linux.git/include/linux/sched, branch v5.7

sched: topology.h: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array member

2020-04-18T20:44:56+00:00

The current codebase makes use of the zero-length array language
extension to the C90 standard, but the preferred mechanism to declare
variable-length types such as these ones is a flexible array member[1][2],
introduced in C99:

struct foo {
        int stuff;
        struct boo array[];
};

By making use of the mechanism above, we will get a compiler warning
in case the flexible array does not occur last in the structure, which
will help us prevent some kind of undefined behavior bugs from being
inadvertently introduced[3] to the codebase from now on.

Also, notice that, dynamic memory allocations won't be affected by
this change:

"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."[1]

This issue was found with the help of Coccinelle.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
[2] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/21
[3] commit 76497732932f ("cxgb3/l2t: Fix undefined behaviour")

Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva

Merge branch 'for-5.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2020-04-03T18:30:20+00:00

Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - Christian extended clone3 so that processes can be spawned into
   cgroups directly.

   This is not only neat in terms of semantics but also avoids grabbing
   the global cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem for migration.

 - Daniel added !root xattr support to cgroupfs.

   Userland already uses xattrs on cgroupfs for bookkeeping. This will
   allow delegated cgroups to support such usages.

 - Prateek tried to make cpuset hotplug handling synchronous but that
   led to possible deadlock scenarios. Reverted.

 - Other minor changes including release_agent_path handling cleanup.

* 'for-5.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  docs: cgroup-v1: Document the cpuset_v2_mode mount option
  Revert "cpuset: Make cpuset hotplug synchronous"
  cgroupfs: Support user xattrs
  kernfs: Add option to enable user xattrs
  kernfs: Add removed_size out param for simple_xattr_set
  kernfs: kvmalloc xattr value instead of kmalloc
  cgroup: Restructure release_agent_path handling
  selftests/cgroup: add tests for cloning into cgroups
  clone3: allow spawning processes into cgroups
  cgroup: add cgroup_may_write() helper
  cgroup: refactor fork helpers
  cgroup: add cgroup_get_from_file() helper
  cgroup: unify attach permission checking
  cpuset: Make cpuset hotplug synchronous
  cgroup.c: Use built-in RCU list checking
  kselftest/cgroup: add cgroup destruction test
  cgroup: Clean up css_set task traversal

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2020-04-02T20:55:34+00:00

Merge updates from Andrew Morton:
 "A large amount of MM, plenty more to come.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series:
   - tools
   - kthread
   - kbuild
   - scripts
   - ocfs2
   - vfs
   - mm: slub, kmemleak, pagecache, gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, mremap,
         sparsemem, kasan, pagealloc, vmscan, compaction, mempolicy,
         hugetlbfs, hugetlb"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (155 commits)
  include/linux/huge_mm.h: check PageTail in hpage_nr_pages even when !THP
  mm/hugetlb: fix build failure with HUGETLB_PAGE but not HUGEBTLBFS
  selftests/vm: fix map_hugetlb length used for testing read and write
  mm/hugetlb: remove unnecessary memory fetch in PageHeadHuge()
  mm/hugetlb.c: clean code by removing unnecessary initialization
  hugetlb_cgroup: add hugetlb_cgroup reservation docs
  hugetlb_cgroup: add hugetlb_cgroup reservation tests
  hugetlb: support file_region coalescing again
  hugetlb_cgroup: support noreserve mappings
  hugetlb_cgroup: add accounting for shared mappings
  hugetlb: disable region_add file_region coalescing
  hugetlb_cgroup: add reservation accounting for private mappings
  mm/hugetlb_cgroup: fix hugetlb_cgroup migration
  hugetlb_cgroup: add interface for charge/uncharge hugetlb reservations
  hugetlb_cgroup: add hugetlb_cgroup reservation counter
  hugetlbfs: Use i_mmap_rwsem to address page fault/truncate race
  hugetlbfs: use i_mmap_rwsem for more pmd sharing synchronization
  mm/memblock.c: remove redundant assignment to variable max_addr
  mm: mempolicy: require at least one nodeid for MPOL_PREFERRED
  mm: mempolicy: use VM_BUG_ON_VMA in queue_pages_test_walk()
  ...

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace

2020-04-02T18:22:17+00:00

Pull exec/proc updates from Eric Biederman:
 "This contains two significant pieces of work: the work to sort out
  proc_flush_task, and the work to solve a deadlock between strace and
  exec.

  Fixing proc_flush_task so that it no longer requires a persistent
  mount makes improvements to proc possible. The removal of the
  persistent mount solves an old regression that that caused the hidepid
  mount option to only work on remount not on mount. The regression was
  found and reported by the Android folks. This further allows Alexey
  Gladkov's work making proc mount options specific to an individual
  mount of proc to move forward.

  The work on exec starts solving a long standing issue with exec that
  it takes mutexes of blocking userspace applications, which makes exec
  extremely deadlock prone. For the moment this adds a second mutex with
  a narrower scope that handles all of the easy cases. Which makes the
  tricky cases easy to spot. With a little luck the code to solve those
  deadlocks will be ready by next merge window"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (25 commits)
  signal: Extend exec_id to 64bits
  pidfd: Use new infrastructure to fix deadlocks in execve
  perf: Use new infrastructure to fix deadlocks in execve
  proc: io_accounting: Use new infrastructure to fix deadlocks in execve
  proc: Use new infrastructure to fix deadlocks in execve
  kernel/kcmp.c: Use new infrastructure to fix deadlocks in execve
  kernel: doc: remove outdated comment cred.c
  mm: docs: Fix a comment in process_vm_rw_core
  selftests/ptrace: add test cases for dead-locks
  exec: Fix a deadlock in strace
  exec: Add exec_update_mutex to replace cred_guard_mutex
  exec: Move exec_mmap right after de_thread in flush_old_exec
  exec: Move cleanup of posix timers on exec out of de_thread
  exec: Factor unshare_sighand out of de_thread and call it separately
  exec: Only compute current once in flush_old_exec
  pid: Improve the comment about waiting in zap_pid_ns_processes
  proc: Remove the now unnecessary internal mount of proc
  uml: Create a private mount of proc for mconsole
  uml: Don't consult current to find the proc_mnt in mconsole_proc
  proc: Use a list of inodes to flush from proc
  ...

mm: return faster for non-fatal signals in user mode faults

2020-04-02T16:35:29+00:00

The idea comes from the upstream discussion between Linus and Andrea:

  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20171102193644.GB22686@redhat.com/

A summary to the issue: there was a special path in handle_userfault() in
the past that we'll return a VM_FAULT_NOPAGE when we detected non-fatal
signals when waiting for userfault handling.  We did that by reacquiring
the mmap_sem before returning.  However that brings a risk in that the
vmas might have changed when we retake the mmap_sem and even we could be
holding an invalid vma structure.

This patch is a preparation of removing that special path by allowing the
page fault to return even faster if we were interrupted by a non-fatal
signal during a user-mode page fault handling routine.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Suggested-by: Andrea Arcangeli 
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Tested-by: Brian Geffon 
Cc: Bobby Powers 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Denis Plotnikov 
Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Jerome Glisse 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" 
Cc: Martin Cracauer 
Cc: Marty McFadden 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Maya Gokhale 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Mike Kravetz 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220160230.9598-1-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: introduce fault_signal_pending()

2020-04-02T16:35:29+00:00

For most architectures, we've got a quick path to detect fatal signal
after a handle_mm_fault().  Introduce a helper for that quick path.

It cleans the current codes a bit so we don't need to duplicate the same
check across archs.  More importantly, this will be an unified place that
we handle the signal immediately right after an interrupted page fault, so
it'll be much easier for us if we want to change the behavior of handling
signals later on for all the archs.

Note that currently only part of the archs are using this new helper,
because some archs have their own way to handle signals.  In the follow up
patches, we'll try to apply this helper to all the rest of archs.

Another note is that the "regs" parameter in the new helper is not used
yet.  It'll be used very soon.  Now we kept it in this patch only to avoid
touching all the archs again in the follow up patches.

[peterx@redhat.com: fix sparse warnings]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200311145921.GD479302@xz-x1
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Tested-by: Brian Geffon 
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli 
Cc: Bobby Powers 
Cc: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Denis Plotnikov 
Cc: "Dr . David Alan Gilbert" 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Jerome Glisse 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: "Kirill A . Shutemov" 
Cc: Martin Cracauer 
Cc: Marty McFadden 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Maya Gokhale 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Mike Kravetz 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220155353.8676-4-peterx@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

exec: Add exec_update_mutex to replace cred_guard_mutex

2020-03-25T15:03:36+00:00

The cred_guard_mutex is problematic as it is held over possibly
indefinite waits for userspace. The possible indefinite waits for
userspace that I have identified are: The cred_guard_mutex is held in
PTRACE_EVENT_EXIT waiting for the tracer. The cred_guard_mutex is
held over "put_user(0, tsk->clear_child_tid)" in exit_mm(). The
cred_guard_mutex is held over "get_user(futex_offset, ...") in
exit_robust_list. The cred_guard_mutex held over copy_strings.

The functions get_user and put_user can trigger a page fault which can
potentially wait indefinitely in the case of userfaultfd or if
userspace implements part of the page fault path.

In any of those cases the userspace process that the kernel is waiting
for might make a different system call that winds up taking the
cred_guard_mutex and result in deadlock.

Holding a mutex over any of those possibly indefinite waits for
userspace does not appear necessary. Add exec_update_mutex that will
just cover updating the process during exec where the permissions and
the objects pointed to by the task struct may be out of sync.

The plan is to switch the users of cred_guard_mutex to
exec_update_mutex one by one. This lets us move forward while still
being careful and not introducing any regressions.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20160921152946.GA24210@dhcp22.suse.cz/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/AM6PR03MB5170B06F3A2B75EFB98D071AE4E60@AM6PR03MB5170.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20161102181806.GB1112@redhat.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20160923095031.GA14923@redhat.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20170213141452.GA30203@redhat.com/
Ref: 45c1a159b85b ("Add PTRACE_O_TRACEVFORKDONE and PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT facilities.")
Ref: 456f17cd1a28 ("[PATCH] user-vm-unlock-2.5.31-A2")
Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"
Signed-off-by: Bernd Edlinger
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman

sched/topology: Add callback to read per CPU thermal pressure

2020-03-06T11:57:17+00:00

Introduce the arch_scale_thermal_pressure() callback to retrieve per CPU thermal
pressure.

Signed-off-by: Thara Gopinath 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200222005213.3873-3-thara.gopinath@linaro.org

Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2020-02-15T20:51:22+00:00

Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc fixes all over the place:

   - Fix NUMA over-balancing between lightly loaded nodes. This is
     fallout of the big load-balancer rewrite.

   - Fix the NOHZ remote loadavg update logic, which fixes anomalies
     like reported 150 loadavg on mostly idle CPUs.

   - Fix XFS performance/scalability

   - Fix throttled groups unbound task-execution bug

   - Fix PSI procfs boundary condition

   - Fix the cpu.uclamp.{min,max} cgroup configuration write checks

   - Fix DocBook annotations

   - Fix RCU annotations

   - Fix overly CPU-intensive housekeeper CPU logic loop on large CPU
     counts"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/fair: Fix kernel-doc warning in attach_entity_load_avg()
  sched/core: Annotate curr pointer in rq with __rcu
  sched/psi: Fix OOB write when writing 0 bytes to PSI files
  sched/fair: Allow a per-CPU kthread waking a task to stack on the same CPU, to fix XFS performance regression
  sched/fair: Prevent unlimited runtime on throttled group
  sched/nohz: Optimize get_nohz_timer_target()
  sched/uclamp: Reject negative values in cpu_uclamp_write()
  sched/fair: Allow a small load imbalance between low utilisation SD_NUMA domains
  timers/nohz: Update NOHZ load in remote tick
  sched/core: Don't skip remote tick for idle CPUs

clone3: allow spawning processes into cgroups

2020-02-12T22:57:51+00:00

This adds support for creating a process in a different cgroup than its
parent. Callers can limit and account processes and threads right from
the moment they are spawned:
- A service manager can directly spawn new services into dedicated
  cgroups.
- A process can be directly created in a frozen cgroup and will be
  frozen as well.
- The initial accounting jitter experienced by process supervisors and
  daemons is eliminated with this.
- Threaded applications or even thread implementations can choose to
  create a specific cgroup layout where each thread is spawned
  directly into a dedicated cgroup.

This feature is limited to the unified hierarchy. Callers need to pass
a directory file descriptor for the target cgroup. The caller can
choose to pass an O_PATH file descriptor. All usual migration
restrictions apply, i.e. there can be no processes in inner nodes. In
general, creating a process directly in a target cgroup adheres to all
migration restrictions.

One of the biggest advantages of this feature is that CLONE_INTO_GROUP does
not need to grab the write side of the cgroup cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem.
This global lock makes moving tasks/threads around super expensive. With
clone3() this lock is avoided.

Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Li Zefan 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner 
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo