paddr: fix large folios access and schemes
   handling" from Usama Arif provides a couple of fixes for DAMON's
   handling of large folios.

 - The series "mm/damon/core: fix wrong and/or useless damos_walk()
   behaviors" from SeongJae Park fixes a few issues with the accuracy of
   kdamond's walking of DAMON regions.

 - The series "expose mapping wrprotect, fix fb_defio use" from Lorenzo
   Stoakes changes the interaction between framebuffer deferred-io and
   core MM. No functional changes are anticipated - this is preparatory
   work for the future removal of page structure fields.

 - The series "mm/damon: add support for hugepage_size DAMOS filter"
   from Usama Arif adds a DAMOS filter which permits the filtering by
   huge page sizes.

 - The series "mm: permit guard regions for file-backed/shmem mappings"
   from Lorenzo Stoakes extends the guard region feature from its
   present "anon mappings only" state. The feature now covers shmem and
   file-backed mappings.

 - The series "mm: batched unmap lazyfree large folios during
   reclamation" from Barry Song cleans up and speeds up the unmapping
   for pte-mapped large folios.

 - The series "reimplement per-vma lock as a refcount" from Suren
   Baghdasaryan puts the vm_lock back into the vma. Our reasons for
   pulling it out were largely bogus and that change made the code more
   messy. This patchset provides small (0-10%) improvements on one
   microbenchmark.

 - The series "Docs/mm/damon: misc DAMOS filters documentation fixes and
   improves" from SeongJae Park does some maintenance work on the DAMON
   docs.

 - The series "hugetlb/CMA improvements for large systems" from Frank
   van der Linden addresses a pile of issues which have been observed
   when using CMA on large machines.

 - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for unmapped pages"
   from SeongJae Park enables users of DMAON/DAMOS to filter my the
   page's mapped/unmapped status.

 - The series "zsmalloc/zram: there be preemption" from Sergey
   Senozhatsky teaches zram to run its compression and decompression
   operations preemptibly.

 - The series "selftests/mm: Some cleanups from trying to run them" from
   Brendan Jackman fixes a pile of unrelated issues which Brendan
   encountered while runnimg our selftests.

 - The series "fs/proc/task_mmu: add guard region bit to pagemap" from
   Lorenzo Stoakes permits userspace to use /proc/pid/pagemap to
   determine whether a particular page is a guard page.

 - The series "mm, swap: remove swap slot cache" from Kairui Song
   removes the swap slot cache from the allocation path - it simply
   wasn't being effective.

 - The series "mm: cleanups for device-exclusive entries (hmm)" from
   David Hildenbrand implements a number of unrelated cleanups in this
   code.

 - The series "mm: Rework generic PTDUMP configs" from Anshuman Khandual
   implements a number of preparatoty cleanups to the GENERIC_PTDUMP
   Kconfig logic.

 - The series "mm/damon: auto-tune aggregation interval" from SeongJae
   Park implements a feedback-driven automatic tuning feature for
   DAMON's aggregation interval tuning.

 - The series "Fix lazy mmu mode" from Ryan Roberts fixes some issues in
   powerpc, sparc and x86 lazy MMU implementations. Ryan did this in
   preparation for implementing lazy mmu mode for arm64 to optimize
   vmalloc.

 - The series "mm/page_alloc: Some clarifications for migratetype
   fallback" from Brendan Jackman reworks some commentary to make the
   code easier to follow.

 - The series "page_counter cleanup and size reduction" from Shakeel
   Butt cleans up the page_counter code and fixes a size increase which
   we accidentally added late last year.

 - The series "Add a command line option that enables control of how
   many threads should be used to allocate huge pages" from Thomas
   Prescher does that. It allows the careful operator to significantly
   reduce boot time by tuning the parallalization of huge page
   initialization.

 - The series "Fix calculations in trace_balance_dirty_pages() for cgwb"
   from Tang Yizhou fixes the tracing output from the dirty page
   balancing code.

 - The series "mm/damon: make allow filters after reject filters useful
   and intuitive" from SeongJae Park improves the handling of allow and
   reject filters. Behaviour is made more consistent and the documention
   is updated accordingly.

