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<title>cleanup: Specify nonnull argument index</title>
<updated>2026-06-05T12:46:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Ilvokhin</name>
<email>d@ilvokhin.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-05T10:06:22+00:00</published>
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The guard constructors were annotated with an empty __nonnull_args(),
relying on __nonnull__() marking every pointer parameter as non-NULL.
Sparse cannot parse the empty argument list.

Both constructors take the lock pointer as their first parameter, so
specify the index explicitly: __nonnull_args(1).

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;error27@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aiJi0WcYE8FZt-jO@stanley.mountain/
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin &lt;d@ilvokhin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aiKpH3cLBEj3TF2Q@shell.ilvokhin.com
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The guard constructors were annotated with an empty __nonnull_args(),
relying on __nonnull__() marking every pointer parameter as non-NULL.
Sparse cannot parse the empty argument list.

Both constructors take the lock pointer as their first parameter, so
specify the index explicitly: __nonnull_args(1).

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;error27@gmail.com&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aiJi0WcYE8FZt-jO@stanley.mountain/
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin &lt;d@ilvokhin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/aiKpH3cLBEj3TF2Q@shell.ilvokhin.com
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<entry>
<title>cleanup: Remove NULL check from unconditional guards</title>
<updated>2026-06-03T09:38:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Ilvokhin</name>
<email>d@ilvokhin.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-02T07:12:53+00:00</published>
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The unconditional guard destructors check whether the lock pointer is
NULL before unlocking. This check is dead code because unconditional
guards guarantee a non-NULL lock pointer at destructor time.

DEFINE_GUARD() runs the lock operation unconditionally in the
constructor. If the pointer were NULL, the lock operation (e.g.
mutex_lock(NULL)) would crash before the constructor returns. The
destructor never runs with a NULL pointer. All DEFINE_GUARD() users
dereference the pointer in their lock. Verified by auditing every
instance found by: git grep -n -A 1 'DEFINE_GUARD('. The only exception
is xe_pm_runtime_release_only, whose constructor is a noop, but it has
no callers.

__DEFINE_UNLOCK_GUARD() has only a few usages outside of
include/linux/cleanup.h: tty_port_tty (NULL-checks in its tty_kref_put()
call), irqdesc_lock (fixed earlier) and two guards in
kernel/sched/sched.h (dereference the pointer unconditionally in their
lock constructors).

DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1() sets .lock from its argument and runs the lock
operation in the constructor. Same reasoning applies. All
DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1() users dereference the pointer in their lock. Also,
verified by auditing every match of: git grep -n 'DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1('.

DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_0() hardcodes .lock = (void *)1 in the constructor,
so it is never NULL by construction.

Conditional (_try) variants: DEFINE_GUARD_COND() and
DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1_COND() use EXTEND_CLASS_COND(), whose wrapper
destructor returns early when the lock was not acquired, before reaching
the base destructor since commit 2deccd5c862a ("cleanup: Optimize
guards"):

    if (_cond) return; class_##_name##_destructor(_T);

As compiled by GCC-11 with defconfig on top of the locking/core:

    Total: Before=23889980, After=23834334, chg -0.23%

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin &lt;d@ilvokhin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0503a089389b2270c478a873e095cf0a4ff26d24.1780064327.git.d@ilvokhin.com
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The unconditional guard destructors check whether the lock pointer is
NULL before unlocking. This check is dead code because unconditional
guards guarantee a non-NULL lock pointer at destructor time.

DEFINE_GUARD() runs the lock operation unconditionally in the
constructor. If the pointer were NULL, the lock operation (e.g.
mutex_lock(NULL)) would crash before the constructor returns. The
destructor never runs with a NULL pointer. All DEFINE_GUARD() users
dereference the pointer in their lock. Verified by auditing every
instance found by: git grep -n -A 1 'DEFINE_GUARD('. The only exception
is xe_pm_runtime_release_only, whose constructor is a noop, but it has
no callers.

__DEFINE_UNLOCK_GUARD() has only a few usages outside of
include/linux/cleanup.h: tty_port_tty (NULL-checks in its tty_kref_put()
call), irqdesc_lock (fixed earlier) and two guards in
kernel/sched/sched.h (dereference the pointer unconditionally in their
lock constructors).

DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1() sets .lock from its argument and runs the lock
operation in the constructor. Same reasoning applies. All
DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1() users dereference the pointer in their lock. Also,
verified by auditing every match of: git grep -n 'DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1('.

DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_0() hardcodes .lock = (void *)1 in the constructor,
so it is never NULL by construction.

Conditional (_try) variants: DEFINE_GUARD_COND() and
DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1_COND() use EXTEND_CLASS_COND(), whose wrapper
destructor returns early when the lock was not acquired, before reaching
the base destructor since commit 2deccd5c862a ("cleanup: Optimize
guards"):

    if (_cond) return; class_##_name##_destructor(_T);

As compiled by GCC-11 with defconfig on top of the locking/core:

    Total: Before=23889980, After=23834334, chg -0.23%

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin &lt;d@ilvokhin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/0503a089389b2270c478a873e095cf0a4ff26d24.1780064327.git.d@ilvokhin.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cleanup: Annotate guard constructors with nonnull</title>
<updated>2026-06-03T09:38:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Ilvokhin</name>
<email>d@ilvokhin.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-06-02T07:12:52+00:00</published>
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Add __nonnull_args() to unconditional guard constructors so the compiler
warns when NULL is statically known to be passed:

- DEFINE_GUARD(): re-declare the constructor with __nonnull_args().
- __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1(): annotate the constructor directly.

DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_0() needs no annotation: its constructor takes no
pointer arguments (.lock is hardcoded to (void *)1).

Define the __nonnull_args() macro in compiler_attributes.h, following
the existing convention for attribute wrappers. Deliberately not named
'__nonnull', to avoid clashing with glibc's __nonnull() when kernel and
userspace headers are combined (User Mode Linux for example).

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin &lt;d@ilvokhin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/85fee12eec20abfcf711443518e8f0caec982a86.1780064327.git.d@ilvokhin.com
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Add __nonnull_args() to unconditional guard constructors so the compiler
warns when NULL is statically known to be passed:

- DEFINE_GUARD(): re-declare the constructor with __nonnull_args().
- __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1(): annotate the constructor directly.

DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_0() needs no annotation: its constructor takes no
pointer arguments (.lock is hardcoded to (void *)1).

Define the __nonnull_args() macro in compiler_attributes.h, following
the existing convention for attribute wrappers. Deliberately not named
'__nonnull', to avoid clashing with glibc's __nonnull() when kernel and
userspace headers are combined (User Mode Linux for example).

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Ilvokhin &lt;d@ilvokhin.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/85fee12eec20abfcf711443518e8f0caec982a86.1780064327.git.d@ilvokhin.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cleanup: Optimize guards</title>
<updated>2026-03-16T12:16:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-03-09T16:40:42+00:00</published>
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Andrew reported that a guard() conversion of zone_lock increased the
code size unnecessarily.

It turns out the unconditional __GUARD_IS_ERR() is to blame. As
explored earlier [1], __GUARD_IS_ERR(), similar to IS_ERR_OR_NULL(),
generates somewhat sub-optimal code.

However, looking at things again, it is possible to avoid doing the
__GUARD_IS_ERR() unconditionally. Revert the normal destructors to a
simple NULL test and only add the IS_ERR bit to COND guards.

This cures the reported overhead; as compiled by GCC-16:

	page_alloc.o:

pre:	Total: Before=45299, After=45371, chg +0.16%
post:	Total: Before=45299, After=45026, chg -0.60%

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250513085001.GC25891@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net

Reported-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309164516.GE606826@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
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Andrew reported that a guard() conversion of zone_lock increased the
code size unnecessarily.

It turns out the unconditional __GUARD_IS_ERR() is to blame. As
explored earlier [1], __GUARD_IS_ERR(), similar to IS_ERR_OR_NULL(),
generates somewhat sub-optimal code.

However, looking at things again, it is possible to avoid doing the
__GUARD_IS_ERR() unconditionally. Revert the normal destructors to a
simple NULL test and only add the IS_ERR bit to COND guards.

This cures the reported overhead; as compiled by GCC-16:

	page_alloc.o:

pre:	Total: Before=45299, After=45371, chg +0.16%
post:	Total: Before=45299, After=45026, chg -0.60%

[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250513085001.GC25891@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net

Reported-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309164516.GE606826@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>cleanup: Make __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD handle commas in initializers</title>
<updated>2026-01-28T19:45:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-01-19T09:05:51+00:00</published>
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Initialization macros can expand to structure initializers containing
commas, which when used as a "lock" function resulted in errors such as:

&gt;&gt; include/linux/spinlock.h:582:56: error: too many arguments provided to function-like macro invocation
     582 | DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1(raw_spinlock_init, raw_spinlock_t, raw_spin_lock_init(_T-&gt;lock), /* */)
         |                                                        ^
   include/linux/spinlock.h:113:17: note: expanded from macro 'raw_spin_lock_init'
     113 |         do { *(lock) = __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(lock); } while (0)
         |                        ^
   include/linux/spinlock_types_raw.h:70:19: note: expanded from macro '__RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED'
      70 |         (raw_spinlock_t) __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_INITIALIZER(lockname)
         |                          ^
   include/linux/spinlock_types_raw.h:67:34: note: expanded from macro '__RAW_SPIN_LOCK_INITIALIZER'
      67 |         RAW_SPIN_DEP_MAP_INIT(lockname) }
         |                                         ^
   include/linux/cleanup.h:496:9: note: macro '__DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1' defined here
     496 | #define __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1(_name, _type, _lock)                      \
         |         ^
   include/linux/spinlock.h:582:1: note: parentheses are required around macro argument containing braced initializer list
     582 | DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1(raw_spinlock_init, raw_spinlock_t, raw_spin_lock_init(_T-&gt;lock), /* */)
         | ^
         |                                                        (
   include/linux/cleanup.h:558:60: note: expanded from macro 'DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1'
     558 | __DEFINE_UNLOCK_GUARD(_name, _type, _unlock, __VA_ARGS__)               \
         |                                                                         ^

Make __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_0 and __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1 variadic so that
__VA_ARGS__ captures everything.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260119094029.1344361-2-elver@google.com
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Initialization macros can expand to structure initializers containing
commas, which when used as a "lock" function resulted in errors such as:

&gt;&gt; include/linux/spinlock.h:582:56: error: too many arguments provided to function-like macro invocation
     582 | DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1(raw_spinlock_init, raw_spinlock_t, raw_spin_lock_init(_T-&gt;lock), /* */)
         |                                                        ^
   include/linux/spinlock.h:113:17: note: expanded from macro 'raw_spin_lock_init'
     113 |         do { *(lock) = __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(lock); } while (0)
         |                        ^
   include/linux/spinlock_types_raw.h:70:19: note: expanded from macro '__RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED'
      70 |         (raw_spinlock_t) __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_INITIALIZER(lockname)
         |                          ^
   include/linux/spinlock_types_raw.h:67:34: note: expanded from macro '__RAW_SPIN_LOCK_INITIALIZER'
      67 |         RAW_SPIN_DEP_MAP_INIT(lockname) }
         |                                         ^
   include/linux/cleanup.h:496:9: note: macro '__DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1' defined here
     496 | #define __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1(_name, _type, _lock)                      \
         |         ^
   include/linux/spinlock.h:582:1: note: parentheses are required around macro argument containing braced initializer list
     582 | DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1(raw_spinlock_init, raw_spinlock_t, raw_spin_lock_init(_T-&gt;lock), /* */)
         | ^
         |                                                        (
   include/linux/cleanup.h:558:60: note: expanded from macro 'DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1'
     558 | __DEFINE_UNLOCK_GUARD(_name, _type, _unlock, __VA_ARGS__)               \
         |                                                                         ^

Make __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_0 and __DEFINE_LOCK_GUARD_1 variadic so that
__VA_ARGS__ captures everything.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260119094029.1344361-2-elver@google.com
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<entry>
<title>cleanup: Basic compatibility with context analysis</title>
<updated>2026-01-05T15:43:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marco Elver</name>
<email>elver@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-19T15:39:55+00:00</published>
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Introduce basic compatibility with cleanup.h infrastructure.

We need to allow the compiler to see the acquisition and release of the
context lock at the start and end of a scope. However, the current
"cleanup" helpers wrap the lock in a struct passed through separate
helper functions, which hides the lock alias from the compiler (no
inter-procedural analysis).

While Clang supports scoped guards in C++, it's not possible to apply in
C code: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThreadSafetyAnalysis.html#scoped-context

However, together with recent improvements to Clang's alias analysis
abilities, idioms such as this work correctly now:

        void spin_unlock_cleanup(spinlock_t **l) __releases(*l) { .. }
        ...
        {
            spinlock_t *lock_scope __cleanup(spin_unlock_cleanup) = &amp;lock;
            spin_lock(&amp;lock);  // lock through &amp;lock
            ... critical section ...
        }  // unlock through lock_scope -[alias]-&gt; &amp;lock (no warnings)

To generalize this pattern and make it work with existing lock guards,
introduce DECLARE_LOCK_GUARD_1_ATTRS() and WITH_LOCK_GUARD_1_ATTRS().

These allow creating an explicit alias to the context lock instance that
is "cleaned" up with a separate cleanup helper. This helper is a dummy
function that does nothing at runtime, but has the release attributes to
tell the compiler what happens at the end of the scope.

Example usage:

  DECLARE_LOCK_GUARD_1_ATTRS(mutex, __acquires(_T), __releases(*(struct mutex **)_T))
  #define class_mutex_constructor(_T) WITH_LOCK_GUARD_1_ATTRS(mutex, _T)

Note: To support the for-loop based scoped helpers, the auxiliary
variable must be a pointer to the "class" type because it is defined in
the same statement as the guard variable. However, we initialize it with
the lock pointer (despite the type mismatch, the compiler's alias
analysis still works as expected). The "_unlock" attribute receives a
pointer to the auxiliary variable (a double pointer to the class type),
and must be cast and dereferenced appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-7-elver@google.com
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Introduce basic compatibility with cleanup.h infrastructure.

We need to allow the compiler to see the acquisition and release of the
context lock at the start and end of a scope. However, the current
"cleanup" helpers wrap the lock in a struct passed through separate
helper functions, which hides the lock alias from the compiler (no
inter-procedural analysis).

While Clang supports scoped guards in C++, it's not possible to apply in
C code: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ThreadSafetyAnalysis.html#scoped-context

However, together with recent improvements to Clang's alias analysis
abilities, idioms such as this work correctly now:

        void spin_unlock_cleanup(spinlock_t **l) __releases(*l) { .. }
        ...
        {
            spinlock_t *lock_scope __cleanup(spin_unlock_cleanup) = &amp;lock;
            spin_lock(&amp;lock);  // lock through &amp;lock
            ... critical section ...
        }  // unlock through lock_scope -[alias]-&gt; &amp;lock (no warnings)

To generalize this pattern and make it work with existing lock guards,
introduce DECLARE_LOCK_GUARD_1_ATTRS() and WITH_LOCK_GUARD_1_ATTRS().

These allow creating an explicit alias to the context lock instance that
is "cleaned" up with a separate cleanup helper. This helper is a dummy
function that does nothing at runtime, but has the release attributes to
tell the compiler what happens at the end of the scope.

Example usage:

  DECLARE_LOCK_GUARD_1_ATTRS(mutex, __acquires(_T), __releases(*(struct mutex **)_T))
  #define class_mutex_constructor(_T) WITH_LOCK_GUARD_1_ATTRS(mutex, _T)

Note: To support the for-loop based scoped helpers, the auxiliary
variable must be a pointer to the "class" type because it is defined in
the same statement as the guard variable. However, we initialize it with
the lock pointer (despite the type mismatch, the compiler's alias
analysis still works as expected). The "_unlock" attribute receives a
pointer to the auxiliary variable (a double pointer to the class type),
and must be cast and dereferenced appropriately.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver &lt;elver@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251219154418.3592607-7-elver@google.com
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<entry>
<title>include/linux: change "__auto_type" to "auto"</title>
<updated>2025-12-08T23:32:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@zytor.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-07-20T06:36:58+00:00</published>
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Replace instances of "__auto_type" with "auto" in include/linux.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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Replace instances of "__auto_type" with "auto" in include/linux.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'core-rseq-2025-11-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-12-02T16:48:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-02T16:48:53+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=2b09f480f0a1e68111ae36a7be9aa1c93e067255'/>
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Pull rseq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A large overhaul of the restartable sequences and CID management:

  The recent enablement of RSEQ in glibc resulted in regressions which
  are caused by the related overhead. It turned out that the decision to
  invoke the exit to user work was not really a decision. More or less
  each context switch caused that. There is a long list of small issues
  which sums up nicely and results in a 3-4% regression in I/O
  benchmarks.

  The other detail which caused issues due to extra work in context
  switch and task migration is the CID (memory context ID) management.
  It also requires to use a task work to consolidate the CID space,
  which is executed in the context of an arbitrary task and results in
  sporadic uncontrolled exit latencies.

  The rewrite addresses this by:

   - Removing deprecated and long unsupported functionality

   - Moving the related data into dedicated data structures which are
     optimized for fast path processing.

   - Caching values so actual decisions can be made

   - Replacing the current implementation with a optimized inlined
     variant.

   - Separating fast and slow path for architectures which use the
     generic entry code, so that only fault and error handling goes into
     the TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME handler.

   - Rewriting the CID management so that it becomes mostly invisible in
     the context switch path. That moves the work of switching modes
     into the fork/exit path, which is a reasonable tradeoff. That work
     is only required when a process creates more threads than the
     cpuset it is allowed to run on or when enough threads exit after
     that. An artificial thread pool benchmarks which triggers this did
     not degrade, it actually improved significantly.

     The main effect in migration heavy scenarios is that runqueue lock
     held time and therefore contention goes down significantly"

* tag 'core-rseq-2025-11-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (54 commits)
  sched/mmcid: Switch over to the new mechanism
  sched/mmcid: Implement deferred mode change
  irqwork: Move data struct to a types header
  sched/mmcid: Provide CID ownership mode fixup functions
  sched/mmcid: Provide new scheduler CID mechanism
  sched/mmcid: Introduce per task/CPU ownership infrastructure
  sched/mmcid: Serialize sched_mm_cid_fork()/exit() with a mutex
  sched/mmcid: Provide precomputed maximal value
  sched/mmcid: Move initialization out of line
  signal: Move MMCID exit out of sighand lock
  sched/mmcid: Convert mm CID mask to a bitmap
  cpumask: Cache num_possible_cpus()
  sched/mmcid: Use cpumask_weighted_or()
  cpumask: Introduce cpumask_weighted_or()
  sched/mmcid: Prevent pointless work in mm_update_cpus_allowed()
  sched/mmcid: Move scheduler code out of global header
  sched: Fixup whitespace damage
  sched/mmcid: Cacheline align MM CID storage
  sched/mmcid: Use proper data structures
  sched/mmcid: Revert the complex CID management
  ...
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Pull rseq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A large overhaul of the restartable sequences and CID management:

  The recent enablement of RSEQ in glibc resulted in regressions which
  are caused by the related overhead. It turned out that the decision to
  invoke the exit to user work was not really a decision. More or less
  each context switch caused that. There is a long list of small issues
  which sums up nicely and results in a 3-4% regression in I/O
  benchmarks.

  The other detail which caused issues due to extra work in context
  switch and task migration is the CID (memory context ID) management.
  It also requires to use a task work to consolidate the CID space,
  which is executed in the context of an arbitrary task and results in
  sporadic uncontrolled exit latencies.

  The rewrite addresses this by:

   - Removing deprecated and long unsupported functionality

   - Moving the related data into dedicated data structures which are
     optimized for fast path processing.

   - Caching values so actual decisions can be made

   - Replacing the current implementation with a optimized inlined
     variant.

   - Separating fast and slow path for architectures which use the
     generic entry code, so that only fault and error handling goes into
     the TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME handler.

   - Rewriting the CID management so that it becomes mostly invisible in
     the context switch path. That moves the work of switching modes
     into the fork/exit path, which is a reasonable tradeoff. That work
     is only required when a process creates more threads than the
     cpuset it is allowed to run on or when enough threads exit after
     that. An artificial thread pool benchmarks which triggers this did
     not degrade, it actually improved significantly.

     The main effect in migration heavy scenarios is that runqueue lock
     held time and therefore contention goes down significantly"

* tag 'core-rseq-2025-11-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (54 commits)
  sched/mmcid: Switch over to the new mechanism
  sched/mmcid: Implement deferred mode change
  irqwork: Move data struct to a types header
  sched/mmcid: Provide CID ownership mode fixup functions
  sched/mmcid: Provide new scheduler CID mechanism
  sched/mmcid: Introduce per task/CPU ownership infrastructure
  sched/mmcid: Serialize sched_mm_cid_fork()/exit() with a mutex
  sched/mmcid: Provide precomputed maximal value
  sched/mmcid: Move initialization out of line
  signal: Move MMCID exit out of sighand lock
  sched/mmcid: Convert mm CID mask to a bitmap
  cpumask: Cache num_possible_cpus()
  sched/mmcid: Use cpumask_weighted_or()
  cpumask: Introduce cpumask_weighted_or()
  sched/mmcid: Prevent pointless work in mm_update_cpus_allowed()
  sched/mmcid: Move scheduler code out of global header
  sched: Fixup whitespace damage
  sched/mmcid: Cacheline align MM CID storage
  sched/mmcid: Use proper data structures
  sched/mmcid: Revert the complex CID management
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2025-12-02T05:04:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-02T05:04:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=6d2c10e889db596938bb7b4d3cdd42d67208439a'/>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Scalability and load-balancing improvements:

   - Enable scheduler feature NEXT_BUDDY (Mel Gorman)

   - Reimplement NEXT_BUDDY to align with EEVDF goals (Mel Gorman)

   - Skip sched_balance_running cmpxchg when balance is not due (Tim
     Chen)

   - Implement generic code for architecture specific sched domain NUMA
     distances (Tim Chen)

   - Optimize the NUMA distances of the sched-domains builds of Intel
     Granite Rapids (GNR) and Clearwater Forest (CWF) platforms (Tim
     Chen)

   - Implement proportional newidle balance: a randomized algorithm that
     runs newidle balancing proportional to its success rate. (Peter
     Zijlstra)

  Scheduler infrastructure changes:

   - Implement the 'sched_change' scoped_guard() pattern for the entire
     scheduler (Peter Zijlstra)

   - More broadly utilize the sched_change guard (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Add support to pick functions to take runqueue-flags (Joel
     Fernandes)

   - Provide and use set_need_resched_current() (Peter Zijlstra)

  Fair scheduling enhancements:

   - Forfeit vruntime on yield (Fernand Sieber)

   - Only update stats for allowed CPUs when looking for dst group (Adam
     Li)

  CPU-core scheduling enhancements:

   - Optimize core cookie matching check (Fernand Sieber)

  Deadline scheduler fixes:

   - Only set free_cpus for online runqueues (Doug Berger)

   - Fix dl_server time accounting (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Fix dl_server stop condition (Peter Zijlstra)

  Proxy scheduling fixes:

   - Yield the donor task (Fernand Sieber)

  Fixes and cleanups:

   - Fix do_set_cpus_allowed() locking (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Fix migrate_disable_switch() locking (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Remove double update_rq_clock() in __set_cpus_allowed_ptr_locked()
     (Hao Jia)

   - Increase sched_tick_remote timeout (Phil Auld)

   - sched/deadline: Use cpumask_weight_and() in dl_bw_cpus() (Shrikanth
     Hegde)

   - sched/deadline: Clean up select_task_rq_dl() (Shrikanth Hegde)"

* tag 'sched-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits)
  sched: Provide and use set_need_resched_current()
  sched/fair: Proportional newidle balance
  sched/fair: Small cleanup to update_newidle_cost()
  sched/fair: Small cleanup to sched_balance_newidle()
  sched/fair: Revert max_newidle_lb_cost bump
  sched/fair: Reimplement NEXT_BUDDY to align with EEVDF goals
  sched/fair: Enable scheduler feature NEXT_BUDDY
  sched: Increase sched_tick_remote timeout
  sched/fair: Have SD_SERIALIZE affect newidle balancing
  sched/fair: Skip sched_balance_running cmpxchg when balance is not due
  sched/deadline: Minor cleanup in select_task_rq_dl()
  sched/deadline: Use cpumask_weight_and() in dl_bw_cpus
  sched/deadline: Document dl_server
  sched/deadline: Fix dl_server stop condition
  sched/deadline: Fix dl_server time accounting
  sched/core: Remove double update_rq_clock() in __set_cpus_allowed_ptr_locked()
  sched/eevdf: Fix min_vruntime vs avg_vruntime
  sched/core: Add comment explaining force-idle vruntime snapshots
  sched/core: Optimize core cookie matching check
  sched/proxy: Yield the donor task
  ...
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<pre>
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Scalability and load-balancing improvements:

   - Enable scheduler feature NEXT_BUDDY (Mel Gorman)

   - Reimplement NEXT_BUDDY to align with EEVDF goals (Mel Gorman)

   - Skip sched_balance_running cmpxchg when balance is not due (Tim
     Chen)

   - Implement generic code for architecture specific sched domain NUMA
     distances (Tim Chen)

   - Optimize the NUMA distances of the sched-domains builds of Intel
     Granite Rapids (GNR) and Clearwater Forest (CWF) platforms (Tim
     Chen)

   - Implement proportional newidle balance: a randomized algorithm that
     runs newidle balancing proportional to its success rate. (Peter
     Zijlstra)

  Scheduler infrastructure changes:

   - Implement the 'sched_change' scoped_guard() pattern for the entire
     scheduler (Peter Zijlstra)

   - More broadly utilize the sched_change guard (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Add support to pick functions to take runqueue-flags (Joel
     Fernandes)

   - Provide and use set_need_resched_current() (Peter Zijlstra)

  Fair scheduling enhancements:

   - Forfeit vruntime on yield (Fernand Sieber)

   - Only update stats for allowed CPUs when looking for dst group (Adam
     Li)

  CPU-core scheduling enhancements:

   - Optimize core cookie matching check (Fernand Sieber)

  Deadline scheduler fixes:

   - Only set free_cpus for online runqueues (Doug Berger)

   - Fix dl_server time accounting (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Fix dl_server stop condition (Peter Zijlstra)

  Proxy scheduling fixes:

   - Yield the donor task (Fernand Sieber)

  Fixes and cleanups:

   - Fix do_set_cpus_allowed() locking (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Fix migrate_disable_switch() locking (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Remove double update_rq_clock() in __set_cpus_allowed_ptr_locked()
     (Hao Jia)

   - Increase sched_tick_remote timeout (Phil Auld)

   - sched/deadline: Use cpumask_weight_and() in dl_bw_cpus() (Shrikanth
     Hegde)

   - sched/deadline: Clean up select_task_rq_dl() (Shrikanth Hegde)"

* tag 'sched-core-2025-12-01' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits)
  sched: Provide and use set_need_resched_current()
  sched/fair: Proportional newidle balance
  sched/fair: Small cleanup to update_newidle_cost()
  sched/fair: Small cleanup to sched_balance_newidle()
  sched/fair: Revert max_newidle_lb_cost bump
  sched/fair: Reimplement NEXT_BUDDY to align with EEVDF goals
  sched/fair: Enable scheduler feature NEXT_BUDDY
  sched: Increase sched_tick_remote timeout
  sched/fair: Have SD_SERIALIZE affect newidle balancing
  sched/fair: Skip sched_balance_running cmpxchg when balance is not due
  sched/deadline: Minor cleanup in select_task_rq_dl()
  sched/deadline: Use cpumask_weight_and() in dl_bw_cpus
  sched/deadline: Document dl_server
  sched/deadline: Fix dl_server stop condition
  sched/deadline: Fix dl_server time accounting
  sched/core: Remove double update_rq_clock() in __set_cpus_allowed_ptr_locked()
  sched/eevdf: Fix min_vruntime vs avg_vruntime
  sched/core: Add comment explaining force-idle vruntime snapshots
  sched/core: Optimize core cookie matching check
  sched/proxy: Yield the donor task
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.fd_prepare.fs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-12-02T01:32:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-12-02T01:32:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1b5dd29869b1e63f7e5c37d7552e2dcf22de3c26'/>
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Pull fd prepare updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds the FD_ADD() and FD_PREPARE() primitive. They simplify the
  common pattern of get_unused_fd_flags() + create file + fd_install()
  that is used extensively throughout the kernel and currently requires
  cumbersome cleanup paths.

  FD_ADD() - For simple cases where a file is installed immediately:

      fd = FD_ADD(O_CLOEXEC, vfio_device_open_file(device));
      if (fd &lt; 0)
          vfio_device_put_registration(device);
      return fd;

  FD_PREPARE() - For cases requiring access to the fd or file, or
  additional work before publishing:

      FD_PREPARE(fdf, O_CLOEXEC, sync_file-&gt;file);
      if (fdf.err) {
          fput(sync_file-&gt;file);
          return fdf.err;
      }

      data.fence = fd_prepare_fd(fdf);
      if (copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &amp;data, sizeof(data)))
          return -EFAULT;

      return fd_publish(fdf);

  The primitives are centered around struct fd_prepare. FD_PREPARE()
  encapsulates all allocation and cleanup logic and must be followed by
  a call to fd_publish() which associates the fd with the file and
  installs it into the caller's fdtable. If fd_publish() isn't called,
  both are deallocated automatically. FD_ADD() is a shorthand that does
  fd_publish() immediately and never exposes the struct to the caller.

  I've implemented this in a way that it's compatible with the cleanup
  infrastructure while also being usable separately. IOW, it's centered
  around struct fd_prepare which is aliased to class_fd_prepare_t and so
  we can make use of all the basica guard infrastructure"

* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.fd_prepare.fs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (42 commits)
  io_uring: convert io_create_mock_file() to FD_PREPARE()
  file: convert replace_fd() to FD_PREPARE()
  vfio: convert vfio_group_ioctl_get_device_fd() to FD_ADD()
  tty: convert ptm_open_peer() to FD_ADD()
  ntsync: convert ntsync_obj_get_fd() to FD_PREPARE()
  media: convert media_request_alloc() to FD_PREPARE()
  hv: convert mshv_ioctl_create_partition() to FD_ADD()
  gpio: convert linehandle_create() to FD_PREPARE()
  pseries: port papr_rtas_setup_file_interface() to FD_ADD()
  pseries: convert papr_platform_dump_create_handle() to FD_ADD()
  spufs: convert spufs_gang_open() to FD_PREPARE()
  papr-hvpipe: convert papr_hvpipe_dev_create_handle() to FD_PREPARE()
  spufs: convert spufs_context_open() to FD_PREPARE()
  net/socket: convert __sys_accept4_file() to FD_ADD()
  net/socket: convert sock_map_fd() to FD_ADD()
  net/kcm: convert kcm_ioctl() to FD_PREPARE()
  net/handshake: convert handshake_nl_accept_doit() to FD_PREPARE()
  secretmem: convert memfd_secret() to FD_ADD()
  memfd: convert memfd_create() to FD_ADD()
  bpf: convert bpf_token_create() to FD_PREPARE()
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull fd prepare updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This adds the FD_ADD() and FD_PREPARE() primitive. They simplify the
  common pattern of get_unused_fd_flags() + create file + fd_install()
  that is used extensively throughout the kernel and currently requires
  cumbersome cleanup paths.

  FD_ADD() - For simple cases where a file is installed immediately:

      fd = FD_ADD(O_CLOEXEC, vfio_device_open_file(device));
      if (fd &lt; 0)
          vfio_device_put_registration(device);
      return fd;

  FD_PREPARE() - For cases requiring access to the fd or file, or
  additional work before publishing:

      FD_PREPARE(fdf, O_CLOEXEC, sync_file-&gt;file);
      if (fdf.err) {
          fput(sync_file-&gt;file);
          return fdf.err;
      }

      data.fence = fd_prepare_fd(fdf);
      if (copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &amp;data, sizeof(data)))
          return -EFAULT;

      return fd_publish(fdf);

  The primitives are centered around struct fd_prepare. FD_PREPARE()
  encapsulates all allocation and cleanup logic and must be followed by
  a call to fd_publish() which associates the fd with the file and
  installs it into the caller's fdtable. If fd_publish() isn't called,
  both are deallocated automatically. FD_ADD() is a shorthand that does
  fd_publish() immediately and never exposes the struct to the caller.

  I've implemented this in a way that it's compatible with the cleanup
  infrastructure while also being usable separately. IOW, it's centered
  around struct fd_prepare which is aliased to class_fd_prepare_t and so
  we can make use of all the basica guard infrastructure"

* tag 'vfs-6.19-rc1.fd_prepare.fs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (42 commits)
  io_uring: convert io_create_mock_file() to FD_PREPARE()
  file: convert replace_fd() to FD_PREPARE()
  vfio: convert vfio_group_ioctl_get_device_fd() to FD_ADD()
  tty: convert ptm_open_peer() to FD_ADD()
  ntsync: convert ntsync_obj_get_fd() to FD_PREPARE()
  media: convert media_request_alloc() to FD_PREPARE()
  hv: convert mshv_ioctl_create_partition() to FD_ADD()
  gpio: convert linehandle_create() to FD_PREPARE()
  pseries: port papr_rtas_setup_file_interface() to FD_ADD()
  pseries: convert papr_platform_dump_create_handle() to FD_ADD()
  spufs: convert spufs_gang_open() to FD_PREPARE()
  papr-hvpipe: convert papr_hvpipe_dev_create_handle() to FD_PREPARE()
  spufs: convert spufs_context_open() to FD_PREPARE()
  net/socket: convert __sys_accept4_file() to FD_ADD()
  net/socket: convert sock_map_fd() to FD_ADD()
  net/kcm: convert kcm_ioctl() to FD_PREPARE()
  net/handshake: convert handshake_nl_accept_doit() to FD_PREPARE()
  secretmem: convert memfd_secret() to FD_ADD()
  memfd: convert memfd_create() to FD_ADD()
  bpf: convert bpf_token_create() to FD_PREPARE()
  ...
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