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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>srcu: Use try-lock lockdep annotation for NMI-safe access.</title>
<updated>2024-01-25T23:45:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior</name>
<email>bigeasy@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-30T13:27:29+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3c6b0c1c28184038d90dffe8eb542bedcb8ccf98 ]

It is claimed that srcu_read_lock_nmisafe() NMI-safe. However it
triggers a lockdep if used from NMI because lockdep expects a deadlock
since nothing disables NMIs while the lock is acquired.

This is because commit f0f44752f5f61 ("rcu: Annotate SRCU's update-side
lockdep dependencies") annotates synchronize_srcu() as a write lock
usage. This helps to detect a deadlocks such as
	srcu_read_lock();
	synchronize_srcu();
	srcu_read_unlock();

The side effect is that the lock srcu_struct now has a USED usage in normal
contexts, so it conflicts with a USED_READ usage in NMI. But this shouldn't
cause a real deadlock because the write lock usage from synchronize_srcu()
is a fake one and only used for read/write deadlock detection.

Use a try-lock annotation for srcu_read_lock_nmisafe() to avoid lockdep
complains if used from NMI.

Fixes: f0f44752f5f6 ("rcu: Annotate SRCU's update-side lockdep dependencies")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230927160231.XRCDDSK4@linutronix.de
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) &lt;neeraj.iitr10@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 3c6b0c1c28184038d90dffe8eb542bedcb8ccf98 ]

It is claimed that srcu_read_lock_nmisafe() NMI-safe. However it
triggers a lockdep if used from NMI because lockdep expects a deadlock
since nothing disables NMIs while the lock is acquired.

This is because commit f0f44752f5f61 ("rcu: Annotate SRCU's update-side
lockdep dependencies") annotates synchronize_srcu() as a write lock
usage. This helps to detect a deadlocks such as
	srcu_read_lock();
	synchronize_srcu();
	srcu_read_unlock();

The side effect is that the lock srcu_struct now has a USED usage in normal
contexts, so it conflicts with a USED_READ usage in NMI. But this shouldn't
cause a real deadlock because the write lock usage from synchronize_srcu()
is a fake one and only used for read/write deadlock detection.

Use a try-lock annotation for srcu_read_lock_nmisafe() to avoid lockdep
complains if used from NMI.

Fixes: f0f44752f5f6 ("rcu: Annotate SRCU's update-side lockdep dependencies")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230927160231.XRCDDSK4@linutronix.de
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) &lt;neeraj.iitr10@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Standardize explicit CPU-hotplug calls</title>
<updated>2023-10-04T20:29:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-08T20:36:01+00:00</published>
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rcu_report_dead() and rcutree_migrate_callbacks() have their headers in
rcupdate.h while those are pure rcutree calls, like the other CPU-hotplug
functions.

Also rcu_cpu_starting() and rcu_report_dead() have different naming
conventions while they mirror each other's effects.

Fix the headers and propose a naming that relates both functions and
aligns with the prefix of other rcutree CPU-hotplug functions.

Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
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rcu_report_dead() and rcutree_migrate_callbacks() have their headers in
rcupdate.h while those are pure rcutree calls, like the other CPU-hotplug
functions.

Also rcu_cpu_starting() and rcu_report_dead() have different naming
conventions while they mirror each other's effects.

Fix the headers and propose a naming that relates both functions and
aligns with the prefix of other rcutree CPU-hotplug functions.

Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Assume rcu_report_dead() is always called locally</title>
<updated>2023-10-04T15:35:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-08T20:35:59+00:00</published>
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rcu_report_dead() has to be called locally by the CPU that is going to
exit the RCU state machine. Passing a cpu argument here is error-prone
and leaves the possibility for a racy remote call.

Use local access instead.

Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
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rcu_report_dead() has to be called locally by the CPU that is going to
exit the RCU state machine. Passing a cpu argument here is error-prone
and leaves the possibility for a racy remote call.

Use local access instead.

Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'core_guards_for_6.5_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue</title>
<updated>2023-07-04T20:50:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-07-04T20:50:38+00:00</published>
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Pull scope-based resource management infrastructure from Peter Zijlstra:
 "These are the first few patches in the Scope-based Resource Management
  series that introduce the infrastructure but not any conversions as of
  yet.

  Adding the infrastructure now allows multiple people to start using
  them.

  Of note is that Sparse will need some work since it doesn't yet
  understand this attribute and might have decl-after-stmt issues"

* tag 'core_guards_for_6.5_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue:
  kbuild: Drop -Wdeclaration-after-statement
  locking: Introduce __cleanup() based infrastructure
  apparmor: Free up __cleanup() name
  dmaengine: ioat: Free up __cleanup() name
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Pull scope-based resource management infrastructure from Peter Zijlstra:
 "These are the first few patches in the Scope-based Resource Management
  series that introduce the infrastructure but not any conversions as of
  yet.

  Adding the infrastructure now allows multiple people to start using
  them.

  Of note is that Sparse will need some work since it doesn't yet
  understand this attribute and might have decl-after-stmt issues"

* tag 'core_guards_for_6.5_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue:
  kbuild: Drop -Wdeclaration-after-statement
  locking: Introduce __cleanup() based infrastructure
  apparmor: Free up __cleanup() name
  dmaengine: ioat: Free up __cleanup() name
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>locking: Introduce __cleanup() based infrastructure</title>
<updated>2023-06-26T09:14:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-05-26T10:23:48+00:00</published>
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Use __attribute__((__cleanup__(func))) to build:

 - simple auto-release pointers using __free()

 - 'classes' with constructor and destructor semantics for
   scope-based resource management.

