linux-stable.git/kernel/signal.c, branch v6.4.3 Linux kernel stable tree fork, vhost: Use CLONE_THREAD to fix freezer/ps regression 2023-06-01T21:15:33+00:00 Mike Christie michael.christie@oracle.com 2023-06-01T18:32:32+00:00 f9010dbdce911ee1f1af1398a24b1f9f992e0080 When switching from kthreads to vhost_tasks two bugs were added: 1. The vhost worker tasks's now show up as processes so scripts doing ps or ps a would not incorrectly detect the vhost task as another process. 2. kthreads disabled freeze by setting PF_NOFREEZE, but vhost tasks's didn't disable or add support for them. To fix both bugs, this switches the vhost task to be thread in the process that does the VHOST_SET_OWNER ioctl, and has vhost_worker call get_signal to support SIGKILL/SIGSTOP and freeze signals. Note that SIGKILL/STOP support is required because CLONE_THREAD requires CLONE_SIGHAND which requires those 2 signals to be supported. This is a modified version of the patch written by Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com> which was a modified version of patch originally written by Linus. Much of what depended upon PF_IO_WORKER now depends on PF_USER_WORKER. Including ignoring signals, setting up the register state, and having get_signal return instead of calling do_group_exit. Tidied up the vhost_task abstraction so that the definition of vhost_task only needs to be visible inside of vhost_task.c. Making it easier to review the code and tell what needs to be done where. As part of this the main loop has been moved from vhost_worker into vhost_task_fn. vhost_worker now returns true if work was done. The main loop has been updated to call get_signal which handles SIGSTOP, freezing, and collects the message that tells the thread to exit as part of process exit. This collection clears __fatal_signal_pending. This collection is not guaranteed to clear signal_pending() so clear that explicitly so the schedule() sleeps. For now the vhost thread continues to exist and run work until the last file descriptor is closed and the release function is called as part of freeing struct file. To avoid hangs in the coredump rendezvous and when killing threads in a multi-threaded exec. The coredump code and de_thread have been modified to ignore vhost threads. Remvoing the special case for exec appears to require teaching vhost_dev_flush how to directly complete transactions in case the vhost thread is no longer running. Removing the special case for coredump rendezvous requires either the above fix needed for exec or moving the coredump rendezvous into get_signal. Fixes: 6e890c5d5021 ("vhost: use vhost_tasks for worker threads") Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Co-developed-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
When switching from kthreads to vhost_tasks two bugs were added:
1. The vhost worker tasks's now show up as processes so scripts doing
ps or ps a would not incorrectly detect the vhost task as another
process.  2. kthreads disabled freeze by setting PF_NOFREEZE, but
vhost tasks's didn't disable or add support for them.

To fix both bugs, this switches the vhost task to be thread in the
process that does the VHOST_SET_OWNER ioctl, and has vhost_worker call
get_signal to support SIGKILL/SIGSTOP and freeze signals. Note that
SIGKILL/STOP support is required because CLONE_THREAD requires
CLONE_SIGHAND which requires those 2 signals to be supported.

This is a modified version of the patch written by Mike Christie
<michael.christie@oracle.com> which was a modified version of patch
originally written by Linus.

Much of what depended upon PF_IO_WORKER now depends on PF_USER_WORKER.
Including ignoring signals, setting up the register state, and having
get_signal return instead of calling do_group_exit.

Tidied up the vhost_task abstraction so that the definition of
vhost_task only needs to be visible inside of vhost_task.c.  Making
it easier to review the code and tell what needs to be done where.
As part of this the main loop has been moved from vhost_worker into
vhost_task_fn.  vhost_worker now returns true if work was done.

The main loop has been updated to call get_signal which handles
SIGSTOP, freezing, and collects the message that tells the thread to
exit as part of process exit.  This collection clears
__fatal_signal_pending.  This collection is not guaranteed to
clear signal_pending() so clear that explicitly so the schedule()
sleeps.

For now the vhost thread continues to exist and run work until the
last file descriptor is closed and the release function is called as
part of freeing struct file.  To avoid hangs in the coredump
rendezvous and when killing threads in a multi-threaded exec.  The
coredump code and de_thread have been modified to ignore vhost threads.

Remvoing the special case for exec appears to require teaching
vhost_dev_flush how to directly complete transactions in case
the vhost thread is no longer running.

Removing the special case for coredump rendezvous requires either the
above fix needed for exec or moving the coredump rendezvous into
get_signal.

Fixes: 6e890c5d5021 ("vhost: use vhost_tasks for worker threads")
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Co-developed-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michael.christie@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
posix-timers: Prefer delivery of signals to the current thread 2023-04-16T07:00:18+00:00 Dmitry Vyukov dvyukov@google.com 2023-03-16T12:30:27+00:00 bcb7ee79029dcaeb09668a4d1489de256829a7cc POSIX timers using the CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID clock prefer the main thread of a thread group for signal delivery. However, this has a significant downside: it requires waking up a potentially idle thread. Instead, prefer to deliver signals to the current thread (in the same thread group) if SIGEV_THREAD_ID is not set by the user. This does not change guaranteed semantics, since POSIX process CPU time timers have never guaranteed that signal delivery is to a specific thread (without SIGEV_THREAD_ID set). The effect is that queueing the signal no longer wakes up potentially idle threads, and the kernel is no longer biased towards delivering the timer signal to any particular thread (which better distributes the timer signals esp. when multiple timers fire concurrently). Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230316123028.2890338-1-elver@google.com 
POSIX timers using the CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID clock prefer the main
thread of a thread group for signal delivery. However, this has a
significant downside: it requires waking up a potentially idle thread.

Instead, prefer to deliver signals to the current thread (in the same
thread group) if SIGEV_THREAD_ID is not set by the user. This does not
change guaranteed semantics, since POSIX process CPU time timers have
never guaranteed that signal delivery is to a specific thread (without
SIGEV_THREAD_ID set).

The effect is that queueing the signal no longer wakes up potentially idle
threads, and the kernel is no longer biased towards delivering the timer
signal to any particular thread (which better distributes the timer signals
esp. when multiple timers fire concurrently).

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230316123028.2890338-1-elver@google.com
sched: Introduce per-memory-map concurrency ID 2022-12-27T11:52:11+00:00 Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com 2022-11-22T20:39:09+00:00 af7f588d8f7355bc4298dd1962d7826358fc95f0 This feature allows the scheduler to expose a per-memory map concurrency ID to user-space. This concurrency ID is within the possible cpus range, and is temporarily (and uniquely) assigned while threads are actively running within a memory map. If a memory map has fewer threads than cores, or is limited to run on few cores concurrently through sched affinity or cgroup cpusets, the concurrency IDs will be values close to 0, thus allowing efficient use of user-space memory for per-cpu data structures. This feature is meant to be exposed by a new rseq thread area field. The primary purpose of this feature is to do the heavy-lifting needed by memory allocators to allow them to use per-cpu data structures efficiently in the following situations: - Single-threaded applications, - Multi-threaded applications on large systems (many cores) with limited cpu affinity mask, - Multi-threaded applications on large systems (many cores) with restricted cgroup cpuset per container. One of the key concern from scheduler maintainers is the overhead associated with additional spin locks or atomic operations in the scheduler fast-path. This is why the following optimization is implemented. On context switch between threads belonging to the same memory map, transfer the mm_cid from prev to next without any atomic ops. This takes care of use-cases involving frequent context switch between threads belonging to the same memory map. Additional optimizations can be done if the spin locks added when context switching between threads belonging to different memory maps end up being a performance bottleneck. Those are left out of this patch though. A performance impact would have to be clearly demonstrated to justify the added complexity. The credit goes to Paul Turner (Google) for the original virtual cpu id idea. This feature is implemented based on the discussions with Paul Turner and Peter Oskolkov (Google), but I took the liberty to implement scheduler fast-path optimizations and my own NUMA-awareness scheme. The rumor has it that Google have been running a rseq vcpu_id extension internally in production for a year. The tcmalloc source code indeed has comments hinting at a vcpu_id prototype extension to the rseq system call [1]. The following benchmarks do not show any significant overhead added to the scheduler context switch by this feature: * perf bench sched messaging (process) Baseline: 86.5±0.3 ms With mm_cid: 86.7±2.6 ms * perf bench sched messaging (threaded) Baseline: 84.3±3.0 ms With mm_cid: 84.7±2.6 ms * hackbench (process) Baseline: 82.9±2.7 ms With mm_cid: 82.9±2.9 ms * hackbench (threaded) Baseline: 85.2±2.6 ms With mm_cid: 84.4±2.9 ms [1] https://github.com/google/tcmalloc/blob/master/tcmalloc/internal/linux_syscall_support.h#L26 Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221122203932.231377-8-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com 
This feature allows the scheduler to expose a per-memory map concurrency
ID to user-space. This concurrency ID is within the possible cpus range,
and is temporarily (and uniquely) assigned while threads are actively
running within a memory map. If a memory map has fewer threads than
cores, or is limited to run on few cores concurrently through sched
affinity or cgroup cpusets, the concurrency IDs will be values close
to 0, thus allowing efficient use of user-space memory for per-cpu
data structures.

This feature is meant to be exposed by a new rseq thread area field.

The primary purpose of this feature is to do the heavy-lifting needed
by memory allocators to allow them to use per-cpu data structures
efficiently in the following situations:

- Single-threaded applications,
- Multi-threaded applications on large systems (many cores) with limited
  cpu affinity mask,
- Multi-threaded applications on large systems (many cores) with
  restricted cgroup cpuset per container.

One of the key concern from scheduler maintainers is the overhead
associated with additional spin locks or atomic operations in the
scheduler fast-path. This is why the following optimization is
implemented.

On context switch between threads belonging to the same memory map,
transfer the mm_cid from prev to next without any atomic ops. This
takes care of use-cases involving frequent context switch between
threads belonging to the same memory map.

Additional optimizations can be done if the spin locks added when
context switching between threads belonging to different memory maps end
up being a performance bottleneck. Those are left out of this patch
though. A performance impact would have to be clearly demonstrated to
justify the added complexity.

The credit goes to Paul Turner (Google) for the original virtual cpu id
idea. This feature is implemented based on the discussions with Paul
Turner and Peter Oskolkov (Google), but I took the liberty to implement
scheduler fast-path optimizations and my own NUMA-awareness scheme. The
rumor has it that Google have been running a rseq vcpu_id extension
internally in production for a year. The tcmalloc source code indeed has
comments hinting at a vcpu_id prototype extension to the rseq system
call [1].

The following benchmarks do not show any significant overhead added to
the scheduler context switch by this feature:

* perf bench sched messaging (process)

Baseline:                    86.5±0.3 ms
With mm_cid:                 86.7±2.6 ms

* perf bench sched messaging (threaded)

Baseline:                    84.3±3.0 ms
With mm_cid:                 84.7±2.6 ms

* hackbench (process)

Baseline:                    82.9±2.7 ms
With mm_cid:                 82.9±2.9 ms

* hackbench (threaded)

Baseline:                    85.2±2.6 ms
With mm_cid:                 84.4±2.9 ms

[1] https://github.com/google/tcmalloc/blob/master/tcmalloc/internal/linux_syscall_support.h#L26

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221122203932.231377-8-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Merge tag 'hardening-v6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux 2022-12-14T20:20:00+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2022-12-14T20:20:00+00:00 48ea09cddae0b794cde2070f106ef676703dbcd3 Pull kernel hardening updates from Kees Cook: - Convert flexible array members, fix -Wstringop-overflow warnings, and fix KCFI function type mismatches that went ignored by maintainers (Gustavo A. R. Silva, Nathan Chancellor, Kees Cook) - Remove the remaining side-effect users of ksize() by converting dma-buf, btrfs, and coredump to using kmalloc_size_roundup(), add more __alloc_size attributes, and introduce full testing of all allocator functions. Finally remove the ksize() side-effect so that each allocation-aware checker can finally behave without exceptions - Introduce oops_limit (default 10,000) and warn_limit (default off) to provide greater granularity of control for panic_on_oops and panic_on_warn (Jann Horn, Kees Cook) - Introduce overflows_type() and castable_to_type() helpers for cleaner overflow checking - Improve code generation for strscpy() and update str*() kern-doc - Convert strscpy and sigphash tests to KUnit, and expand memcpy tests - Always use a non-NULL argument for prepare_kernel_cred() - Disable structleak plugin in FORTIFY KUnit test (Anders Roxell) - Adjust orphan linker section checking to respect CONFIG_WERROR (Xin Li) - Make sure siginfo is cleared for forced SIGKILL (haifeng.xu) - Fix um vs FORTIFY warnings for always-NULL arguments * tag 'hardening-v6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (31 commits) ksmbd: replace one-element arrays with flexible-array members hpet: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member um: virt-pci: Avoid GCC non-NULL warning signal: Initialize the info in ksignal lib: fortify_kunit: build without structleak plugin panic: Expose "warn_count" to sysfs panic: Introduce warn_limit panic: Consolidate open-coded panic_on_warn checks exit: Allow oops_limit to be disabled exit: Expose "oops_count" to sysfs exit: Put an upper limit on how often we can oops panic: Separate sysctl logic from CONFIG_SMP mm/pgtable: Fix multiple -Wstringop-overflow warnings mm: Make ksize() a reporting-only function kunit/fortify: Validate __alloc_size attribute results drm/sti: Fix return type of sti_{dvo,hda,hdmi}_connector_mode_valid() drm/fsl-dcu: Fix return type of fsl_dcu_drm_connector_mode_valid() driver core: Add __alloc_size hint to devm allocators overflow: Introduce overflows_type() and castable_to_type() coredump: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size ... 
Pull kernel hardening updates from Kees Cook:

 - Convert flexible array members, fix -Wstringop-overflow warnings, and
   fix KCFI function type mismatches that went ignored by maintainers
   (Gustavo A. R. Silva, Nathan Chancellor, Kees Cook)

 - Remove the remaining side-effect users of ksize() by converting
   dma-buf, btrfs, and coredump to using kmalloc_size_roundup(), add
   more __alloc_size attributes, and introduce full testing of all
   allocator functions. Finally remove the ksize() side-effect so that
   each allocation-aware checker can finally behave without exceptions

 - Introduce oops_limit (default 10,000) and warn_limit (default off) to
   provide greater granularity of control for panic_on_oops and
   panic_on_warn (Jann Horn, Kees Cook)

 - Introduce overflows_type() and castable_to_type() helpers for cleaner
   overflow checking

 - Improve code generation for strscpy() and update str*() kern-doc

 - Convert strscpy and sigphash tests to KUnit, and expand memcpy tests

 - Always use a non-NULL argument for prepare_kernel_cred()

 - Disable structleak plugin in FORTIFY KUnit test (Anders Roxell)

 - Adjust orphan linker section checking to respect CONFIG_WERROR (Xin
   Li)

 - Make sure siginfo is cleared for forced SIGKILL (haifeng.xu)

 - Fix um vs FORTIFY warnings for always-NULL arguments

* tag 'hardening-v6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (31 commits)
  ksmbd: replace one-element arrays with flexible-array members
  hpet: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member
  um: virt-pci: Avoid GCC non-NULL warning
  signal: Initialize the info in ksignal
  lib: fortify_kunit: build without structleak plugin
  panic: Expose "warn_count" to sysfs
  panic: Introduce warn_limit
  panic: Consolidate open-coded panic_on_warn checks
  exit: Allow oops_limit to be disabled
  exit: Expose "oops_count" to sysfs
  exit: Put an upper limit on how often we can oops
  panic: Separate sysctl logic from CONFIG_SMP
  mm/pgtable: Fix multiple -Wstringop-overflow warnings
  mm: Make ksize() a reporting-only function
  kunit/fortify: Validate __alloc_size attribute results
  drm/sti: Fix return type of sti_{dvo,hda,hdmi}_connector_mode_valid()
  drm/fsl-dcu: Fix return type of fsl_dcu_drm_connector_mode_valid()
  driver core: Add __alloc_size hint to devm allocators
  overflow: Introduce overflows_type() and castable_to_type()
  coredump: Proactively round up to kmalloc bucket size
  ...
signal: Initialize the info in ksignal 2022-12-02T21:04:44+00:00 haifeng.xu haifeng.xu@shopee.com 2022-11-28T06:56:06+00:00 3a017d6355f24de42f2ad688df9fa19e0cb128f2 When handing the SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT flag, the info in ksignal isn't cleared. However, the info acquired by dequeue_synchronous_signal/dequeue_signal is initialized and can be safely used. Fortunately, the fatal signal process just uses the si_signo and doesn't use any other member. Even so, the initialization before use is more safer. Signed-off-by: haifeng.xu <haifeng.xu@shopee.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221128065606.19570-1-haifeng.xu@shopee.com 
When handing the SIGNAL_GROUP_EXIT flag, the info in ksignal isn't cleared.
However, the info acquired by dequeue_synchronous_signal/dequeue_signal is
initialized and can be safely used. Fortunately, the fatal signal process
just uses the si_signo and doesn't use any other member. Even so, the
initialization before use is more safer.

Signed-off-by: haifeng.xu <haifeng.xu@shopee.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221128065606.19570-1-haifeng.xu@shopee.com
kill signal_pt_regs() 2022-10-23T22:06:54+00:00 Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk 2020-06-08T16:21:07+00:00 6a542d1d5f6c814fd3643b43e85b21757c1e363b Once upon at it was used on hot paths, but that had not been true since 2013. IOW, there's no point for arch-optimized equivalent of task_pt_regs(current) - remaining two users are not worth bothering with. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 
Once upon at it was used on hot paths, but that had not been
true since 2013.  IOW, there's no point for arch-optimized
equivalent of task_pt_regs(current) - remaining two users are
not worth bothering with.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Merge tag 'sched-core-2022-10-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2022-10-10T16:10:28+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2022-10-10T16:10:28+00:00 30c999937f69abf935b0228b8411713737377d9e Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar: "Debuggability: - Change most occurances of BUG_ON() to WARN_ON_ONCE() - Reorganize & fix TASK_ state comparisons, turn it into a bitmap - Update/fix misc scheduler debugging facilities Load-balancing & regular scheduling: - Improve the behavior of the scheduler in presence of lot of SCHED_IDLE tasks - in particular they should not impact other scheduling classes. - Optimize task load tracking, cleanups & fixes - Clean up & simplify misc load-balancing code Freezer: - Rewrite the core freezer to behave better wrt thawing and be simpler in general, by replacing PF_FROZEN with TASK_FROZEN & fixing/adjusting all the fallout. Deadline scheduler: - Fix the DL capacity-aware code - Factor out dl_task_is_earliest_deadline() & replenish_dl_new_period() - Relax/optimize locking in task_non_contending() Cleanups: - Factor out the update_current_exec_runtime() helper - Various cleanups, simplifications" * tag 'sched-core-2022-10-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (41 commits) sched: Fix more TASK_state comparisons sched: Fix TASK_state comparisons sched/fair: Move call to list_last_entry() in detach_tasks sched/fair: Cleanup loop_max and loop_break sched/fair: Make sure to try to detach at least one movable task sched: Show PF_flag holes freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic sched: Widen TAKS_state literals sched/wait: Add wait_event_state() sched/completion: Add wait_for_completion_state() sched: Add TASK_ANY for wait_task_inactive() sched: Change wait_task_inactive()s match_state freezer,umh: Clean up freezer/initrd interaction freezer: Have {,un}lock_system_sleep() save/restore flags sched: Rename task_running() to task_on_cpu() sched/fair: Cleanup for SIS_PROP sched/fair: Default to false in test_idle_cores() sched/fair: Remove useless check in select_idle_core() sched/fair: Avoid double search on same cpu sched/fair: Remove redundant check in select_idle_smt() ... 
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Debuggability:

   - Change most occurances of BUG_ON() to WARN_ON_ONCE()

   - Reorganize & fix TASK_ state comparisons, turn it into a bitmap

   - Update/fix misc scheduler debugging facilities

  Load-balancing & regular scheduling:

   - Improve the behavior of the scheduler in presence of lot of
     SCHED_IDLE tasks - in particular they should not impact other
     scheduling classes.

   - Optimize task load tracking, cleanups & fixes

   - Clean up & simplify misc load-balancing code

  Freezer:

   - Rewrite the core freezer to behave better wrt thawing and be
     simpler in general, by replacing PF_FROZEN with TASK_FROZEN &
     fixing/adjusting all the fallout.

  Deadline scheduler:

   - Fix the DL capacity-aware code

   - Factor out dl_task_is_earliest_deadline() &
     replenish_dl_new_period()

   - Relax/optimize locking in task_non_contending()

  Cleanups:

   - Factor out the update_current_exec_runtime() helper

   - Various cleanups, simplifications"

* tag 'sched-core-2022-10-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (41 commits)
  sched: Fix more TASK_state comparisons
  sched: Fix TASK_state comparisons
  sched/fair: Move call to list_last_entry() in detach_tasks
  sched/fair: Cleanup loop_max and loop_break
  sched/fair: Make sure to try to detach at least one movable task
  sched: Show PF_flag holes
  freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic
  sched: Widen TAKS_state literals
  sched/wait: Add wait_event_state()
  sched/completion: Add wait_for_completion_state()
  sched: Add TASK_ANY for wait_task_inactive()
  sched: Change wait_task_inactive()s match_state
  freezer,umh: Clean up freezer/initrd interaction
  freezer: Have {,un}lock_system_sleep() save/restore flags
  sched: Rename task_running() to task_on_cpu()
  sched/fair: Cleanup for SIS_PROP
  sched/fair: Default to false in test_idle_cores()
  sched/fair: Remove useless check in select_idle_core()
  sched/fair: Avoid double search on same cpu
  sched/fair: Remove redundant check in select_idle_smt()
  ...
freezer,sched: Rewrite core freezer logic 2022-09-07T19:53:50+00:00 Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org 2022-08-22T11:18:22+00:00 f5d39b020809146cc28e6e73369bf8065e0310aa Rewrite the core freezer to behave better wrt thawing and be simpler in general. By replacing PF_FROZEN with TASK_FROZEN, a special block state, it is ensured frozen tasks stay frozen until thawed and don't randomly wake up early, as is currently possible. As such, it does away with PF_FROZEN and PF_FREEZER_SKIP, freeing up two PF_flags (yay!). Specifically; the current scheme works a little like: freezer_do_not_count(); schedule(); freezer_count(); And either the task is blocked, or it lands in try_to_freezer() through freezer_count(). Now, when it is blocked, the freezer considers it frozen and continues. However, on thawing, once pm_freezing is cleared, freezer_count() stops working, and any random/spurious wakeup will let a task run before its time. That is, thawing tries to thaw things in explicit order; kernel threads and workqueues before doing bringing SMP back before userspace etc.. However due to the above mentioned races it is entirely possible for userspace tasks to thaw (by accident) before SMP is back. This can be a fatal problem in asymmetric ISA architectures (eg ARMv9) where the userspace task requires a special CPU to run. As said; replace this with a special task state TASK_FROZEN and add the following state transitions: TASK_FREEZABLE -> TASK_FROZEN __TASK_STOPPED -> TASK_FROZEN __TASK_TRACED -> TASK_FROZEN The new TASK_FREEZABLE can be set on any state part of TASK_NORMAL (IOW. TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE and TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) -- any such state is already required to deal with spurious wakeups and the freezer causes one such when thawing the task (since the original state is lost). The special __TASK_{STOPPED,TRACED} states *can* be restored since their canonical state is in ->jobctl. With this, frozen tasks need an explicit TASK_FROZEN wakeup and are free of undue (early / spurious) wakeups. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220822114649.055452969@infradead.org 
Rewrite the core freezer to behave better wrt thawing and be simpler
in general.

By replacing PF_FROZEN with TASK_FROZEN, a special block state, it is
ensured frozen tasks stay frozen until thawed and don't randomly wake
up early, as is currently possible.

As such, it does away with PF_FROZEN and PF_FREEZER_SKIP, freeing up
two PF_flags (yay!).

Specifically; the current scheme works a little like:

	freezer_do_not_count();
	schedule();
	freezer_count();

And either the task is blocked, or it lands in try_to_freezer()
through freezer_count(). Now, when it is blocked, the freezer
considers it frozen and continues.

However, on thawing, once pm_freezing is cleared, freezer_count()
stops working, and any random/spurious wakeup will let a task run
before its time.

That is, thawing tries to thaw things in explicit order; kernel
threads and workqueues before doing bringing SMP back before userspace
etc.. However due to the above mentioned races it is entirely possible
for userspace tasks to thaw (by accident) before SMP is back.

This can be a fatal problem in asymmetric ISA architectures (eg ARMv9)
where the userspace task requires a special CPU to run.

As said; replace this with a special task state TASK_FROZEN and add
the following state transitions:

	TASK_FREEZABLE	-> TASK_FROZEN
	__TASK_STOPPED	-> TASK_FROZEN
	__TASK_TRACED	-> TASK_FROZEN

The new TASK_FREEZABLE can be set on any state part of TASK_NORMAL
(IOW. TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE and TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) -- any such state
is already required to deal with spurious wakeups and the freezer
causes one such when thawing the task (since the original state is
lost).

The special __TASK_{STOPPED,TRACED} states *can* be restored since
their canonical state is in ->jobctl.

With this, frozen tasks need an explicit TASK_FROZEN wakeup and are
free of undue (early / spurious) wakeups.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220822114649.055452969@infradead.org
signal: Drop signals received after a fatal signal has been processed 2022-07-20T15:24:17+00:00 Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com 2022-01-08T16:37:00+00:00 9a95f78eab70deeb5a4c879c19b841a6af5b66e7 In 403bad72b67d ("coredump: only SIGKILL should interrupt the coredumping task") Oleg modified the kernel to drop all signals that come in during a coredump except SIGKILL, and suggested that it might be a good idea to generalize that to other cases after the process has received a fatal signal. Semantically it does not make sense to perform any signal delivery after the process has already been killed. When a signal is sent while a process is dying today the signal is placed in the signal queue by __send_signal and a single task of the process is woken up with signal_wake_up, if there are any tasks that have not set PF_EXITING. Take things one step farther and have prepare_signal report that all signals that come after a process has been killed should be ignored. While retaining the historical exception of allowing SIGKILL to interrupt coredumps. Update the comment in fs/coredump.c to make it clear coredumps are special in being able to receive SIGKILL. This changes things so that a process stopped in PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT can not be made to escape it's ptracer and finish exiting by sending it SIGKILL. That a process can be made to leave PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT and escape it's tracer by sending the process a SIGKILL has been complicating tracer's for no apparent advantage. If the process needs to be made to leave PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT all that needs to happen is to kill the proceses's tracer. This differs from the coredump code where there is no other mechanism besides honoring SIGKILL to expedite the end of coredumping. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/875yksd4s9.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> 
In 403bad72b67d ("coredump: only SIGKILL should interrupt the
coredumping task") Oleg modified the kernel to drop all signals that
come in during a coredump except SIGKILL, and suggested that it might
be a good idea to generalize that to other cases after the process has
received a fatal signal.

Semantically it does not make sense to perform any signal delivery
after the process has already been killed.

When a signal is sent while a process is dying today the signal is
placed in the signal queue by __send_signal and a single task of the
process is woken up with signal_wake_up, if there are any tasks that
have not set PF_EXITING.

Take things one step farther and have prepare_signal report that all
signals that come after a process has been killed should be ignored.
While retaining the historical exception of allowing SIGKILL to
interrupt coredumps.

Update the comment in fs/coredump.c to make it clear coredumps are
special in being able to receive SIGKILL.

This changes things so that a process stopped in PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT can
not be made to escape it's ptracer and finish exiting by sending it
SIGKILL.  That a process can be made to leave PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT and
escape it's tracer by sending the process a SIGKILL has been
complicating tracer's for no apparent advantage.  If the process needs
to be made to leave PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT all that needs to happen is to
kill the proceses's tracer.  This differs from the coredump code where
there is no other mechanism besides honoring SIGKILL to expedite the
end of coredumping.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/875yksd4s9.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
signal handling: don't use BUG_ON() for debugging 2022-07-07T16:53:43+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2022-07-06T19:20:59+00:00 a382f8fee42ca10c9bfce0d2352d4153f931f5dc These are indeed "should not happen" situations, but it turns out recent changes made the 'task_is_stopped_or_trace()' case trigger (fix for that exists, is pending more testing), and the BUG_ON() makes it unnecessarily hard to actually debug for no good reason. It's been that way for a long time, but let's make it clear: BUG_ON() is not good for debugging, and should never be used in situations where you could just say "this shouldn't happen, but we can continue". Use WARN_ON_ONCE() instead to make sure it gets logged, and then just continue running. Instead of making the system basically unusuable because you crashed the machine while potentially holding some very core locks (eg this function is commonly called while holding 'tasklist_lock' for writing). Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
These are indeed "should not happen" situations, but it turns out recent
changes made the 'task_is_stopped_or_trace()' case trigger (fix for that
exists, is pending more testing), and the BUG_ON() makes it
unnecessarily hard to actually debug for no good reason.

It's been that way for a long time, but let's make it clear: BUG_ON() is
not good for debugging, and should never be used in situations where you
could just say "this shouldn't happen, but we can continue".

Use WARN_ON_ONCE() instead to make sure it gets logged, and then just
continue running.  Instead of making the system basically unusuable
because you crashed the machine while potentially holding some very core
locks (eg this function is commonly called while holding 'tasklist_lock'
for writing).

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>