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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 <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200302224501.GA14175@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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 <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200213152241.GA877@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There is a typo in comment. Fix it. s/assuems/assumes/
Signed-off-by: Qiujun Huang <hqjagain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1585891029-6450-1-git-send-email-hqjagain@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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kallsyms_lookup_name() and kallsyms_on_each_symbol() are exported to
modules despite having no in-tree users and being wide open to abuse by
out-of-tree modules that can use them as a method to invoke arbitrary
non-exported kernel functions.
Unexport kallsyms_lookup_name() and kallsyms_on_each_symbol().
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@redhat.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200221114404.14641-4-will@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Commit ac7c3e4ff401 ("compiler: enable CONFIG_OPTIMIZE_INLINING
forcibly") made this always-on option. We released v5.4 and v5.5
including that commit.
Remove the CONFIG option and clean up the code now.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220110807.32534-2-masahiroy@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Clang warns:
../kernel/extable.c:37:52: warning: array comparison always evaluates to
a constant [-Wtautological-compare]
if (main_extable_sort_needed && __stop___ex_table > __start___ex_table) {
^
1 warning generated.
These are not true arrays, they are linker defined symbols, which are just
addresses. Using the address of operator silences the warning and does
not change the resulting assembly with either clang/ld.lld or gcc/ld
(tested with diff + objdump -Dr).
Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/892
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200219202036.45702-1-natechancellor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Now that "struct proc_ops" exist we can start putting there stuff which
could not fly with VFS "struct file_operations"...
Most of fs/proc/inode.c file is dedicated to make open/read/.../close
reliable in the event of disappearing /proc entries which usually happens
if module is getting removed. Files like /proc/cpuinfo which never
disappear simply do not need such protection.
Save 2 atomic ops, 1 allocation, 1 free per open/read/close sequence for such
"permanent" files.
Enable "permanent" flag for
/proc/cpuinfo
/proc/kmsg
/proc/modules
/proc/slabinfo
/proc/stat
/proc/sysvipc/*
/proc/swaps
More will come once I figure out foolproof way to prevent out module
authors from marking their stuff "permanent" for performance reasons
when it is not.
This should help with scalability: benchmark is "read /proc/cpuinfo R times
by N threads scattered over the system".
N R t, s (before) t, s (after)
-----------------------------------------------------
64 4096 1.582458 1.530502 -3.2%
256 4096 6.371926 6.125168 -3.9%
1024 4096 25.64888 24.47528 -4.6%
Benchmark source:
#include <chrono>
#include <iostream>
#include <thread>
#include <vector>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
const int NR_CPUS = sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN);
int N;
const char *filename;
int R;
int xxx = 0;
int glue(int n)
{
cpu_set_t m;
CPU_ZERO(&m);
CPU_SET(n, &m);
return sched_setaffinity(0, sizeof(cpu_set_t), &m);
}
void f(int n)
{
glue(n % NR_CPUS);
while (*(volatile int *)&xxx == 0) {
}
for (int i = 0; i < R; i++) {
int fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY);
char buf[4096];
ssize_t rv = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
asm volatile ("" :: "g" (rv));
close(fd);
}
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
if (argc < 4) {
std::cerr << "usage: " << argv[0] << ' ' << "N /proc/filename R
";
return 1;
}
N = atoi(argv[1]);
filename = argv[2];
R = atoi(argv[3]);
for (int i = 0; i < NR_CPUS; i++) {
if (glue(i) == 0)
break;
}
std::vector<std::thread> T;
T.reserve(N);
for (int i = 0; i < N; i++) {
T.emplace_back(f, i);
}
auto t0 = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
{
*(volatile int *)&xxx = 1;
for (auto& t: T) {
t.join();
}
}
auto t1 = std::chrono::system_clock::now();
std::chrono::duration<double> dt = t1 - t0;
std::cout << dt.count() << '
';
return 0;
}
P.S.:
Explicit randomization marker is added because adding non-function pointer
will silently disable structure layout randomization.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding style fixes]
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200222201539.GA22576@avx2
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This replaces all remaining open encodings with is_vm_hugetlb_page().
