linux/kernel/kthread.c, branch v6.15

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

treewide: Introduce kthread_run_worker[_on_cpu]()

2025-01-08T17:15:03Z

kthread_create() creates a kthread without running it yet. kthread_run() creates a kthread and runs it. On the other hand, kthread_create_worker() creates a kthread worker and runs it. This difference in behaviours is confusing. Also there is no way to create a kthread worker and affine it using kthread_bind_mask() or kthread_affine_preferred() before starting it. Consolidate the behaviours and introduce kthread_run_worker[_on_cpu]() that behaves just like kthread_run(). kthread_create_worker[_on_cpu]() will now only create a kthread worker without starting it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter

kthread: Unify kthread_create_on_cpu() and kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() automatic format

2025-01-08T17:15:03Z

kthread_create_on_cpu() uses the CPU argument as an implicit and unique printf argument to add to the format whereas kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() still relies on explicitly passing the printf arguments. This difference in behaviour is error prone and doesn't help standardizing per-CPU kthread names. Unify the behaviours and convert kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() to use the printf behaviour of kthread_create_on_cpu(). Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

kthread: Implement preferred affinity

2025-01-08T17:15:03Z

Affining kthreads follow either of four 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. 2) Kthreads that _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. 3) Kthreads that prefer to be affine to a specific NUMA node. That preferred affinity is applied by default when an actual node ID is passed on kthread creation, provided the kthread is not per-CPU and no call to kthread_bind_mask() has been issued before the first wake-up. 4) Similar to the previous point but kthreads have a preferred affinity different than a node. It is set manually like 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 preferred affinity comes up. Also care must be taken so that the preferred affinity doesn't cross housekeeping cpumask boundaries. Provide a function to handle the last usecase, mostly reusing the current node default affinity infrastructure. kthread_affine_preferred() is introduced, to be used just like kthread_bind_mask(), right after kthread creation and before the first wake up. The kthread is then affine right away to the cpumask passed through the API if it has online housekeeping CPUs. Otherwise it will be affine to all online housekeeping CPUs as a last resort. As with node affinity, it is aware of CPU hotplug events such that: * When a housekeeping CPU goes up that is part of the preferred affinity of a given kthread, the related task is re-affined to that preferred affinity if it was previously running on the default last resort online housekeeping set. * When a housekeeping CPU goes down while it was part of the preferred affinity of a kthread, the running task is migrated (or the sleeping task is woken up) automatically by the scheduler to other housekeepers within the preferred affinity or, as a last resort, to all housekeepers from other nodes. Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker