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<title>NFS: fix nfs_release_folio() to not deadlock via kcompactd writeback</title>
<updated>2025-03-13T12:07:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mike Snitzer</name>
<email>snitzer@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-25T02:20:02+00:00</published>
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commit ce6d9c1c2b5cc785016faa11b48b6cd317eb367e upstream.

Add PF_KCOMPACTD flag and current_is_kcompactd() helper to check for it so
nfs_release_folio() can skip calling nfs_wb_folio() from kcompactd.

Otherwise NFS can deadlock waiting for kcompactd enduced writeback which
recurses back to NFS (which triggers writeback to NFSD via NFS loopback
mount on the same host, NFSD blocks waiting for XFS's call to
__filemap_get_folio):

6070.550357] INFO: task kcompactd0:58 blocked for more than 4435 seconds.

{---
[58] "kcompactd0"
[&lt;0&gt;] folio_wait_bit+0xe8/0x200
[&lt;0&gt;] folio_wait_writeback+0x2b/0x80
[&lt;0&gt;] nfs_wb_folio+0x80/0x1b0 [nfs]
[&lt;0&gt;] nfs_release_folio+0x68/0x130 [nfs]
[&lt;0&gt;] split_huge_page_to_list_to_order+0x362/0x840
[&lt;0&gt;] migrate_pages_batch+0x43d/0xb90
[&lt;0&gt;] migrate_pages_sync+0x9a/0x240
[&lt;0&gt;] migrate_pages+0x93c/0x9f0
[&lt;0&gt;] compact_zone+0x8e2/0x1030
[&lt;0&gt;] compact_node+0xdb/0x120
[&lt;0&gt;] kcompactd+0x121/0x2e0
[&lt;0&gt;] kthread+0xcf/0x100
[&lt;0&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x31/0x40
[&lt;0&gt;] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
---}

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250225022002.26141-1-snitzer@kernel.org
Fixes: 96780ca55e3c ("NFS: fix up nfs_release_folio() to try to release the page")
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Anna Schumaker &lt;anna.schumaker@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit ce6d9c1c2b5cc785016faa11b48b6cd317eb367e upstream.

Add PF_KCOMPACTD flag and current_is_kcompactd() helper to check for it so
nfs_release_folio() can skip calling nfs_wb_folio() from kcompactd.

Otherwise NFS can deadlock waiting for kcompactd enduced writeback which
recurses back to NFS (which triggers writeback to NFSD via NFS loopback
mount on the same host, NFSD blocks waiting for XFS's call to
__filemap_get_folio):

6070.550357] INFO: task kcompactd0:58 blocked for more than 4435 seconds.

{---
[58] "kcompactd0"
[&lt;0&gt;] folio_wait_bit+0xe8/0x200
[&lt;0&gt;] folio_wait_writeback+0x2b/0x80
[&lt;0&gt;] nfs_wb_folio+0x80/0x1b0 [nfs]
[&lt;0&gt;] nfs_release_folio+0x68/0x130 [nfs]
[&lt;0&gt;] split_huge_page_to_list_to_order+0x362/0x840
[&lt;0&gt;] migrate_pages_batch+0x43d/0xb90
[&lt;0&gt;] migrate_pages_sync+0x9a/0x240
[&lt;0&gt;] migrate_pages+0x93c/0x9f0
[&lt;0&gt;] compact_zone+0x8e2/0x1030
[&lt;0&gt;] compact_node+0xdb/0x120
[&lt;0&gt;] kcompactd+0x121/0x2e0
[&lt;0&gt;] kthread+0xcf/0x100
[&lt;0&gt;] ret_from_fork+0x31/0x40
[&lt;0&gt;] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
---}

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250225022002.26141-1-snitzer@kernel.org
Fixes: 96780ca55e3c ("NFS: fix up nfs_release_folio() to try to release the page")
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer &lt;snitzer@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Anna Schumaker &lt;anna.schumaker@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Trond Myklebust &lt;trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sched/fair: Fix value reported by hot tasks pulled in /proc/schedstat</title>
<updated>2025-02-08T09:00:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-20T06:32:19+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a430d99e349026d53e2557b7b22bd2ebd61fe12a ]

In /proc/schedstat, lb_hot_gained reports the number hot tasks pulled
during load balance. This value is incremented in can_migrate_task()
if the task is migratable and hot. After incrementing the value,
load balancer can still decide not to migrate this task leading to wrong
accounting. Fix this by incrementing stats when hot tasks are detached.
This issue only exists in detach_tasks() where we can decide to not
migrate hot task even if it is migratable. However, in detach_one_task(),
we migrate it unconditionally.

[Swapnil: Handled the case where nr_failed_migrations_hot was not accounted properly and wrote commit log]

Fixes: d31980846f96 ("sched: Move up affinity check to mitigate useless redoing overhead")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reported-by: "Gautham R. Shenoy" &lt;gautham.shenoy@amd.com&gt;
Not-yet-signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Swapnil Sapkal &lt;swapnil.sapkal@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241220063224.17767-2-swapnil.sapkal@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a430d99e349026d53e2557b7b22bd2ebd61fe12a ]

In /proc/schedstat, lb_hot_gained reports the number hot tasks pulled
during load balance. This value is incremented in can_migrate_task()
if the task is migratable and hot. After incrementing the value,
load balancer can still decide not to migrate this task leading to wrong
accounting. Fix this by incrementing stats when hot tasks are detached.
This issue only exists in detach_tasks() where we can decide to not
migrate hot task even if it is migratable. However, in detach_one_task(),
we migrate it unconditionally.

[Swapnil: Handled the case where nr_failed_migrations_hot was not accounted properly and wrote commit log]

Fixes: d31980846f96 ("sched: Move up affinity check to mitigate useless redoing overhead")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reported-by: "Gautham R. Shenoy" &lt;gautham.shenoy@amd.com&gt;
Not-yet-signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Swapnil Sapkal &lt;swapnil.sapkal@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241220063224.17767-2-swapnil.sapkal@amd.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>freezer, sched: Report frozen tasks as 'D' instead of 'R'</title>
<updated>2024-12-29T09:14:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chen Ridong</name>
<email>chenridong@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-17T00:48:18+00:00</published>
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Before commit:

  f5d39b020809 ("freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic")

the frozen task stat was reported as 'D' in cgroup v1.

However, after rewriting the core freezer logic, the frozen task stat is
reported as 'R'. This is confusing, especially when a task with stat of
'S' is frozen.

This bug can be reproduced with these steps:

	$ cd /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer/
	$ mkdir test
	$ sleep 1000 &amp;
	[1] 739         // task whose stat is 'S'
	$ echo 739 &gt; test/cgroup.procs
	$ echo FROZEN &gt; test/freezer.state
	$ ps -aux | grep 739
	root     739  0.1  0.0   8376  1812 pts/0    R    10:56   0:00 sleep 1000

As shown above, a task whose stat is 'S' was changed to 'R' when it was
frozen.

To solve this regression, simply maintain the same reported state as
before the rewrite.

[ mingo: Enhanced the changelog and comments ]

Fixes: f5d39b020809 ("freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic")
Signed-off-by: Chen Ridong &lt;chenridong@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241217004818.3200515-1-chenridong@huaweicloud.com
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Before commit:

  f5d39b020809 ("freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic")

the frozen task stat was reported as 'D' in cgroup v1.

However, after rewriting the core freezer logic, the frozen task stat is
reported as 'R'. This is confusing, especially when a task with stat of
'S' is frozen.

This bug can be reproduced with these steps:

	$ cd /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer/
	$ mkdir test
	$ sleep 1000 &amp;
	[1] 739         // task whose stat is 'S'
	$ echo 739 &gt; test/cgroup.procs
	$ echo FROZEN &gt; test/freezer.state
	$ ps -aux | grep 739
	root     739  0.1  0.0   8376  1812 pts/0    R    10:56   0:00 sleep 1000

As shown above, a task whose stat is 'S' was changed to 'R' when it was
frozen.

To solve this regression, simply maintain the same reported state as
before the rewrite.

[ mingo: Enhanced the changelog and comments ]

Fixes: f5d39b020809 ("freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic")
Signed-off-by: Chen Ridong &lt;chenridong@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241217004818.3200515-1-chenridong@huaweicloud.com
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<entry>
<title>sched/dlserver: Fix dlserver double enqueue</title>
<updated>2024-12-13T11:57:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vineeth Pillai (Google)</name>
<email>vineeth@bitbyteword.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-13T03:22:36+00:00</published>
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dlserver can get dequeued during a dlserver pick_task due to the delayed
deueue feature and this can lead to issues with dlserver logic as it
still thinks that dlserver is on the runqueue. The dlserver throttling
and replenish logic gets confused and can lead to double enqueue of
dlserver.

Double enqueue of dlserver could happend due to couple of reasons:

Case 1
------

Delayed dequeue feature[1] can cause dlserver being stopped during a
pick initiated by dlserver:
  __pick_next_task
   pick_task_dl -&gt; server_pick_task
    pick_task_fair
     pick_next_entity (if (sched_delayed))
      dequeue_entities
       dl_server_stop

server_pick_task goes ahead with update_curr_dl_se without knowing that
dlserver is dequeued and this confuses the logic and may lead to
unintended enqueue while the server is stopped.

Case 2
------
A race condition between a task dequeue on one cpu and same task's enqueue
on this cpu by a remote cpu while the lock is released causing dlserver
double enqueue.

One cpu would be in the schedule() and releasing RQ-lock:

current-&gt;state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE();
        schedule();
          deactivate_task()
            dl_stop_server();
          pick_next_task()
            pick_next_task_fair()
              sched_balance_newidle()
                rq_unlock(this_rq)

at which point another CPU can take our RQ-lock and do:

        try_to_wake_up()
          ttwu_queue()
            rq_lock()
            ...
            activate_task()
              dl_server_start() --&gt; first enqueue
            wakeup_preempt() := check_preempt_wakeup_fair()
              update_curr()
                update_curr_task()
                  if (current-&gt;dl_server)
                    dl_server_update()
                      enqueue_dl_entity() --&gt; second enqueue

This bug was not apparent as the enqueue in dl_server_start doesn't
usually happen because of the defer logic. But as a side effect of the
first case(dequeue during dlserver pick), dl_throttled and dl_yield will
be set and this causes the time accounting of dlserver to messup and
then leading to a enqueue in dl_server_start.

Have an explicit flag representing the status of dlserver to avoid the
confusion. This is set in dl_server_start and reset in dlserver_stop.

Fixes: 63ba8422f876 ("sched/deadline: Introduce deadline servers")
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Vineeth Pillai (Google)" &lt;vineeth@bitbyteword.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Marcel Ziswiler &lt;marcel.ziswiler@codethink.co.uk&gt; # ROCK 5B
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241213032244.877029-1-vineeth@bitbyteword.org
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dlserver can get dequeued during a dlserver pick_task due to the delayed
deueue feature and this can lead to issues with dlserver logic as it
still thinks that dlserver is on the runqueue. The dlserver throttling
and replenish logic gets confused and can lead to double enqueue of
dlserver.

Double enqueue of dlserver could happend due to couple of reasons:

Case 1
------

Delayed dequeue feature[1] can cause dlserver being stopped during a
pick initiated by dlserver:
  __pick_next_task
   pick_task_dl -&gt; server_pick_task
    pick_task_fair
     pick_next_entity (if (sched_delayed))
      dequeue_entities
       dl_server_stop

server_pick_task goes ahead with update_curr_dl_se without knowing that
dlserver is dequeued and this confuses the logic and may lead to
unintended enqueue while the server is stopped.

Case 2
------
A race condition between a task dequeue on one cpu and same task's enqueue
on this cpu by a remote cpu while the lock is released causing dlserver
double enqueue.

One cpu would be in the schedule() and releasing RQ-lock:

current-&gt;state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE();
        schedule();
          deactivate_task()
            dl_stop_server();
          pick_next_task()
            pick_next_task_fair()
              sched_balance_newidle()
                rq_unlock(this_rq)

at which point another CPU can take our RQ-lock and do:

        try_to_wake_up()
          ttwu_queue()
            rq_lock()
            ...
            activate_task()
              dl_server_start() --&gt; first enqueue
            wakeup_preempt() := check_preempt_wakeup_fair()
              update_curr()
                update_curr_task()
                  if (current-&gt;dl_server)
                    dl_server_update()
                      enqueue_dl_entity() --&gt; second enqueue

This bug was not apparent as the enqueue in dl_server_start doesn't
usually happen because of the defer logic. But as a side effect of the
first case(dequeue during dlserver pick), dl_throttled and dl_yield will
be set and this causes the time accounting of dlserver to messup and
then leading to a enqueue in dl_server_start.

Have an explicit flag representing the status of dlserver to avoid the
confusion. This is set in dl_server_start and reset in dlserver_stop.

Fixes: 63ba8422f876 ("sched/deadline: Introduce deadline servers")
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Vineeth Pillai (Google)" &lt;vineeth@bitbyteword.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Marcel Ziswiler &lt;marcel.ziswiler@codethink.co.uk&gt; # ROCK 5B
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241213032244.877029-1-vineeth@bitbyteword.org
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-11-24-02-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-11-26T00:09:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-26T00:09:48+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "resource: A couple of cleanups" from Andy Shevchenko
   performs some cleanups in the resource management code

 - The series "Improve the copy of task comm" from Yafang Shao addresses
   possible race-induced overflows in the management of
   task_struct.comm[]

 - The series "Remove unnecessary header includes from
   {tools/}lib/list_sort.c" from Kuan-Wei Chiu adds some cleanups and a
   small fix to the list_sort library code and to its selftest

 - The series "Enhance min heap API with non-inline functions and
   optimizations" also from Kuan-Wei Chiu optimizes and cleans up the
   min_heap library code

 - The series "nilfs2: Finish folio conversion" from Ryusuke Konishi
   finishes off nilfs2's folioification

 - The series "add detect count for hung tasks" from Lance Yang adds
   more userspace visibility into the hung-task detector's activity

 - Apart from that, singelton patches in many places - please see the
   individual changelogs for details

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-11-24-02-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (71 commits)
  gdb: lx-symbols: do not error out on monolithic build
  kernel/reboot: replace sprintf() with sysfs_emit()
  lib: util_macros_kunit: add kunit test for util_macros.h
  util_macros.h: fix/rework find_closest() macros
  Improve consistency of '#error' directive messages
  ocfs2: fix uninitialized value in ocfs2_file_read_iter()
  hung_task: add docs for hung_task_detect_count
  hung_task: add detect count for hung tasks
  dma-buf: use atomic64_inc_return() in dma_buf_getfile()
  fs/proc/kcore.c: fix coccinelle reported ERROR instances
  resource: avoid unnecessary resource tree walking in __region_intersects()
  ocfs2: remove unused errmsg function and table
  ocfs2: cluster: fix a typo
  lib/scatterlist: use sg_phys() helper
  checkpatch: always parse orig_commit in fixes tag
  nilfs2: convert metadata aops from writepage to writepages
  nilfs2: convert nilfs_recovery_copy_block() to take a folio
  nilfs2: convert nilfs_page_count_clean_buffers() to take a folio
  nilfs2: remove nilfs_writepage
  nilfs2: convert checkpoint file to be folio-based
  ...
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - The series "resource: A couple of cleanups" from Andy Shevchenko
   performs some cleanups in the resource management code

 - The series "Improve the copy of task comm" from Yafang Shao addresses
   possible race-induced overflows in the management of
   task_struct.comm[]

 - The series "Remove unnecessary header includes from
   {tools/}lib/list_sort.c" from Kuan-Wei Chiu adds some cleanups and a
   small fix to the list_sort library code and to its selftest

 - The series "Enhance min heap API with non-inline functions and
   optimizations" also from Kuan-Wei Chiu optimizes and cleans up the
   min_heap library code

 - The series "nilfs2: Finish folio conversion" from Ryusuke Konishi
   finishes off nilfs2's folioification

 - The series "add detect count for hung tasks" from Lance Yang adds
   more userspace visibility into the hung-task detector's activity

 - Apart from that, singelton patches in many places - please see the
   individual changelogs for details

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-11-24-02-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (71 commits)
  gdb: lx-symbols: do not error out on monolithic build
  kernel/reboot: replace sprintf() with sysfs_emit()
  lib: util_macros_kunit: add kunit test for util_macros.h
  util_macros.h: fix/rework find_closest() macros
  Improve consistency of '#error' directive messages
  ocfs2: fix uninitialized value in ocfs2_file_read_iter()
  hung_task: add docs for hung_task_detect_count
  hung_task: add detect count for hung tasks
  dma-buf: use atomic64_inc_return() in dma_buf_getfile()
  fs/proc/kcore.c: fix coccinelle reported ERROR instances
  resource: avoid unnecessary resource tree walking in __region_intersects()
  ocfs2: remove unused errmsg function and table
  ocfs2: cluster: fix a typo
  lib/scatterlist: use sg_phys() helper
  checkpatch: always parse orig_commit in fixes tag
  nilfs2: convert metadata aops from writepage to writepages
  nilfs2: convert nilfs_recovery_copy_block() to take a folio
  nilfs2: convert nilfs_page_count_clean_buffers() to take a folio
  nilfs2: remove nilfs_writepage
  nilfs2: convert checkpoint file to be folio-based
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ftrace-v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2024-11-20T19:34:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-20T19:34:10+00:00</published>
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Pull ftrace updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Restructure the function graph shadow stack to prepare it for use
   with kretprobes

   With the goal of merging the shadow stack logic of function graph and
   kretprobes, some more restructuring of the function shadow stack is
   required.

   Move out function graph specific fields from the fgraph
   infrastructure and store it on the new stack variables that can pass
   data from the entry callback to the exit callback.

   Hopefully, with this change, the merge of kretprobes to use fgraph
   shadow stacks will be ready by the next merge window.

 - Make shadow stack 4k instead of using PAGE_SIZE.

   Some architectures have very large PAGE_SIZE values which make its
   use for shadow stacks waste a lot of memory.

 - Give shadow stacks its own kmem cache.

   When function graph is started, every task on the system gets a
   shadow stack. In the future, shadow stacks may not be 4K in size.
   Have it have its own kmem cache so that whatever size it becomes will
   still be efficient in allocations.

 - Initialize profiler graph ops as it will be needed for new updates to
   fgraph

 - Convert to use guard(mutex) for several ftrace and fgraph functions

 - Add more comments and documentation

 - Show function return address in function graph tracer

   Add an option to show the caller of a function at each entry of the
   function graph tracer, similar to what the function tracer does.

 - Abstract out ftrace_regs from being used directly like pt_regs

   ftrace_regs was created to store a partial pt_regs. It holds only the
   registers and stack information to get to the function arguments and
   return values. On several archs, it is simply a wrapper around
   pt_regs. But some users would access ftrace_regs directly to get the
   pt_regs which will not work on all archs. Make ftrace_regs an
   abstract structure that requires all access to its fields be through
   accessor functions.

 - Show how long it takes to do function code modifications

   When code modification for function hooks happen, it always had the
   time recorded in how long it took to do the conversion. But this
   value was never exported. Recently the code was touched due to new
   ROX modification handling that caused a large slow down in doing the
   modifications and had a significant impact on boot times.

   Expose the timings in the dyn_ftrace_total_info file. This file was
   created a while ago to show information about memory usage and such
   to implement dynamic function tracing. It's also an appropriate file
   to store the timings of this modification as well. This will make it
   easier to see the impact of changes to code modification on boot up
   timings.

