linux/init/init_task.c, branch v6.8

Merge tag 'header_cleanup-2024-01-10' of https://evilpiepirate.org/git/bcachefs

2024-01-11T00:43:55Z

Pull header cleanups from Kent Overstreet: "The goal is to get sched.h down to a type only header, so the main thing happening in this patchset is splitting out various _types.h headers and dependency fixups, as well as moving some things out of sched.h to better locations. This is prep work for the memory allocation profiling patchset which adds new sched.h interdepencencies" * tag 'header_cleanup-2024-01-10' of https://evilpiepirate.org/git/bcachefs: (51 commits) Kill sched.h dependency on rcupdate.h kill unnecessary thread_info.h include Kill unnecessary kernel.h include preempt.h: Kill dependency on list.h rseq: Split out rseq.h from sched.h LoongArch: signal.c: add header file to fix build error restart_block: Trim includes lockdep: move held_lock to lockdep_types.h sem: Split out sem_types.h uidgid: Split out uidgid_types.h seccomp: Split out seccomp_types.h refcount: Split out refcount_types.h uapi/linux/resource.h: fix include x86/signal: kill dependency on time.h syscall_user_dispatch.h: split out *_types.h mm_types_task.h: Trim dependencies Split out irqflags_types.h ipc: Kill bogus dependency on spinlock.h shm: Slim down dependencies workqueue: Split out workqueue_types.h ...

plist: Split out plist_types.h

2023-12-21T00:26:31Z

Trimming down sched.h dependencies: we don't want to include more than the base types. Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet

arch: remove ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK

2023-12-11T01:21:31Z

IA-64 was the only architecture which selected ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK. IA-64 was removed with commit cf8e8658100d ("arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture"). Therefore remove support for ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK as well. Note: this also reveals a potential bug in powerpc code, which makes use of __init_task_data without selecting ARCH_TASK_STRUCT_ON_STACK which makes __init_task_data a no-op. This is broken since commit d11ed3ab3166 ("Expand INIT_TASK() in init/init_task.c and remove") from 2018 and needs to be addressed separately. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231116133638.1636277-4-hca@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Michael Ellerman Cc: Nicholas Piggin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2023-11-02-14-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2023-11-03T06:53:31Z

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->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 ...

kill task_struct->thread_group

2023-10-04T17:41:56Z

The last user was removed by the previous patch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230826111409.GA23243@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

sched: Add task_struct->faults_disabled_mapping

2023-09-12T03:59:46Z

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 -> gup -> 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->invalidate_lock. mapping->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 Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Darrick J. Wong Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andreas Grünbacher

rcu-tasks: Add data structures for lightweight grace periods

2022-06-20T16:22:28Z

This commit adds fields to task_struct and to rcu_tasks_percpu that will be used to avoid the task-list scan for RCU Tasks Trace grace periods, and also initializes these fields. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Andrii Nakryiko Cc: Martin KaFai Lau Cc: KP Singh

kcsan: Remove redundant zero-initialization of globals

2021-12-10T00:42:26Z

They are implicitly zero-initialized, remove explicit initialization. It keeps the upcoming additions to kcsan_ctx consistent with the rest. No functional change intended. Signed-off-by: Marco Elver Acked-by: Mark Rutland Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

sched: Introduce task_struct::user_cpus_ptr to track requested affinity

2021-08-20T10:33:00Z

In preparation for saving and restoring the user-requested CPU affinity mask of a task, add a new cpumask_t pointer to 'struct task_struct'. If the pointer is non-NULL, then the mask is copied across fork() and freed on task exit. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730112443.23245-7-will@kernel.org

sched: Change task_struct::state

2021-06-18T09:43:09Z

Change the type and name of task_struct::state. Drop the volatile and shrink it to an 'unsigned int'. Rename it in order to find all uses such that we can use READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira Acked-by: Will Deacon Acked-by: Daniel Thompson Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210611082838.550736351@infradead.org