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<title>cpu/SMT: Enable SMT only if a core is online</title>
<updated>2024-08-29T15:35:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nysal Jan K.A</name>
<email>nysal@linux.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-31T03:01:12+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6c17ea1f3eaa330d445ac14a9428402ce4e3055e ]

If a core is offline then enabling SMT should not online CPUs of
this core. By enabling SMT, what is intended is either changing the SMT
value from "off" to "on" or setting the SMT level (threads per core) from a
lower to higher value.

On PowerPC the ppc64_cpu utility can be used, among other things, to
perform the following functions:

ppc64_cpu --cores-on                # Get the number of online cores
ppc64_cpu --cores-on=X              # Put exactly X cores online
ppc64_cpu --offline-cores=X[,Y,...] # Put specified cores offline
ppc64_cpu --smt={on|off|value}      # Enable, disable or change SMT level

If the user has decided to offline certain cores, enabling SMT should
not online CPUs in those cores. This patch fixes the issue and changes
the behaviour as described, by introducing an arch specific function
topology_is_core_online(). It is currently implemented only for PowerPC.

Fixes: 73c58e7e1412 ("powerpc: Add HOTPLUG_SMT support")
Reported-by: Tyrel Datwyler &lt;tyreld@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Closes: https://groups.google.com/g/powerpc-utils-devel/c/wrwVzAAnRlI/m/5KJSoqP4BAAJ
Signed-off-by: Nysal Jan K.A &lt;nysal@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde &lt;sshegde@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20240731030126.956210-2-nysal@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6c17ea1f3eaa330d445ac14a9428402ce4e3055e ]

If a core is offline then enabling SMT should not online CPUs of
this core. By enabling SMT, what is intended is either changing the SMT
value from "off" to "on" or setting the SMT level (threads per core) from a
lower to higher value.

On PowerPC the ppc64_cpu utility can be used, among other things, to
perform the following functions:

ppc64_cpu --cores-on                # Get the number of online cores
ppc64_cpu --cores-on=X              # Put exactly X cores online
ppc64_cpu --offline-cores=X[,Y,...] # Put specified cores offline
ppc64_cpu --smt={on|off|value}      # Enable, disable or change SMT level

If the user has decided to offline certain cores, enabling SMT should
not online CPUs in those cores. This patch fixes the issue and changes
the behaviour as described, by introducing an arch specific function
topology_is_core_online(). It is currently implemented only for PowerPC.

Fixes: 73c58e7e1412 ("powerpc: Add HOTPLUG_SMT support")
Reported-by: Tyrel Datwyler &lt;tyreld@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Closes: https://groups.google.com/g/powerpc-utils-devel/c/wrwVzAAnRlI/m/5KJSoqP4BAAJ
Signed-off-by: Nysal Jan K.A &lt;nysal@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde &lt;sshegde@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://msgid.link/20240731030126.956210-2-nysal@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>cpu: Fix broken cmdline "nosmp" and "maxcpus=0"</title>
<updated>2024-06-23T18:04:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Huacai Chen</name>
<email>chenhuacai@loongson.cn</email>
</author>
<published>2024-06-18T08:13:36+00:00</published>
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After the rework of "Parallel CPU bringup", the cmdline "nosmp" and
"maxcpus=0" parameters are not working anymore. These parameters set
setup_max_cpus to zero and that's handed to bringup_nonboot_cpus().

The code there does a decrement before checking for zero, which brings it
into the negative space and brings up all CPUs.

Add a zero check at the beginning of the function to prevent this.

[ tglx: Massaged change log ]

Fixes: 18415f33e2ac4ab382 ("cpu/hotplug: Allow "parallel" bringup up to CPUHP_BP_KICK_AP_STATE")
Fixes: 06c6796e0304234da6 ("cpu/hotplug: Fix off by one in cpuhp_bringup_mask()")
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240618081336.3996825-1-chenhuacai@loongson.cn

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After the rework of "Parallel CPU bringup", the cmdline "nosmp" and
"maxcpus=0" parameters are not working anymore. These parameters set
setup_max_cpus to zero and that's handed to bringup_nonboot_cpus().

The code there does a decrement before checking for zero, which brings it
into the negative space and brings up all CPUs.

Add a zero check at the beginning of the function to prevent this.

[ tglx: Massaged change log ]

Fixes: 18415f33e2ac4ab382 ("cpu/hotplug: Allow "parallel" bringup up to CPUHP_BP_KICK_AP_STATE")
Fixes: 06c6796e0304234da6 ("cpu/hotplug: Fix off by one in cpuhp_bringup_mask()")
Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen &lt;chenhuacai@loongson.cn&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240618081336.3996825-1-chenhuacai@loongson.cn

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<entry>
<title>cpu/hotplug: Fix dynstate assignment in __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked()</title>
<updated>2024-06-17T13:08:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yuntao Wang</name>
<email>ytcoode@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-15T13:45:54+00:00</published>
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Commit 4205e4786d0b ("cpu/hotplug: Provide dynamic range for prepare
stage") added a dynamic range for the prepare states, but did not handle
the assignment of the dynstate variable in __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked().

This causes the corresponding startup callback not to be invoked when
calling __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked() with the CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN
parameter, even though it should be.

Currently, the users of __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked(), for one reason or
another, have not triggered this bug.

Fixes: 4205e4786d0b ("cpu/hotplug: Provide dynamic range for prepare stage")
Signed-off-by: Yuntao Wang &lt;ytcoode@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240515134554.427071-1-ytcoode@gmail.com
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Commit 4205e4786d0b ("cpu/hotplug: Provide dynamic range for prepare
stage") added a dynamic range for the prepare states, but did not handle
the assignment of the dynstate variable in __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked().

This causes the corresponding startup callback not to be invoked when
calling __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked() with the CPUHP_BP_PREPARE_DYN
parameter, even though it should be.

Currently, the users of __cpuhp_setup_state_cpuslocked(), for one reason or
another, have not triggered this bug.

Fixes: 4205e4786d0b ("cpu/hotplug: Provide dynamic range for prepare stage")
Signed-off-by: Yuntao Wang &lt;ytcoode@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240515134554.427071-1-ytcoode@gmail.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'cgroup-for-6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2024-05-16T00:06:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-16T00:06:08+00:00</published>
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Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - The locking around cpuset hotplug processing has always been a bit of
   mess which was worked around by making hotplug processing
   asynchronous. The asynchronity isn't great and led to other issues.

   We tried to make the behavior synchronous a while ago but that led to
   lockdep splats. Waiman took another stab at cleaning up and making it
   synchronous. The patch has been in -next for well over a month and
   there haven't been any complaints, so fingers crossed.

 - Tracepoints added to help understanding rstat lock contentions.

 - A bunch of minor changes - doc updates, code cleanups and selftests.

* tag 'cgroup-for-6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (24 commits)
  cgroup/rstat: add cgroup_rstat_cpu_lock helpers and tracepoints
  selftests/cgroup: Drop define _GNU_SOURCE
  docs: cgroup-v1: Update page cache removal functions
  selftests/cgroup: fix uninitialized variables in test_zswap.c
  selftests/cgroup: cpu_hogger init: use {} instead of {NULL}
  selftests/cgroup: fix clang warnings: uninitialized fd variable
  selftests/cgroup: fix clang build failures for abs() calls
  cgroup/cpuset: Remove outdated comment in sched_partition_write()
  cgroup/cpuset: Fix incorrect top_cpuset flags
  cgroup/cpuset: Avoid clearing CS_SCHED_LOAD_BALANCE twice
  cgroup/cpuset: Statically initialize more members of top_cpuset
  cgroup: Avoid unnecessary looping in cgroup_no_v1()
  cgroup, legacy_freezer: update comment for freezer_css_offline()
  docs, cgroup: add entries for pids to cgroup-v2.rst
  cgroup: don't call cgroup1_pidlist_destroy_all() for v2
  cgroup_freezer: update comment for freezer_css_online()
  cgroup/rstat: desc member cgrp in cgroup_rstat_flush_release
  cgroup/rstat: add cgroup_rstat_lock helpers and tracepoints
  cgroup/pids: Remove superfluous zeroing
  docs: cgroup-v1: Fix description for css_online
  ...
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Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - The locking around cpuset hotplug processing has always been a bit of
   mess which was worked around by making hotplug processing
   asynchronous. The asynchronity isn't great and led to other issues.

   We tried to make the behavior synchronous a while ago but that led to
   lockdep splats. Waiman took another stab at cleaning up and making it
   synchronous. The patch has been in -next for well over a month and
   there haven't been any complaints, so fingers crossed.

 - Tracepoints added to help understanding rstat lock contentions.

 - A bunch of minor changes - doc updates, code cleanups and selftests.

* tag 'cgroup-for-6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (24 commits)
  cgroup/rstat: add cgroup_rstat_cpu_lock helpers and tracepoints
  selftests/cgroup: Drop define _GNU_SOURCE
  docs: cgroup-v1: Update page cache removal functions
  selftests/cgroup: fix uninitialized variables in test_zswap.c
  selftests/cgroup: cpu_hogger init: use {} instead of {NULL}
  selftests/cgroup: fix clang warnings: uninitialized fd variable
  selftests/cgroup: fix clang build failures for abs() calls
  cgroup/cpuset: Remove outdated comment in sched_partition_write()
  cgroup/cpuset: Fix incorrect top_cpuset flags
  cgroup/cpuset: Avoid clearing CS_SCHED_LOAD_BALANCE twice
  cgroup/cpuset: Statically initialize more members of top_cpuset
  cgroup: Avoid unnecessary looping in cgroup_no_v1()
  cgroup, legacy_freezer: update comment for freezer_css_offline()
  docs, cgroup: add entries for pids to cgroup-v2.rst
  cgroup: don't call cgroup1_pidlist_destroy_all() for v2
  cgroup_freezer: update comment for freezer_css_online()
  cgroup/rstat: desc member cgrp in cgroup_rstat_flush_release
  cgroup/rstat: add cgroup_rstat_lock helpers and tracepoints
  cgroup/pids: Remove superfluous zeroing
  docs: cgroup-v1: Fix description for css_online
  ...
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<entry>
<title>cpu: Ignore "mitigations" kernel parameter if CPU_MITIGATIONS=n</title>
<updated>2024-04-25T13:47:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-20T00:05:55+00:00</published>
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Explicitly disallow enabling mitigations at runtime for kernels that were
built with CONFIG_CPU_MITIGATIONS=n, as some architectures may omit code
entirely if mitigations are disabled at compile time.

E.g. on x86, a large pile of Kconfigs are buried behind CPU_MITIGATIONS,
and trying to provide sane behavior for retroactively enabling mitigations
is extremely difficult, bordering on impossible.  E.g. page table isolation
and call depth tracking require build-time support, BHI mitigations will
still be off without additional kernel parameters, etc.

  [ bp: Touchups. ]

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240420000556.2645001-3-seanjc@google.com
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Explicitly disallow enabling mitigations at runtime for kernels that were
built with CONFIG_CPU_MITIGATIONS=n, as some architectures may omit code
entirely if mitigations are disabled at compile time.

E.g. on x86, a large pile of Kconfigs are buried behind CPU_MITIGATIONS,
and trying to provide sane behavior for retroactively enabling mitigations
is extremely difficult, bordering on impossible.  E.g. page table isolation
and call depth tracking require build-time support, BHI mitigations will
still be off without additional kernel parameters, etc.

  [ bp: Touchups. ]

Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240420000556.2645001-3-seanjc@google.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpu: Re-enable CPU mitigations by default for !X86 architectures</title>
<updated>2024-04-25T13:47:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-20T00:05:54+00:00</published>
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Rename x86's to CPU_MITIGATIONS, define it in generic code, and force it
on for all architectures exception x86.  A recent commit to turn
mitigations off by default if SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n kinda sorta
missed that "cpu_mitigations" is completely generic, whereas
SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS is x86-specific.

Rename x86's SPECULATIVE_MITIGATIONS instead of keeping both and have it
select CPU_MITIGATIONS, as having two configs for the same thing is
unnecessary and confusing.  This will also allow x86 to use the knob to
manage mitigations that aren't strictly related to speculative
execution.

Use another Kconfig to communicate to common code that CPU_MITIGATIONS
is already defined instead of having x86's menu depend on the common
CPU_MITIGATIONS.  This allows keeping a single point of contact for all
of x86's mitigations, and it's not clear that other architectures *want*
to allow disabling mitigations at compile-time.

Fixes: f337a6a21e2f ("x86/cpu: Actually turn off mitigations by default for SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n")
Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240413115324.53303a68%40canb.auug.org.au
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240420000556.2645001-2-seanjc@google.com
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Rename x86's to CPU_MITIGATIONS, define it in generic code, and force it
on for all architectures exception x86.  A recent commit to turn
mitigations off by default if SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n kinda sorta
missed that "cpu_mitigations" is completely generic, whereas
SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS is x86-specific.

Rename x86's SPECULATIVE_MITIGATIONS instead of keeping both and have it
select CPU_MITIGATIONS, as having two configs for the same thing is
unnecessary and confusing.  This will also allow x86 to use the knob to
manage mitigations that aren't strictly related to speculative
execution.

Use another Kconfig to communicate to common code that CPU_MITIGATIONS
is already defined instead of having x86's menu depend on the common
CPU_MITIGATIONS.  This allows keeping a single point of contact for all
of x86's mitigations, and it's not clear that other architectures *want*
to allow disabling mitigations at compile-time.

Fixes: f337a6a21e2f ("x86/cpu: Actually turn off mitigations by default for SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n")
Closes: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240413115324.53303a68%40canb.auug.org.au
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240420000556.2645001-2-seanjc@google.com
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<entry>
<title>x86/cpu: Actually turn off mitigations by default for SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n</title>
<updated>2024-04-10T14:22:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-09T17:51:05+00:00</published>
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Initialize cpu_mitigations to CPU_MITIGATIONS_OFF if the kernel is built
with CONFIG_SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n, as the help text quite clearly
states that disabling SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS is supposed to turn off all
mitigations by default.

  │ If you say N, all mitigations will be disabled. You really
  │ should know what you are doing to say so.

As is, the kernel still defaults to CPU_MITIGATIONS_AUTO, which results in
some mitigations being enabled in spite of SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n.

Fixes: f43b9876e857 ("x86/retbleed: Add fine grained Kconfig knobs")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Sneddon &lt;daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240409175108.1512861-2-seanjc@google.com
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Initialize cpu_mitigations to CPU_MITIGATIONS_OFF if the kernel is built
with CONFIG_SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n, as the help text quite clearly
states that disabling SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS is supposed to turn off all
mitigations by default.

  │ If you say N, all mitigations will be disabled. You really
  │ should know what you are doing to say so.

As is, the kernel still defaults to CPU_MITIGATIONS_AUTO, which results in
some mitigations being enabled in spite of SPECULATION_MITIGATIONS=n.

Fixes: f43b9876e857 ("x86/retbleed: Add fine grained Kconfig knobs")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Sneddon &lt;daniel.sneddon@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240409175108.1512861-2-seanjc@google.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cgroup/cpuset: Make cpuset hotplug processing synchronous</title>
<updated>2024-04-08T17:39:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Waiman Long</name>
<email>longman@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-04T13:47:48+00:00</published>
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Since commit 3a5a6d0c2b03("cpuset: don't nest cgroup_mutex inside
get_online_cpus()"), cpuset hotplug was done asynchronously via a work
function. This is to avoid recursive locking of cgroup_mutex.

Since then, the cgroup locking scheme has changed quite a bit. A
cpuset_mutex was introduced to protect cpuset specific operations.
The cpuset_mutex is then replaced by a cpuset_rwsem. With commit
d74b27d63a8b ("cgroup/cpuset: Change cpuset_rwsem and hotplug lock
order"), cpu_hotplug_lock is acquired before cpuset_rwsem. Later on,
cpuset_rwsem is reverted back to cpuset_mutex. All these locking changes
allow the hotplug code to call into cpuset core directly.

The following commits were also merged due to the asynchronous nature
of cpuset hotplug processing.

  - commit b22afcdf04c9 ("cpu/hotplug: Cure the cpusets trainwreck")
  - commit 50e76632339d ("sched/cpuset/pm: Fix cpuset vs. suspend-resume
    bugs")
  - commit 28b89b9e6f7b ("cpuset: handle race between CPU hotplug and
    cpuset_hotplug_work")

Clean up all these bandages by making cpuset hotplug
processing synchronous again with the exception that the call to
cgroup_transfer_tasks() to transfer tasks out of an empty cgroup v1
cpuset, if necessary, will still be done via a work function due to the
existing cgroup_mutex -&gt; cpu_hotplug_lock dependency. It is possible
to reverse that dependency, but that will require updating a number of
different cgroup controllers. This special hotplug code path should be
rarely taken anyway.

As all the cpuset states will be updated by the end of the hotplug
operation, we can revert most the above commits except commit
50e76632339d ("sched/cpuset/pm: Fix cpuset vs. suspend-resume bugs")
which is partially reverted.  Also removing some cpus_read_lock trylock
attempts in the cpuset partition code as they are no longer necessary
since the cpu_hotplug_lock is now held for the whole duration of the
cpuset hotplug code path.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;vschneid@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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Since commit 3a5a6d0c2b03("cpuset: don't nest cgroup_mutex inside
get_online_cpus()"), cpuset hotplug was done asynchronously via a work
function. This is to avoid recursive locking of cgroup_mutex.

Since then, the cgroup locking scheme has changed quite a bit. A
cpuset_mutex was introduced to protect cpuset specific operations.
The cpuset_mutex is then replaced by a cpuset_rwsem. With commit
d74b27d63a8b ("cgroup/cpuset: Change cpuset_rwsem and hotplug lock
order"), cpu_hotplug_lock is acquired before cpuset_rwsem. Later on,
cpuset_rwsem is reverted back to cpuset_mutex. All these locking changes
allow the hotplug code to call into cpuset core directly.

The following commits were also merged due to the asynchronous nature
of cpuset hotplug processing.

  - commit b22afcdf04c9 ("cpu/hotplug: Cure the cpusets trainwreck")
  - commit 50e76632339d ("sched/cpuset/pm: Fix cpuset vs. suspend-resume
    bugs")
  - commit 28b89b9e6f7b ("cpuset: handle race between CPU hotplug and
    cpuset_hotplug_work")

Clean up all these bandages by making cpuset hotplug
processing synchronous again with the exception that the call to
cgroup_transfer_tasks() to transfer tasks out of an empty cgroup v1
cpuset, if necessary, will still be done via a work function due to the
existing cgroup_mutex -&gt; cpu_hotplug_lock dependency. It is possible
to reverse that dependency, but that will require updating a number of
different cgroup controllers. This special hotplug code path should be
rarely taken anyway.

As all the cpuset states will be updated by the end of the hotplug
operation, we can revert most the above commits except commit
50e76632339d ("sched/cpuset/pm: Fix cpuset vs. suspend-resume bugs")
which is partially reverted.  Also removing some cpus_read_lock trylock
attempts in the cpuset partition code as they are no longer necessary
since the cpu_hotplug_lock is now held for the whole duration of the
cpuset hotplug code path.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;vschneid@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'x86-apic-2024-03-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-03-11T22:45:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-11T22:45:55+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 APIC updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Rework of APIC enumeration and topology evaluation.

  The current implementation has a couple of shortcomings:

   - It fails to handle hybrid systems correctly.

   - The APIC registration code which handles CPU number assignents is
     in the middle of the APIC code and detached from the topology
     evaluation.

   - The various mechanisms which enumerate APICs, ACPI, MPPARSE and
     guest specific ones, tweak global variables as they see fit or in
     case of XENPV just hack around the generic mechanisms completely.

   - The CPUID topology evaluation code is sprinkled all over the vendor
     code and reevaluates global variables on every hotplug operation.

   - There is no way to analyze topology on the boot CPU before bringing
     up the APs. This causes problems for infrastructure like PERF which
     needs to size certain aspects upfront or could be simplified if
     that would be possible.

   - The APIC admission and CPU number association logic is
     incomprehensible and overly complex and needs to be kept around
     after boot instead of completing this right after the APIC
     enumeration.

  This update addresses these shortcomings with the following changes:

   - Rework the CPUID evaluation code so it is common for all vendors
     and provides information about the APIC ID segments in a uniform
     way independent of the number of segments (Thread, Core, Module,
     ..., Die, Package) so that this information can be computed instead
     of rewriting global variables of dubious value over and over.

   - A few cleanups and simplifcations of the APIC, IO/APIC and related
     interfaces to prepare for the topology evaluation changes.

   - Seperation of the parser stages so the early evaluation which tries
     to find the APIC address can be seperately overridden from the late
     evaluation which enumerates and registers the local APIC as further
     preparation for sanitizing the topology evaluation.

   - A new registration and admission logic which

       - encapsulates the inner workings so that parsers and guest logic
         cannot longer fiddle in it

       - uses the APIC ID segments to build topology bitmaps at
         registration time

       - provides a sane admission logic

       - allows to detect the crash kernel case, where CPU0 does not run
         on the real BSP, automatically. This is required to prevent
         sending INIT/SIPI sequences to the real BSP which would reset
         the whole machine. This was so far handled by a tedious command
         line parameter, which does not even work in nested crash
         scenarios.

       - Associates CPU number after the enumeration completed and
         prevents the late registration of APICs, which was somehow
         tolerated before.

   - Converting all parsers and guest enumeration mechanisms over to the
     new interfaces.

     This allows to get rid of all global variable tweaking from the
     parsers and enumeration mechanisms and sanitizes the XEN[PV]
     handling so it can use CPUID evaluation for the first time.

   - Mopping up existing sins by taking the information from the APIC ID
     segment bitmaps.

     This evaluates hybrid systems correctly on the boot CPU and allows
     for cleanups and fixes in the related drivers, e.g. PERF.

  The series has been extensively tested and the minimal late fallout
  due to a broken ACPI/MADT table has been addressed by tightening the
  admission logic further"

* tag 'x86-apic-2024-03-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (76 commits)
  x86/topology: Ignore non-present APIC IDs in a present package
  x86/apic: Build the x86 topology enumeration functions on UP APIC builds too
  smp: Provide 'setup_max_cpus' definition on UP too
  smp: Avoid 'setup_max_cpus' namespace collision/shadowing
  x86/bugs: Use fixed addressing for VERW operand
  x86/cpu/topology: Get rid of cpuinfo::x86_max_cores
  x86/cpu/topology: Provide __num_[cores|threads]_per_package
  x86/cpu/topology: Rename topology_max_die_per_package()
  x86/cpu/topology: Rename smp_num_siblings
  x86/cpu/topology: Retrieve cores per package from topology bitmaps
  x86/cpu/topology: Use topology logical mapping mechanism
  x86/cpu/topology: Provide logical pkg/die mapping
  x86/cpu/topology: Simplify cpu_mark_primary_thread()
  x86/cpu/topology: Mop up primary thread mask handling
  x86/cpu/topology: Use topology bitmaps for sizing
  x86/cpu/topology: Let XEN/PV use topology from CPUID/MADT
  x86/xen/smp_pv: Count number of vCPUs early
  x86/cpu/topology: Assign hotpluggable CPUIDs during init
  x86/cpu/topology: Reject unknown APIC IDs on ACPI hotplug
  x86/topology: Add a mechanism to track topology via APIC IDs
  ...
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<pre>
Pull x86 APIC updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Rework of APIC enumeration and topology evaluation.

  The current implementation has a couple of shortcomings:

   - It fails to handle hybrid systems correctly.

   - The APIC registration code which handles CPU number assignents is
     in the middle of the APIC code and detached from the topology
     evaluation.

   - The various mechanisms which enumerate APICs, ACPI, MPPARSE and
     guest specific ones, tweak global variables as they see fit or in
     case of XENPV just hack around the generic mechanisms completely.

   - The CPUID topology evaluation code is sprinkled all over the vendor
     code and reevaluates global variables on every hotplug operation.

   - There is no way to analyze topology on the boot CPU before bringing
     up the APs. This causes problems for infrastructure like PERF which
     needs to size certain aspects upfront or could be simplified if
     that would be possible.

   - The APIC admission and CPU number association logic is
     incomprehensible and overly complex and needs to be kept around
     after boot instead of completing this right after the APIC
     enumeration.

  This update addresses these shortcomings with the following changes:

   - Rework the CPUID evaluation code so it is common for all vendors
     and provides information about the APIC ID segments in a uniform
     way independent of the number of segments (Thread, Core, Module,
     ..., Die, Package) so that this information can be computed instead
     of rewriting global variables of dubious value over and over.

   - A few cleanups and simplifcations of the APIC, IO/APIC and related
     interfaces to prepare for the topology evaluation changes.

   - Seperation of the parser stages so the early evaluation which tries
     to find the APIC address can be seperately overridden from the late
     evaluation which enumerates and registers the local APIC as further
     preparation for sanitizing the topology evaluation.

   - A new registration and admission logic which

       - encapsulates the inner workings so that parsers and guest logic
         cannot longer fiddle in it

       - uses the APIC ID segments to build topology bitmaps at
         registration time

       - provides a sane admission logic

       - allows to detect the crash kernel case, where CPU0 does not run
         on the real BSP, automatically. This is required to prevent
         sending INIT/SIPI sequences to the real BSP which would reset
         the whole machine. This was so far handled by a tedious command
         line parameter, which does not even work in nested crash
         scenarios.

       - Associates CPU number after the enumeration completed and
         prevents the late registration of APICs, which was somehow
         tolerated before.

   - Converting all parsers and guest enumeration mechanisms over to the
     new interfaces.

     This allows to get rid of all global variable tweaking from the
     parsers and enumeration mechanisms and sanitizes the XEN[PV]
     handling so it can use CPUID evaluation for the first time.

   - Mopping up existing sins by taking the information from the APIC ID
     segment bitmaps.

     This evaluates hybrid systems correctly on the boot CPU and allows
     for cleanups and fixes in the related drivers, e.g. PERF.

  The series has been extensively tested and the minimal late fallout
  due to a broken ACPI/MADT table has been addressed by tightening the
  admission logic further"

* tag 'x86-apic-2024-03-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (76 commits)
  x86/topology: Ignore non-present APIC IDs in a present package
  x86/apic: Build the x86 topology enumeration functions on UP APIC builds too
  smp: Provide 'setup_max_cpus' definition on UP too
  smp: Avoid 'setup_max_cpus' namespace collision/shadowing
  x86/bugs: Use fixed addressing for VERW operand
  x86/cpu/topology: Get rid of cpuinfo::x86_max_cores
  x86/cpu/topology: Provide __num_[cores|threads]_per_package
  x86/cpu/topology: Rename topology_max_die_per_package()
  x86/cpu/topology: Rename smp_num_siblings
  x86/cpu/topology: Retrieve cores per package from topology bitmaps
  x86/cpu/topology: Use topology logical mapping mechanism
  x86/cpu/topology: Provide logical pkg/die mapping
  x86/cpu/topology: Simplify cpu_mark_primary_thread()
  x86/cpu/topology: Mop up primary thread mask handling
  x86/cpu/topology: Use topology bitmaps for sizing
  x86/cpu/topology: Let XEN/PV use topology from CPUID/MADT
  x86/xen/smp_pv: Count number of vCPUs early
  x86/cpu/topology: Assign hotpluggable CPUIDs during init
  x86/cpu/topology: Reject unknown APIC IDs on ACPI hotplug
  x86/topology: Add a mechanism to track topology via APIC IDs
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'timers-core-2024-03-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2024-03-11T21:38:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-11T21:38:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d08c407f715f651e7ea40b3a037be46dd2b11e4c'/>
<id>d08c407f715f651e7ea40b3a037be46dd2b11e4c</id>
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Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A large set of updates and features for timers and timekeeping:

   - The hierarchical timer pull model

     When timer wheel timers are armed they are placed into the timer
     wheel of a CPU which is likely to be busy at the time of expiry.
     This is done to avoid wakeups on potentially idle CPUs.

     This is wrong in several aspects:

       1) The heuristics to select the target CPU are wrong by
          definition as the chance to get the prediction right is
          close to zero.

       2) Due to #1 it is possible that timers are accumulated on
          a single target CPU

       3) The required computation in the enqueue path is just overhead
          for dubious value especially under the consideration that the
          vast majority of timer wheel timers are either canceled or
          rearmed before they expire.

     The timer pull model avoids the above by removing the target
     computation on enqueue and queueing timers always on the CPU on
     which they get armed.

     This is achieved by having separate wheels for CPU pinned timers
     and global timers which do not care about where they expire.

     As long as a CPU is busy it handles both the pinned and the global
     timers which are queued on the CPU local timer wheels.

     When a CPU goes idle it evaluates its own timer wheels:

       - If the first expiring timer is a pinned timer, then the global
         timers can be ignored as the CPU will wake up before they
         expire.

       - If the first expiring timer is a global timer, then the expiry
         time is propagated into the timer pull hierarchy and the CPU
         makes sure to wake up for the first pinned timer.

     The timer pull hierarchy organizes CPUs in groups of eight at the
     lowest level and at the next levels groups of eight groups up to
     the point where no further aggregation of groups is required, i.e.
     the number of levels is log8(NR_CPUS). The magic number of eight
     has been established by experimention, but can be adjusted if
     needed.

     In each group one busy CPU acts as the migrator. It's only one CPU
     to avoid lock contention on remote timer wheels.

     The migrator CPU checks in its own timer wheel handling whether
     there are other CPUs in the group which have gone idle and have
     global timers to expire. If there are global timers to expire, the
     migrator locks the remote CPU timer wheel and handles the expiry.

     Depending on the group level in the hierarchy this handling can
     require to walk the hierarchy downwards to the CPU level.

     Special care is taken when the last CPU goes idle. At this point
     the CPU is the systemwide migrator at the top of the hierarchy and
     it therefore cannot delegate to the hierarchy. It needs to arm its
     own timer device to expire either at the first expiring timer in
     the hierarchy or at the first CPU local timer, which ever expires
     first.

     This completely removes the overhead from the enqueue path, which
     is e.g. for networking a true hotpath and trades it for a slightly
     more complex idle path.

     This has been in development for a couple of years and the final
     series has been extensively tested by various teams from silicon
     vendors and ran through extensive CI.

     There have been slight performance improvements observed on network
     centric workloads and an Intel team confirmed that this allows them
     to power down a die completely on a mult-die socket for the first
     time in a mostly idle scenario.

     There is only one outstanding ~1.5% regression on a specific
     overloaded netperf test which is currently investigated, but the
     rest is either positive or neutral performance wise and positive on
     the power management side.

   - Fixes for the timekeeping interpolation code for cross-timestamps:

     cross-timestamps are used for PTP to get snapshots from hardware
     timers and interpolated them back to clock MONOTONIC. The changes
     address a few corner cases in the interpolation code which got the
     math and logic wrong.

   - Simplifcation of the clocksource watchdog retry logic to
     automatically adjust to handle larger systems correctly instead of
     having more incomprehensible command line parameters.

   - Treewide consolidation of the VDSO data structures.

   - The usual small improvements and cleanups all over the place"

* tag 'timers-core-2024-03-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (62 commits)
  timer/migration: Fix quick check reporting late expiry
  tick/sched: Fix build failure for CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON=n
  vdso/datapage: Quick fix - use asm/page-def.h for ARM64
  timers: Assert no next dyntick timer look-up while CPU is offline
  tick: Assume timekeeping is correctly handed over upon last offline idle call
  tick: Shut down low-res tick from dying CPU
  tick: Split nohz and highres features from nohz_mode
  tick: Move individual bit features to debuggable mask accesses
  tick: Move got_idle_tick away from common flags
  tick: Assume the tick can't be stopped in NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE mode
  tick: Move broadcast cancellation up to CPUHP_AP_TICK_DYING
  tick: Move tick cancellation up to CPUHP_AP_TICK_DYING
  tick: Start centralizing tick related CPU hotplug operations
  tick/sched: Don't clear ts::next_tick again in can_stop_idle_tick()
  tick/sched: Rename tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() to tick_nohz_full_stop_tick()
  tick: Use IS_ENABLED() whenever possible
  tick/sched: Remove useless oneshot ifdeffery
  tick/nohz: Remove duplicate between lowres and highres handlers
  tick/nohz: Remove duplicate between tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz() and tick_setup_sched_timer()
  hrtimer: Select housekeeping CPU during migration
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A large set of updates and features for timers and timekeeping:

   - The hierarchical timer pull model

     When timer wheel timers are armed they are placed into the timer
     wheel of a CPU which is likely to be busy at the time of expiry.
     This is done to avoid wakeups on potentially idle CPUs.

     This is wrong in several aspects:

       1) The heuristics to select the target CPU are wrong by
          definition as the chance to get the prediction right is
          close to zero.

       2) Due to #1 it is possible that timers are accumulated on
          a single target CPU

       3) The required computation in the enqueue path is just overhead
          for dubious value especially under the consideration that the
          vast majority of timer wheel timers are either canceled or
          rearmed before they expire.

     The timer pull model avoids the above by removing the target
     computation on enqueue and queueing timers always on the CPU on
     which they get armed.

     This is achieved by having separate wheels for CPU pinned timers
     and global timers which do not care about where they expire.

     As long as a CPU is busy it handles both the pinned and the global
     timers which are queued on the CPU local timer wheels.

     When a CPU goes idle it evaluates its own timer wheels:

       - If the first expiring timer is a pinned timer, then the global
         timers can be ignored as the CPU will wake up before they
         expire.

       - If the first expiring timer is a global timer, then the expiry
         time is propagated into the timer pull hierarchy and the CPU
         makes sure to wake up for the first pinned timer.

     The timer pull hierarchy organizes CPUs in groups of eight at the
     lowest level and at the next levels groups of eight groups up to
     the point where no further aggregation of groups is required, i.e.
     the number of levels is log8(NR_CPUS). The magic number of eight
     has been established by experimention, but can be adjusted if
     needed.

     In each group one busy CPU acts as the migrator. It's only one CPU
     to avoid lock contention on remote timer wheels.

     The migrator CPU checks in its own timer wheel handling whether
     there are other CPUs in the group which have gone idle and have
     global timers to expire. If there are global timers to expire, the
     migrator locks the remote CPU timer wheel and handles the expiry.

     Depending on the group level in the hierarchy this handling can
     require to walk the hierarchy downwards to the CPU level.

     Special care is taken when the last CPU goes idle. At this point
     the CPU is the systemwide migrator at the top of the hierarchy and
     it therefore cannot delegate to the hierarchy. It needs to arm its
     own timer device to expire either at the first expiring timer in
     the hierarchy or at the first CPU local timer, which ever expires
     first.

     This completely removes the overhead from the enqueue path, which
     is e.g. for networking a true hotpath and trades it for a slightly
     more complex idle path.

     This has been in development for a couple of years and the final
     series has been extensively tested by various teams from silicon
     vendors and ran through extensive CI.

     There have been slight performance improvements observed on network
     centric workloads and an Intel team confirmed that this allows them
     to power down a die completely on a mult-die socket for the first
     time in a mostly idle scenario.

     There is only one outstanding ~1.5% regression on a specific
     overloaded netperf test which is currently investigated, but the
     rest is either positive or neutral performance wise and positive on
     the power management side.

   - Fixes for the timekeeping interpolation code for cross-timestamps:

     cross-timestamps are used for PTP to get snapshots from hardware
     timers and interpolated them back to clock MONOTONIC. The changes
     address a few corner cases in the interpolation code which got the
     math and logic wrong.

   - Simplifcation of the clocksource watchdog retry logic to
     automatically adjust to handle larger systems correctly instead of
     having more incomprehensible command line parameters.

   - Treewide consolidation of the VDSO data structures.

   - The usual small improvements and cleanups all over the place"

* tag 'timers-core-2024-03-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (62 commits)
  timer/migration: Fix quick check reporting late expiry
  tick/sched: Fix build failure for CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON=n
  vdso/datapage: Quick fix - use asm/page-def.h for ARM64
  timers: Assert no next dyntick timer look-up while CPU is offline
  tick: Assume timekeeping is correctly handed over upon last offline idle call
  tick: Shut down low-res tick from dying CPU
  tick: Split nohz and highres features from nohz_mode
  tick: Move individual bit features to debuggable mask accesses
  tick: Move got_idle_tick away from common flags
  tick: Assume the tick can't be stopped in NOHZ_MODE_INACTIVE mode
  tick: Move broadcast cancellation up to CPUHP_AP_TICK_DYING
  tick: Move tick cancellation up to CPUHP_AP_TICK_DYING
  tick: Start centralizing tick related CPU hotplug operations
  tick/sched: Don't clear ts::next_tick again in can_stop_idle_tick()
  tick/sched: Rename tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() to tick_nohz_full_stop_tick()
  tick: Use IS_ENABLED() whenever possible
  tick/sched: Remove useless oneshot ifdeffery
  tick/nohz: Remove duplicate between lowres and highres handlers
  tick/nohz: Remove duplicate between tick_nohz_switch_to_nohz() and tick_setup_sched_timer()
  hrtimer: Select housekeeping CPU during migration
  ...
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