 - The series "Switch zswap to object read/write APIs" from Yosry Ahmed
   updates zswap to the new object read/write APIs and thus permits the
   removal of some legacy code from zpool and zsmalloc.

 - The series "Some trivial cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang does as
   it claims.

 - The series "fs/dax: Fix ZONE_DEVICE page reference counts" from
   Alistair Popple regularizes the weird ZONE_DEVICE page refcount
   handling in DAX, permittig the removal of a number of special-case
   checks.

 - The series "refactor mremap and fix bug" from Lorenzo Stoakes is a
   preparatoty refactoring and cleanup of the mremap() code.

 - The series "mm: MM owner tracking for large folios (!hugetlb) +
   CONFIG_NO_PAGE_MAPCOUNT" from David Hildenbrand reworks the manner in
   which we determine whether a large folio is known to be mapped
   exclusively into a single MM.

 - The series "mm/damon: add sysfs dirs for managing DAMOS filters based
   on handling layers" from SeongJae Park adds a couple of new sysfs
   directories to ease the management of DAMON/DAMOS filters.

 - The series "arch, mm: reduce code duplication in mem_init()" from
   Mike Rapoport consolidates many per-arch implementations of
   mem_init() into code generic code, where that is practical.

 - The series "mm/damon/sysfs: commit parameters online via
   damon_call()" from SeongJae Park continues the cleaning up of sysfs
   access to DAMON internal data.

 - The series "mm: page_ext: Introduce new iteration API" from Luiz
   Capitulino reworks the page_ext initialization to fix a boot-time
   crash which was observed with an unusual combination of compile and
   cmdline options.

 - The series "Buddy allocator like (or non-uniform) folio split" from
   Zi Yan reworks the code to split a folio into smaller folios. The
   main benefit is lessened memory consumption: fewer post-split folios
   are generated.

 - The series "Minimize xa_node allocation during xarry split" from Zi
   Yan reduces the number of xarray xa_nodes which are generated during
   an xarray split.

 - The series "drivers/base/memory: Two cleanups" from Gavin Shan
   performs some maintenance work on the drivers/base/memory code.

 - The series "Add tracepoints for lowmem reserves, watermarks and
   totalreserve_pages" from Martin Liu adds some more tracepoints to the
   page allocator code.

 - The series "mm/madvise: cleanup requests validations and
   classifications" from SeongJae Park cleans up some warts which
   SeongJae observed during his earlier madvise work.

 - The series "mm/hwpoison: Fix regressions in memory failure handling"
   from Shuai Xue addresses two quite serious regressions which Shuai
   has observed in the memory-failure implementation.

 - The series "mm: reliable huge page allocator" from Johannes Weiner
   makes huge page allocations cheaper and more reliable by reducing
   fragmentation.

 - The series "Minor memcg cleanups &amp; prep for memdescs" from Matthew
   Wilcox is preparatory work for the future implementation of memdescs.

 - The series "track memory used by balloon drivers" from Nico Pache
   introduces a way to track memory used by our various balloon drivers.

 - The series "mm/damon: introduce DAMOS filter type for active pages"
   from Nhat Pham permits users to filter for active/inactive pages,
   separately for file and anon pages.

 - The series "Adding Proactive Memory Reclaim Statistics" from Hao Jia
   separates the proactive reclaim statistics from the direct reclaim
   statistics.

 - The series "mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio" from
   Jinjiang Tu fixes our handling of hwpoisoned pages within the reclaim
   code.

