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<title>Merge tag 'sched_urgent_for_v5.15_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-09-12T18:37:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-09-12T18:37:41+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler fixes from Borislav Petkov:

 - Make sure the idle timer expires in hardirq context, on PREEMPT_RT

 - Make sure the run-queue balance callback is invoked only on the
   outgoing CPU

* tag 'sched_urgent_for_v5.15_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Prevent balance_push() on remote runqueues
  sched/idle: Make the idle timer expire in hard interrupt context
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Pull scheduler fixes from Borislav Petkov:

 - Make sure the idle timer expires in hardirq context, on PREEMPT_RT

 - Make sure the run-queue balance callback is invoked only on the
   outgoing CPU

* tag 'sched_urgent_for_v5.15_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched: Prevent balance_push() on remote runqueues
  sched/idle: Make the idle timer expire in hard interrupt context
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<title>sched: Prevent balance_push() on remote runqueues</title>
<updated>2021-09-09T09:27:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-28T13:55:52+00:00</published>
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sched_setscheduler() and rt_mutex_setprio() invoke the run-queue balance
callback after changing priorities or the scheduling class of a task. The
run-queue for which the callback is invoked can be local or remote.

That's not a problem for the regular rq::push_work which is serialized with
a busy flag in the run-queue struct, but for the balance_push() work which
is only valid to be invoked on the outgoing CPU that's wrong. It not only
triggers the debug warning, but also leaves the per CPU variable push_work
unprotected, which can result in double enqueues on the stop machine list.

Remove the warning and validate that the function is invoked on the
outgoing CPU.

Fixes: ae7927023243 ("sched: Optimize finish_lock_switch()")
Reported-by: Sebastian Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87zgt1hdw7.ffs@tglx
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sched_setscheduler() and rt_mutex_setprio() invoke the run-queue balance
callback after changing priorities or the scheduling class of a task. The
run-queue for which the callback is invoked can be local or remote.

That's not a problem for the regular rq::push_work which is serialized with
a busy flag in the run-queue struct, but for the balance_push() work which
is only valid to be invoked on the outgoing CPU that's wrong. It not only
triggers the debug warning, but also leaves the per CPU variable push_work
unprotected, which can result in double enqueues on the stop machine list.

Remove the warning and validate that the function is invoked on the
outgoing CPU.

Fixes: ae7927023243 ("sched: Optimize finish_lock_switch()")
Reported-by: Sebastian Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87zgt1hdw7.ffs@tglx
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'locking-core-2021-08-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-08-30T21:26:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-30T21:26:36+00:00</published>
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Pull locking and atomics updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The regular pile:

   - A few improvements to the mutex code

   - Documentation updates for atomics to clarify the difference between
     cmpxchg() and try_cmpxchg() and to explain the forward progress
     expectations.

   - Simplification of the atomics fallback generator

   - The addition of arch_atomic_long*() variants and generic arch_*()
     bitops based on them.

   - Add the missing might_sleep() invocations to the down*() operations
     of semaphores.

  The PREEMPT_RT locking core:

   - Scheduler updates to support the state preserving mechanism for
     'sleeping' spin- and rwlocks on RT.

     This mechanism is carefully preserving the state of the task when
     blocking on a 'sleeping' spin- or rwlock and takes regular wake-ups
     targeted at the same task into account. The preserved or updated
     (via a regular wakeup) state is restored when the lock has been
     acquired.

   - Restructuring of the rtmutex code so it can be utilized and
     extended for the RT specific lock variants.

   - Restructuring of the ww_mutex code to allow sharing of the ww_mutex
     specific functionality for rtmutex based ww_mutexes.

   - Header file disentangling to allow substitution of the regular lock
     implementations with the PREEMPT_RT variants without creating an
     unmaintainable #ifdef mess.

   - Shared base code for the PREEMPT_RT specific rw_semaphore and
     rwlock implementations.

     Contrary to the regular rw_semaphores and rwlocks the PREEMPT_RT
     implementation is writer unfair because it is infeasible to do
     priority inheritance on multiple readers. Experience over the years
     has shown that real-time workloads are not the typical workloads
     which are sensitive to writer starvation.

     The alternative solution would be to allow only a single reader
     which has been tried and discarded as it is a major bottleneck
     especially for mmap_sem. Aside of that many of the writer
     starvation critical usage sites have been converted to a writer
     side mutex/spinlock and RCU read side protections in the past
     decade so that the issue is less prominent than it used to be.

   - The actual rtmutex based lock substitutions for PREEMPT_RT enabled
     kernels which affect mutex, ww_mutex, rw_semaphore, spinlock_t and
     rwlock_t. The spin/rw_lock*() functions disable migration across
     the critical section to preserve the existing semantics vs per-CPU
     variables.

   - Rework of the futex REQUEUE_PI mechanism to handle the case of
     early wake-ups which interleave with a re-queue operation to
     prevent the situation that a task would be blocked on both the
     rtmutex associated to the outer futex and the rtmutex based hash
     bucket spinlock.

     While this situation cannot happen on !RT enabled kernels the
     changes make the underlying concurrency problems easier to
     understand in general. As a result the difference between !RT and
     RT kernels is reduced to the handling of waiting for the critical
     section. !RT kernels simply spin-wait as before and RT kernels
     utilize rcu_wait().

   - The substitution of local_lock for PREEMPT_RT with a spinlock which
     protects the critical section while staying preemptible. The CPU
     locality is established by disabling migration.

  The underlying concepts of this code have been in use in PREEMPT_RT for
  way more than a decade. The code has been refactored several times over
  the years and this final incarnation has been optimized once again to be
  as non-intrusive as possible, i.e. the RT specific parts are mostly
  isolated.

  It has been extensively tested in the 5.14-rt patch series and it has
  been verified that !RT kernels are not affected by these changes"

* tag 'locking-core-2021-08-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (92 commits)
  locking/rtmutex: Return success on deadlock for ww_mutex waiters
  locking/rtmutex: Prevent spurious EDEADLK return caused by ww_mutexes
  locking/rtmutex: Dequeue waiter on ww_mutex deadlock
  locking/rtmutex: Dont dereference waiter lockless
  locking/semaphore: Add might_sleep() to down_*() family
  locking/ww_mutex: Initialize waiter.ww_ctx properly
  static_call: Update API documentation
  locking/local_lock: Add PREEMPT_RT support
  locking/spinlock/rt: Prepare for RT local_lock
  locking/rtmutex: Add adaptive spinwait mechanism
  locking/rtmutex: Implement equal priority lock stealing
  preempt: Adjust PREEMPT_LOCK_OFFSET for RT
  locking/rtmutex: Prevent lockdep false positive with PI futexes
  futex: Prevent requeue_pi() lock nesting issue on RT
  futex: Simplify handle_early_requeue_pi_wakeup()
  futex: Reorder sanity checks in futex_requeue()
  futex: Clarify comment in futex_requeue()
  futex: Restructure futex_requeue()
  futex: Correct the number of requeued waiters for PI
  futex: Remove bogus condition for requeue PI
  ...
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Pull locking and atomics updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The regular pile:

   - A few improvements to the mutex code

   - Documentation updates for atomics to clarify the difference between
     cmpxchg() and try_cmpxchg() and to explain the forward progress
     expectations.

   - Simplification of the atomics fallback generator

   - The addition of arch_atomic_long*() variants and generic arch_*()
     bitops based on them.

   - Add the missing might_sleep() invocations to the down*() operations
     of semaphores.

  The PREEMPT_RT locking core:

   - Scheduler updates to support the state preserving mechanism for
     'sleeping' spin- and rwlocks on RT.

     This mechanism is carefully preserving the state of the task when
     blocking on a 'sleeping' spin- or rwlock and takes regular wake-ups
     targeted at the same task into account. The preserved or updated
     (via a regular wakeup) state is restored when the lock has been
     acquired.

   - Restructuring of the rtmutex code so it can be utilized and
     extended for the RT specific lock variants.

   - Restructuring of the ww_mutex code to allow sharing of the ww_mutex
     specific functionality for rtmutex based ww_mutexes.

   - Header file disentangling to allow substitution of the regular lock
     implementations with the PREEMPT_RT variants without creating an
     unmaintainable #ifdef mess.

   - Shared base code for the PREEMPT_RT specific rw_semaphore and
     rwlock implementations.

     Contrary to the regular rw_semaphores and rwlocks the PREEMPT_RT
     implementation is writer unfair because it is infeasible to do
     priority inheritance on multiple readers. Experience over the years
     has shown that real-time workloads are not the typical workloads
     which are sensitive to writer starvation.

     The alternative solution would be to allow only a single reader
     which has been tried and discarded as it is a major bottleneck
     especially for mmap_sem. Aside of that many of the writer
     starvation critical usage sites have been converted to a writer
     side mutex/spinlock and RCU read side protections in the past
     decade so that the issue is less prominent than it used to be.

   - The actual rtmutex based lock substitutions for PREEMPT_RT enabled
     kernels which affect mutex, ww_mutex, rw_semaphore, spinlock_t and
     rwlock_t. The spin/rw_lock*() functions disable migration across
     the critical section to preserve the existing semantics vs per-CPU
     variables.

   - Rework of the futex REQUEUE_PI mechanism to handle the case of
     early wake-ups which interleave with a re-queue operation to
     prevent the situation that a task would be blocked on both the
     rtmutex associated to the outer futex and the rtmutex based hash
     bucket spinlock.

     While this situation cannot happen on !RT enabled kernels the
     changes make the underlying concurrency problems easier to
     understand in general. As a result the difference between !RT and
     RT kernels is reduced to the handling of waiting for the critical
     section. !RT kernels simply spin-wait as before and RT kernels
     utilize rcu_wait().

   - The substitution of local_lock for PREEMPT_RT with a spinlock which
     protects the critical section while staying preemptible. The CPU
     locality is established by disabling migration.

  The underlying concepts of this code have been in use in PREEMPT_RT for
  way more than a decade. The code has been refactored several times over
  the years and this final incarnation has been optimized once again to be
  as non-intrusive as possible, i.e. the RT specific parts are mostly
  isolated.

  It has been extensively tested in the 5.14-rt patch series and it has
  been verified that !RT kernels are not affected by these changes"

* tag 'locking-core-2021-08-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (92 commits)
  locking/rtmutex: Return success on deadlock for ww_mutex waiters
  locking/rtmutex: Prevent spurious EDEADLK return caused by ww_mutexes
  locking/rtmutex: Dequeue waiter on ww_mutex deadlock
  locking/rtmutex: Dont dereference waiter lockless
  locking/semaphore: Add might_sleep() to down_*() family
  locking/ww_mutex: Initialize waiter.ww_ctx properly
  static_call: Update API documentation
  locking/local_lock: Add PREEMPT_RT support
  locking/spinlock/rt: Prepare for RT local_lock
  locking/rtmutex: Add adaptive spinwait mechanism
  locking/rtmutex: Implement equal priority lock stealing
  preempt: Adjust PREEMPT_LOCK_OFFSET for RT
  locking/rtmutex: Prevent lockdep false positive with PI futexes
  futex: Prevent requeue_pi() lock nesting issue on RT
  futex: Simplify handle_early_requeue_pi_wakeup()
  futex: Reorder sanity checks in futex_requeue()
  futex: Clarify comment in futex_requeue()
  futex: Restructure futex_requeue()
  futex: Correct the number of requeued waiters for PI
  futex: Remove bogus condition for requeue PI
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'sched-core-2021-08-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2021-08-30T20:42:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-30T20:42:10+00:00</published>
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - The biggest change in this cycle is scheduler support for asymmetric
   scheduling affinity, to support the execution of legacy 32-bit tasks
   on AArch32 systems that also have 64-bit-only CPUs.

   Architectures can fill in this functionality by defining their own
   task_cpu_possible_mask(p). When this is done, the scheduler will make
   sure the task will only be scheduled on CPUs that support it.

   (The actual arm64 specific changes are not part of this tree.)

   For other architectures there will be no change in functionality.

 - Add cgroup SCHED_IDLE support

 - Increase node-distance flexibility &amp; delay determining it until a CPU
   is brought online. (This enables platforms where node distance isn't
   final until the CPU is only.)

 - Deadline scheduler enhancements &amp; fixes

 - Misc fixes &amp; cleanups.

* tag 'sched-core-2021-08-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
  eventfd: Make signal recursion protection a task bit
  sched/fair: Mark tg_is_idle() an inline in the !CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED case
  sched: Introduce dl_task_check_affinity() to check proposed affinity
  sched: Allow task CPU affinity to be restricted on asymmetric systems
  sched: Split the guts of sched_setaffinity() into a helper function
  sched: Introduce task_struct::user_cpus_ptr to track requested affinity
  sched: Reject CPU affinity changes based on task_cpu_possible_mask()
  cpuset: Cleanup cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback() use in select_fallback_rq()
  cpuset: Honour task_cpu_possible_mask() in guarantee_online_cpus()
  cpuset: Don't use the cpu_possible_mask as a last resort for cgroup v1
  sched: Introduce task_cpu_possible_mask() to limit fallback rq selection
  sched: Cgroup SCHED_IDLE support
  sched/topology: Skip updating masks for non-online nodes
  sched: Replace deprecated CPU-hotplug functions.
  sched: Skip priority checks with SCHED_FLAG_KEEP_PARAMS
  sched: Fix UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE setting
  sched/deadline: Fix missing clock update in migrate_task_rq_dl()
  sched/fair: Avoid a second scan of target in select_idle_cpu
  sched/fair: Use prev instead of new target as recent_used_cpu
  sched: Don't report SCHED_FLAG_SUGOV in sched_getattr()
  ...
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Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - The biggest change in this cycle is scheduler support for asymmetric
   scheduling affinity, to support the execution of legacy 32-bit tasks
   on AArch32 systems that also have 64-bit-only CPUs.

   Architectures can fill in this functionality by defining their own
   task_cpu_possible_mask(p). When this is done, the scheduler will make
   sure the task will only be scheduled on CPUs that support it.

   (The actual arm64 specific changes are not part of this tree.)

   For other architectures there will be no change in functionality.

 - Add cgroup SCHED_IDLE support

 - Increase node-distance flexibility &amp; delay determining it until a CPU
   is brought online. (This enables platforms where node distance isn't
   final until the CPU is only.)

 - Deadline scheduler enhancements &amp; fixes

 - Misc fixes &amp; cleanups.

* tag 'sched-core-2021-08-30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
  eventfd: Make signal recursion protection a task bit
  sched/fair: Mark tg_is_idle() an inline in the !CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED case
  sched: Introduce dl_task_check_affinity() to check proposed affinity
  sched: Allow task CPU affinity to be restricted on asymmetric systems
  sched: Split the guts of sched_setaffinity() into a helper function
  sched: Introduce task_struct::user_cpus_ptr to track requested affinity
  sched: Reject CPU affinity changes based on task_cpu_possible_mask()
  cpuset: Cleanup cpuset_cpus_allowed_fallback() use in select_fallback_rq()
  cpuset: Honour task_cpu_possible_mask() in guarantee_online_cpus()
  cpuset: Don't use the cpu_possible_mask as a last resort for cgroup v1
  sched: Introduce task_cpu_possible_mask() to limit fallback rq selection
  sched: Cgroup SCHED_IDLE support
  sched/topology: Skip updating masks for non-online nodes
  sched: Replace deprecated CPU-hotplug functions.
  sched: Skip priority checks with SCHED_FLAG_KEEP_PARAMS
  sched: Fix UCLAMP_FLAG_IDLE setting
  sched/deadline: Fix missing clock update in migrate_task_rq_dl()
  sched/fair: Avoid a second scan of target in select_idle_cpu
  sched/fair: Use prev instead of new target as recent_used_cpu
  sched: Don't report SCHED_FLAG_SUGOV in sched_getattr()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'core-rcu.2021.08.28a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu</title>
<updated>2021-08-30T19:48:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-08-30T19:48:01+00:00</published>
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Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney:
 "RCU changes for this cycle were:

   - Documentation updates

   - Miscellaneous fixes

   - Offloaded-callbacks updates

   - Updates to the nolibc library

   - Tasks-RCU updates

   - In-kernel torture-test updates

   - Torture-test scripting, perhaps most notably the pinning of
     torture-test guest OSes so as to force differences in memory
     latency. For example, in a two-socket system, a four-CPU guest OS
     will have one pair of its CPUs pinned to threads in a single core
     on one socket and the other pair pinned to threads in a single core
     on the other socket. This approach proved able to force race
     conditions that earlier testing missed. Some of these race
     conditions are still being tracked down"

* 'core-rcu.2021.08.28a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (61 commits)
  torture: Replace deprecated CPU-hotplug functions.
  rcu: Replace deprecated CPU-hotplug functions
  rcu: Print human-readable message for schedule() in RCU reader
  rcu: Explain why rcu_all_qs() is a stub in preemptible TREE RCU
  rcu: Use per_cpu_ptr to get the pointer of per_cpu variable
  rcu: Remove useless "ret" update in rcu_gp_fqs_loop()
  rcu: Mark accesses in tree_stall.h
  rcu: Make rcu_gp_init() and rcu_gp_fqs_loop noinline to conserve stack
  rcu: Mark lockless -&gt;qsmask read in rcu_check_boost_fail()
  srcutiny: Mark read-side data races
  rcu: Start timing stall repetitions after warning complete
  rcu: Do not disable GP stall detection in rcu_cpu_stall_reset()
  rcu/tree: Handle VM stoppage in stall detection
  rculist: Unify documentation about missing list_empty_rcu()
  rcu: Mark accesses to -&gt;rcu_read_lock_nesting
  rcu: Weaken -&gt;dynticks accesses and updates
  rcu: Remove special bit at the bottom of the -&gt;dynticks counter
  rcu: Fix stall-warning deadlock due to non-release of rcu_node -&gt;lock
  rcu: Fix to include first blocked task in stall warning
  torture: Make kvm-test-1-run-qemu.sh check for reboot loops
  ...
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Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney:
 "RCU changes for this cycle were:

   - Documentation updates

   - Miscellaneous fixes

   - Offloaded-callbacks updates

   - Updates to the nolibc library

   - Tasks-RCU updates

   - In-kernel torture-test updates

   - Torture-test scripting, perhaps most notably the pinning of
     torture-test guest OSes so as to force differences in memory
     latency. For example, in a two-socket system, a four-CPU guest OS
     will have one pair of its CPUs pinned to threads in a single core
     on one socket and the other pair pinned to threads in a single core
     on the other socket. This approach proved able to force race
     conditions that earlier testing missed. Some of these race
     conditions are still being tracked down"

* 'core-rcu.2021.08.28a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (61 commits)
  torture: Replace deprecated CPU-hotplug functions.
  rcu: Replace deprecated CPU-hotplug functions
  rcu: Print human-readable message for schedule() in RCU reader
  rcu: Explain why rcu_all_qs() is a stub in preemptible TREE RCU
  rcu: Use per_cpu_ptr to get the pointer of per_cpu variable
  rcu: Remove useless "ret" update in rcu_gp_fqs_loop()
  rcu: Mark accesses in tree_stall.h
  rcu: Make rcu_gp_init() and rcu_gp_fqs_loop noinline to conserve stack
  rcu: Mark lockless -&gt;qsmask read in rcu_check_boost_fail()
  srcutiny: Mark read-side data races
  rcu: Start timing stall repetitions after warning complete
  rcu: Do not disable GP stall detection in rcu_cpu_stall_reset()
  rcu/tree: Handle VM stoppage in stall detection
  rculist: Unify documentation about missing list_empty_rcu()
  rcu: Mark accesses to -&gt;rcu_read_lock_nesting
  rcu: Weaken -&gt;dynticks accesses and updates
  rcu: Remove special bit at the bottom of the -&gt;dynticks counter
  rcu: Fix stall-warning deadlock due to non-release of rcu_node -&gt;lock
  rcu: Fix to include first blocked task in stall warning
  torture: Make kvm-test-1-run-qemu.sh check for reboot loops
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: Introduce dl_task_check_affinity() to check proposed affinity</title>
<updated>2021-08-20T10:33:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-30T11:24:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=234b8ab6476c5edd5262e2ff563de9498d60044a'/>
<id>234b8ab6476c5edd5262e2ff563de9498d60044a</id>
<content type='text'>
In preparation for restricting the affinity of a task during execve()
on arm64, introduce a new dl_task_check_affinity() helper function to
give an indication as to whether the restricted mask is admissible for
a deadline task.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730112443.23245-10-will@kernel.org
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In preparation for restricting the affinity of a task during execve()
on arm64, introduce a new dl_task_check_affinity() helper function to
give an indication as to whether the restricted mask is admissible for
a deadline task.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira &lt;bristot@redhat.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730112443.23245-10-will@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>sched: Allow task CPU affinity to be restricted on asymmetric systems</title>
<updated>2021-08-20T10:33:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-30T11:24:35+00:00</published>
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Asymmetric systems may not offer the same level of userspace ISA support
across all CPUs, meaning that some applications cannot be executed by
some CPUs. As a concrete example, upcoming arm64 big.LITTLE designs do
not feature support for 32-bit applications on both clusters.

Although userspace can carefully manage the affinity masks for such
tasks, one place where it is particularly problematic is execve()
because the CPU on which the execve() is occurring may be incompatible
with the new application image. In such a situation, it is desirable to
restrict the affinity mask of the task and ensure that the new image is
entered on a compatible CPU. From userspace's point of view, this looks
the same as if the incompatible CPUs have been hotplugged off in the
task's affinity mask. Similarly, if a subsequent execve() reverts to
a compatible image, then the old affinity is restored if it is still
valid.

In preparation for restricting the affinity mask for compat tasks on
arm64 systems without uniform support for 32-bit applications, introduce
{force,relax}_compatible_cpus_allowed_ptr(), which respectively restrict
and restore the affinity mask for a task based on the compatible CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Quentin Perret &lt;qperret@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730112443.23245-9-will@kernel.org
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Asymmetric systems may not offer the same level of userspace ISA support
across all CPUs, meaning that some applications cannot be executed by
some CPUs. As a concrete example, upcoming arm64 big.LITTLE designs do
not feature support for 32-bit applications on both clusters.

Although userspace can carefully manage the affinity masks for such
tasks, one place where it is particularly problematic is execve()
because the CPU on which the execve() is occurring may be incompatible
with the new application image. In such a situation, it is desirable to
restrict the affinity mask of the task and ensure that the new image is
entered on a compatible CPU. From userspace's point of view, this looks
the same as if the incompatible CPUs have been hotplugged off in the
task's affinity mask. Similarly, if a subsequent execve() reverts to
a compatible image, then the old affinity is restored if it is still
valid.

In preparation for restricting the affinity mask for compat tasks on
arm64 systems without uniform support for 32-bit applications, introduce
{force,relax}_compatible_cpus_allowed_ptr(), which respectively restrict
and restore the affinity mask for a task based on the compatible CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;valentin.schneider@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Quentin Perret &lt;qperret@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730112443.23245-9-will@kernel.org
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: Split the guts of sched_setaffinity() into a helper function</title>
<updated>2021-08-20T10:33:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-30T11:24:34+00:00</published>
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In preparation for replaying user affinity requests using a saved mask,
split sched_setaffinity() up so that the initial task lookup and
security checks are only performed when the request is coming directly
from userspace.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;Valentin.Schneider@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730112443.23245-8-will@kernel.org
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In preparation for replaying user affinity requests using a saved mask,
split sched_setaffinity() up so that the initial task lookup and
security checks are only performed when the request is coming directly
from userspace.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;Valentin.Schneider@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730112443.23245-8-will@kernel.org
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: Introduce task_struct::user_cpus_ptr to track requested affinity</title>
<updated>2021-08-20T10:33:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-30T11:24:33+00:00</published>
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In preparation for saving and restoring the user-requested CPU affinity
mask of a task, add a new cpumask_t pointer to 'struct task_struct'.

If the pointer is non-NULL, then the mask is copied across fork() and
freed on task exit.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;Valentin.Schneider@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730112443.23245-7-will@kernel.org
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In preparation for saving and restoring the user-requested CPU affinity
mask of a task, add a new cpumask_t pointer to 'struct task_struct'.

If the pointer is non-NULL, then the mask is copied across fork() and
freed on task exit.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;Valentin.Schneider@arm.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730112443.23245-7-will@kernel.org
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sched: Reject CPU affinity changes based on task_cpu_possible_mask()</title>
<updated>2021-08-20T10:32:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-30T11:24:32+00:00</published>
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Reject explicit requests to change the affinity mask of a task via
set_cpus_allowed_ptr() if the requested mask is not a subset of the
mask returned by task_cpu_possible_mask(). This ensures that the
'cpus_mask' for a given task cannot contain CPUs which are incapable of
executing it, except in cases where the affinity is forced.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;Valentin.Schneider@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Quentin Perret &lt;qperret@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730112443.23245-6-will@kernel.org
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Reject explicit requests to change the affinity mask of a task via
set_cpus_allowed_ptr() if the requested mask is not a subset of the
mask returned by task_cpu_possible_mask(). This ensures that the
'cpus_mask' for a given task cannot contain CPUs which are incapable of
executing it, except in cases where the affinity is forced.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;Valentin.Schneider@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Quentin Perret &lt;qperret@google.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210730112443.23245-6-will@kernel.org
</pre>
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