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<title>clocksource: Skip watchdog check for large watchdog intervals</title>
<updated>2024-02-16T18:06:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Wiesner</name>
<email>jwiesner@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-22T17:23:50+00:00</published>
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commit 644649553508b9bacf0fc7a5bdc4f9e0165576a5 upstream.

There have been reports of the watchdog marking clocksources unstable on
machines with 8 NUMA nodes:

  clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU373:
  Marking clocksource 'tsc' as unstable because the skew is too large:
  clocksource:   'hpet' wd_nsec: 14523447520
  clocksource:   'tsc'  cs_nsec: 14524115132

The measured clocksource skew - the absolute difference between cs_nsec
and wd_nsec - was 668 microseconds:

  cs_nsec - wd_nsec = 14524115132 - 14523447520 = 667612

The kernel used 200 microseconds for the uncertainty_margin of both the
clocksource and watchdog, resulting in a threshold of 400 microseconds (the
md variable). Both the cs_nsec and the wd_nsec value indicate that the
readout interval was circa 14.5 seconds.  The observed behaviour is that
watchdog checks failed for large readout intervals on 8 NUMA node
machines. This indicates that the size of the skew was directly proportinal
to the length of the readout interval on those machines. The measured
clocksource skew, 668 microseconds, was evaluated against a threshold (the
md variable) that is suited for readout intervals of roughly
WATCHDOG_INTERVAL, i.e. HZ &gt;&gt; 1, which is 0.5 second.

The intention of 2e27e793e280 ("clocksource: Reduce clocksource-skew
threshold") was to tighten the threshold for evaluating skew and set the
lower bound for the uncertainty_margin of clocksources to twice
WATCHDOG_MAX_SKEW. Later in c37e85c135ce ("clocksource: Loosen clocksource
watchdog constraints"), the WATCHDOG_MAX_SKEW constant was increased to
125 microseconds to fit the limit of NTP, which is able to use a
clocksource that suffers from up to 500 microseconds of skew per second.
Both the TSC and the HPET use default uncertainty_margin. When the
readout interval gets stretched the default uncertainty_margin is no
longer a suitable lower bound for evaluating skew - it imposes a limit
that is far stricter than the skew with which NTP can deal.

The root causes of the skew being directly proportinal to the length of
the readout interval are:

  * the inaccuracy of the shift/mult pairs of clocksources and the watchdog
  * the conversion to nanoseconds is imprecise for large readout intervals

Prevent this by skipping the current watchdog check if the readout
interval exceeds 2 * WATCHDOG_INTERVAL. Considering the maximum readout
interval of 2 * WATCHDOG_INTERVAL, the current default uncertainty margin
(of the TSC and HPET) corresponds to a limit on clocksource skew of 250
ppm (microseconds of skew per second).  To keep the limit imposed by NTP
(500 microseconds of skew per second) for all possible readout intervals,
the margins would have to be scaled so that the threshold value is
proportional to the length of the actual readout interval.

As for why the readout interval may get stretched: Since the watchdog is
executed in softirq context the expiration of the watchdog timer can get
severely delayed on account of a ksoftirqd thread not getting to run in a
timely manner. Surely, a system with such belated softirq execution is not
working well and the scheduling issue should be looked into but the
clocksource watchdog should be able to deal with it accordingly.

Fixes: 2e27e793e280 ("clocksource: Reduce clocksource-skew threshold")
Suggested-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Wiesner &lt;jwiesner@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240122172350.GA740@incl
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 644649553508b9bacf0fc7a5bdc4f9e0165576a5 upstream.

There have been reports of the watchdog marking clocksources unstable on
machines with 8 NUMA nodes:

  clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU373:
  Marking clocksource 'tsc' as unstable because the skew is too large:
  clocksource:   'hpet' wd_nsec: 14523447520
  clocksource:   'tsc'  cs_nsec: 14524115132

The measured clocksource skew - the absolute difference between cs_nsec
and wd_nsec - was 668 microseconds:

  cs_nsec - wd_nsec = 14524115132 - 14523447520 = 667612

The kernel used 200 microseconds for the uncertainty_margin of both the
clocksource and watchdog, resulting in a threshold of 400 microseconds (the
md variable). Both the cs_nsec and the wd_nsec value indicate that the
readout interval was circa 14.5 seconds.  The observed behaviour is that
watchdog checks failed for large readout intervals on 8 NUMA node
machines. This indicates that the size of the skew was directly proportinal
to the length of the readout interval on those machines. The measured
clocksource skew, 668 microseconds, was evaluated against a threshold (the
md variable) that is suited for readout intervals of roughly
WATCHDOG_INTERVAL, i.e. HZ &gt;&gt; 1, which is 0.5 second.

The intention of 2e27e793e280 ("clocksource: Reduce clocksource-skew
threshold") was to tighten the threshold for evaluating skew and set the
lower bound for the uncertainty_margin of clocksources to twice
WATCHDOG_MAX_SKEW. Later in c37e85c135ce ("clocksource: Loosen clocksource
watchdog constraints"), the WATCHDOG_MAX_SKEW constant was increased to
125 microseconds to fit the limit of NTP, which is able to use a
clocksource that suffers from up to 500 microseconds of skew per second.
Both the TSC and the HPET use default uncertainty_margin. When the
readout interval gets stretched the default uncertainty_margin is no
longer a suitable lower bound for evaluating skew - it imposes a limit
that is far stricter than the skew with which NTP can deal.

The root causes of the skew being directly proportinal to the length of
the readout interval are:

  * the inaccuracy of the shift/mult pairs of clocksources and the watchdog
  * the conversion to nanoseconds is imprecise for large readout intervals

Prevent this by skipping the current watchdog check if the readout
interval exceeds 2 * WATCHDOG_INTERVAL. Considering the maximum readout
interval of 2 * WATCHDOG_INTERVAL, the current default uncertainty margin
(of the TSC and HPET) corresponds to a limit on clocksource skew of 250
ppm (microseconds of skew per second).  To keep the limit imposed by NTP
(500 microseconds of skew per second) for all possible readout intervals,
the margins would have to be scaled so that the threshold value is
proportional to the length of the actual readout interval.

As for why the readout interval may get stretched: Since the watchdog is
executed in softirq context the expiration of the watchdog timer can get
severely delayed on account of a ksoftirqd thread not getting to run in a
timely manner. Surely, a system with such belated softirq execution is not
working well and the scheduling issue should be looked into but the
clocksource watchdog should be able to deal with it accordingly.

Fixes: 2e27e793e280 ("clocksource: Reduce clocksource-skew threshold")
Suggested-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Wiesner &lt;jwiesner@suse.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Feng Tang &lt;feng.tang@intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240122172350.GA740@incl
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>hrtimer: Report offline hrtimer enqueue</title>
<updated>2024-02-16T18:06:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-29T23:56:36+00:00</published>
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commit dad6a09f3148257ac1773cd90934d721d68ab595 upstream.

The hrtimers migration on CPU-down hotplug process has been moved
earlier, before the CPU actually goes to die. This leaves a small window
of opportunity to queue an hrtimer in a blind spot, leaving it ignored.

For example a practical case has been reported with RCU waking up a
SCHED_FIFO task right before the CPUHP_AP_IDLE_DEAD stage, queuing that
way a sched/rt timer to the local offline CPU.

Make sure such situations never go unnoticed and warn when that happens.

Fixes: 5c0930ccaad5 ("hrtimers: Push pending hrtimers away from outgoing CPU earlier")
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240129235646.3171983-4-boqun.feng@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit dad6a09f3148257ac1773cd90934d721d68ab595 upstream.

The hrtimers migration on CPU-down hotplug process has been moved
earlier, before the CPU actually goes to die. This leaves a small window
of opportunity to queue an hrtimer in a blind spot, leaving it ignored.

For example a practical case has been reported with RCU waking up a
SCHED_FIFO task right before the CPUHP_AP_IDLE_DEAD stage, queuing that
way a sched/rt timer to the local offline CPU.

Make sure such situations never go unnoticed and warn when that happens.

Fixes: 5c0930ccaad5 ("hrtimers: Push pending hrtimers away from outgoing CPU earlier")
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240129235646.3171983-4-boqun.feng@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf: Fix the nr_addr_filters fix</title>
<updated>2024-02-05T20:13:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-22T10:07:56+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 388a1fb7da6aaa1970c7e2a7d7fcd983a87a8484 ]

Thomas reported that commit 652ffc2104ec ("perf/core: Fix narrow
startup race when creating the perf nr_addr_filters sysfs file") made
the entire attribute group vanish, instead of only the nr_addr_filters
attribute.

Additionally a stray return.

Insufficient coffee was involved with both writing and merging the
patch.

Fixes: 652ffc2104ec ("perf/core: Fix narrow startup race when creating the perf nr_addr_filters sysfs file")
Reported-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231122100756.GP8262@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 388a1fb7da6aaa1970c7e2a7d7fcd983a87a8484 ]

Thomas reported that commit 652ffc2104ec ("perf/core: Fix narrow
startup race when creating the perf nr_addr_filters sysfs file") made
the entire attribute group vanish, instead of only the nr_addr_filters
attribute.

Additionally a stray return.

Insufficient coffee was involved with both writing and merging the
patch.

Fixes: 652ffc2104ec ("perf/core: Fix narrow startup race when creating the perf nr_addr_filters sysfs file")
Reported-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231122100756.GP8262@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Set uattr-&gt;batch.count as zero before batched update or deletion</title>
<updated>2024-02-05T20:12:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hou Tao</name>
<email>houtao1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-08T10:23:53+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 06e5c999f10269a532304e89a6adb2fbfeb0593c ]

generic_map_{delete,update}_batch() doesn't set uattr-&gt;batch.count as
zero before it tries to allocate memory for key. If the memory
allocation fails, the value of uattr-&gt;batch.count will be incorrect.

Fix it by setting uattr-&gt;batch.count as zero beore batched update or
deletion.

Signed-off-by: Hou Tao &lt;houtao1@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231208102355.2628918-6-houtao@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 06e5c999f10269a532304e89a6adb2fbfeb0593c ]

generic_map_{delete,update}_batch() doesn't set uattr-&gt;batch.count as
zero before it tries to allocate memory for key. If the memory
allocation fails, the value of uattr-&gt;batch.count will be incorrect.

Fix it by setting uattr-&gt;batch.count as zero beore batched update or
deletion.

Signed-off-by: Hou Tao &lt;houtao1@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231208102355.2628918-6-houtao@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Check rcu_read_lock_trace_held() before calling bpf map helpers</title>
<updated>2024-02-05T20:12:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hou Tao</name>
<email>houtao1@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-04T14:04:19+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 169410eba271afc9f0fb476d996795aa26770c6d ]

These three bpf_map_{lookup,update,delete}_elem() helpers are also
available for sleepable bpf program, so add the corresponding lock
assertion for sleepable bpf program, otherwise the following warning
will be reported when a sleepable bpf program manipulates bpf map under
interpreter mode (aka bpf_jit_enable=0):

  WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 4985 at kernel/bpf/helpers.c:40 ......
  CPU: 3 PID: 4985 Comm: test_progs Not tainted 6.6.0+ #2
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) ......
  RIP: 0010:bpf_map_lookup_elem+0x54/0x60
  ......
  Call Trace:
   &lt;TASK&gt;
   ? __warn+0xa5/0x240
   ? bpf_map_lookup_elem+0x54/0x60
   ? report_bug+0x1ba/0x1f0
   ? handle_bug+0x40/0x80
   ? exc_invalid_op+0x18/0x50
   ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1b/0x20
   ? __pfx_bpf_map_lookup_elem+0x10/0x10
   ? rcu_lockdep_current_cpu_online+0x65/0xb0
   ? rcu_is_watching+0x23/0x50
   ? bpf_map_lookup_elem+0x54/0x60
   ? __pfx_bpf_map_lookup_elem+0x10/0x10
   ___bpf_prog_run+0x513/0x3b70
   __bpf_prog_run32+0x9d/0xd0
   ? __bpf_prog_enter_sleepable_recur+0xad/0x120
   ? __bpf_prog_enter_sleepable_recur+0x3e/0x120
   bpf_trampoline_6442580665+0x4d/0x1000
   __x64_sys_getpgid+0x5/0x30
   ? do_syscall_64+0x36/0xb0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
   &lt;/TASK&gt;

Signed-off-by: Hou Tao &lt;houtao1@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231204140425.1480317-2-houtao@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 169410eba271afc9f0fb476d996795aa26770c6d ]

These three bpf_map_{lookup,update,delete}_elem() helpers are also
available for sleepable bpf program, so add the corresponding lock
assertion for sleepable bpf program, otherwise the following warning
will be reported when a sleepable bpf program manipulates bpf map under
interpreter mode (aka bpf_jit_enable=0):

  WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 4985 at kernel/bpf/helpers.c:40 ......
  CPU: 3 PID: 4985 Comm: test_progs Not tainted 6.6.0+ #2
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) ......
  RIP: 0010:bpf_map_lookup_elem+0x54/0x60
  ......
  Call Trace:
   &lt;TASK&gt;
   ? __warn+0xa5/0x240
   ? bpf_map_lookup_elem+0x54/0x60
   ? report_bug+0x1ba/0x1f0
   ? handle_bug+0x40/0x80
   ? exc_invalid_op+0x18/0x50
   ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1b/0x20
   ? __pfx_bpf_map_lookup_elem+0x10/0x10
   ? rcu_lockdep_current_cpu_online+0x65/0xb0
   ? rcu_is_watching+0x23/0x50
   ? bpf_map_lookup_elem+0x54/0x60
   ? __pfx_bpf_map_lookup_elem+0x10/0x10
   ___bpf_prog_run+0x513/0x3b70
   __bpf_prog_run32+0x9d/0xd0
   ? __bpf_prog_enter_sleepable_recur+0xad/0x120
   ? __bpf_prog_enter_sleepable_recur+0x3e/0x120
   bpf_trampoline_6442580665+0x4d/0x1000
   __x64_sys_getpgid+0x5/0x30
   ? do_syscall_64+0x36/0xb0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
   &lt;/TASK&gt;

Signed-off-by: Hou Tao &lt;houtao1@huawei.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231204140425.1480317-2-houtao@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>audit: Send netlink ACK before setting connection in auditd_set</title>
<updated>2024-02-05T20:12:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Chris Riches</name>
<email>chris.riches@nutanix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-10-18T09:23:51+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 022732e3d846e197539712e51ecada90ded0572a ]

When auditd_set sets the auditd_conn pointer, audit messages can
immediately be put on the socket by other kernel threads. If the backlog
is large or the rate is high, this can immediately fill the socket
buffer. If the audit daemon requested an ACK for this operation, a full
socket buffer causes the ACK to get dropped, also setting ENOBUFS on the
socket.

To avoid this race and ensure ACKs get through, fast-track the ACK in
this specific case to ensure it is sent before auditd_conn is set.

Signed-off-by: Chris Riches &lt;chris.riches@nutanix.com&gt;
[PM: fix some tab vs space damage]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 022732e3d846e197539712e51ecada90ded0572a ]

When auditd_set sets the auditd_conn pointer, audit messages can
immediately be put on the socket by other kernel threads. If the backlog
is large or the rate is high, this can immediately fill the socket
buffer. If the audit daemon requested an ACK for this operation, a full
socket buffer causes the ACK to get dropped, also setting ENOBUFS on the
socket.

To avoid this race and ensure ACKs get through, fast-track the ACK in
this specific case to ensure it is sent before auditd_conn is set.

Signed-off-by: Chris Riches &lt;chris.riches@nutanix.com&gt;
[PM: fix some tab vs space damage]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>perf/core: Fix narrow startup race when creating the perf nr_addr_filters sysfs file</title>
<updated>2024-02-05T20:12:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg KH</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-06-12T13:09:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=74ec093dba93a27cb6aa00d79b7d83b30cfc7fc4'/>
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[ Upstream commit 652ffc2104ec1f69dd4a46313888c33527145ccf ]

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2023061204-decal-flyable-6090@gregkh
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 652ffc2104ec1f69dd4a46313888c33527145ccf ]

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/2023061204-decal-flyable-6090@gregkh
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tick/sched: Preserve number of idle sleeps across CPU hotplug events</title>
<updated>2024-02-01T00:17:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tim Chen</name>
<email>tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-22T23:35:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=cf0b4ba4b0f1d5c66839e48c5a7ad1ec17461d4d'/>
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commit 9a574ea9069be30b835a3da772c039993c43369b upstream.

Commit 71fee48f ("tick-sched: Fix idle and iowait sleeptime accounting vs
CPU hotplug") preserved total idle sleep time and iowait sleeptime across
CPU hotplug events.

Similar reasoning applies to the number of idle calls and idle sleeps to
get the proper average of sleep time per idle invocation.

Preserve those fields too.

Fixes: 71fee48f ("tick-sched: Fix idle and iowait sleeptime accounting vs CPU hotplug")
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240122233534.3094238-1-tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 9a574ea9069be30b835a3da772c039993c43369b upstream.

Commit 71fee48f ("tick-sched: Fix idle and iowait sleeptime accounting vs
CPU hotplug") preserved total idle sleep time and iowait sleeptime across
CPU hotplug events.

Similar reasoning applies to the number of idle calls and idle sleeps to
get the proper average of sleep time per idle invocation.

Preserve those fields too.

Fixes: 71fee48f ("tick-sched: Fix idle and iowait sleeptime accounting vs CPU hotplug")
Signed-off-by: Tim Chen &lt;tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240122233534.3094238-1-tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Defer RCU kthreads wakeup when CPU is dying</title>
<updated>2024-02-01T00:17:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-18T23:19:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c817f5c01626b59aba271d400ac565fd20d173b0'/>
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[ Upstream commit e787644caf7628ad3269c1fbd321c3255cf51710 ]

When the CPU goes idle for the last time during the CPU down hotplug
process, RCU reports a final quiescent state for the current CPU. If
this quiescent state propagates up to the top, some tasks may then be
woken up to complete the grace period: the main grace period kthread
and/or the expedited main workqueue (or kworker).

If those kthreads have a SCHED_FIFO policy, the wake up can indirectly
arm the RT bandwith timer to the local offline CPU. Since this happens
after hrtimers have been migrated at CPUHP_AP_HRTIMERS_DYING stage, the
timer gets ignored. Therefore if the RCU kthreads are waiting for RT
bandwidth to be available, they may never be actually scheduled.

This triggers TREE03 rcutorture hangs:

	 rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
	 rcu:     4-...!: (1 GPs behind) idle=9874/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=0/0 fqs=20 rcuc=21071 jiffies(starved)
	 rcu:     (t=21035 jiffies g=938281 q=40787 ncpus=6)
	 rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 20964 jiffies! g938281 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) -&gt;state=0x0 -&gt;cpu=0
	 rcu:     Unless rcu_preempt kthread gets sufficient CPU time, OOM is now expected behavior.
	 rcu: RCU grace-period kthread stack dump:
	 task:rcu_preempt     state:R  running task     stack:14896 pid:14    tgid:14    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
	 Call Trace:
	  &lt;TASK&gt;
	  __schedule+0x2eb/0xa80
	  schedule+0x1f/0x90
	  schedule_timeout+0x163/0x270
	  ? __pfx_process_timeout+0x10/0x10
	  rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x37c/0x5b0
	  ? __pfx_rcu_gp_kthread+0x10/0x10
	  rcu_gp_kthread+0x17c/0x200
	  kthread+0xde/0x110
	  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
	  ret_from_fork+0x2b/0x40
	  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
	  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
	  &lt;/TASK&gt;

The situation can't be solved with just unpinning the timer. The hrtimer
infrastructure and the nohz heuristics involved in finding the best
remote target for an unpinned timer would then also need to handle
enqueues from an offline CPU in the most horrendous way.

So fix this on the RCU side instead and defer the wake up to an online
CPU if it's too late for the local one.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 5c0930ccaad5 ("hrtimers: Push pending hrtimers away from outgoing CPU earlier")
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) &lt;neeraj.iitr10@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit e787644caf7628ad3269c1fbd321c3255cf51710 ]

When the CPU goes idle for the last time during the CPU down hotplug
process, RCU reports a final quiescent state for the current CPU. If
this quiescent state propagates up to the top, some tasks may then be
woken up to complete the grace period: the main grace period kthread
and/or the expedited main workqueue (or kworker).

If those kthreads have a SCHED_FIFO policy, the wake up can indirectly
arm the RT bandwith timer to the local offline CPU. Since this happens
after hrtimers have been migrated at CPUHP_AP_HRTIMERS_DYING stage, the
timer gets ignored. Therefore if the RCU kthreads are waiting for RT
bandwidth to be available, they may never be actually scheduled.

This triggers TREE03 rcutorture hangs:

	 rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU
	 rcu:     4-...!: (1 GPs behind) idle=9874/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=0/0 fqs=20 rcuc=21071 jiffies(starved)
	 rcu:     (t=21035 jiffies g=938281 q=40787 ncpus=6)
	 rcu: rcu_preempt kthread starved for 20964 jiffies! g938281 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(5) -&gt;state=0x0 -&gt;cpu=0
	 rcu:     Unless rcu_preempt kthread gets sufficient CPU time, OOM is now expected behavior.
	 rcu: RCU grace-period kthread stack dump:
	 task:rcu_preempt     state:R  running task     stack:14896 pid:14    tgid:14    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
	 Call Trace:
	  &lt;TASK&gt;
	  __schedule+0x2eb/0xa80
	  schedule+0x1f/0x90
	  schedule_timeout+0x163/0x270
	  ? __pfx_process_timeout+0x10/0x10
	  rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x37c/0x5b0
	  ? __pfx_rcu_gp_kthread+0x10/0x10
	  rcu_gp_kthread+0x17c/0x200
	  kthread+0xde/0x110
	  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
	  ret_from_fork+0x2b/0x40
	  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
	  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
	  &lt;/TASK&gt;

The situation can't be solved with just unpinning the timer. The hrtimer
infrastructure and the nohz heuristics involved in finding the best
remote target for an unpinned timer would then also need to handle
enqueues from an offline CPU in the most horrendous way.

So fix this on the RCU side instead and defer the wake up to an online
CPU if it's too late for the local one.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Fixes: 5c0930ccaad5 ("hrtimers: Push pending hrtimers away from outgoing CPU earlier")
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) &lt;neeraj.iitr10@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>tracing: Ensure visibility when inserting an element into tracing_map</title>
<updated>2024-02-01T00:17:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Pavlu</name>
<email>petr.pavlu@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-22T15:09:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=f4f7e696db0274ff560482cc52eddbf0551d4b7a'/>
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[ Upstream commit 2b44760609e9eaafc9d234a6883d042fc21132a7 ]

Running the following two commands in parallel on a multi-processor
AArch64 machine can sporadically produce an unexpected warning about
duplicate histogram entries:

 $ while true; do
     echo hist:key=id.syscall:val=hitcount &gt; \
       /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger
     cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/hist
     sleep 0.001
   done
 $ stress-ng --sysbadaddr $(nproc)

The warning looks as follows:

[ 2911.172474] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 2911.173111] Duplicates detected: 1
[ 2911.173574] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 12247 at kernel/trace/tracing_map.c:983 tracing_map_sort_entries+0x3e0/0x408
[ 2911.174702] Modules linked in: iscsi_ibft(E) iscsi_boot_sysfs(E) rfkill(E) af_packet(E) nls_iso8859_1(E) nls_cp437(E) vfat(E) fat(E) ena(E) tiny_power_button(E) qemu_fw_cfg(E) button(E) fuse(E) efi_pstore(E) ip_tables(E) x_tables(E) xfs(E) libcrc32c(E) aes_ce_blk(E) aes_ce_cipher(E) crct10dif_ce(E) polyval_ce(E) polyval_generic(E) ghash_ce(E) gf128mul(E) sm4_ce_gcm(E) sm4_ce_ccm(E) sm4_ce(E) sm4_ce_cipher(E) sm4(E) sm3_ce(E) sm3(E) sha3_ce(E) sha512_ce(E) sha512_arm64(E) sha2_ce(E) sha256_arm64(E) nvme(E) sha1_ce(E) nvme_core(E) nvme_auth(E) t10_pi(E) sg(E) scsi_mod(E) scsi_common(E) efivarfs(E)
[ 2911.174738] Unloaded tainted modules: cppc_cpufreq(E):1
[ 2911.180985] CPU: 2 PID: 12247 Comm: cat Kdump: loaded Tainted: G            E      6.7.0-default #2 1b58bbb22c97e4399dc09f92d309344f69c44a01
[ 2911.182398] Hardware name: Amazon EC2 c7g.8xlarge/, BIOS 1.0 11/1/2018
[ 2911.183208] pstate: 61400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 2911.184038] pc : tracing_map_sort_entries+0x3e0/0x408
[ 2911.184667] lr : tracing_map_sort_entries+0x3e0/0x408
[ 2911.185310] sp : ffff8000a1513900
[ 2911.185750] x29: ffff8000a1513900 x28: ffff0003f272fe80 x27: 0000000000000001
[ 2911.186600] x26: ffff0003f272fe80 x25: 0000000000000030 x24: 0000000000000008
[ 2911.187458] x23: ffff0003c5788000 x22: ffff0003c16710c8 x21: ffff80008017f180
[ 2911.188310] x20: ffff80008017f000 x19: ffff80008017f180 x18: ffffffffffffffff
[ 2911.189160] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: ffff8000a15134b8
[ 2911.190015] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 205d373432323154 x12: 5b5d313131333731
[ 2911.190844] x11: 00000000fffeffff x10: 00000000fffeffff x9 : ffffd1b78274a13c
[ 2911.191716] x8 : 000000000017ffe8 x7 : c0000000fffeffff x6 : 000000000057ffa8
[ 2911.192554] x5 : ffff0012f6c24ec0 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : ffff2e5b72b5d000
[ 2911.193404] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff0003ff254480
[ 2911.194259] Call trace:
[ 2911.194626]  tracing_map_sort_entries+0x3e0/0x408
[ 2911.195220]  hist_show+0x124/0x800
[ 2911.195692]  seq_read_iter+0x1d4/0x4e8
[ 2911.196193]  seq_read+0xe8/0x138
[ 2911.196638]  vfs_read+0xc8/0x300
[ 2911.197078]  ksys_read+0x70/0x108
[ 2911.197534]  __arm64_sys_read+0x24/0x38
[ 2911.198046]  invoke_syscall+0x78/0x108
[ 2911.198553]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xd0/0xf8
[ 2911.199157]  do_el0_svc+0x28/0x40
[ 2911.199613]  el0_svc+0x40/0x178
[ 2911.200048]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x13c/0x158
[ 2911.200621]  el0t_64_sync+0x1a8/0x1b0
[ 2911.201115] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

The problem appears to be caused by CPU reordering of writes issued from
__tracing_map_insert().

The check for the presence of an element with a given key in this
function is:

 val = READ_ONCE(entry-&gt;val);
 if (val &amp;&amp; keys_match(key, val-&gt;key, map-&gt;key_size)) ...

The write of a new entry is:

 elt = get_free_elt(map);
 memcpy(elt-&gt;key, key, map-&gt;key_size);
 entry-&gt;val = elt;

The "memcpy(elt-&gt;key, key, map-&gt;key_size);" and "entry-&gt;val = elt;"
stores may become visible in the reversed order on another CPU. This
second CPU might then incorrectly determine that a new key doesn't match
an already present val-&gt;key and subsequently insert a new element,
resulting in a duplicate.

Fix the problem by adding a write barrier between
"memcpy(elt-&gt;key, key, map-&gt;key_size);" and "entry-&gt;val = elt;", and for
good measure, also use WRITE_ONCE(entry-&gt;val, elt) for publishing the
element. The sequence pairs with the mentioned "READ_ONCE(entry-&gt;val);"
and the "val-&gt;key" check which has an address dependency.

The barrier is placed on a path executed when adding an element for
a new key. Subsequent updates targeting the same key remain unaffected.

From the user's perspective, the issue was introduced by commit
c193707dde77 ("tracing: Remove code which merges duplicates"), which
followed commit cbf4100efb8f ("tracing: Add support to detect and avoid
duplicates"). The previous code operated differently; it inherently
expected potential races which result in duplicates but merged them
later when they occurred.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240122150928.27725-1-petr.pavlu@suse.com

Fixes: c193707dde77 ("tracing: Remove code which merges duplicates")
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 2b44760609e9eaafc9d234a6883d042fc21132a7 ]

Running the following two commands in parallel on a multi-processor
AArch64 machine can sporadically produce an unexpected warning about
duplicate histogram entries:

 $ while true; do
     echo hist:key=id.syscall:val=hitcount &gt; \
       /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/trigger
     cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/raw_syscalls/sys_enter/hist
     sleep 0.001
   done
 $ stress-ng --sysbadaddr $(nproc)

The warning looks as follows:

[ 2911.172474] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 2911.173111] Duplicates detected: 1
[ 2911.173574] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 12247 at kernel/trace/tracing_map.c:983 tracing_map_sort_entries+0x3e0/0x408
[ 2911.174702] Modules linked in: iscsi_ibft(E) iscsi_boot_sysfs(E) rfkill(E) af_packet(E) nls_iso8859_1(E) nls_cp437(E) vfat(E) fat(E) ena(E) tiny_power_button(E) qemu_fw_cfg(E) button(E) fuse(E) efi_pstore(E) ip_tables(E) x_tables(E) xfs(E) libcrc32c(E) aes_ce_blk(E) aes_ce_cipher(E) crct10dif_ce(E) polyval_ce(E) polyval_generic(E) ghash_ce(E) gf128mul(E) sm4_ce_gcm(E) sm4_ce_ccm(E) sm4_ce(E) sm4_ce_cipher(E) sm4(E) sm3_ce(E) sm3(E) sha3_ce(E) sha512_ce(E) sha512_arm64(E) sha2_ce(E) sha256_arm64(E) nvme(E) sha1_ce(E) nvme_core(E) nvme_auth(E) t10_pi(E) sg(E) scsi_mod(E) scsi_common(E) efivarfs(E)
[ 2911.174738] Unloaded tainted modules: cppc_cpufreq(E):1
[ 2911.180985] CPU: 2 PID: 12247 Comm: cat Kdump: loaded Tainted: G            E      6.7.0-default #2 1b58bbb22c97e4399dc09f92d309344f69c44a01
[ 2911.182398] Hardware name: Amazon EC2 c7g.8xlarge/, BIOS 1.0 11/1/2018
[ 2911.183208] pstate: 61400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[ 2911.184038] pc : tracing_map_sort_entries+0x3e0/0x408
[ 2911.184667] lr : tracing_map_sort_entries+0x3e0/0x408
[ 2911.185310] sp : ffff8000a1513900
[ 2911.185750] x29: ffff8000a1513900 x28: ffff0003f272fe80 x27: 0000000000000001
[ 2911.186600] x26: ffff0003f272fe80 x25: 0000000000000030 x24: 0000000000000008
[ 2911.187458] x23: ffff0003c5788000 x22: ffff0003c16710c8 x21: ffff80008017f180
[ 2911.188310] x20: ffff80008017f000 x19: ffff80008017f180 x18: ffffffffffffffff
[ 2911.189160] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: ffff8000a15134b8
[ 2911.190015] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 205d373432323154 x12: 5b5d313131333731
[ 2911.190844] x11: 00000000fffeffff x10: 00000000fffeffff x9 : ffffd1b78274a13c
[ 2911.191716] x8 : 000000000017ffe8 x7 : c0000000fffeffff x6 : 000000000057ffa8
[ 2911.192554] x5 : ffff0012f6c24ec0 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : ffff2e5b72b5d000
[ 2911.193404] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff0003ff254480
[ 2911.194259] Call trace:
[ 2911.194626]  tracing_map_sort_entries+0x3e0/0x408
[ 2911.195220]  hist_show+0x124/0x800
[ 2911.195692]  seq_read_iter+0x1d4/0x4e8
[ 2911.196193]  seq_read+0xe8/0x138
[ 2911.196638]  vfs_read+0xc8/0x300
[ 2911.197078]  ksys_read+0x70/0x108
[ 2911.197534]  __arm64_sys_read+0x24/0x38
[ 2911.198046]  invoke_syscall+0x78/0x108
[ 2911.198553]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xd0/0xf8
[ 2911.199157]  do_el0_svc+0x28/0x40
[ 2911.199613]  el0_svc+0x40/0x178
[ 2911.200048]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x13c/0x158
[ 2911.200621]  el0t_64_sync+0x1a8/0x1b0
[ 2911.201115] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

The problem appears to be caused by CPU reordering of writes issued from
__tracing_map_insert().

The check for the presence of an element with a given key in this
function is:

 val = READ_ONCE(entry-&gt;val);
 if (val &amp;&amp; keys_match(key, val-&gt;key, map-&gt;key_size)) ...

The write of a new entry is:

 elt = get_free_elt(map);
 memcpy(elt-&gt;key, key, map-&gt;key_size);
 entry-&gt;val = elt;

The "memcpy(elt-&gt;key, key, map-&gt;key_size);" and "entry-&gt;val = elt;"
stores may become visible in the reversed order on another CPU. This
second CPU might then incorrectly determine that a new key doesn't match
an already present val-&gt;key and subsequently insert a new element,
resulting in a duplicate.

Fix the problem by adding a write barrier between
"memcpy(elt-&gt;key, key, map-&gt;key_size);" and "entry-&gt;val = elt;", and for
good measure, also use WRITE_ONCE(entry-&gt;val, elt) for publishing the
element. The sequence pairs with the mentioned "READ_ONCE(entry-&gt;val);"
and the "val-&gt;key" check which has an address dependency.

The barrier is placed on a path executed when adding an element for
a new key. Subsequent updates targeting the same key remain unaffected.

From the user's perspective, the issue was introduced by commit
c193707dde77 ("tracing: Remove code which merges duplicates"), which
followed commit cbf4100efb8f ("tracing: Add support to detect and avoid
duplicates"). The previous code operated differently; it inherently
expected potential races which result in duplicates but merged them
later when they occurred.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240122150928.27725-1-petr.pavlu@suse.com

Fixes: c193707dde77 ("tracing: Remove code which merges duplicates")
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu &lt;petr.pavlu@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tom Zanussi &lt;tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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