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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'wq-for-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq</title>
<updated>2023-06-27T23:32:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-27T23:32:52+00:00</published>
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Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:

 - Concurrency-managed per-cpu work items that hog CPUs and delay the
   execution of other work items are now automatically detected and
   excluded from concurrency management. Reporting on such work items
   can also be enabled through a config option.

 - Added tools/workqueue/wq_monitor.py which improves visibility into
   workqueue usages and behaviors.

 - Arnd's minimal fix for gcc-13 enum warning on 32bit compiles,
   superseded by commit afa4bb778e48 in mainline.

* tag 'wq-for-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: Disable per-cpu CPU hog detection when wq_cpu_intensive_thresh_us is 0
  workqueue: Fix WARN_ON_ONCE() triggers in worker_enter_idle()
  workqueue: fix enum type for gcc-13
  workqueue: Track and monitor per-workqueue CPU time usage
  workqueue: Report work funcs that trigger automatic CPU_INTENSIVE mechanism
  workqueue: Automatically mark CPU-hogging work items CPU_INTENSIVE
  workqueue: Improve locking rule description for worker fields
  workqueue: Move worker_set/clr_flags() upwards
  workqueue: Re-order struct worker fields
  workqueue: Add pwq-&gt;stats[] and a monitoring script
  Further upgrade queue_work_on() comment
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Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:

 - Concurrency-managed per-cpu work items that hog CPUs and delay the
   execution of other work items are now automatically detected and
   excluded from concurrency management. Reporting on such work items
   can also be enabled through a config option.

 - Added tools/workqueue/wq_monitor.py which improves visibility into
   workqueue usages and behaviors.

 - Arnd's minimal fix for gcc-13 enum warning on 32bit compiles,
   superseded by commit afa4bb778e48 in mainline.

* tag 'wq-for-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: Disable per-cpu CPU hog detection when wq_cpu_intensive_thresh_us is 0
  workqueue: Fix WARN_ON_ONCE() triggers in worker_enter_idle()
  workqueue: fix enum type for gcc-13
  workqueue: Track and monitor per-workqueue CPU time usage
  workqueue: Report work funcs that trigger automatic CPU_INTENSIVE mechanism
  workqueue: Automatically mark CPU-hogging work items CPU_INTENSIVE
  workqueue: Improve locking rule description for worker fields
  workqueue: Move worker_set/clr_flags() upwards
  workqueue: Re-order struct worker fields
  workqueue: Add pwq-&gt;stats[] and a monitoring script
  Further upgrade queue_work_on() comment
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'locking-core-2023-06-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-06-27T21:14:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-27T21:14:30+00:00</published>
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Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Introduce cmpxchg128() -- aka. the demise of cmpxchg_double()

   The cmpxchg128() family of functions is basically &amp; functionally the
   same as cmpxchg_double(), but with a saner interface.

   Instead of a 6-parameter horror that forced u128 - u64/u64-halves
   layout details on the interface and exposed users to complexity,
   fragility &amp; bugs, use a natural 3-parameter interface with u128
   types.

 - Restructure the generated atomic headers, and add kerneldoc comments
   for all of the generic atomic{,64,_long}_t operations.

   The generated definitions are much cleaner now, and come with
   documentation.

 - Implement lock_set_cmp_fn() on lockdep, for defining an ordering when
   taking multiple locks of the same type.

   This gets rid of one use of lockdep_set_novalidate_class() in the
   bcache code.

 - Fix raw_cpu_generic_try_cmpxchg() bug due to an unintended variable
   shadowing generating garbage code on Clang on certain ARM builds.

* tag 'locking-core-2023-06-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (43 commits)
  locking/atomic: scripts: fix ${atomic}_dec_if_positive() kerneldoc
  percpu: Fix self-assignment of __old in raw_cpu_generic_try_cmpxchg()
  locking/atomic: treewide: delete arch_atomic_*() kerneldoc
  locking/atomic: docs: Add atomic operations to the driver basic API documentation
  locking/atomic: scripts: generate kerneldoc comments
  docs: scripts: kernel-doc: accept bitwise negation like ~@var
  locking/atomic: scripts: simplify raw_atomic*() definitions
  locking/atomic: scripts: simplify raw_atomic_long*() definitions
  locking/atomic: scripts: split pfx/name/sfx/order
  locking/atomic: scripts: restructure fallback ifdeffery
  locking/atomic: scripts: build raw_atomic_long*() directly
  locking/atomic: treewide: use raw_atomic*_&lt;op&gt;()
  locking/atomic: scripts: add trivial raw_atomic*_&lt;op&gt;()
  locking/atomic: scripts: factor out order template generation
  locking/atomic: scripts: remove leftover "${mult}"
  locking/atomic: scripts: remove bogus order parameter
  locking/atomic: xtensa: add preprocessor symbols
  locking/atomic: x86: add preprocessor symbols
  locking/atomic: sparc: add preprocessor symbols
  locking/atomic: sh: add preprocessor symbols
  ...
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<pre>
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Introduce cmpxchg128() -- aka. the demise of cmpxchg_double()