* tag 'mm-stable-2025-03-30-16-52' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (431 commits)
  mm/page_alloc: remove unnecessary __maybe_unused in order_to_pindex()
  x86/mm: restore early initialization of high_memory for 32-bits
  mm/vmscan: don't try to reclaim hwpoison folio
  mm/hwpoison: introduce folio_contain_hwpoisoned_page() helper
  cgroup: docs: add pswpin and pswpout items in cgroup v2 doc
  mm: vmscan: split proactive reclaim statistics from direct reclaim statistics
  selftests/mm: speed up split_huge_page_test
  selftests/mm: uffd-unit-tests support for hugepages &gt; 2M
  docs/mm/damon/design: document active DAMOS filter type
  mm/damon: implement a new DAMOS filter type for active pages
  fs/dax: don't disassociate zero page entries
  MM documentation: add "Unaccepted" meminfo entry
  selftests/mm: add commentary about 9pfs bugs
  fork: use __vmalloc_node() for stack allocation
  docs/mm: Physical Memory: Populate the "Zones" section
  xen: balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
  hv_balloon: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
  balloon_compaction: update the NR_BALLOON_PAGES state
  meminfo: add a per node counter for balloon drivers
  mm: remove references to folio in __memcg_kmem_uncharge_page()
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'locking-urgent-2025-03-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-03-30T22:18:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-30T22:18:36Z</published>
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Pull misc locking fixes and updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Fix a locking self-test FAIL on PREEMPT_RT kernels

 - Fix nr_unused_locks accounting bug

 - Simplify the split-lock debugging feature's fast-path

* tag 'locking-urgent-2025-03-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  locking/lockdep: Decrease nr_unused_locks if lock unused in zap_class()
  lockdep: Fix wait context check on softirq for PREEMPT_RT
  x86/split_lock: Simplify reenabling
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<title>Merge tag 'bpf_res_spin_lock' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next</title>
<updated>2025-03-30T20:06:27Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-30T20:06:27Z</published>
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Pull bpf relisient spinlock support from Alexei Starovoitov:
 "This patch set introduces Resilient Queued Spin Lock (or rqspinlock
  with res_spin_lock() and res_spin_unlock() APIs).

  This is a qspinlock variant which recovers the kernel from a stalled
  state when the lock acquisition path cannot make forward progress.
  This can occur when a lock acquisition attempt enters a deadlock
  situation (e.g. AA, or ABBA), or more generally, when the owner of the
  lock (which we’re trying to acquire) isn’t making forward progress.
  Deadlock detection is the main mechanism used to provide instant
  recovery, with the timeout mechanism acting as a final line of
  defense. Detection is triggered immediately when beginning the waiting
  loop of a lock slow path.

  Additionally, BPF programs attached to different parts of the kernel
  can introduce new control flow into the kernel, which increases the
  likelihood of deadlocks in code not written to handle reentrancy.
  There have been multiple syzbot reports surfacing deadlocks in
  internal kernel code due to the diverse ways in which BPF programs can
  be attached to different parts of the kernel. By switching the BPF
  subsystem’s lock usage to rqspinlock, all of these issues are
  mitigated at runtime.

  This spin lock implementation allows BPF maps to become safer and
  remove mechanisms that have fallen short in assuring safety when
  nesting programs in arbitrary ways in the same context or across
  different contexts.

  We run benchmarks that stress locking scalability and perform
  comparison against the baseline (qspinlock). For the rqspinlock case,
  we replace the default qspinlock with it in the kernel, such that all
  spin locks in the kernel use the rqspinlock slow path. As such,
  benchmarks that stress kernel spin locks end up exercising rqspinlock.

  More details in the cover letter in commit 6ffb9017e932 ("Merge branch
  'resilient-queued-spin-lock'")"

* tag 'bpf_res_spin_lock' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (24 commits)
  selftests/bpf: Add tests for rqspinlock
  bpf: Maintain FIFO property for rqspinlock unlock
  bpf: Implement verifier support for rqspinlock
  bpf: Introduce rqspinlock kfuncs
  bpf: Convert lpm_trie.c to rqspinlock
  bpf: Convert percpu_freelist.c to rqspinlock
  bpf: Convert hashtab.c to rqspinlock
  rqspinlock: Add locktorture support
  rqspinlock: Add entry to Makefile, MAINTAINERS
  rqspinlock: Add macros for rqspinlock usage
  rqspinlock: Add basic support for CONFIG_PARAVIRT
  rqspinlock: Add a test-and-set fallback
  rqspinlock: Add deadlock detection and recovery
  rqspinlock: Protect waiters in trylock fallback from stalls
  rqspinlock: Protect waiters in queue from stalls
  rqspinlock: Protect pending bit owners from stalls
  rqspinlock: Hardcode cond_acquire loops for arm64
  rqspinlock: Add support for timeouts
  rqspinlock: Drop PV and virtualization support
  rqspinlock: Add rqspinlock.h header
  ...
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<title>locking/lockdep: Decrease nr_unused_locks if lock unused in zap_class()</title>
<updated>2025-03-27T07:23:17Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Boqun Feng</name>
<email>boqun.feng@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-26T18:08:30Z</published>
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Currently, when a lock class is allocated, nr_unused_locks will be
increased by 1, until it gets used: nr_unused_locks will be decreased by
1 in mark_lock(). However, one scenario is missed: a lock class may be
zapped without even being used once. This could result into a situation
that nr_unused_locks != 0 but no unused lock class is active in the
system, and when `cat /proc/lockdep_stats`, a WARN_ON() will
be triggered in a CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP=y kernel:

  [...] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(debug_atomic_read(nr_unused_locks) != nr_unused)
  [...] WARNING: CPU: 41 PID: 1121 at kernel/locking/lockdep_proc.c:283 lockdep_stats_show+0xba9/0xbd0

And as a result, lockdep will be disabled after this.

Therefore, nr_unused_locks needs to be accounted correctly at
zap_class() time.

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250326180831.510348-1-boqun.feng@gmail.com
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<title>hung_task: show the blocker task if the task is hung on mutex</title>
<updated>2025-03-22T05:10:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masami Hiramatsu (Google)</name>
<email>mhiramat@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-25T07:02:34Z</published>
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Patch series "hung_task: Dump the blocking task stacktrace", v4.

The hung_task detector is very useful for detecting the lockup.  However,
since it only dumps the blocked (uninterruptible sleep) processes, it is
not enough to identify the root cause of that lockup.

For example, if a process holds a mutex and sleep an event in
interruptible state long time, the other processes will wait on the mutex
in uninterruptible state.  In this case, the waiter processes are dumped,
but the blocker process is not shown because it is sleep in interruptible
state.

This adds a feature to dump the blocker task which holds a mutex
when detecting a hung task. e.g.

 INFO: task cat:115 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
       Not tainted 6.14.0-rc3-00003-ga8946be3de00 #156
 "echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
 task:cat             state:D stack:13432 pid:115   tgid:115   ppid:106    task_flags:0x400100 flags:0x00000002
 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  __schedule+0x731/0x960
  ? schedule_preempt_disabled+0x54/0xa0
  schedule+0xb7/0x140
  ? __mutex_lock+0x51b/0xa60
  ? __mutex_lock+0x51b/0xa60
  schedule_preempt_disabled+0x54/0xa0
  __mutex_lock+0x51b/0xa60
  read_dummy+0x23/0x70
  full_proxy_read+0x6a/0xc0
  vfs_read+0xc2/0x340
  ? __pfx_direct_file_splice_eof+0x10/0x10
  ? do_sendfile+0x1bd/0x2e0
  ksys_read+0x76/0xe0
  do_syscall_64+0xe3/0x1c0
  ? exc_page_fault+0xa9/0x1d0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
 RIP: 0033:0x4840cd
 RSP: 002b:00007ffe99071828 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00000000004840cd
 RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 00007ffe99071870 RDI: 0000000000000003
 RBP: 00007ffe99071870 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: 0000000001000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000001000
 R13: 00000000132fd3a0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffffffffffffff
  &lt;/TASK&gt;
 INFO: task cat:115 is blocked on a mutex likely owned by task cat:114.
 task:cat             state:S stack:13432 pid:114   tgid:114   ppid:106    task_flags:0x400100 flags:0x00000002
 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  __schedule+0x731/0x960
  ? schedule_timeout+0xa8/0x120
  schedule+0xb7/0x140
  schedule_timeout+0xa8/0x120
  ? __pfx_process_timeout+0x10/0x10
  msleep_interruptible+0x3e/0x60
  read_dummy+0x2d/0x70
  full_proxy_read+0x6a/0xc0
  vfs_read+0xc2/0x340
  ? __pfx_direct_file_splice_eof+0x10/0x10
  ? do_sendfile+0x1bd/0x2e0
  ksys_read+0x76/0xe0
  do_syscall_64+0xe3/0x1c0
  ? exc_page_fault+0xa9/0x1d0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
 RIP: 0033:0x4840cd
 RSP: 002b:00007ffe3e0147b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00000000004840cd
 RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 00007ffe3e014800 RDI: 0000000000000003
 RBP: 00007ffe3e014800 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: 0000000001000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000001000
 R13: 000000001a0a93a0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffffffffffffff
  &lt;/TASK&gt;