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1582520593-30704-4-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Lets move vma_is_accessible() helper to include/linux/mm.h which makes it
available for general use. While here, this replaces all remaining open
encodings for VMA access check with vma_is_accessible().
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Burton <paulburton@kernel.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1582520593-30704-3-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Set ->vm_next and ->vm_prev to NULL to prevent potential misuse from the
new duplicated vma.
Currently, only in fork path there are misuse for handling anon_vma. No
other bugs been revealed with this patch applied.
Signed-off-by: Li Xinhai <lixinhai.lxh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1581150928-3214-4-git-send-email-lixinhai.lxh@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "mm: Fix misuse of parent anon_vma in dup_mmap path".
This patchset fixes the misuse of parenet anon_vma, which mainly caused by
child vma's vm_next and vm_prev are left same as its parent after
duplicate vma. Finally, code reached parent vma's neighbor by referring
pointer of child vma and executed wrong logic.
The first two patches fix relevant issues, and the third patch sets
vm_next and vm_prev to NULL when duplicate vma to prevent potential misuse
in future.
Effects of the first bug is that causes rmap code to check both parent and
child's page table, although a page couldn't be mapped by both parent and
child, because child vma has WIPEONFORK so all pages mapped by child are
'new' and not relevant to parent.
Effects of the second bug is that the relationship of anon_vma of parent
and child are totallyconvoluted. It would cause 'son', 'grandson', ...,
etc, to share 'parent' anon_vma, which disobey the design rule of reusing
anon_vma (the rule to be followed is that reusing should among vma of same
process, and vma should not gone through fork).
So, both issues should cause unnecessary rmap walking and have unexpected
complexity.
These two issues would not be directly visible, I used debugging code to
check the anon_vma pointers of parent and child when inspecting the
suspicious implementation of issue #2, then find the problem.
This patch (of 3):
In dup_mmap(), anon_vma_prepare() is called for vma has VM_WIPEONFORK, and
parameter 'tmp' (i.e., the new vma of child) has same ->vm_next and
->vm_prev as its parent vma. That allows anon_vma used by parent been
mistakenly shared by child (find_mergeable_anon_vma() will do this reuse
work).
Besides this issue, call anon_vma_prepare() should be avoided because we
don't copy page for this vma. Preparing anon_vma will be handled during
fault.
Fixes: d2cd9ede6e19 ("mm,fork: introduce MADV_WIPEONFORK")
Signed-off-by: Li Xinhai <lixinhai.lxh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1581150928-3214-2-git-send-email-lixinhai.lxh@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michael noticed that userns limit for number of time namespaces is missing.
Furthermore, time namespace introduced UCOUNT_TIME_NAMESPACES, but didn't
introduce an array member in user_table[]. It would make array's
initialisation OOB write, but by luck the user_table array has an excessive
empty member (all accesses to the array are limited with UCOUNT_COUNTS - so
it silently reuses the last free member.
Fixes user-visible regression: max_inotify_instances by reason of the
missing UCOUNT_ENTRY() has limited max number of namespaces instead of the
number of inotify instances.
Fixes: 769071ac9f20 ("ns: Introduce Time Namespace")
Reported-by: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200406171342.128733-1-dima@arista.com
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Looking at the contents of the /proc/PID/ns/time_for_children symlink shows
an anomaly:
$ ls -l /proc/self/ns/* |awk '{print $9, $10, $11}'
...
/proc/self/ns/pid -> pid:[4026531836]
/proc/self/ns/pid_for_children -> pid:[4026531836]
/proc/self/ns/time -> time:[4026531834]
/proc/self/ns/time_for_children -> time_for_children:[4026531834]
/proc/self/ns/user -> user:[4026531837]
...
The reference for 'time_for_children' should be a 'time' namespace, just as
the reference for 'pid_for_children' is a 'pid' namespace. In other words,
the above time_for_children link should read:
/proc/self/ns/time_for_children -> time:[4026531834]
Fixes: 769071ac9f20 ("ns: Introduce Time Namespace")
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Acked-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/a2418c48-ed80-3afe-116e-6611cb799557@gmail.com
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There is a typo in struct bpf_lru_list's next_inactive_rotation
description, thus fix s/inacitve/inactive/.
Signed-off-by: Qiujun Huang <hqjagain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1585901254-30377-1-git-send-email-hqjagain@gmail.com
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Use in_compat_syscall to copy directly from the 32-bit ABI structure.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Move the handling of the SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA ioctl from the main
ioctl helper into a helper function.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull more power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"Additional power management updates.
These fix a corner-case suspend-to-idle wakeup issue on systems where
the ACPI SCI is shared with another wakeup source, add a kernel
command line option to set pm_debug_messages via the kernel command
line, add a document desctibing system-wide suspend and resume code
flows, modify cpufreq Kconfig to choose schedutil as the preferred
governor by default in a couple of cases and do some assorted
cleanups.
Specifics:
- Fix corner-case suspend-to-idle wakeup issue on systems where the
ACPI SCI is shared with another wakeup source (Hans de Goede).
- Add document describing system-wide suspend and resume code flows
to the admin guide (Rafael Wysocki).
- Add kernel command line option to set pm_debug_messages (Chen Yu).
- Choose schedutil as the preferred scaling governor by default on
ARM big.LITTLE systems and on x86 systems using the intel_pstate
driver in the passive mode (Linus Walleij, Rafael Wysocki).
- Drop racy and redundant checks from the PM core's device_prepare()
routine (Rafael Wysocki).
- Make resume from hibernation take the hibernation_restore() return
value into account (Dexuan Cui)"
* tag 'pm-5.7-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
platform/x86: intel_int0002_vgpio: Use acpi_register_wakeup_handler()
ACPI: PM: Add acpi_[un]register_wakeup_handler()
Documentation: PM: sleep: Document system-wide suspend code flows
cpufreq: Select schedutil when using big.LITTLE
PM: sleep: Add pm_debug_messages kernel command line option
PM: sleep: core: Drop racy and redundant checks from device_prepare()
PM: hibernate: Propagate the return value of hibernation_restore()
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Select schedutil as the default governor
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs
Pull fsnotify updates from Jan Kara:
"This implements the fanotify FAN_DIR_MODIFY event.
This event reports the name in a directory under which a change
happened and together with the directory filehandle and fstatat()
allows reliable and efficient implementation of directory
synchronization"
* tag 'fsnotify_for_v5.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
fanotify: Fix the checks in fanotify_fsid_equal
fanotify: report name info for FAN_DIR_MODIFY event
fanotify: record name info for FAN_DIR_MODIFY event
fanotify: Drop fanotify_event_has_fid()
fanotify: prepare to report both parent and child fid's
fanotify: send FAN_DIR_MODIFY event flavor with dir inode and name
fanotify: divorce fanotify_path_event and fanotify_fid_event
fanotify: Store fanotify handles differently
fanotify: Simplify create_fd()
fanotify: fix merging marks masks with FAN_ONDIR
fanotify: merge duplicate events on parent and child
fsnotify: replace inode pointer with an object id
fsnotify: simplify arguments passing to fsnotify_parent()
fsnotify: use helpers to access data by data_type
fsnotify: funnel all dirent events through fsnotify_name()
fsnotify: factor helpers fsnotify_dentry() and fsnotify_file()
fsnotify: tidy up FS_ and FAN_ constants
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The rcu_nmi_enter_common() function can be invoked both in interrupt
and NMI handlers. If it is invoked from process context (as opposed
to userspace or idle context) on a nohz_full CPU, it might acquire the
CPU's leaf rcu_node structure's ->lock. Because this lock is held only
with interrupts disabled, this is safe from an interrupt handler, but
doing so from an NMI handler can result in self-deadlock.
This commit therefore adds "irq" to the "if" condition so as to only
acquire the ->lock from irq handlers or process context, never from
an NMI handler.
Fixes: 5b14557b073c ("rcu: Avoid tick_dep_set_cpu() misordering")
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.5.x
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull more perf updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Perf updates all over the place:
core:
- Support for cgroup tracking in samples to allow cgroup based
analysis
tools:
- Support for cgroup analysis
- Commandline option and hotkey for perf top to change the sort order
- A set of fixes all over the place
- Various build system related improvements
- Updates of the X86 pmu event JSON data
- Documentation updates"
* tag 'perf-urgent-2020-04-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (55 commits)
perf python: Fix clang detection to strip out options passed in $CC
perf tools: Support Python 3.8+ in Makefile
perf script: Fix invalid read of directory entry after closedir()
perf script report: Fix SEGFAULT when using DWARF mode
perf script: add -S/--symbols documentation
perf pmu-events x86: Use CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD in Kernel_Utilization metric
perf events parser: Add missing Intel CPU events to parser
perf script: Allow --symbol to accept hexadecimal addresses
perf report/top TUI: Fix title line formatting
perf top: Support hotkey to change sort order
perf top: Support --group-sort-idx to change the sort order
perf symbols: Fix arm64 gap between kernel start and module end
perf build-test: Honour JOBS to override detection of number of cores
perf script: Add --show-cgroup-events option
perf top: Add --all-cgroups option
perf record: Add --all-cgroups option
perf record: Support synthesizing cgroup events
perf report: Add 'cgroup' sort key
perf cgroup: Maintain cgroup hierarchy
perf tools: Basic support for CGROUP event
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two timer subsystem fixes:
- Prevent a use after free in the new lockdep state tracking for
hrtimers
- Add missing parenthesis in the VF pit timer driver"
* tag 'timers-urgent-2020-04-05' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
clocksource/drivers/timer-vf-pit: Add missing parenthesis
hrtimer: Don't dereference the hrtimer pointer after the callback
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"New tracing features:
- The ring buffer is no longer disabled when reading the trace file.
The trace_pipe file was made to be used for live tracing and
reading as it acted like the normal producer/consumer. As the trace
file would not consume the data, the easy way of handling it was to
just disable writes to the ring buffer.
This came to a surprise to the BPF folks who complained about lost
events due to reading. This is no longer an issue. If someone wants
to keep the old disabling there's a new option "pause-on-trace"
that can be set.
- New set_ftrace_notrace_pid file. PIDs in this file will not be
traced by the function tracer.
Similar to set_ftrace_pid, which makes the function tracer only
trace those tasks with PIDs in the file, the set_ftrace_notrace_pid
does the reverse.
- New set_event_notrace_pid file. PIDs in this file will cause events
not to be traced if triggered by a task with a matching PID.
Similar to the set_event_pid file but will not be traced. Note,
sched_waking and sched_switch events may still be traced if one of
the tasks referenced by those events contains a PID that is allowed
to be traced.
Tracing related features:
- New bootconfig option, that is attached to the initrd file.
If bootconfig is on the command line, then the initrd file is
searched looking for a bootconfig appended at the end.
- New GPU tracepoint infrastructure to help the gfx drivers to get
off debugfs (acked by Greg Kroah-Hartman)
And other minor updates and fixes"
* tag 'trace-v5.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (27 commits)
tracing: Do not allocate buffer in trace_find_next_entry() in atomic
tracing: Add documentation on set_ftrace_notrace_pid and set_event_notrace_pid
selftests/ftrace: Add test to test new set_event_notrace_pid file
selftests/ftrace: Add test to test new set_ftrace_notrace_pid file
tracing: Create set_event_notrace_pid to not trace tasks
ftrace: Create set_ftrace_notrace_pid to not trace tasks
ftrace: Make function trace pid filtering a bit more exact
ftrace/kprobe: Show the maxactive number on kprobe_events
tracing: Have the document reflect that the trace file keeps tracing enabled
ring-buffer/tracing: Have iterator acknowledge dropped events
tracing: Do not disable tracing when reading the trace file
ring-buffer: Do not disable recording when there is an iterator
ring-buffer: Make resize disable per cpu buffer instead of total buffer
ring-buffer: Optimize rb_iter_head_event()
ring-buffer: Do not die if rb_iter_peek() fails more than thrice
ring-buffer: Have rb_iter_head_event() handle concurrent writer
ring-buffer: Add page_stamp to iterator for synchronization
ring-buffer: Rename ring_buffer_read() to read_buffer_iter_advance()
ring-buffer: Have ring_buffer_empty() not depend on tracing stopped
tracing: Save off entry when peeking at next entry
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Pull dma-mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig:
- fix an integer overflow in the coherent pool (Kevin Grandemange)
- provide support for in-place uncached remapping and use that for
openrisc
- fix the arm coherent allocator to take the bus limit into account
* tag 'dma-mapping-5.7' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping:
ARM/dma-mapping: merge __dma_supported into arm_dma_supported
ARM/dma-mapping: take the bus limit into account in __dma_alloc
ARM/dma-mapping: remove get_coherent_dma_mask
openrisc: use the generic in-place uncached DMA allocator
dma-direct: provide a arch_dma_clear_uncached hook
dma-direct: make uncached_kernel_address more general
dma-direct: consolidate the error handling in dma_direct_alloc_pages
dma-direct: remove the cached_kernel_address hook
dma-coherent: fix integer overflow in the reserved-memory dma allocation
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux
Pull s390 updates from Vasily Gorbik:
- Update maintainers. Niklas Schnelle takes over zpci and Vineeth
Vijayan common io code.
- Extend cpuinfo to include topology information.
- Add new extended counters for IBM z15 and sampling buffer allocation
rework in perf code.
- Add control over zeroing out memory during system restart.
- CCA protected key block version 2 support and other
fixes/improvements in crypto code.
- Convert to new fallthrough; annotations.
- Replace zero-length arrays with flexible-arrays.
- QDIO debugfs and other small improvements.
- Drop 2-level paging support optimization for compat tasks. Varios mm
cleanups.
- Remove broken and unused hibernate / power management support.
- Remove fake numa support which does not bring any benefits.
- Exclude offline CPUs from CPU topology masks to be more consistent
with other architectures.
- Prevent last branching instruction address leaking to userspace.
- Other small various fixes and improvements all over the code.
* tag 's390-5.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (57 commits)
s390/mm: cleanup init_new_context() callback
s390/mm: cleanup virtual memory constants usage
s390/mm: remove page table downgrade support
s390/qdio: set qdio_irq->cdev at allocation time
s390/qdio: remove unused function declarations
s390/ccwgroup: remove pm support
s390/ap: remove power management code from ap bus and drivers
s390/zcrypt: use kvmalloc instead of kmalloc for 256k alloc
s390/mm: cleanup arch_get_unmapped_area() and friends
s390/ism: remove pm support
s390/cio: use fallthrough;
s390/vfio: use fallthrough;
s390/zcrypt: use fallthrough;
s390: use fallthrough;
s390/cpum_sf: Fix wrong page count in error message
s390/diag: fix display of diagnose call statistics
s390/ap: Remove ap device suspend and resume callbacks
s390/pci: Improve handling of unset UID
s390/pci: Fix zpci_alloc_domain() over allocation
s390/qdio: pass ISC as parameter to chsc_sadc()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux into perf/urgent
Pull perf/urgent fixes and improvements from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
perf python:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
- Fix clang detection to strip out options passed in $CC.
build:
He Zhe:
- Normalize gcc parameter when generating arch errno table, fixing
the build by removing options from $(CC).
Sam Lunt:
- Support Python 3.8+ in Makefile.
perf report/top:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
- Fix title line formatting.
perf script:
Andreas Gerstmayr:
- Fix SEGFAULT when using DWARF mode.
- Fix invalid read of directory entry after closedir(), found with valgrind.
Hagen Paul Pfeifer:
- Introduce --deltatime option.
Stephane Eranian:
- Allow --symbol to accept hexadecimal addresses.
Ian Rogers:
- Add -S/--symbols documentation
Namhyung Kim:
- Add --show-cgroup-events option.
perf python:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
- Include rwsem.c in the python binding, needed by the cgroups improvements.
build-test:
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
- Honour JOBS to override detection of number of cores
perf top:
Jin Yao:
- Support --group-sort-idx to change the sort order
- perf top: Support hotkey to change sort order
perf pmu-events x86:
Jin Yao:
- Use CPU_CLK_UNHALTED.THREAD in Kernel_Utilization metric
perf symbols arm64:
Kemeng Shi:
- Fix arm64 gap between kernel start and module end
kernel perf subsystem:
Namhyung Kim:
- Add PERF_RECORD_CGROUP event and Add PERF_SAMPLE_CGROUP feature,
to allow cgroup tracking, saving a link between cgroup path and
its id number.
perf cgroup:
Namhyung Kim:
- Maintain cgroup hierarchy.
perf report:
Namhyung Kim:
- Add 'cgroup' sort key.
perf record:
Namhyung Kim:
- Support synthesizing cgroup events for pre-existing cgroups.
- Add --all-cgroups option
Documentation:
Tony Jones:
- Update docs regarding kernel/user space unwinding.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of char/misc/other driver patches for 5.7-rc1.
Lots of things in here, and it's later than expected due to some
reverts to resolve some reported issues. All is now clean with no
reported problems in linux-next.
Included in here is:
- interconnect updates
- mei driver updates
- uio updates
- nvmem driver updates
- soundwire updates
- binderfs updates
- coresight updates
- habanalabs updates
- mhi new bus type and core
- extcon driver updates
- some Kconfig cleanups
- other small misc driver cleanups and updates
As mentioned, all have been in linux-next for a while, and with the
last two reverts, all is calm and good"
* tag 'char-misc-5.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (174 commits)
Revert "driver core: platform: Initialize dma_parms for platform devices"
Revert "amba: Initialize dma_parms for amba devices"
amba: Initialize dma_parms for amba devices
driver core: platform: Initialize dma_parms for platform devices
bus: mhi: core: Drop the references to mhi_dev in mhi_destroy_device()
bus: mhi: core: Initialize bhie field in mhi_cntrl for RDDM capture
bus: mhi: core: Add support for reading MHI info from device
misc: rtsx: set correct pcr_ops for rts522A
speakup: misc: Use dynamic minor numbers for speakup devices
mei: me: add cedar fork device ids
coresight: do not use the BIT() macro in the UAPI header
Documentation: provide IBM contacts for embargoed hardware
nvmem: core: remove nvmem_sysfs_get_groups()
nvmem: core: use is_bin_visible for permissions
nvmem: core: use device_register and device_unregister
nvmem: core: add root_only member to nvmem device struct
extcon: axp288: Add wakeup support
extcon: Mark extcon_get_edev_name() function as exported symbol
extcon: palmas: Hide error messages if gpio returns -EPROBE_DEFER
dt-bindings: extcon: usbc-cros-ec: convert extcon-usbc-cros-ec.txt to yaml format
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx
Pull SPDX updates from Greg KH:
"Here are three SPDX patches for 5.7-rc1.
One fixes up the SPDX tag for a single driver, while the other two go
through the tree and add SPDX tags for all of the .gitignore files as
needed.
Nothing too complex, but you will get a merge conflict with your
current tree, that should be trivial to handle (one file modified by
two things, one file deleted.)
All three of these have been in linux-next for a while, with no
reported issues other than the merge conflict"
* tag 'spdx-5.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spdx:
ASoC: MT6660: make spdxcheck.py happy
.gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier
.gitignore: remove too obvious comments
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Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
"Nothing too interesting. Just two trivial patches"
* 'for-5.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: Mark up unlocked access to wq->first_flusher
workqueue: Make workqueue_init*() return void
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
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
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/danielt/linux
Pull kgdb updates from Daniel Thompson:
"Pretty quiet this cycle. Just a couple of small fixes from myself both
of which were reviewed by Doug Anderson to keep me honest (thanks)"
* tag 'kgdb-5.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/danielt/linux:
kdb: Censor attempts to set PROMPT without ENABLE_MEM_READ
kdb: Eliminate strncpy() warnings by replacing with strscpy()
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The cpuset in cgroup v1 accepts a special "cpuset_v2_mode" mount
option that make cpuset.cpus and cpuset.mems behave more like those in
cgroup v2. Document it to make other people more aware of this feature
that can be useful in some circumstances.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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This reverts commit a49e4629b5ed ("cpuset: Make cpuset hotplug synchronous") as
it may deadlock with cpu hotplug path.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/F0388D99-84D7-453B-9B6B-EEFF0E7BE4CC@lca.pw
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Prateek Sood <prsood@codeaurora.org>
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When dumping out the trace data in latency format, a check is made to peek
at the next event to compare its timestamp to the current one, and if the
delta is of a greater size, it will add a marker showing so. But to do this,
it needs to save the current event otherwise peeking at the next event will
remove the current event. To save the event, a temp buffer is used, and if
the event is bigger than the temp buffer, the temp buffer is freed and a
bigger buffer is allocated.