   The cmpxchg128() family of functions is basically &amp; functionally the
   same as cmpxchg_double(), but with a saner interface.

   Instead of a 6-parameter horror that forced u128 - u64/u64-halves
   layout details on the interface and exposed users to complexity,
   fragility &amp; bugs, use a natural 3-parameter interface with u128
   types.

 - Restructure the generated atomic headers, and add kerneldoc comments
   for all of the generic atomic{,64,_long}_t operations.

   The generated definitions are much cleaner now, and come with
   documentation.

 - Implement lock_set_cmp_fn() on lockdep, for defining an ordering when
   taking multiple locks of the same type.

   This gets rid of one use of lockdep_set_novalidate_class() in the
   bcache code.

 - Fix raw_cpu_generic_try_cmpxchg() bug due to an unintended variable
   shadowing generating garbage code on Clang on certain ARM builds.

* tag 'locking-core-2023-06-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (43 commits)
  locking/atomic: scripts: fix ${atomic}_dec_if_positive() kerneldoc
  percpu: Fix self-assignment of __old in raw_cpu_generic_try_cmpxchg()
  locking/atomic: treewide: delete arch_atomic_*() kerneldoc
  locking/atomic: docs: Add atomic operations to the driver basic API documentation
  locking/atomic: scripts: generate kerneldoc comments
  docs: scripts: kernel-doc: accept bitwise negation like ~@var
  locking/atomic: scripts: simplify raw_atomic*() definitions
  locking/atomic: scripts: simplify raw_atomic_long*() definitions
  locking/atomic: scripts: split pfx/name/sfx/order
  locking/atomic: scripts: restructure fallback ifdeffery
  locking/atomic: scripts: build raw_atomic_long*() directly
  locking/atomic: treewide: use raw_atomic*_&lt;op&gt;()
  locking/atomic: scripts: add trivial raw_atomic*_&lt;op&gt;()
  locking/atomic: scripts: factor out order template generation
  locking/atomic: scripts: remove leftover "${mult}"
  locking/atomic: scripts: remove bogus order parameter
  locking/atomic: xtensa: add preprocessor symbols
  locking/atomic: x86: add preprocessor symbols
  locking/atomic: sparc: add preprocessor symbols
  locking/atomic: sh: add preprocessor symbols
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-6.5' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2023-06-27T18:33:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-27T18:33:47+00:00</published>
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a relatively calm cycle in docsland. We do have:

   - Some initial page-table documentation from Linus (the other Linus)

   - Regression-handling documentation improvements from Thorsten

   - Addition of kerneldoc documentation for the ERR_PTR() and related
     macros from James Seo

  ... and the usual collection of fixes and updates"

* tag 'docs-6.5' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
  docs: consolidate storage interfaces
  Documentation: update git configuration for Link: tag
  Documentation: KVM: make corrections to vcpu-requests.rst
  Documentation: KVM: make corrections to ppc-pv.rst
  Documentation: KVM: make corrections to locking.rst
  Documentation: KVM: make corrections to halt-polling.rst
  Documentation: virt: correct location of haltpoll module params
  Documentation/mm: Initial page table documentation
  docs: crypto: async-tx-api: fix typo in struct name
  docs/doc-guide: Clarify how to write tables
  docs: handling-regressions: rework section about fixing procedures
  docs: process: fix a typoed cross-reference
  docs: submitting-patches: Discuss interleaved replies
  MAINTAINERS: direct process doc changes to a dedicated ML
  Documentation: core-api: Add error pointer functions to kernel-api
  err.h: Add missing kerneldocs for error pointer functions
  Documentation: conf.py: Add __force to c_id_attributes
  docs: clarify KVM related kernel parameters' descriptions
  docs: consolidate human interface subsystems
  docs: admin-guide: Add information about intel_pstate active mode
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a relatively calm cycle in docsland. We do have:

   - Some initial page-table documentation from Linus (the other Linus)

   - Regression-handling documentation improvements from Thorsten

   - Addition of kerneldoc documentation for the ERR_PTR() and related
     macros from James Seo

  ... and the usual collection of fixes and updates"

* tag 'docs-6.5' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
  docs: consolidate storage interfaces
  Documentation: update git configuration for Link: tag
  Documentation: KVM: make corrections to vcpu-requests.rst
  Documentation: KVM: make corrections to ppc-pv.rst
  Documentation: KVM: make corrections to locking.rst
  Documentation: KVM: make corrections to halt-polling.rst
  Documentation: virt: correct location of haltpoll module params
  Documentation/mm: Initial page table documentation
  docs: crypto: async-tx-api: fix typo in struct name
  docs/doc-guide: Clarify how to write tables
  docs: handling-regressions: rework section about fixing procedures
  docs: process: fix a typoed cross-reference
  docs: submitting-patches: Discuss interleaved replies
  MAINTAINERS: direct process doc changes to a dedicated ML
  Documentation: core-api: Add error pointer functions to kernel-api
  err.h: Add missing kerneldocs for error pointer functions
  Documentation: conf.py: Add __force to c_id_attributes
  docs: clarify KVM related kernel parameters' descriptions
  docs: consolidate human interface subsystems
  docs: admin-guide: Add information about intel_pstate active mode
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'rcu.2023.06.22a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu</title>
<updated>2023-06-27T17:37:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-27T17:37:01+00:00</published>
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Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney:
 "Documentation updates

  Miscellaneous fixes, perhaps most notably:

   - Remove RCU_NONIDLE(). The new visibility of most of the idle loop
     to RCU has obsoleted this API.

   - Make the RCU_SOFTIRQ callback-invocation time limit also apply to
     the rcuc kthreads that invoke callbacks for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT.

   - Add a jiffies-based callback-invocation time limit to handle
     long-running callbacks. (The local_clock() function is only invoked
     once per 32 callbacks due to its high overhead.)

   - Stop rcu_tasks_invoke_cbs() from using never-onlined CPUs, which
     fixes a bug that can occur on systems with non-contiguous CPU
     numbering.

  kvfree_rcu updates:

   - Eliminate the single-argument variant of k[v]free_rcu() now that
     all uses have been converted to k[v]free_rcu_mightsleep().

   - Add WARN_ON_ONCE() checks for k[v]free_rcu*() freeing callbacks too
     soon. Yes, this is closing the barn door after the horse has
     escaped, but Murphy says that there will be more horses.

  Callback-offloading updates:

   - Fix a number of bugs involving the shrinker and lazy callbacks.

  Tasks RCU updates

  Torture-test updates"

* tag 'rcu.2023.06.22a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (32 commits)
  torture: Remove duplicated argument -enable-kvm for ppc64
  doc/rcutorture: Add description of rcutorture.stall_cpu_block
  rcu/rcuscale: Stop kfree_scale_thread thread(s) after unloading rcuscale
  rcu/rcuscale: Move rcu_scale_*() after kfree_scale_cleanup()
  rcutorture: Correct name of use_softirq module parameter
  locktorture: Add long_hold to adjust lock-hold delays
  rcu/nocb: Make shrinker iterate only over NOCB CPUs
  rcu-tasks: Stop rcu_tasks_invoke_cbs() from using never-onlined CPUs
  rcu: Make rcu_cpu_starting() rely on interrupts being disabled
  rcu: Mark rcu_cpu_kthread() accesses to -&gt;rcu_cpu_has_work
  rcu: Mark additional concurrent load from -&gt;cpu_no_qs.b.exp
  rcu: Employ jiffies-based backstop to callback time limit
  rcu: Check callback-invocation time limit for rcuc kthreads
  rcu: Remove RCU_NONIDLE()
  rcu: Add more RCU files to kernel-api.rst
  rcu-tasks: Clarify the cblist_init_generic() function's pr_info() output
  rcu-tasks: Avoid pr_info() with spin lock in cblist_init_generic()
  rcu/nocb: Recheck lazy callbacks under the -&gt;nocb_lock from shrinker
  rcu/nocb: Fix shrinker race against callback enqueuer
  rcu/nocb: Protect lazy shrinker against concurrent (de-)offloading
  ...
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<pre>
Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney:
 "Documentation updates

  Miscellaneous fixes, perhaps most notably:

   - Remove RCU_NONIDLE(). The new visibility of most of the idle loop
     to RCU has obsoleted this API.

   - Make the RCU_SOFTIRQ callback-invocation time limit also apply to
     the rcuc kthreads that invoke callbacks for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT.

   - Add a jiffies-based callback-invocation time limit to handle
     long-running callbacks. (The local_clock() function is only invoked
     once per 32 callbacks due to its high overhead.)

   - Stop rcu_tasks_invoke_cbs() from using never-onlined CPUs, which
     fixes a bug that can occur on systems with non-contiguous CPU
     numbering.

  kvfree_rcu updates:

   - Eliminate the single-argument variant of k[v]free_rcu() now that
     all uses have been converted to k[v]free_rcu_mightsleep().

   - Add WARN_ON_ONCE() checks for k[v]free_rcu*() freeing callbacks too
     soon. Yes, this is closing the barn door after the horse has
     escaped, but Murphy says that there will be more horses.

  Callback-offloading updates:

   - Fix a number of bugs involving the shrinker and lazy callbacks.

  Tasks RCU updates

  Torture-test updates"

* tag 'rcu.2023.06.22a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (32 commits)
  torture: Remove duplicated argument -enable-kvm for ppc64
  doc/rcutorture: Add description of rcutorture.stall_cpu_block
  rcu/rcuscale: Stop kfree_scale_thread thread(s) after unloading rcuscale
  rcu/rcuscale: Move rcu_scale_*() after kfree_scale_cleanup()
  rcutorture: Correct name of use_softirq module parameter
  locktorture: Add long_hold to adjust lock-hold delays
  rcu/nocb: Make shrinker iterate only over NOCB CPUs
  rcu-tasks: Stop rcu_tasks_invoke_cbs() from using never-onlined CPUs
  rcu: Make rcu_cpu_starting() rely on interrupts being disabled
  rcu: Mark rcu_cpu_kthread() accesses to -&gt;rcu_cpu_has_work
  rcu: Mark additional concurrent load from -&gt;cpu_no_qs.b.exp
  rcu: Employ jiffies-based backstop to callback time limit
  rcu: Check callback-invocation time limit for rcuc kthreads
  rcu: Remove RCU_NONIDLE()
  rcu: Add more RCU files to kernel-api.rst
  rcu-tasks: Clarify the cblist_init_generic() function's pr_info() output
  rcu-tasks: Avoid pr_info() with spin lock in cblist_init_generic()
  rcu/nocb: Recheck lazy callbacks under the -&gt;nocb_lock from shrinker
  rcu/nocb: Fix shrinker race against callback enqueuer
  rcu/nocb: Protect lazy shrinker against concurrent (de-)offloading
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'smp-core-2023-06-26' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2023-06-26T20:59:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-26T20:59:56+00:00</published>
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Pull SMP updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A large update for SMP management:

   - Parallel CPU bringup

     The reason why people are interested in parallel bringup is to
     shorten the (kexec) reboot time of cloud servers to reduce the
     downtime of the VM tenants.

     The current fully serialized bringup does the following per AP:

       1) Prepare callbacks (allocate, intialize, create threads)
       2) Kick the AP alive (e.g. INIT/SIPI on x86)
       3) Wait for the AP to report alive state
       4) Let the AP continue through the atomic bringup
       5) Let the AP run the threaded bringup to full online state

     There are two significant delays:

       #3 The time for an AP to report alive state in start_secondary()
          on x86 has been measured in the range between 350us and 3.5ms
          depending on vendor and CPU type, BIOS microcode size etc.

       #4 The atomic bringup does the microcode update. This has been
          measured to take up to ~8ms on the primary threads depending
          on the microcode patch size to apply.

     On a two socket SKL server with 56 cores (112 threads) the boot CPU
     spends on current mainline about 800ms busy waiting for the APs to
     come up and apply microcode. That's more than 80% of the actual
     onlining procedure.

     This can be reduced significantly by splitting the bringup
     mechanism into two parts:

       1) Run the prepare callbacks and kick the AP alive for each AP
          which needs to be brought up.

          The APs wake up, do their firmware initialization and run the
          low level kernel startup code including microcode loading in
          parallel up to the first synchronization point. (#1 and #2
          above)

       2) Run the rest of the bringup code strictly serialized per CPU
          (#3 - #5 above) as it's done today.