TBD: We can extend this feature to cover other locks like rwsem and
rt_mutex, but rwsem requires to dump all the tasks which acquire and wait
that rwsem.  We can follow the waiter link but the output will be a bit
different compared with mutex case.


This patch (of 2):

The "hung_task" shows a long-time uninterruptible slept task, but most
often, it's blocked on a mutex acquired by another task.  Without dumping
such a task, investigating the root cause of the hung task problem is very
difficult.

This introduce task_struct::blocker_mutex to point the mutex lock which
this task is waiting for.  Since the mutex has "owner" information, we can
find the owner task and dump it with hung tasks.

Note: the owner can be changed while dumping the owner task, so
this is "likely" the owner of the mutex.

With this change, the hung task shows blocker task's info like below;

 INFO: task cat:115 blocked for more than 122 seconds.
       Not tainted 6.14.0-rc3-00003-ga8946be3de00 #156
 "echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
 task:cat             state:D stack:13432 pid:115   tgid:115   ppid:106    task_flags:0x400100 flags:0x00000002
 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  __schedule+0x731/0x960
  ? schedule_preempt_disabled+0x54/0xa0
  schedule+0xb7/0x140
  ? __mutex_lock+0x51b/0xa60
  ? __mutex_lock+0x51b/0xa60
  schedule_preempt_disabled+0x54/0xa0
  __mutex_lock+0x51b/0xa60
  read_dummy+0x23/0x70
  full_proxy_read+0x6a/0xc0
  vfs_read+0xc2/0x340
  ? __pfx_direct_file_splice_eof+0x10/0x10
  ? do_sendfile+0x1bd/0x2e0
  ksys_read+0x76/0xe0
  do_syscall_64+0xe3/0x1c0
  ? exc_page_fault+0xa9/0x1d0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
 RIP: 0033:0x4840cd
 RSP: 002b:00007ffe99071828 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00000000004840cd
 RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 00007ffe99071870 RDI: 0000000000000003
 RBP: 00007ffe99071870 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: 0000000001000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000001000
 R13: 00000000132fd3a0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffffffffffffff
  &lt;/TASK&gt;
 INFO: task cat:115 is blocked on a mutex likely owned by task cat:114.
 task:cat             state:S stack:13432 pid:114   tgid:114   ppid:106    task_flags:0x400100 flags:0x00000002
 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  __schedule+0x731/0x960
  ? schedule_timeout+0xa8/0x120
  schedule+0xb7/0x140
  schedule_timeout+0xa8/0x120
  ? __pfx_process_timeout+0x10/0x10
  msleep_interruptible+0x3e/0x60
  read_dummy+0x2d/0x70
  full_proxy_read+0x6a/0xc0
  vfs_read+0xc2/0x340
  ? __pfx_direct_file_splice_eof+0x10/0x10
  ? do_sendfile+0x1bd/0x2e0
  ksys_read+0x76/0xe0
  do_syscall_64+0xe3/0x1c0
  ? exc_page_fault+0xa9/0x1d0
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
 RIP: 0033:0x4840cd
 RSP: 002b:00007ffe3e0147b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000003 RCX: 00000000004840cd
 RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 00007ffe3e014800 RDI: 0000000000000003
 RBP: 00007ffe3e014800 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
 R10: 0000000001000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000001000
 R13: 000000001a0a93a0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffffffffffffff
  &lt;/TASK&gt;

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: implement debug_show_blocker() in C rather than in CPP]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/174046694331.2194069.15472952050240807469.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/174046695384.2194069.16796289525958195643.stgit@mhiramat.tok.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang &lt;ioworker0@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Anna Schumaker &lt;anna.schumaker@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Granados &lt;joel.granados@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Kent Overstreet &lt;kent.overstreet@linux.dev&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Tomasz Figa &lt;tfiga@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Yongliang Gao &lt;leonylgao@tencent.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rqspinlock: Add locktorture support</title>
<updated>2025-03-19T15:03:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-16T04:05:34Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.stealer.net/cgit.cgi/user/sven/linux.git/commit/?id=a6884f6f1dd565be0ba1462ab1f66ba8f211d746'/>
<id>urn:sha1:a6884f6f1dd565be0ba1462ab1f66ba8f211d746</id>
<content type='text'>
Introduce locktorture support for rqspinlock using the newly added
macros as the first in-kernel user and consumer. Guard the code with
CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL ifdef since rqspinlock is not available otherwise.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250316040541.108729-19-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rqspinlock: Protect pending bit owners from stalls</title>
<updated>2025-03-19T15:03:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-16T04:05:25Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.stealer.net/cgit.cgi/user/sven/linux.git/commit/?id=337ffea51aeec0b2212d862383a04088e5c063f7'/>
<id>urn:sha1:337ffea51aeec0b2212d862383a04088e5c063f7</id>
<content type='text'>
The pending bit is used to avoid queueing in case the lock is
uncontended, and has demonstrated benefits for the 2 contender scenario,
esp. on x86. In case the pending bit is acquired and we wait for the
locked bit to disappear, we may get stuck due to the lock owner not
making progress. Hence, this waiting loop must be protected with a
timeout check.

To perform a graceful recovery once we decide to abort our lock
acquisition attempt in this case, we must unset the pending bit since we
own it. All waiters undoing their changes and exiting gracefully allows
the lock word to be restored to the unlocked state once all participants
(owner, waiters) have been recovered, and the lock remains usable.
Hence, set the pending bit back to zero before returning to the caller.

Introduce a lockevent (rqspinlock_lock_timeout) to capture timeout
event statistics.

Reviewed-by: Barret Rhoden &lt;brho@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250316040541.108729-10-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking: Allow obtaining result of arch_mcs_spin_lock_contended</title>
<updated>2025-03-19T15:03:04Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-16T04:05:19Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.stealer.net/cgit.cgi/user/sven/linux.git/commit/?id=c0149a034540ed24de0581a09983710c88253697'/>
<id>urn:sha1:c0149a034540ed24de0581a09983710c88253697</id>
<content type='text'>
To support upcoming changes that require inspecting the return value
once the conditional waiting loop in arch_mcs_spin_lock_contended
terminates, modify the macro to preserve the result of
smp_cond_load_acquire. This enables checking the return value as needed,
which will help disambiguate the MCS node’s locked state in future
patches.

Reviewed-by: Barret Rhoden &lt;brho@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250316040541.108729-4-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking: Move common qspinlock helpers to a private header</title>
<updated>2025-03-19T15:02:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi</name>
<email>memxor@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-16T04:05:18Z</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.stealer.net/cgit.cgi/user/sven/linux.git/commit/?id=ac08f68f1fe32326fbe60a02f9ff5f6749a35ab8'/>
<id>urn:sha1:ac08f68f1fe32326fbe60a02f9ff5f6749a35ab8</id>
<content type='text'>
Move qspinlock helper functions that encode, decode tail word, set and
clear the pending and locked bits, and other miscellaneous definitions
and macros to a private header. To this end, create a qspinlock.h header
file in kernel/locking. Subsequent commits will introduce a modified
qspinlock slow path function, thus moving shared code to a private
header will help minimize unnecessary code duplication.

Reviewed-by: Barret Rhoden &lt;brho@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi &lt;memxor@gmail.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250316040541.108729-3-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
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