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<title>linux-stable.git/fs/proc/internal.h, branch v6.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2022-10-12T18:00:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-12T18:00:22+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - hfs and hfsplus kmap API modernization (Fabio Francesco)

 - make crash-kexec work properly when invoked from an NMI-time panic
   (Valentin Schneider)

 - ntfs bugfixes (Hawkins Jiawei)

 - improve IPC msg scalability by replacing atomic_t's with percpu
   counters (Jiebin Sun)

 - nilfs2 cleanups (Minghao Chi)

 - lots of other single patches all over the tree!

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (71 commits)
  include/linux/entry-common.h: remove has_signal comment of arch_do_signal_or_restart() prototype
  proc: test how it holds up with mapping'less process
  mailmap: update Frank Rowand email address
  ia64: mca: use strscpy() is more robust and safer
  init/Kconfig: fix unmet direct dependencies
  ia64: update config files
  nilfs2: replace WARN_ONs by nilfs_error for checkpoint acquisition failure
  fork: remove duplicate included header files
  init/main.c: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions
  proc: mark more files as permanent
  nilfs2: remove the unneeded result variable
  nilfs2: delete unnecessary checks before brelse()
  checkpatch: warn for non-standard fixes tag style
  usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file
  ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention with percpu counter
  percpu: add percpu_counter_add_local and percpu_counter_sub_local
  fs/ocfs2: fix repeated words in comments
  relay: use kvcalloc to alloc page array in relay_alloc_page_array
  proc: make config PROC_CHILDREN depend on PROC_FS
  fs: uninline inode_maybe_inc_iversion()
  ...
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - hfs and hfsplus kmap API modernization (Fabio Francesco)

 - make crash-kexec work properly when invoked from an NMI-time panic
   (Valentin Schneider)

 - ntfs bugfixes (Hawkins Jiawei)

 - improve IPC msg scalability by replacing atomic_t's with percpu
   counters (Jiebin Sun)

 - nilfs2 cleanups (Minghao Chi)

 - lots of other single patches all over the tree!

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2022-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (71 commits)
  include/linux/entry-common.h: remove has_signal comment of arch_do_signal_or_restart() prototype
  proc: test how it holds up with mapping'less process
  mailmap: update Frank Rowand email address
  ia64: mca: use strscpy() is more robust and safer
  init/Kconfig: fix unmet direct dependencies
  ia64: update config files
  nilfs2: replace WARN_ONs by nilfs_error for checkpoint acquisition failure
  fork: remove duplicate included header files
  init/main.c: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions
  proc: mark more files as permanent
  nilfs2: remove the unneeded result variable
  nilfs2: delete unnecessary checks before brelse()
  checkpatch: warn for non-standard fixes tag style
  usr/gen_init_cpio.c: remove unnecessary -1 values from int file
  ipc/msg: mitigate the lock contention with percpu counter
  percpu: add percpu_counter_add_local and percpu_counter_sub_local
  fs/ocfs2: fix repeated words in comments
  relay: use kvcalloc to alloc page array in relay_alloc_page_array
  proc: make config PROC_CHILDREN depend on PROC_FS
  fs: uninline inode_maybe_inc_iversion()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>proc: mark more files as permanent</title>
<updated>2022-10-03T21:21:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-20T17:35:23+00:00</published>
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Mark
	/proc/devices
	/proc/kpagecount
	/proc/kpageflags
	/proc/kpagecgroup
	/proc/loadavg
	/proc/meminfo
	/proc/softirqs
	/proc/uptime
	/proc/version

as permanent /proc entries, saving alloc/free and some list/spinlock ops
per use.

These files are never removed by the kernel so it is OK to mark them.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Yyn527DzDMa+r0Yj@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Mark
	/proc/devices
	/proc/kpagecount
	/proc/kpageflags
	/proc/kpagecgroup
	/proc/loadavg
	/proc/meminfo
	/proc/softirqs
	/proc/uptime
	/proc/version

as permanent /proc entries, saving alloc/free and some list/spinlock ops
per use.