          Parallelizing that stage of the CPU bringup might be possible
          in theory, but it's questionable whether required surgery
          would be justified for a pretty small gain.

     If the system is large enough the first AP is already waiting at
     the first synchronization point when the boot CPU finished the
     wake-up of the last AP. That reduces the AP bringup time on that
     SKL from ~800ms to ~80ms, i.e. by a factor ~10x.

     The actual gain varies wildly depending on the system, CPU,
     microcode patch size and other factors. There are some
     opportunities to reduce the overhead further, but that needs some
     deep surgery in the x86 CPU bringup code.

     For now this is only enabled on x86, but the core functionality
     obviously works for all SMP capable architectures.

   - Enhancements for SMP function call tracing so it is possible to
     locate the scheduling and the actual execution points. That allows
     to measure IPI delivery time precisely"

* tag 'smp-core-2023-06-26' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
  trace,smp: Add tracepoints for scheduling remotelly called functions
  trace,smp: Add tracepoints around remotelly called functions
  MAINTAINERS: Add CPU HOTPLUG entry
  x86/smpboot: Fix the parallel bringup decision
  x86/realmode: Make stack lock work in trampoline_compat()
  x86/smp: Initialize cpu_primary_thread_mask late
  cpu/hotplug: Fix off by one in cpuhp_bringup_mask()
  x86/apic: Fix use of X{,2}APIC_ENABLE in asm with older binutils
  x86/smpboot/64: Implement arch_cpuhp_init_parallel_bringup() and enable it
  x86/smpboot: Support parallel startup of secondary CPUs
  x86/smpboot: Implement a bit spinlock to protect the realmode stack
  x86/apic: Save the APIC virtual base address
  cpu/hotplug: Allow "parallel" bringup up to CPUHP_BP_KICK_AP_STATE
  x86/apic: Provide cpu_primary_thread mask
  x86/smpboot: Enable split CPU startup
  cpu/hotplug: Provide a split up CPUHP_BRINGUP mechanism
  cpu/hotplug: Reset task stack state in _cpu_up()
  cpu/hotplug: Remove unused state functions
  riscv: Switch to hotplug core state synchronization
  parisc: Switch to hotplug core state synchronization
  ...
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<pre>
Pull SMP updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A large update for SMP management:

   - Parallel CPU bringup

     The reason why people are interested in parallel bringup is to
     shorten the (kexec) reboot time of cloud servers to reduce the
     downtime of the VM tenants.

     The current fully serialized bringup does the following per AP:

       1) Prepare callbacks (allocate, intialize, create threads)
       2) Kick the AP alive (e.g. INIT/SIPI on x86)
       3) Wait for the AP to report alive state
       4) Let the AP continue through the atomic bringup
       5) Let the AP run the threaded bringup to full online state

     There are two significant delays:

       #3 The time for an AP to report alive state in start_secondary()
          on x86 has been measured in the range between 350us and 3.5ms
          depending on vendor and CPU type, BIOS microcode size etc.

       #4 The atomic bringup does the microcode update. This has been
          measured to take up to ~8ms on the primary threads depending
          on the microcode patch size to apply.

     On a two socket SKL server with 56 cores (112 threads) the boot CPU
     spends on current mainline about 800ms busy waiting for the APs to
     come up and apply microcode. That's more than 80% of the actual
     onlining procedure.

     This can be reduced significantly by splitting the bringup
     mechanism into two parts:

       1) Run the prepare callbacks and kick the AP alive for each AP
          which needs to be brought up.

          The APs wake up, do their firmware initialization and run the
          low level kernel startup code including microcode loading in
          parallel up to the first synchronization point. (#1 and #2
          above)

       2) Run the rest of the bringup code strictly serialized per CPU
          (#3 - #5 above) as it's done today.

          Parallelizing that stage of the CPU bringup might be possible
          in theory, but it's questionable whether required surgery
          would be justified for a pretty small gain.

     If the system is large enough the first AP is already waiting at
     the first synchronization point when the boot CPU finished the
     wake-up of the last AP. That reduces the AP bringup time on that
     SKL from ~800ms to ~80ms, i.e. by a factor ~10x.

     The actual gain varies wildly depending on the system, CPU,
     microcode patch size and other factors. There are some
     opportunities to reduce the overhead further, but that needs some
     deep surgery in the x86 CPU bringup code.

     For now this is only enabled on x86, but the core functionality
     obviously works for all SMP capable architectures.

   - Enhancements for SMP function call tracing so it is possible to
     locate the scheduling and the actual execution points. That allows
     to measure IPI delivery time precisely"

* tag 'smp-core-2023-06-26' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
  trace,smp: Add tracepoints for scheduling remotelly called functions
  trace,smp: Add tracepoints around remotelly called functions
  MAINTAINERS: Add CPU HOTPLUG entry
  x86/smpboot: Fix the parallel bringup decision
  x86/realmode: Make stack lock work in trampoline_compat()
  x86/smp: Initialize cpu_primary_thread_mask late
  cpu/hotplug: Fix off by one in cpuhp_bringup_mask()
  x86/apic: Fix use of X{,2}APIC_ENABLE in asm with older binutils
  x86/smpboot/64: Implement arch_cpuhp_init_parallel_bringup() and enable it
  x86/smpboot: Support parallel startup of secondary CPUs
  x86/smpboot: Implement a bit spinlock to protect the realmode stack
  x86/apic: Save the APIC virtual base address
  cpu/hotplug: Allow "parallel" bringup up to CPUHP_BP_KICK_AP_STATE
  x86/apic: Provide cpu_primary_thread mask
  x86/smpboot: Enable split CPU startup
  cpu/hotplug: Provide a split up CPUHP_BRINGUP mechanism
  cpu/hotplug: Reset task stack state in _cpu_up()
  cpu/hotplug: Remove unused state functions
  riscv: Switch to hotplug core state synchronization
  parisc: Switch to hotplug core state synchronization
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: Remove cmpxchg_double</title>
<updated>2023-06-05T07:36:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-31T13:08:44+00:00</published>
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No moar users, remove the monster.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531132323.991907085@infradead.org
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No moar users, remove the monster.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens &lt;hca@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531132323.991907085@infradead.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: Don't pin ZERO_PAGE in pin_user_pages()</title>
<updated>2023-05-31T15:48:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-26T21:41:40+00:00</published>
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Make pin_user_pages*() leave a ZERO_PAGE unpinned if it extracts a pointer
to it from the page tables and make unpin_user_page*() correspondingly
ignore a ZERO_PAGE when unpinning.  We don't want to risk overrunning a
zero page's refcount as we're only allowed ~2 million pins on it -
something that userspace can conceivably trigger.

Add a pair of functions to test whether a page or a folio is a ZERO_PAGE.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
cc: Logan Gunthorpe &lt;logang@deltatee.com&gt;
cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hdanton@sina.com&gt;
cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230526214142.958751-2-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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Make pin_user_pages*() leave a ZERO_PAGE unpinned if it extracts a pointer
to it from the page tables and make unpin_user_page*() correspondingly
ignore a ZERO_PAGE when unpinning.  We don't want to risk overrunning a
zero page's refcount as we're only allowed ~2 million pins on it -
something that userspace can conceivably trigger.

Add a pair of functions to test whether a page or a folio is a ZERO_PAGE.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
cc: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
cc: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
cc: Jeff Layton &lt;jlayton@kernel.org&gt;
cc: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt;
cc: Logan Gunthorpe &lt;logang@deltatee.com&gt;
cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hdanton@sina.com&gt;
cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes &lt;lstoakes@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230526214142.958751-2-dhowells@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation: core-api: Add error pointer functions to kernel-api</title>
<updated>2023-05-19T14:58:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Seo</name>
<email>james@equiv.tech</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-09T17:55:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2017e3cae0c48c4f178386538712b50549a7d9a5'/>
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Bring the error pointer functions (e.g. ERR_PTR(), PTR_ERR()) into
the docs build so that they can be cross-referenced elsewhere.

List them as kernel library functions in the kernel-api document.
Nowhere else seems to fit, and they need to go *somewhere*.

Signed-off-by: James Seo &lt;james@equiv.tech&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230509175543.2065835-4-james@equiv.tech
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Bring the error pointer functions (e.g. ERR_PTR(), PTR_ERR()) into
the docs build so that they can be cross-referenced elsewhere.

List them as kernel library functions in the kernel-api document.
Nowhere else seems to fit, and they need to go *somewhere*.

Signed-off-by: James Seo &lt;james@equiv.tech&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230509175543.2065835-4-james@equiv.tech
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>workqueue: Track and monitor per-workqueue CPU time usage</title>
<updated>2023-05-18T03:02:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-18T03:02:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8a1dd1e547c1a037692e7a6da6a76108108c72b1'/>
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Now that wq_worker_tick() is there, we can easily track the rough CPU time
consumption of each workqueue by charging the whole tick whenever a tick
hits an active workqueue. While not super accurate, it provides reasonable
visibility into the workqueues that consume a lot of CPU cycles.
wq_monitor.py is updated to report the per-workqueue CPU times.

v2: wq_monitor.py was using "cputime" as the key when outputting in json
    format. Use "cpu_time" instead for consistency with other fields.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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Now that wq_worker_tick() is there, we can easily track the rough CPU time
consumption of each workqueue by charging the whole tick whenever a tick
hits an active workqueue. While not super accurate, it provides reasonable
visibility into the workqueues that consume a lot of CPU cycles.
wq_monitor.py is updated to report the per-workqueue CPU times.

v2: wq_monitor.py was using "cputime" as the key when outputting in json
    format. Use "cpu_time" instead for consistency with other fields.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>workqueue: Automatically mark CPU-hogging work items CPU_INTENSIVE</title>
<updated>2023-05-18T03:02:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-18T03:02:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=616db8779b1e3f93075df691432cccc5ef3c3ba0'/>
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If a per-cpu work item hogs the CPU, it can prevent other work items from
starting through concurrency management. A per-cpu workqueue which intends
to host such CPU-hogging work items can choose to not participate in
concurrency management by setting %WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE; however, this can be
error-prone and difficult to debug when missed.

This patch adds an automatic CPU usage based detection. If a
concurrency-managed work item consumes more CPU time than the threshold
(10ms by default) continuously without intervening sleeps, wq_worker_tick()
which is called from scheduler_tick() will detect the condition and
automatically mark it CPU_INTENSIVE.

The mechanism isn't foolproof:

* Detection depends on tick hitting the work item. Getting preempted at the
  right timings may allow a violating work item to evade detection at least
  temporarily.

* nohz_full CPUs may not be running ticks and thus can fail detection.

* Even when detection is working, the 10ms detection delays can add up if
  many CPU-hogging work items are queued at the same time.

However, in vast majority of cases, this should be able to detect violations
reliably and provide reasonable protection with a small increase in code
complexity.

If some work items trigger this condition repeatedly, the bigger problem
likely is the CPU being saturated with such per-cpu work items and the
solution would be making them UNBOUND. The next patch will add a debug
mechanism to help spot such cases.

v4: Documentation for workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us added to
    kernel-parameters.txt.

v3: Switch to use wq_worker_tick() instead of hooking into preemptions as
    suggested by Peter.

v2: Lai pointed out that wq_worker_stopping() also needs to be called from
    preemption and rtlock paths and an earlier patch was updated
    accordingly. This patch adds a comment describing the risk of infinte
    recursions and how they're avoided.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
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If a per-cpu work item hogs the CPU, it can prevent other work items from
starting through concurrency management. A per-cpu workqueue which intends
to host such CPU-hogging work items can choose to not participate in
concurrency management by setting %WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE; however, this can be
error-prone and difficult to debug when missed.

This patch adds an automatic CPU usage based detection. If a
concurrency-managed work item consumes more CPU time than the threshold
(10ms by default) continuously without intervening sleeps, wq_worker_tick()
which is called from scheduler_tick() will detect the condition and
automatically mark it CPU_INTENSIVE.

The mechanism isn't foolproof:

* Detection depends on tick hitting the work item. Getting preempted at the
  right timings may allow a violating work item to evade detection at least
  temporarily.

* nohz_full CPUs may not be running ticks and thus can fail detection.

* Even when detection is working, the 10ms detection delays can add up if
  many CPU-hogging work items are queued at the same time.

However, in vast majority of cases, this should be able to detect violations
reliably and provide reasonable protection with a small increase in code
complexity.

If some work items trigger this condition repeatedly, the bigger problem
likely is the CPU being saturated with such per-cpu work items and the
solution would be making them UNBOUND. The next patch will add a debug
mechanism to help spot such cases.

v4: Documentation for workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us added to
    kernel-parameters.txt.

v3: Switch to use wq_worker_tick() instead of hooking into preemptions as
    suggested by Peter.

v2: Lai pointed out that wq_worker_stopping() also needs to be called from
    preemption and rtlock paths and an earlier patch was updated
    accordingly. This patch adds a comment describing the risk of infinte
    recursions and how they're avoided.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
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