This allocation is a problem when called in atomic context. The only way
this gets called via atomic context is via ftrace_dump(). Thus, use a static
buffer of 128 bytes (which covers most events), and if the event is bigger
than that, simply return NULL. The callers of trace_find_next_entry() need
to handle a NULL case, as that's what would happen if the allocation failed.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200326091256.GR11705@shao2-debian
Fixes: ff895103a84ab ("tracing: Save off entry when peeking at next entry")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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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 <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (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()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
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
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Since commit 5bbe3547aa3ba ("mm: allow compaction of unevictable pages")
it is allowed to examine mlocked pages and compact them by default. On
-RT even minor pagefaults are problematic because it may take a few 100us
to resolve them and until then the task is blocked.
Make compact_unevictable_allowed = 0 default and issue a warning on RT if
it is changed.
[bigeasy@linutronix.de: v5]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190710144138.qyn4tuttdq6h7kqx@linutronix.de/
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200319165536.ovi75tsr2seared4@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/20190710144138.qyn4tuttdq6h7kqx@linutronix.de/
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200303202225.nhqc3v5gwlb7x6et@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The proc file `compact_unevictable_allowed' should allow 0 and 1 only, the
`extra*' attribues have been set properly but without
proc_dointvec_minmax() as the `proc_handler' the limit will not be
enforced.
Use proc_dointvec_minmax() as the `proc_handler' to enfoce the valid
specified range.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200303202054.gsosv7fsx2ma3cic@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Right now, the effective protection of any given cgroup is capped by its
own explicit memory.low setting, regardless of what the parent says. The
reasons for this are mostly historical and ease of implementation: to make
delegation of memory.low safe, effective protection is the min() of all
memory.low up the tree.
Unfortunately, this limitation makes it impossible to protect an entire
subtree from another without forcing the user to make explicit protection
allocations all the way to the leaf cgroups - something that is highly
undesirable in real life scenarios.
Consider memory in a data center host. At the cgroup top level, we have a
distinction between system management software and the actual workload the
system is executing. Both branches are further subdivided into individual
services, job components etc.
We want to protect the workload as a whole from the system management
software, but that doesn't mean we want to protect and prioritize
individual workload wrt each other. Their memory demand can vary over
time, and we'd want the VM to simply cache the hottest data within the
workload subtree. Yet, the current memory.low limitations force us to
allocate a fixed amount of protection to each workload component in order
to get protection from system management software in general. This
results in very inefficient resource distribution.
Another concern with mandating downward allocation is that, as the
complexity of the cgroup tree grows, it gets harder for the lower levels
to be informed about decisions made at the host-level. Consider a
container inside a namespace that in turn creates its own nested tree of
cgroups to run multiple workloads. It'd be extremely difficult to
configure memory.low parameters in those leaf cgroups that on one hand
balance pressure among siblings as the container desires, while also
reflecting the host-level protection from e.g. rpm upgrades, that lie
beyond one or more delegation and namespacing points in the tree.
It's highly unusual from a cgroup interface POV that nested levels have to
be aware of and reflect decisions made at higher levels for them to be
effective.
To enable such use cases and scale configurability for complex trees, this
patch implements a resource inheritance model for memory that is similar
to how the CPU and the IO controller implement work-conserving resource
allocations: a share of a resource allocated to a subree always applies to
the entire subtree recursively, while allowing, but not mandating,
children to further specify distribution rules.
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