 - Other clean ups and small fixes

* tag 'ftrace-v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (22 commits)
  ftrace: Show timings of how long nop patching took
  ftrace: Use guard to take ftrace_lock in ftrace_graph_set_hash()
  ftrace: Use guard to take the ftrace_lock in release_probe()
  ftrace: Use guard to lock ftrace_lock in cache_mod()
  ftrace: Use guard for match_records()
  fgraph: Use guard(mutex)(&amp;ftrace_lock) for unregister_ftrace_graph()
  fgraph: Give ret_stack its own kmem cache
  fgraph: Separate size of ret_stack from PAGE_SIZE
  ftrace: Rename ftrace_regs_return_value to ftrace_regs_get_return_value
  selftests/ftrace: Fix check of return value in fgraph-retval.tc test
  ftrace: Use arch_ftrace_regs() for ftrace_regs_*() macros
  ftrace: Consolidate ftrace_regs accessor functions for archs using pt_regs
  ftrace: Make ftrace_regs abstract from direct use
  fgragh: No need to invoke the function call_filter_check_discard()
  fgraph: Simplify return address printing in function graph tracer
  function_graph: Remove unnecessary initialization in ftrace_graph_ret_addr()
  function_graph: Support recording and printing the function return address
  ftrace: Have calltime be saved in the fgraph storage
  ftrace: Use a running sleeptime instead of saving on shadow stack
  fgraph: Use fgraph data to store subtime for profiler
  ...
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<pre>
Pull ftrace updates from Steven Rostedt:

 - Restructure the function graph shadow stack to prepare it for use
   with kretprobes

   With the goal of merging the shadow stack logic of function graph and
   kretprobes, some more restructuring of the function shadow stack is
   required.

   Move out function graph specific fields from the fgraph
   infrastructure and store it on the new stack variables that can pass
   data from the entry callback to the exit callback.

   Hopefully, with this change, the merge of kretprobes to use fgraph
   shadow stacks will be ready by the next merge window.

 - Make shadow stack 4k instead of using PAGE_SIZE.

   Some architectures have very large PAGE_SIZE values which make its
   use for shadow stacks waste a lot of memory.

 - Give shadow stacks its own kmem cache.

   When function graph is started, every task on the system gets a
   shadow stack. In the future, shadow stacks may not be 4K in size.
   Have it have its own kmem cache so that whatever size it becomes will
   still be efficient in allocations.

 - Initialize profiler graph ops as it will be needed for new updates to
   fgraph

 - Convert to use guard(mutex) for several ftrace and fgraph functions

 - Add more comments and documentation

 - Show function return address in function graph tracer

   Add an option to show the caller of a function at each entry of the
   function graph tracer, similar to what the function tracer does.

 - Abstract out ftrace_regs from being used directly like pt_regs

   ftrace_regs was created to store a partial pt_regs. It holds only the
   registers and stack information to get to the function arguments and
   return values. On several archs, it is simply a wrapper around
   pt_regs. But some users would access ftrace_regs directly to get the
   pt_regs which will not work on all archs. Make ftrace_regs an
   abstract structure that requires all access to its fields be through
   accessor functions.

 - Show how long it takes to do function code modifications

   When code modification for function hooks happen, it always had the
   time recorded in how long it took to do the conversion. But this
   value was never exported. Recently the code was touched due to new
   ROX modification handling that caused a large slow down in doing the
   modifications and had a significant impact on boot times.

   Expose the timings in the dyn_ftrace_total_info file. This file was
   created a while ago to show information about memory usage and such
   to implement dynamic function tracing. It's also an appropriate file
   to store the timings of this modification as well. This will make it
   easier to see the impact of changes to code modification on boot up
   timings.

 - Other clean ups and small fixes

* tag 'ftrace-v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (22 commits)
  ftrace: Show timings of how long nop patching took
  ftrace: Use guard to take ftrace_lock in ftrace_graph_set_hash()
  ftrace: Use guard to take the ftrace_lock in release_probe()
  ftrace: Use guard to lock ftrace_lock in cache_mod()
  ftrace: Use guard for match_records()
  fgraph: Use guard(mutex)(&amp;ftrace_lock) for unregister_ftrace_graph()
  fgraph: Give ret_stack its own kmem cache
  fgraph: Separate size of ret_stack from PAGE_SIZE
  ftrace: Rename ftrace_regs_return_value to ftrace_regs_get_return_value
  selftests/ftrace: Fix check of return value in fgraph-retval.tc test
  ftrace: Use arch_ftrace_regs() for ftrace_regs_*() macros
  ftrace: Consolidate ftrace_regs accessor functions for archs using pt_regs
  ftrace: Make ftrace_regs abstract from direct use
  fgragh: No need to invoke the function call_filter_check_discard()
  fgraph: Simplify return address printing in function graph tracer
  function_graph: Remove unnecessary initialization in ftrace_graph_ret_addr()
  function_graph: Support recording and printing the function return address
  ftrace: Have calltime be saved in the fgraph storage
  ftrace: Use a running sleeptime instead of saving on shadow stack
  fgraph: Use fgraph data to store subtime for profiler
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86-splitlock-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-11-19T22:34:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-19T22:34:02+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 splitlock updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Move Split and Bus lock code to a dedicated file (Ravi Bangoria)

 - Add split/bus lock support for AMD (Ravi Bangoria)

* tag 'x86-splitlock-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/bus_lock: Add support for AMD
  x86/split_lock: Move Split and Bus lock code to a dedicated file
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Pull x86 splitlock updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Move Split and Bus lock code to a dedicated file (Ravi Bangoria)

 - Add split/bus lock support for AMD (Ravi Bangoria)

* tag 'x86-splitlock-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/bus_lock: Add support for AMD
  x86/split_lock: Move Split and Bus lock code to a dedicated file
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>get rid of __get_task_comm()</title>
<updated>2024-11-06T01:12:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yafang Shao</name>
<email>laoar.shao@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-07T14:49:05+00:00</published>
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Patch series "Improve the copy of task comm", v8.

Using {memcpy,strncpy,strcpy,kstrdup} to copy the task comm relies on the
length of task comm.  Changes in the task comm could result in a
destination string that is overflow.  Therefore, we should explicitly
ensure the destination string is always NUL-terminated, regardless of the
task comm.  This approach will facilitate future extensions to the task
comm.

As suggested by Linus [0], we can identify all relevant code with the
following git grep command:

  git grep 'memcpy.*-&gt;comm\&gt;'
  git grep 'kstrdup.*-&gt;comm\&gt;'
  git grep 'strncpy.*-&gt;comm\&gt;'
  git grep 'strcpy.*-&gt;comm\&gt;'

PATCH #2~#4:   memcpy
PATCH #5~#6:   kstrdup
PATCH #7:      strcpy

Please note that strncpy() is not included in this series as it is being
tracked by another effort. [1]


This patch (of 7):

We want to eliminate the use of __get_task_comm() for the following
reasons:

- The task_lock() is unnecessary
  Quoted from Linus [0]:
  : Since user space can randomly change their names anyway, using locking
  : was always wrong for readers (for writers it probably does make sense
  : to have some lock - although practically speaking nobody cares there
  : either, but at least for a writer some kind of race could have
  : long-term mixed results

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241007144911.27693-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241007144911.27693-2-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wivfrF0_zvf+oj6==Sh=-npJooP8chLPEfaFV0oNYTTBA@mail.gmail.com [0]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whWtUC-AjmGJveAETKOMeMFSTwKwu99v7+b6AyHMmaDFA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjAmmHUg6vho1KjzQi2=psR30+CogFd4aXrThr2gsiS4g@mail.gmail.com/ [0]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 [1]
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao &lt;laoar.shao@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matus Jokay &lt;matus.jokay@stuba.sk&gt;
Cc: Alejandro Colomar &lt;alx@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Justin Stitt &lt;justinstitt@google.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Cc: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy.shevchenko@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst &lt;maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek &lt;omosnace@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Cc: Quentin Monnet &lt;qmo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Smalley &lt;stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Patch series "Improve the copy of task comm", v8.

Using {memcpy,strncpy,strcpy,kstrdup} to copy the task comm relies on the
length of task comm.  Changes in the task comm could result in a
destination string that is overflow.  Therefore, we should explicitly
ensure the destination string is always NUL-terminated, regardless of the
task comm.  This approach will facilitate future extensions to the task
comm.

As suggested by Linus [0], we can identify all relevant code with the
following git grep command:

  git grep 'memcpy.*-&gt;comm\&gt;'
  git grep 'kstrdup.*-&gt;comm\&gt;'
  git grep 'strncpy.*-&gt;comm\&gt;'
  git grep 'strcpy.*-&gt;comm\&gt;'

PATCH #2~#4:   memcpy
PATCH #5~#6:   kstrdup
PATCH #7:      strcpy

Please note that strncpy() is not included in this series as it is being
tracked by another effort. [1]


This patch (of 7):

We want to eliminate the use of __get_task_comm() for the following
reasons:

- The task_lock() is unnecessary
  Quoted from Linus [0]:
  : Since user space can randomly change their names anyway, using locking
  : was always wrong for readers (for writers it probably does make sense
  : to have some lock - although practically speaking nobody cares there
  : either, but at least for a writer some kind of race could have
  : long-term mixed results

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241007144911.27693-1-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241007144911.27693-2-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wivfrF0_zvf+oj6==Sh=-npJooP8chLPEfaFV0oNYTTBA@mail.gmail.com [0]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whWtUC-AjmGJveAETKOMeMFSTwKwu99v7+b6AyHMmaDFA@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjAmmHUg6vho1KjzQi2=psR30+CogFd4aXrThr2gsiS4g@mail.gmail.com/ [0]
Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 [1]
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao &lt;laoar.shao@gmail.com&gt;
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matus Jokay &lt;matus.jokay@stuba.sk&gt;
Cc: Alejandro Colomar &lt;alx@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" &lt;serge@hallyn.com&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Justin Stitt &lt;justinstitt@google.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Tetsuo Handa &lt;penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp&gt;
Cc: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy.shevchenko@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Paris &lt;eparis@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: James Morris &lt;jmorris@namei.org&gt;
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst &lt;maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Maxime Ripard &lt;mripard@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ondrej Mosnacek &lt;omosnace@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Cc: Quentin Monnet &lt;qmo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Simon Horman &lt;horms@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Stephen Smalley &lt;stephen.smalley.work@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann &lt;tzimmermann@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: Add TIF_NEED_RESCHED_LAZY infrastructure</title>
<updated>2024-11-05T11:55:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-04T12:47:02+00:00</published>
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Add the basic infrastructure to split the TIF_NEED_RESCHED bit in two.
Either bit will cause a resched on return-to-user, but only
TIF_NEED_RESCHED will drive IRQ preemption.

No behavioural change intended.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241007075055.219540785@infradead.org
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Add the basic infrastructure to split the TIF_NEED_RESCHED bit in two.
Either bit will cause a resched on return-to-user, but only
TIF_NEED_RESCHED will drive IRQ preemption.

No behavioural change intended.

Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241007075055.219540785@infradead.org
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v6.12-rc4' into sched/core, to resolve conflict</title>
<updated>2024-10-21T06:14:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-21T06:14:15+00:00</published>
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Overlapping fixes solving the same bug slightly differently:

  7266f0a6d3bb fs/bcachefs: Fix __wait_on_freeing_inode() definition of waitqueue entry
  3b80552e7057 bcachefs: __wait_for_freeing_inode: Switch to wait_bit_queue_entry

Use the upstream version.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
Overlapping fixes solving the same bug slightly differently:

  7266f0a6d3bb fs/bcachefs: Fix __wait_on_freeing_inode() definition of waitqueue entry
  3b80552e7057 bcachefs: __wait_for_freeing_inode: Switch to wait_bit_queue_entry

Use the upstream version.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
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