These files are never removed by the kernel so it is OK to mark them.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Yyn527DzDMa+r0Yj@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/proc/task_mmu: stop using linked list and highest_vm_end</title>
<updated>2022-09-27T02:46:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-09-06T19:48:57+00:00</published>
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Remove references to mm_struct linked list and highest_vm_end for when
they are removed

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-44-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com&gt;
Tested-by: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Remove references to mm_struct linked list and highest_vm_end for when
they are removed

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220906194824.2110408-44-Liam.Howlett@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Liam R. Howlett &lt;Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com&gt;
Tested-by: Yu Zhao &lt;yuzhao@google.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso &lt;dave@stgolabs.net&gt;
Cc: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sven Schnelle &lt;svens@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: proc: store PDE()-&gt;data into inode-&gt;i_private</title>
<updated>2022-01-22T06:33:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Muchun Song</name>
<email>songmuchun@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-01-22T06:14:20+00:00</published>
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PDE_DATA(inode) is introduced to get user private data and hide the
layout of struct proc_dir_entry.  The inode-&gt;i_private is used to do the
same thing as well.  Save a copy of user private data to inode-&gt;
i_private when proc inode is allocated.  This means the user also can
get their private data by inode-&gt;i_private.

Introduce pde_data() to wrap inode-&gt;i_private so that we can remove
PDE_DATA() from fs/proc/generic.c and make PTE_DATE() as a wrapper of
pde_data().  It will be easier if we decide to remove PDE_DATE() in the
future.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124081956.87711-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Gladkov &lt;gladkov.alexey@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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PDE_DATA(inode) is introduced to get user private data and hide the
layout of struct proc_dir_entry.  The inode-&gt;i_private is used to do the
same thing as well.  Save a copy of user private data to inode-&gt;
i_private when proc inode is allocated.  This means the user also can
get their private data by inode-&gt;i_private.

Introduce pde_data() to wrap inode-&gt;i_private so that we can remove
PDE_DATA() from fs/proc/generic.c and make PTE_DATE() as a wrapper of
pde_data().  It will be easier if we decide to remove PDE_DATE() in the
future.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124081956.87711-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song &lt;songmuchun@bytedance.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Gladkov &lt;gladkov.alexey@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: make helpers idmap mount aware</title>
<updated>2021-01-24T13:27:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>christian.brauner@ubuntu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-21T13:19:43+00:00</published>
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Extend some inode methods with an additional user namespace argument. A
filesystem that is aware of idmapped mounts will receive the user
namespace the mount has been marked with. This can be used for
additional permission checking and also to enable filesystems to
translate between uids and gids if they need to. We have implemented all
relevant helpers in earlier patches.

As requested we simply extend the exisiting inode method instead of
introducing new ones. This is a little more code churn but it's mostly
mechanical and doesnt't leave us with additional inode methods.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-25-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
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Extend some inode methods with an additional user namespace argument. A
filesystem that is aware of idmapped mounts will receive the user
namespace the mount has been marked with. This can be used for
additional permission checking and also to enable filesystems to
translate between uids and gids if they need to. We have implemented all
relevant helpers in earlier patches.

As requested we simply extend the exisiting inode method instead of
introducing new ones. This is a little more code churn but it's mostly
mechanical and doesnt't leave us with additional inode methods.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-25-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/proc: make pde_get() return nothing</title>
<updated>2020-12-16T06:46:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hui Su</name>
<email>sh_def@163.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-16T04:42:42+00:00</published>
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We don't need pde_get()'s return value, so make pde_get() return nothing

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201211061944.GA2387571@rlk
Signed-off-by: Hui Su &lt;sh_def@163.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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We don't need pde_get()'s return value, so make pde_get() return nothing

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201211061944.GA2387571@rlk
Signed-off-by: Hui Su &lt;sh_def@163.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>proc: fix lookup in /proc/net subdirectories after setns(2)</title>
<updated>2020-12-16T06:46:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-16T04:42:39+00:00</published>
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Commit 1fde6f21d90f ("proc: fix /proc/net/* after setns(2)") only forced
revalidation of regular files under /proc/net/

However, /proc/net/ is unusual in the sense of /proc/net/foo handlers
take netns pointer from parent directory which is old netns.

Steps to reproduce:

	(void)open("/proc/net/sctp/snmp", O_RDONLY);
	unshare(CLONE_NEWNET);

	int fd = open("/proc/net/sctp/snmp", O_RDONLY);
	read(fd, &amp;c, 1);

Read will read wrong data from original netns.

Patch forces lookup on every directory under /proc/net .

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201205160916.GA109739@localhost.localdomain
Fixes: 1da4d377f943 ("proc: revalidate misc dentries")
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: "Rantala, Tommi T. (Nokia - FI/Espoo)" &lt;tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Commit 1fde6f21d90f ("proc: fix /proc/net/* after setns(2)") only forced
revalidation of regular files under /proc/net/

However, /proc/net/ is unusual in the sense of /proc/net/foo handlers
take netns pointer from parent directory which is old netns.

Steps to reproduce:

	(void)open("/proc/net/sctp/snmp", O_RDONLY);
	unshare(CLONE_NEWNET);

	int fd = open("/proc/net/sctp/snmp", O_RDONLY);
	read(fd, &amp;c, 1);

Read will read wrong data from original netns.

Patch forces lookup on every directory under /proc/net .

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201205160916.GA109739@localhost.localdomain
Fixes: 1da4d377f943 ("proc: revalidate misc dentries")
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Reported-by: "Rantala, Tommi T. (Nokia - FI/Espoo)" &lt;tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>proc: faster open/read/close with "permanent" files</title>
<updated>2020-04-07T17:43:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexey Dobriyan</name>
<email>adobriyan@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-07T03:09:01+00:00</published>
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Now that "struct proc_ops" exist we can start putting there stuff which
could not fly with VFS "struct file_operations"...

Most of fs/proc/inode.c file is dedicated to make open/read/.../close
reliable in the event of disappearing /proc entries which usually happens
if module is getting removed.  Files like /proc/cpuinfo which never
disappear simply do not need such protection.

Save 2 atomic ops, 1 allocation, 1 free per open/read/close sequence for such
"permanent" files.

Enable "permanent" flag for

	/proc/cpuinfo
	/proc/kmsg
	/proc/modules
	/proc/slabinfo
	/proc/stat
	/proc/sysvipc/*
	/proc/swaps

More will come once I figure out foolproof way to prevent out module
authors from marking their stuff "permanent" for performance reasons
when it is not.

This should help with scalability: benchmark is "read /proc/cpuinfo R times
by N threads scattered over the system".

	N	R	t, s (before)	t, s (after)
	-----------------------------------------------------
	64	4096	1.582458	1.530502	-3.2%
	256	4096	6.371926	6.125168	-3.9%
	1024	4096	25.64888	24.47528	-4.6%

Benchmark source:

#include &lt;chrono&gt;
#include &lt;iostream&gt;
#include &lt;thread&gt;
#include &lt;vector&gt;

#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/stat.h&gt;
#include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;

const int NR_CPUS = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN);
int N;
const char *filename;
int R;

int xxx = 0;

int glue(int n)
{
	cpu_set_t m;
	CPU_ZERO(&amp;m);
	CPU_SET(n, &amp;m);
	return sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &amp;m);
}

void f(int n)
{
	glue(n % NR_CPUS);

	while (*(volatile int *)&amp;xxx == 0) {
	}

	for (int i = 0; i &lt; R; i++) {
		int fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY);
		char buf[4096];
		ssize_t rv = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
		asm volatile ("" :: "g" (rv));
		close(fd);
	}
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	if (argc &lt; 4) {
		std::cerr &lt;&lt; "usage: " &lt;&lt; argv[0] &lt;&lt; ' ' &lt;&lt; "N /proc/filename R
";
		return 1;
	}

	N = atoi(argv[1]);
	filename = argv[2];
	R = atoi(argv[3]);

	for (int i = 0; i &lt; NR_CPUS; i++) {
		if (glue(i) == 0)
			break;
	}

	std::vector&lt;std::thread&gt; T;
	T.reserve(N);
	for (int i = 0; i &lt; N; i++) {
		T.emplace_back(f, i);
	}

	auto t0 = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
	{
		*(volatile int *)&amp;xxx = 1;
		for (auto&amp; t: T) {
			t.join();
		}
	}
	auto t1 = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
	std::chrono::duration&lt;double&gt; dt = t1 - t0;
	std::cout &lt;&lt; dt.count() &lt;&lt; '
';

	return 0;
}

P.S.:
Explicit randomization marker is added because adding non-function pointer
will silently disable structure layout randomization.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200222201539.GA22576@avx2
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Now that "struct proc_ops" exist we can start putting there stuff which
could not fly with VFS "struct file_operations"...

Most of fs/proc/inode.c file is dedicated to make open/read/.../close
reliable in the event of disappearing /proc entries which usually happens
if module is getting removed.  Files like /proc/cpuinfo which never
disappear simply do not need such protection.

Save 2 atomic ops, 1 allocation, 1 free per open/read/close sequence for such
"permanent" files.

Enable "permanent" flag for

	/proc/cpuinfo
	/proc/kmsg
	/proc/modules
	/proc/slabinfo
	/proc/stat
	/proc/sysvipc/*
	/proc/swaps

More will come once I figure out foolproof way to prevent out module
authors from marking their stuff "permanent" for performance reasons
when it is not.

This should help with scalability: benchmark is "read /proc/cpuinfo R times
by N threads scattered over the system".

	N	R	t, s (before)	t, s (after)
	-----------------------------------------------------
	64	4096	1.582458	1.530502	-3.2%
	256	4096	6.371926	6.125168	-3.9%
	1024	4096	25.64888	24.47528	-4.6%

Benchmark source:

#include &lt;chrono&gt;
#include &lt;iostream&gt;
#include &lt;thread&gt;
#include &lt;vector&gt;

#include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;
#include &lt;sys/stat.h&gt;
#include &lt;fcntl.h&gt;
#include &lt;unistd.h&gt;

const int NR_CPUS = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN);
int N;
const char *filename;
int R;

int xxx = 0;

int glue(int n)
{
	cpu_set_t m;
	CPU_ZERO(&amp;m);
	CPU_SET(n, &amp;m);
	return sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &amp;m);
}

void f(int n)
{
	glue(n % NR_CPUS);

	while (*(volatile int *)&amp;xxx == 0) {
	}

	for (int i = 0; i &lt; R; i++) {
		int fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY);
		char buf[4096];
		ssize_t rv = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
		asm volatile ("" :: "g" (rv));
		close(fd);
	}
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	if (argc &lt; 4) {
		std::cerr &lt;&lt; "usage: " &lt;&lt; argv[0] &lt;&lt; ' ' &lt;&lt; "N /proc/filename R
";
		return 1;
	}

	N = atoi(argv[1]);
	filename = argv[2];
	R = atoi(argv[3]);

	for (int i = 0; i &lt; NR_CPUS; i++) {
		if (glue(i) == 0)
			break;
	}

	std::vector&lt;std::thread&gt; T;
	T.reserve(N);
	for (int i = 0; i &lt; N; i++) {
		T.emplace_back(f, i);
	}

	auto t0 = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
	{
		*(volatile int *)&amp;xxx = 1;
		for (auto&amp; t: T) {
			t.join();
		}
	}
	auto t1 = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
	std::chrono::duration&lt;double&gt; dt = t1 - t0;
	std::cout &lt;&lt; dt.count() &lt;&lt; '
';

	return 0;
}

P.S.:
Explicit randomization marker is added because adding non-function pointer
will silently disable structure layout randomization.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200222201539.GA22576@avx2
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>proc: Use a list of inodes to flush from proc</title>
<updated>2020-02-24T16:14:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-20T00:22:26+00:00</published>
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Rework the flushing of proc to use a list of directory inodes that
need to be flushed.

The list is kept on struct pid not on struct task_struct, as there is
a fixed connection between proc inodes and pids but at least for the
case of de_thread the pid of a task_struct changes.

This removes the dependency on proc_mnt which allows for different
mounts of proc having different mount options even in the same pid
namespace and this allows for the removal of proc_mnt which will
trivially the first mount of proc to honor it's mount options.

This flushing remains an optimization.  The functions
pid_delete_dentry and pid_revalidate ensure that ordinary dcache
management will not attempt to use dentries past the point their
respective task has died.  When unused the shrinker will
eventually be able to remove these dentries.

There is a case in de_thread where proc_flush_pid can be
called early for a given pid.  Which winds up being
safe (if suboptimal) as this is just an optiimization.

Only pid directories are put on the list as the other
per pid files are children of those directories and
d_invalidate on the directory will get them as well.

So that the pid can be used during flushing it's reference count is
taken in release_task and dropped in proc_flush_pid.  Further the call
of proc_flush_pid is moved after the tasklist_lock is released in
release_task so that it is certain that the pid has already been
unhashed when flushing it taking place.  This removes a small race
where a dentry could recreated.

As struct pid is supposed to be small and I need a per pid lock
I reuse the only lock that currently exists in struct pid the
the wait_pidfd.lock.

The net result is that this adds all of this functionality
with just a little extra list management overhead and
a single extra pointer in struct pid.

v2: Initialize pid-&gt;inodes.  I somehow failed to get that
    initialization into the initial version of the patch.  A boot
    failure was reported by "kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;", and
    failure to initialize that pid-&gt;inodes matches all of the reported
    symptoms.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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Rework the flushing of proc to use a list of directory inodes that
need to be flushed.

The list is kept on struct pid not on struct task_struct, as there is
a fixed connection between proc inodes and pids but at least for the
case of de_thread the pid of a task_struct changes.

This removes the dependency on proc_mnt which allows for different
mounts of proc having different mount options even in the same pid
namespace and this allows for the removal of proc_mnt which will
trivially the first mount of proc to honor it's mount options.

This flushing remains an optimization.  The functions
pid_delete_dentry and pid_revalidate ensure that ordinary dcache
management will not attempt to use dentries past the point their
respective task has died.  When unused the shrinker will
eventually be able to remove these dentries.

There is a case in de_thread where proc_flush_pid can be
called early for a given pid.  Which winds up being
safe (if suboptimal) as this is just an optiimization.

Only pid directories are put on the list as the other
per pid files are children of those directories and
d_invalidate on the directory will get them as well.

So that the pid can be used during flushing it's reference count is
taken in release_task and dropped in proc_flush_pid.  Further the call
of proc_flush_pid is moved after the tasklist_lock is released in
release_task so that it is certain that the pid has already been
unhashed when flushing it taking place.  This removes a small race
where a dentry could recreated.

As struct pid is supposed to be small and I need a per pid lock
I reuse the only lock that currently exists in struct pid the
the wait_pidfd.lock.

The net result is that this adds all of this functionality
with just a little extra list management overhead and
a single extra pointer in struct pid.

v2: Initialize pid-&gt;inodes.  I somehow failed to get that
    initialization into the initial version of the patch.  A boot
    failure was reported by "kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;", and
    failure to initialize that pid-&gt;inodes matches all of the reported
    symptoms.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>proc: Use d_invalidate in proc_prune_siblings_dcache</title>
<updated>2020-02-24T15:50:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-21T14:43:23+00:00</published>
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The function d_prune_aliases has the problem that it will only prune
aliases thare are completely unused.  It will not remove aliases for
the dcache or even think of removing mounts from the dcache.  For that
behavior d_invalidate is needed.

To use d_invalidate replace d_prune_aliases with d_find_alias followed
by d_invalidate and dput.

For completeness the directory and the non-directory cases are
separated because in theory (although not in currently in practice for
proc) directories can only ever have a single dentry while
non-directories can have hardlinks and thus multiple dentries.
As part of this separation use d_find_any_alias for directories
to spare d_find_alias the extra work of doing that.

Plus the differences between d_find_any_alias and d_find_alias makes
it clear why the directory and non-directory code and not share code.

To make it clear these routines now invalidate dentries rename
proc_prune_siblings_dache to proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache, and rename
proc_sys_prune_dcache proc_sys_invalidate_dcache.

V2: Split the directory and non-directory cases.  To make this
    code robust to future changes in proc.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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The function d_prune_aliases has the problem that it will only prune
aliases thare are completely unused.  It will not remove aliases for
the dcache or even think of removing mounts from the dcache.  For that
behavior d_invalidate is needed.

To use d_invalidate replace d_prune_aliases with d_find_alias followed
by d_invalidate and dput.

For completeness the directory and the non-directory cases are
separated because in theory (although not in currently in practice for
proc) directories can only ever have a single dentry while
non-directories can have hardlinks and thus multiple dentries.
As part of this separation use d_find_any_alias for directories
to spare d_find_alias the extra work of doing that.

Plus the differences between d_find_any_alias and d_find_alias makes
it clear why the directory and non-directory code and not share code.

To make it clear these routines now invalidate dentries rename
proc_prune_siblings_dache to proc_invalidate_siblings_dcache, and rename
proc_sys_prune_dcache proc_sys_invalidate_dcache.

V2: Split the directory and non-directory cases.  To make this
    code robust to future changes in proc.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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