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<title>linux-stable.git/kernel/rcu/tasks.h, branch v7.0</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Convert remaining multi-line kmalloc_obj/flex GFP_KERNEL uses</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T16:26:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T07:46:04+00:00</published>
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Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
Conversion performed via this Coccinelle script:

  // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
  // Options: --include-headers-for-types --all-includes --include-headers --keep-comments
  virtual patch

  @gfp depends on patch &amp;&amp; !(file in "tools") &amp;&amp; !(file in "samples")@
  identifier ALLOC = {kmalloc_obj,kmalloc_objs,kmalloc_flex,
 		    kzalloc_obj,kzalloc_objs,kzalloc_flex,
		    kvmalloc_obj,kvmalloc_objs,kvmalloc_flex,
		    kvzalloc_obj,kvzalloc_objs,kvzalloc_flex};
  @@

  	ALLOC(...
  -		, GFP_KERNEL
  	)

  $ make coccicheck MODE=patch COCCI=gfp.cocci

Build and boot tested x86_64 with Fedora 42's GCC and Clang:

Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7), GNU ld version 2.44-12.fc42) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01
Linux version 6.19.0+ (user@host) (clang version 20.1.8 (Fedora 20.1.8-4.fc42), LLD 20.1.8) #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC 1970-01-01

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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<id>69050f8d6d075dc01af7a5f2f550a8067510366f</id>
<content type='text'>
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Move rcu_tasks_trace_srcu_struct out of #ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_GENERIC</title>
<updated>2026-01-01T08:39:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-29T19:10:59+00:00</published>
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Moving the rcu_tasks_trace_srcu_struct structure instance out
from under the CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_GENERIC Kconfig option permits
the CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU Kconfig option to stop enabling this
CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_GENERIC Kconfig option.  This commit also therefore
makes it so.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelagnelf@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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<pre>
Moving the rcu_tasks_trace_srcu_struct structure instance out
from under the CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_GENERIC Kconfig option permits
the CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU Kconfig option to stop enabling this
CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_GENERIC Kconfig option.  This commit also therefore
makes it so.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelagnelf@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Clean up after the SRCU-fastification of RCU Tasks Trace</title>
<updated>2026-01-01T08:39:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-29T19:10:58+00:00</published>
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Now that RCU Tasks Trace has been re-implemented in terms of SRCU-fast,
the -&gt;trc_ipi_to_cpu, -&gt;trc_blkd_cpu, -&gt;trc_blkd_node, -&gt;trc_holdout_list,
and -&gt;trc_reader_special task_struct fields are no longer used.

In addition, the rcu_tasks_trace_qs(), rcu_tasks_trace_qs_blkd(),
exit_tasks_rcu_finish_trace(), and rcu_spawn_tasks_trace_kthread(),
show_rcu_tasks_trace_gp_kthread(), rcu_tasks_trace_get_gp_data(),
rcu_tasks_trace_torture_stats_print(), and get_rcu_tasks_trace_gp_kthread()
functions and all the other functions that they invoke are no longer used.

Also, the TRC_NEED_QS and TRC_NEED_QS_CHECKED CPP macros are no longer used.
Neither are the rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms and rcu_task_ipi_delay rcupdate
module parameters and the TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB Kconfig option.

This commit therefore removes all of them.

[ paulmck: Apply Alexei Starovoitov feedback. ]

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelagnelf@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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<pre>
Now that RCU Tasks Trace has been re-implemented in terms of SRCU-fast,
the -&gt;trc_ipi_to_cpu, -&gt;trc_blkd_cpu, -&gt;trc_blkd_node, -&gt;trc_holdout_list,
and -&gt;trc_reader_special task_struct fields are no longer used.

In addition, the rcu_tasks_trace_qs(), rcu_tasks_trace_qs_blkd(),
exit_tasks_rcu_finish_trace(), and rcu_spawn_tasks_trace_kthread(),
show_rcu_tasks_trace_gp_kthread(), rcu_tasks_trace_get_gp_data(),
rcu_tasks_trace_torture_stats_print(), and get_rcu_tasks_trace_gp_kthread()
functions and all the other functions that they invoke are no longer used.

Also, the TRC_NEED_QS and TRC_NEED_QS_CHECKED CPP macros are no longer used.
Neither are the rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms and rcu_task_ipi_delay rcupdate
module parameters and the TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB Kconfig option.

This commit therefore removes all of them.

[ paulmck: Apply Alexei Starovoitov feedback. ]

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelagnelf@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Re-implement RCU Tasks Trace in terms of SRCU-fast</title>
<updated>2026-01-01T08:39:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-29T19:10:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c27cea4416a396a1c5b6b3529dd925f92a69e7d3'/>
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<content type='text'>
This commit saves more than 500 lines of RCU code by re-implementing
RCU Tasks Trace in terms of SRCU-fast.  Follow-up work will remove
more code that does not cause problems by its presence, but that is no
longer required.

This variant places smp_mb() in rcu_read_{,un}lock_trace(), and in the
same place that srcu_read_{,un}lock() would put them. These smp_mb()
calls will be removed on common-case architectures in a later commit.
In the meantime, it serves to enforce ordering between the underlying
srcu_read_{,un}lock_fast() markers and the intervening critical section,
even on architectures that permit attaching tracepoints on regions of
code not watched by RCU.  Such architectures defeat SRCU-fast's use of
implicit single-instruction, interrupts-disabled, and atomic-operation
RCU read-side critical sections, which have no effect when RCU is not
watching.  The aforementioned later commit will insert these smp_mb()
calls only on architectures that have not used noinstr to prevent
attaching tracepoints to code where RCU is not watching.

[ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot, Boqun Feng, and Zqiang feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Split out Tiny SRCU fixes per Andrii Nakryiko feedback. ]

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelagnelf@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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<pre>
This commit saves more than 500 lines of RCU code by re-implementing
RCU Tasks Trace in terms of SRCU-fast.  Follow-up work will remove
more code that does not cause problems by its presence, but that is no
longer required.

This variant places smp_mb() in rcu_read_{,un}lock_trace(), and in the
same place that srcu_read_{,un}lock() would put them. These smp_mb()
calls will be removed on common-case architectures in a later commit.
In the meantime, it serves to enforce ordering between the underlying
srcu_read_{,un}lock_fast() markers and the intervening critical section,
even on architectures that permit attaching tracepoints on regions of
code not watched by RCU.  Such architectures defeat SRCU-fast's use of
implicit single-instruction, interrupts-disabled, and atomic-operation
RCU read-side critical sections, which have no effect when RCU is not
watching.  The aforementioned later commit will insert these smp_mb()
calls only on architectures that have not used noinstr to prevent
attaching tracepoints to code where RCU is not watching.

[ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot, Boqun Feng, and Zqiang feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Split out Tiny SRCU fixes per Andrii Nakryiko feedback. ]

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: kernel test robot &lt;oliver.sang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;joelagnelf@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq</title>
<updated>2025-09-23T09:01:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Crivellari</name>
<email>marco.crivellari@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-09-19T14:50:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=143ddfa169bbb733275b1a720bafd5a4366b3d89'/>
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Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.

This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.

system_wq is a per-CPU worqueue, yet nothing in its name tells about that
CPU affinity constraint, which is very often not required by users. Make
it clear by adding a system_percpu_wq.

The old wq will be kept for a few release cylces.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari &lt;marco.crivellari@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.

This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.

system_wq is a per-CPU worqueue, yet nothing in its name tells about that
CPU affinity constraint, which is very often not required by users. Make
it clear by adding a system_percpu_wq.

The old wq will be kept for a few release cylces.

Suggested-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari &lt;marco.crivellari@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of()</title>
<updated>2025-06-08T07:07:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-05-09T05:51:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=41cb08555c4164996d67c78b3bf1c658075b75f1'/>
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<content type='text'>
Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace.

[ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com

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<pre>
Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace.

[ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ]

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com

</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: Switch/rename to timer_delete[_sync]()</title>
<updated>2025-04-05T08:30:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2025-04-05T08:17:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8fa7292fee5c5240402371ea89ab285ec856c916'/>
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<content type='text'>
timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree
over and remove the historical wrapper inlines.

Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree
over and remove the historical wrapper inlines.

Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu-tasks: Move RCU Tasks self-tests to core_initcall()</title>
<updated>2025-03-05T02:44:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-20T21:09:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=23c22d91561dd555d07381fb1f567539769c2ea0'/>
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<content type='text'>
The timer and hrtimer softirq processing has moved to dedicated threads
for kernels built with CONFIG_IRQ_FORCED_THREADING=y.  This results in
timers not expiring until later in early boot, which in turn causes the
RCU Tasks self-tests to hang in kernels built with CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y,
which further causes the entire kernel to hang.  One fix would be to
make timers work during this time, but there are no known users of RCU
Tasks grace periods during that time, so no justification for the added
complexity.  Not yet, anyway.

This commit therefore moves the call to rcu_init_tasks_generic() from
kernel_init_freeable() to a core_initcall().  This works because the
timer and hrtimer kthreads are created at early_initcall() time.

Fixes: 49a17639508c3 ("softirq: Use a dedicated thread for timer wakeups on PREEMPT_RT.")
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
</content>
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The timer and hrtimer softirq processing has moved to dedicated threads
for kernels built with CONFIG_IRQ_FORCED_THREADING=y.  This results in
timers not expiring until later in early boot, which in turn causes the
RCU Tasks self-tests to hang in kernels built with CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y,
which further causes the entire kernel to hang.  One fix would be to
make timers work during this time, but there are no known users of RCU
Tasks grace periods during that time, so no justification for the added
complexity.  Not yet, anyway.

This commit therefore moves the call to rcu_init_tasks_generic() from
kernel_init_freeable() to a core_initcall().  This works because the
timer and hrtimer kthreads are created at early_initcall() time.

Fixes: 49a17639508c3 ("softirq: Use a dedicated thread for timer wakeups on PREEMPT_RT.")
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andrii@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'rcu.release.v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux</title>
<updated>2024-11-19T19:27:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-19T19:27:07+00:00</published>
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Pull RCU updates from Frederic Weisbecker:
 "SRCU:

   - Introduction of the new SRCU-lite flavour with a new pair of
     srcu_read_[un]lock_lite() APIs. In practice the read side using
     this flavour becomes lighter by removing a full memory barrier on
     LOCK and a full memory barrier on UNLOCK. This comes at the expense
     of a higher latency write side with two (in the best case of a
     snaphot of unused read-sides) or more RCU grace periods on the
     update side which now assumes by itself the whole full ordering
     guarantee against the LOCK/UNLOCK counters on both indexes, along
     with the accesses performed inside.

     Uretprobes is a known potential user.

     Note this doesn't replace the default normal flavour of SRCU which
     still behaves the same as usual.

   - Add testing of SRCU-lite through rcutorture and rcuscale

   - Various cleanups on the way.

  Fixes:

   - Allow short-circuiting RCU-TASKS-RUDE grace periods on
     architectures that have sane noinstr boundaries forbidding tracing
     on low-level idle and kernel entry code. RCU-TASKS is enough on
     such configurations because it involves an RCU grace period that
     waits for all idle tasks to either schedule out voluntarily or
     enter into RCU unwatched noinstr code.

   - Allow and test start_poll_synchronize_rcu() with IRQs disabled.

   - Mention rcuog kthreads in relevant documentation and Kconfig help

   - Various fixes and consolidations

  rcutorture:

   - Add --no-affinity on tools to leave the affinity setting of guests
     up to the user.

   - Add guest_os_delay parameter to rcuscale for better warm-up
     control.

   - Fix and improve some rcuscale error handling.

   - Various cleanups and fixes

  stall:

   - Remove dead code

   - Stop dumping tasks if a stalled grace period eventually ended
     midway as that only produces confusing output.

   - Optimize detection of stalling CPUs and avoid useless node locking
     otherwise.

  NOCB:

   - Fix rcu_barrier() hang due to a race against callbacks
     deoffloading. This is not yet used, except by rcutorture, and waits
     for its promised cpusets interface.

   - Remove leftover function declaration"

* tag 'rcu.release.v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: (42 commits)
  rcuscale: Remove redundant WARN_ON_ONCE() splat
  rcuscale: Do a proper cleanup if kfree_scale_init() fails
  srcu: Unconditionally record srcu_read_lock_lite() in -&gt;srcu_reader_flavor
  srcu: Check for srcu_read_lock_lite() across all CPUs
  srcu: Remove smp_mb() from srcu_read_unlock_lite()
  rcutorture: Avoid printing cpu=-1 for no-fault RCU boost failure
  rcuscale: Add guest_os_delay module parameter
  refscale: Correct affinity check
  torture: Add --no-affinity parameter to kvm.sh
  rcu/nocb: Fix missed RCU barrier on deoffloading
  rcu/kvfree: Fix data-race in __mod_timer / kvfree_call_rcu
  rcu/srcutiny: don't return before reenabling preemption
  rcu-tasks: Remove open-coded one-byte cmpxchg() emulation
  doc: Remove kernel-parameters.txt entry for rcutorture.read_exit
  rcutorture: Test start-poll primitives with interrupts disabled
  rcu: Permit start_poll_synchronize_rcu*() with interrupts disabled
  rcu: Allow short-circuiting of synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude()
  doc: Add rcuog kthreads to kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.rst
  rcu: Add rcuog kthreads to RCU_NOCB_CPU help text
  rcu: Use the BITS_PER_LONG macro
  ...
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Pull RCU updates from Frederic Weisbecker:
 "SRCU:

   - Introduction of the new SRCU-lite flavour with a new pair of
     srcu_read_[un]lock_lite() APIs. In practice the read side using
     this flavour becomes lighter by removing a full memory barrier on
     LOCK and a full memory barrier on UNLOCK. This comes at the expense
     of a higher latency write side with two (in the best case of a
     snaphot of unused read-sides) or more RCU grace periods on the
     update side which now assumes by itself the whole full ordering
     guarantee against the LOCK/UNLOCK counters on both indexes, along
     with the accesses performed inside.

     Uretprobes is a known potential user.

     Note this doesn't replace the default normal flavour of SRCU which
     still behaves the same as usual.

   - Add testing of SRCU-lite through rcutorture and rcuscale

   - Various cleanups on the way.

  Fixes:

   - Allow short-circuiting RCU-TASKS-RUDE grace periods on
     architectures that have sane noinstr boundaries forbidding tracing
     on low-level idle and kernel entry code. RCU-TASKS is enough on
     such configurations because it involves an RCU grace period that
     waits for all idle tasks to either schedule out voluntarily or
     enter into RCU unwatched noinstr code.

   - Allow and test start_poll_synchronize_rcu() with IRQs disabled.

   - Mention rcuog kthreads in relevant documentation and Kconfig help

   - Various fixes and consolidations

  rcutorture:

   - Add --no-affinity on tools to leave the affinity setting of guests
     up to the user.

   - Add guest_os_delay parameter to rcuscale for better warm-up
     control.

   - Fix and improve some rcuscale error handling.

   - Various cleanups and fixes

  stall:

   - Remove dead code

   - Stop dumping tasks if a stalled grace period eventually ended
     midway as that only produces confusing output.

   - Optimize detection of stalling CPUs and avoid useless node locking
     otherwise.

  NOCB:

   - Fix rcu_barrier() hang due to a race against callbacks
     deoffloading. This is not yet used, except by rcutorture, and waits
     for its promised cpusets interface.

   - Remove leftover function declaration"

* tag 'rcu.release.v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: (42 commits)
  rcuscale: Remove redundant WARN_ON_ONCE() splat
  rcuscale: Do a proper cleanup if kfree_scale_init() fails
  srcu: Unconditionally record srcu_read_lock_lite() in -&gt;srcu_reader_flavor
  srcu: Check for srcu_read_lock_lite() across all CPUs
  srcu: Remove smp_mb() from srcu_read_unlock_lite()
  rcutorture: Avoid printing cpu=-1 for no-fault RCU boost failure
  rcuscale: Add guest_os_delay module parameter
  refscale: Correct affinity check
  torture: Add --no-affinity parameter to kvm.sh
  rcu/nocb: Fix missed RCU barrier on deoffloading
  rcu/kvfree: Fix data-race in __mod_timer / kvfree_call_rcu
  rcu/srcutiny: don't return before reenabling preemption
  rcu-tasks: Remove open-coded one-byte cmpxchg() emulation
  doc: Remove kernel-parameters.txt entry for rcutorture.read_exit
  rcutorture: Test start-poll primitives with interrupts disabled
  rcu: Permit start_poll_synchronize_rcu*() with interrupts disabled
  rcu: Allow short-circuiting of synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude()
  doc: Add rcuog kthreads to kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.rst
  rcu: Add rcuog kthreads to RCU_NOCB_CPU help text
  rcu: Use the BITS_PER_LONG macro
  ...
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