 - lock guards based on the above classes.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612093537.614161713%40infradead.org
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Use __attribute__((__cleanup__(func))) to build:

 - simple auto-release pointers using __free()

 - 'classes' with constructor and destructor semantics for
   scope-based resource management.

 - lock guards based on the above classes.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230612093537.614161713%40infradead.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'doc.2023.05.10a', 'fixes.2023.05.11a', 'kvfree.2023.05.10a', 'nocb.2023.05.11a', 'rcu-tasks.2023.05.10a', 'torture.2023.05.15a' and 'rcu-urgent.2023.06.06a' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2023-06-07T20:44:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-07T20:44:06+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
doc.2023.05.10a: Documentation updates
fixes.2023.05.11a: Miscellaneous fixes
kvfree.2023.05.10a: kvfree_rcu updates
nocb.2023.05.11a: Callback-offloading updates
rcu-tasks.2023.05.10a: Tasks RCU updates
torture.2023.05.15a: Torture-test updates
rcu-urgent.2023.06.06a: Urgent SRCU fix
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doc.2023.05.10a: Documentation updates
fixes.2023.05.11a: Miscellaneous fixes
kvfree.2023.05.10a: kvfree_rcu updates
nocb.2023.05.11a: Callback-offloading updates
rcu-tasks.2023.05.10a: Tasks RCU updates
torture.2023.05.15a: Torture-test updates
rcu-urgent.2023.06.06a: Urgent SRCU fix
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Remove RCU_NONIDLE()</title>
<updated>2023-05-11T20:42:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-20T17:37:51+00:00</published>
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Since there are now exactly _zero_ users of RCU_NONIDLE(), make it go
away before someone else decides to (ab)use it.

[ paulmck: Remove extraneous whitespace. ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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Since there are now exactly _zero_ users of RCU_NONIDLE(), make it go
away before someone else decides to (ab)use it.

[ paulmck: Remove extraneous whitespace. ]

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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<entry>
<title>rcu/kvfree: Eliminate k[v]free_rcu() single argument macro</title>
<updated>2023-05-10T00:26:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)</name>
<email>urezki@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-01T15:09:54+00:00</published>
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The kvfree_rcu() and kfree_rcu() APIs are hazardous in that if you forget
the second argument, it works, but might sleep.  This sleeping can be a
correctness bug from atomic contexts, and even in non-atomic contexts it
might introduce unacceptable latencies.  This commit therefore removes the
single-argument kvfree_rcu() and kfree_rcu() macros.  Code that would have
previously used these single-argument kvfree_rcu() and kfree_rcu() macros
should instead use kvfree_rcu_mightsleep() or kfree_rcu_mightsleep().

[ paulmck: Apply Joel Fernandes feedback. ]

Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
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The kvfree_rcu() and kfree_rcu() APIs are hazardous in that if you forget
the second argument, it works, but might sleep.  This sleeping can be a
correctness bug from atomic contexts, and even in non-atomic contexts it
might introduce unacceptable latencies.  This commit therefore removes the
single-argument kvfree_rcu() and kfree_rcu() macros.  Code that would have
previously used these single-argument kvfree_rcu() and kfree_rcu() macros
should instead use kvfree_rcu_mightsleep() or kfree_rcu_mightsleep().

[ paulmck: Apply Joel Fernandes feedback. ]

Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm/slab: document kfree() as allowed for kmem_cache_alloc() objects</title>
<updated>2023-03-29T08:35:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vlastimil Babka</name>
<email>vbabka@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2023-03-02T15:01:00+00:00</published>
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This will make it easier to free objects in situations when they can
come from either kmalloc() or kmem_cache_alloc(), and also allow
kfree_rcu() for freeing objects from kmem_cache_alloc().

For the SLAB and SLUB allocators this was always possible so with SLOB
gone, we can document it as supported.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;quic_neeraju@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
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This will make it easier to free objects in situations when they can
come from either kmalloc() or kmem_cache_alloc(), and also allow
kfree_rcu() for freeing objects from kmem_cache_alloc().

For the SLAB and SLUB allocators this was always possible so with SLOB
gone, we can document it as supported.

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka &lt;vbabka@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;quic_neeraju@quicinc.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'doc.2023.01.05a', 'fixes.2023.01.23a', 'kvfree.2023.01.03a', 'srcu.2023.01.03a', 'srcu-always.2023.02.02a', 'tasks.2023.01.03a', 'torture.2023.01.05a' and 'torturescript.2023.01.03a' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2023-02-03T00:33:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-03T00:33:43+00:00</published>
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doc.2023.01.05a: Documentation update.
fixes.2023.01.23a: Miscellaneous fixes.
kvfree.2023.01.03a: kvfree_rcu() updates.
srcu.2023.01.03a: SRCU updates.
srcu-always.2023.02.02a: Finish making SRCU be unconditionally available.
tasks.2023.01.03a: Tasks-RCU updates.
torture.2023.01.05a: Torture-test updates.
torturescript.2023.01.03a: Torture-test scripting updates.
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doc.2023.01.05a: Documentation update.
fixes.2023.01.23a: Miscellaneous fixes.
kvfree.2023.01.03a: kvfree_rcu() updates.
srcu.2023.01.03a: SRCU updates.
srcu-always.2023.02.02a: Finish making SRCU be unconditionally available.
tasks.2023.01.03a: Tasks-RCU updates.
torture.2023.01.05a: Torture-test updates.
torturescript.2023.01.03a: Torture-test scripting updates.
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