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2026-08-05sysctl: move the "cad_pid" entry from pid_table[] to kern_reboot_table[]Oleg Nesterov2-31/+29
cad_pid is global, and kill_cad_pid() is only used in the root namespace. However, due to pid_table_root_permissions(), a non-root user can unshare pid/user namespaces and modify it from the child namespace. This makes no sense and is simply wrong. Move it to kern_reboot_table[] where it logically belongs; this ensures that only GLOBAL_ROOT_UID can read/modify this sysctl. Note that this patch doesn't preserve "#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL" around the "cad_pid"; CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL selects CONFIG_SYSCTL, so it is always set when kern_reboot_table[] is compiled. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: e054bcbe7e7a ("sysctl: move cad_pid into kernel/pid.c") Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan <include@grrlz.net> Reviewed-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2026-08-05sysctl: add Returns: kernel-doc for all functionsRandy Dunlap1-20/+25
Fix kernel-doc warnings in kernel/sysctl.c by adding Returns. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2026-08-05sysctl: Update API function documentationJoel Granados1-9/+24
Add colon ":" after argument name where it is missing Add doc for proc_int_conv and proc_dointvec_conv Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2026-08-05sysctl: Rename proc_doulongvec_minmax_conv to proc_doulongvec_convJoel Granados2-5/+5
Remove "_minmax" from proc_doulongvec_minmax_conv as it does not enforce min/max limits but serves as a generic converter for unsigned long vectors. Update function declaration in sysctl.h, definition in sysctl.c, and caller in jiffies.c accordingly. Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2026-08-05sysctl: Replace do_proc_do{int,ulong,uint}vec with do_proc_vecJoel Granados2-209/+239
Make do_proc_vec static and parametrize by proc_vec_type enum which defines the type being processed and selects which converter is "live". Signed-ness and size are calculated based on proc_vec_type and table->data is now walked as raw bytes and advanced by the element size; the converter still performs the actual typed load/store. Pass converter as a union to avoid a cast from void*. The public proc_do{int,uint,ulong}vec_conv() prototypes and all converter signatures in kernel/, fs/ and the header are therefore unchanged. Remove do_proc_doulongvec_minmax. proc_doulongvec_minmax_conv uses a converter callback passed by the caller instead of conversions based on conv{mul,div}. Create uni and bi-direction converters for milliseconds to jiffies in proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax; which is the only user of proc_doulongvec_minmax_conv. Replace do_proc_douintvec{,_w,_r} functions with a call to do_proc_vec. Disallow vectors for uint by returning -EINVAL when more than one element is detected. Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2026-08-05sysctl: Add negp parameter to douintvec converter functionsJoel Granados1-15/+16
Updates all douintvec converter function signatures to include a bool *negp parameter. This is a preparation commit required to eventually run all converters under the same function. The negp argument will be ignored as it is not relevant for the uint type. Note that do_proc_uint_conv_pipe_maxsz in pipe.c is also modified. Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2026-08-05sysctl: Move default converter assignment out of do_proc_dointvecJoel Granados1-4/+3
Move the converter assignment out of do_proc_dointvec into the caller. Both the test for NULL and the assignment are meant to stay within the sysctl.c context. This is in preparation of using a typed macro to for the integer proc vector function. Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
2026-08-05bpf: Check load-acquire src ptr type before the loadDaniel Borkmann1-2/+2
check_atomic_load() calls check_load_mem() before atomic_ptr_type_ok(). For a load-acquire that fetches into its own source register (dst_reg == src_reg), check_load_mem() overwrites src_reg's type with the type of the loaded value, so the subsequent atomic_ptr_type_ok() no longer sees the source pointer and fails to reject the disallowed types (ctx, pkt, flow_keys, sock). Since bpf_convert_ctx_accesses() does not rewrite atomic loads, the raw access to the underlying kernel object is left in place. The destination type is taken from the ctx access itself, so a load-acquire of the sk field of struct __sk_buff for example leaves the register typed as PTR_TO_SOCK_COMMON_OR_NULL, which type_is_sk_pointer() does not match either, while it actually holds unconverted struct sk_buff bytes. Once the NULL check has passed this is a type confusion, not just a leak of kernel data. Validate src_reg with check_reg_arg() and check the source pointer type with atomic_ptr_type_ok() before the load again, mirroring check_atomic_rmw(). Out-of-range register numbers are already rejected earlier by check_and_resolve_insns() (commit 503d21ef8eac ("bpf: Do register range validation early")), and the only exemption there, is_stack_arg_ldx(), requires BPF_LDX | BPF_MEM | BPF_DW and thus never matches a BPF_ATOMIC insn. atomic_ptr_type_ok() can therefore not dereference register state out of bounds, that is, the out-of-bounds read addressed by the Fixes commit below does not reappear (as proven also via selftest). Fixes: c03bb2fa327e ("bpf: Fix out-of-bounds read in check_atomic_load/store()") Reported-by: STAR Labs SG <info@starlabs.sg> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260804201917.253491-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-08-05cgroup,cgroup/dmem: Add (dmem_)cgroup_common_ancestor helperNatalie Vock1-0/+42
This helps to find a common subtree of two resources, which is important when determining whether it's helpful to evict one resource in favor of another. To facilitate this, add a common helper to find the ancestor of two cgroups using each cgroup's ancestor array. Tested-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@igalia.com> Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <dev@lankhorst.se> Reviewed-by: Timur Kristóf <timur.kristof@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Natalie Vock <natalie.vock@gmx.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260804-dmemcg-aggressive-protect-v8-2-07af96681bf8@gmx.de
2026-08-05cgroup/dmem: Add queries for protection valuesNatalie Vock1-0/+62
Callers can use this feedback to be more aggressive in making space for allocations of a cgroup if they know it is protected. These are counterparts to memcg's mem_cgroup_below_{min,low}. Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <dev@lankhorst.se> Reviewed-by: Timur Kristóf <timur.kristof@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Natalie Vock <natalie.vock@gmx.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260804-dmemcg-aggressive-protect-v8-1-07af96681bf8@gmx.de
2026-08-04mm: prefer vma_[start,end]_pgoff() to vma->vm_pgoff in kernel/Lorenzo Stoakes8-25/+36
Be consistent in using vma_start_pgoff() and vma_end_pgoff(), which clearly indicates which part of the VMA the page offset refers to and aids greppability. This is part of a broader series laying the ground to provide a virtual page offset for MAP_PRIVATE-file backed anon folios. No functional change intended. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260710-b4-pre-scalable-cow-v2-19-2a5aa403d977@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> # for kernel/dma Reviewed-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Acked-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Cc: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Cc: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Cc: Liam R. Howlett (Oracle) <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04mm/rmap: rename vma_interval_tree_*() to mapping_rmap_tree_*()Lorenzo Stoakes1-1/+1
The family of vma_interval_tree_() functions manipulate the address_space (which, of course, is generally referred to as 'mapping') reverse mapping, but are named the 'VMA' interval tree. VMAs may be mapped by an anon_vma, an address_space, or both. Therefore calling the mapping interval tree a 'VMA' interval tree is rather confusing. This is also inconsistent with the anon_vma_interval_tree_*() functions which explicitly reference the rmap object to which they pertain. Rename the vma_interval_tree_*() functions to mapping_rmap_tree_*() to correct this. We will rename the anon rmap functions similarly in a subsequent patch. No functional change intended. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260710-b4-pre-scalable-cow-v2-8-2a5aa403d977@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Cc: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Cc: Liam R. Howlett (Oracle) <liam@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04mm/rmap: parameterise vma_interval_tree_*() by address_spaceLorenzo Stoakes1-1/+1
The file-backed mapping interval tree functions vma_interval_tree_*() accept a raw rb_root_cached pointer to determine the tree in which they are operating. However, in each case, this is always associated with an address_space data type. So simply pass a pointer to that instead to simplify the code, and more clearly differentiate between these operations and those concerning anonymous mappings. While we're here, make the generated interval tree functions static as they do not need to be used externally (any previously existing external users have now been removed). We also rename VMA parameters from 'node' to 'vma' as calling this a node is simply confusing, update the input index types to pgoff_t since they reference page offsets and rename the parameters to pgoff_start and pgoff_last. No functional change intended. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260710-b4-pre-scalable-cow-v2-6-2a5aa403d977@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Gregory Price <gourry@gourry.net> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Cc: Ackerley Tng <ackerleytng@google.com> Cc: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Cc: Kai Huang <kai.huang@intel.com> Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com> Cc: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Cc: Liam R. Howlett (Oracle) <liam@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04mm: split out vmalloc declarations from internal.hMike Rapoport (Microsoft)1-1/+1
mm/internal.h becomes more and more bloated. Move declarations related to vmalloc to a new mm/vmalloc.h header. No functional changes. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260709-internal-h-v2-3-695631425968@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Acked-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Acked-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@linux.dev> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04mm: split out mm_init and memblock declarations from internal.hMike Rapoport (Microsoft)1-0/+1
Patch series "mm: split a couple of headers from internal.h", v2. mm/internal.h becomes more and more bloated. Split declarations related to mm_init, memblock, vmalloc and sparse into new headers. This patch (of 3): mm/internal.h becomes more and more bloated. Move declarations for related to mm/mm_init.c and mm/memblock.c to a new mm/mm_init.h header. No functional changes. [rppt@kernel.org: split stubfs from internal.h to mm_init.h] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/alJd1BLypyK9Mpaw@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260709-internal-h-v2-0-695631425968@kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260709-internal-h-v2-1-695631425968@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka (SUSE) <vbabka@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org> Acked-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Acked-by: Pratyush Yadav <pratyush@kernel.org> Acked-by: SJ Park <sj@kernel.org> Cc: Alexander Graf <graf@amazon.com> Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Cc: Brendan Jackman <brendan.jackman@linux.dev> Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-04bpf, cgroup: Fix invalid storage access after __cgroup_bpf_attach failedPu Lehui1-0/+8
A potential invalid storage access issue can occur after replacing a cgroup bpf prog. This occurs in the following scenario: 1. prog1 with storage is attached to a cgroup in multi-attach mode. 2. prog1 is replaced with prog2 using BPF_F_REPLACE in multi-attach mode, but fails midway (e.g. in bpf_trampoline_link_cgroup_shim or update_effective_progs). 3. A new prog3 is attached to the cgroup in multi-attach mode. The reason is that __cgroup_bpf_attach overwrites pl->storage with the new storage prior to attachment completion. When attachment fails midway, the cleanup path calls bpf_cgroup_storages_free(new_storage) to free the newly allocated storage, but fails to restore pl->storage back to old_storage. Consequently, the still-active prog1 holds invalid or dangling storage pointers, leading to an invalid memory access when prog1 executes and calls bpf_get_local_storage. Additionally, original pl->flags and cgrp->bpf.flags[atype] are left unrestored. Fix this by saving old_pl_flags, old_storage, and old_flags prior to the update, and properly restoring all of them in the cleanup path on error. Fixes: 7d9c3427894f ("bpf: Make cgroup storages shared between programs on the same cgroup") Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Pu Lehui <pulehui@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Emil Tsalapatis <emil@etsalapatis.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260803013934.4036646-1-pulehui@huaweicloud.com
2026-08-04Merge tag 'locking-urgent-2026-08-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-27/+58
Pull futex fix from Ingo Molnar: - Fix a robust futexes exit race (Keno Fischer) * tag 'locking-urgent-2026-08-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: futex: Prevent robust futex exit race some more
2026-08-04rv: Fix 32-bit build of nomiss KUnit testGabriele Monaco1-1/+1
Commit 8da2a8838365 ("rv: Add KUnit tests for some DA/HA monitors") introduced a division of a 64-bit value by 1000 in the nomiss KUnit test. This does not compile on 32-bit systems, as standard division of 64-bit values leads to an undefined reference to __udivdi3. Fix the build on 32-bit systems by using div_u64(). Fixes: 8da2a8838365 ("rv: Add KUnit tests for some DA/HA monitors") Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202608020311.hYjqOG5k-lkp@intel.com Reviewed-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260803150622.322806-1-gmonaco@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@redhat.com>
2026-08-04block: split out a new blk_plug.h headerChristoph Hellwig2-2/+0
blkdev.h gets included in various places outside the block layer just for struct blk_plug and related plugging functions. Split blk_plug into a separate helper to reduce the amount of code that needs to get rebuilt when blkdev.h changes and to slightly reduce compile times. In io_uring this requires pulling in a few other headers explicitly that previously were implicitly included through blkdev.h. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com> Reviewed-by: Damien Le Moal <dlemoal@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260804125524.740996-1-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2026-08-04futex: Avoid private hash use-after-free on final putFelix Hoffmann1-2/+8
futex_private_hash_put() drops the reference to fph before evaluating fph->mm for wake_up_var(). futex_ref_put() enables preemption again before returning. If that put drops the final reference and the task is preempted, another task can pivot to the replacement hash and free the old hash after an RCU grace period. The first task then reads fph->mm from the freed allocation when it resumes. KASAN reports a slab-use-after-free in futex_private_hash_put(), with the read at offset 24 in a freed kmalloc-512 allocation. The allocation and free stacks point to futex_hash_allocate() and the RCU free path, respectively. Load the mm pointer while the fph reference is still held and pass the saved value to wake_up_var(). wake_up_var() uses the pointer as a waitqueue key and does not dereference the mm through it. Fixes: bd54df5ea7ca ("futex: Allow to resize the private local hash") Signed-off-by: Felix Hoffmann <f3lix.dev@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260731155024.1150011-1-f3lix.dev@gmx.de
2026-08-04bpf: Invalidate RCU pointers after final spin unlockNing Ding1-0/+5
In a sleepable BPF program, a spin lock can provide the only RCU protection for a kptr. The final bpf_spin_unlock() ends that protection, but the verifier leaves the pointer valid. Another CPU can then free the object before the pointer is used. A capability-limited runtime PoC triggered a task_struct use-after-free in __bpf_get_task_stack(). Record whether the program is in an RCU-protected context before releasing the lock. Invalidate RCU-protected pointers only when the unlock leaves the final such context. This preserves valid pointers in non-sleepable programs and inside an explicit RCU read-side section. Fixes: 5861d1e8dbc4 ("bpf: Allow bpf_spin_{lock,unlock} in sleepable progs") Assisted-by: Codex:gpt-5.6-sol Assisted-by: ChatGPT:GPT-5.6-Pro Signed-off-by: Ning Ding <dingning04@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260803112615.3362122-2-dingning04@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
2026-08-04Merge branch 'misc' into nextMike Rapoport (Microsoft)1-1/+0
2026-08-04Merge branch 'crashkernel-cma' into kexec-nextMike Rapoport (Microsoft)1-3/+86
2026-08-04Merge branch 'kexec-misc' into kexec-nextMike Rapoport (Microsoft)1-0/+27
2026-08-04kho: exclude hugetlb memory from scratch size calculationPratyush Yadav (Google)1-2/+10
HugeTLB pages can be preserved memory. So they are never allocated from scratch. Instead, they are allocated from the memory blocks with no preserved memory. These areas are detected at runtime on each boot. But since they are allocated via memblock, they show up as RSRV_KERN, and blow up the scratch size when scratch scale is in use. All hugetlb pages are marked RSRV_HUGETLB. Subtract their size from RSRV_KERN when calculating scratch sizes. Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <pratyush@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260801084833.1897543-23-pratyush@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
2026-08-04kho: extend scratchPratyush Yadav (Google)1-17/+153
Motivation ========== The scratch space is allocated by the first kernel in the KHO chain, and is reused by all subsequent kernels. The size of the space is either set via the commandline by the system administrator or by calculating the amount of memory used by the kernel and adding a multiplier. In either case, the scratch space is a heuristic and is liable to fill up and fail allocation if a kernel uses more memory than expected. In addition, gigantic huge pages (usually 1 GiB) are allocated via memblock, and in a KHO boot that memory comes from the scratch space. In hypervisors it is common to dedicate a major part of the system's memory to gigantic hugepages for VM memory. If this memory needs to come from scratch space, then scratch needs to be greater than the memory needed for huge pages, which is impractical. In addition, hugepages can be preserved memory. Allocating them from scratch violates the assumption that scratch contains no preserved memory. Methodology =========== Discover areas that don't contain any preserved memory at boot by walking the preserved memory radix tree. Mark them as scratch to allow allocations from them. This makes KHO more resilient to memory pressure and allows supporting huge page preservation. Since the preserved memory radix tree mixes both physical address and order into a single key, and does not track table pages, it is difficult to identify free areas from it directly. Walk the tree and digest it down into another radix tree. The latter tracks blocks of KHO_SCRATCH_EXT_BLKSIZE (1 GiB as of now) granularity. Then walk the digested tree and mark the areas between the present keys as scratch. Performance =========== The discovery algorithm traverses the preserved memory radix tree exactly once. While it does use memory for the digested radix tree, since the blocks are split by 1 GiB, a single bitmap with 4k pages can track up to 32 TiB of memory. So there are likely to be very few radix tree pages used in this tracking. For systems with all physical memory below 32 TiB, this should result in a total of 6 pages being used (KHO_TREE_MAX_DEPTH == 6). An alternate way of achieving this would be to call kho_mem_retrieve() earlier in boot and mark all the KHO preservations as reserved. But that can blow up memblock.reserved with a bunch of 4K pages scattered everywhere, which will reduce performance of subsequent allocations. Since the free blocks are tracked in chunks of 1 GiB, this won't blow up memblock.memory as much. There is no inherent reason for using 1 GiB as the discovered block size. This can be changed later if needed. Currently, KHO is mainly targeted for server grade systems with hundreds of gigabytes to terabytes of memory. So 1 GiB is a reasonable granularity for those systems. For smaller systems this doesn't work as well, but we can arrive at a better heuristic when we have concrete use cases. Practical evaluation ==================== The testing is done on a x86_64 qemu VM running under KVM with 64G memory and 12 CPUs. The machine pre-allocates 50 1G pages. Since the performance scales with how busy the radix tree is, tests are done with 2 preservation patterns: first with two 1M memfds, second with two 1G memfds, both using 4k pages. Test case 1 - 1M memfd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This test case has two memfds with 1M memory each in 4k pages, plus other preservations from LUO core and other KHO users. This is how the radix tree stats look like: radix_nodes: 0x13 nr_preservations: 0x214 mem_preserved: 0x227000 per order preservations: order 0: 0x20f order 1: 0x4 order 4: 0x1 and this is how long it takes to extend the scratch after KHO boot: KHO: KHO extend time: 47 us KHO: KHO extend total mem: 0xe6c17b000 (~57G) Test case 2 - 1G memfd ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This test case has two memfds with 1G memory each in 4k pages, plus other preservations from LUO core and other KHO users. This is how the radix tree stats look like: radix_nodes: 0x28 nr_preservations: 0x80816 mem_preserved: 0x80829000 per order preservations: order 0: 0x80811 order 1: 0x4 order 4: 0x1 and this is how long it takes to extend the scratch after KHO boot: KHO: KHO extend time: 22514 us KHO: KHO extend total mem: 0xd3f200000 (~52G) Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <pratyush@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260801084833.1897543-19-pratyush@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
2026-08-04kho: initialize preserved memory map radix tree earlierPratyush Yadav (Google)1-17/+26
Currently the preserved memory radix tree is initialized from kho_memory_init(), which happens relatively late in MM init. In a coming patch, the tree will be used from kho_memory_init_early(). Move the tree initialization there. Simplify some of the code in kho_mem_retrieve() by getting rid of the err variable and jumping to err directly. Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <pratyush@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260801084833.1897543-16-pratyush@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
2026-08-04kho: initialize kho_scratch pointer earlier in bootPratyush Yadav (Google)1-2/+13
In a future patch, mm init will use kho_scratch_overlap() for deciding the migrate type of pageblocks it initializes. The earliest user currently is free_area_init(). kho_scratch_overlap() relies on kho_scratch pointer being initialized. Introduce kho_memory_init_early() to do this. kho_populate() would normally be a good place to do this, but unfortunately, phys_to_virt() does not work at that point on ARM64. So we need yet another initialization function. Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <pratyush@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260801084833.1897543-15-pratyush@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
2026-08-04kho: expose kho_scratch_overlap() to kexec_handover.hPratyush Yadav (Google)4-37/+20
Support for discovering memory blocks with no preserved memory will be added in coming patches. These areas will also be marked as scratch to allow allocations from them. Memblock will switch to looking through the scratch array to decide the right migratetype. Expose kho_scratch_overlap() to KHO users. Since it is now used by non-debug code, move it out of kexec_handover_debug.c and into kexec_handover.c. Gate the overlap checks in kho_preserve_folio() and kho_preserve_pages() by IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC_HANDOVER_DEBUG) instead. Since kexec_handover_debug.c is now empty, delete it. Add a stub for kho_scratch_overlap() to memblock tests to make sure it compiles. It will be used in memblock by a coming commit. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <pratyush@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260801084833.1897543-14-pratyush@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
2026-08-04kho: add kho_radix_init_tree()Pratyush Yadav (Google)1-18/+44
Move the initialization logic of the radix tree into kho_radix_init_tree() instead of having users open-code it. Makes the boundaries cleaner and reduces code duplication when a new user of the radix tree will be added in a future commit. Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <pratyush@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260801084833.1897543-13-pratyush@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
2026-08-04kho: allow destroying KHO radix treePratyush Yadav (Google)1-0/+35
Add kho_radix_destroy_tree() which allows destroying the radix tree and freeing all its pages. This is will be used by the upcoming scratch extension mechanism. It creates a radix tree to track free blocks and then frees them after telling memblock about them. Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <pratyush@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260801084833.1897543-12-pratyush@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
2026-08-04kho: allow early-boot usage of the KHO radix treePratyush Yadav (Google)1-2/+22
The KHO radix tree allocates memory for table pages from the buddy allocator using get_zeroed_page(). This is not available in early boot when memblock is still active. Using the radix tree in early boot is useful for KHO to track metadata about its memory. One such example is for tracking free blocks for memory allocation when scratch runs out of space. This feature will be added in the following commits. Add kho_radix_{alloc,free}_node() which allocate and free the table pages. They use slab_is_available() to decide which allocator to use. While slab_is_available() indicates availability of the slab allocator, it gets initialized right after buddy so it serves the same practical purpose. Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <pratyush@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260801084833.1897543-11-pratyush@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
2026-08-04kho: add data argument to radix walk callbackPratyush Yadav (Google)1-11/+13
Add an opaque data pointer argument to kho_radix_walk_cb_t. This can be used by callers to pass extra information to the callback. Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com> Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <pratyush@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260801084833.1897543-10-pratyush@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
2026-08-04kho: add callback for table pagesPratyush Yadav (Google)1-0/+12
The KHO memory preservation radix tree does not mark the table pages themselves as preserved. This is done to avoid a circular dependency where preserving a page can lead of allocating other preserved pages. This means any walker looking for free ranges of memory outside of scratch areas will ignore the table Add a table callback that is invoked for each table page. The callback is given the physical address of the table page. This is useful for the upcoming mechanism that discovers blocks of memory with no preserved pages and lets them be used for boot memory. Another use case is for users of the radix tree other than KHO itself. The radix tree does not preserve its own pages due to the circular dependency described above. But external users of the radix tree would need to preserve and restore their pages for the radix tree to survive past early boot. They can use this callback to do so. Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <pratyush@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260801084833.1897543-9-pratyush@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
2026-08-04kho: add a struct for radix callbacksPratyush Yadav (Google)1-12/+15
A future commit will add more callbacks for the KHO radix tree. Add a struct for collecting the callbacks. Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <pratyush@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260801084833.1897543-8-pratyush@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
2026-08-04kho: move all memory retrieval logic to kho_mem_retrieve()Pratyush Yadav (Google)1-13/+19
The memory retrieval logic is spread out across kho_mem_retrieve() and kho_memory_init(). The incoming scratch area is initialized at kho_memory_init(), and the error handling is done there too. Consolidate all this logic into kho_mem_retrieve() to make the code cleaner. Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <pratyush@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260801084833.1897543-7-pratyush@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
2026-08-04kho: store incoming radix tree in kho_inPratyush Yadav (Google)1-16/+22
This allows other functions to also use the radix tree. While at it, add kho_get_mem_map() helper to get the virtual address of the preserved memory map and use that helper instead of duplicating the code to get the preserved memory map from the FDT. Signed-off-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <pratyush@kernel.org> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260801084833.1897543-6-pratyush@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org>
2026-08-03taskstats: return -EBADF when cgroupstats receives an invalid fdYiyang Chen1-1/+1
Patch series "taskstats: fix cgroupstats invalid fd handling and add selftests". This series fixes an issue where cgroupstats mishandles invalid file descriptors, and introduces a functional kselftest to prevent regressions. When an invalid file descriptor is passed via CGROUPSTATS_CMD_ATTR_FD, cgroupstats_user_cmd() returns 0 instead of an error code. This leads to two broken behaviors depending on netlink flags: - Callers without NLM_F_ACK block indefinitely on recv(). - Callers with NLM_F_ACK receive a misleading success ACK (errno == 0) but no actual statistics payload. The first patch addresses this by returning -EBADF when the fd cannot be resolved. The second patch adds a comprehensive kselftest covering both the valid cgroup v1 query and the invalid fd paths (with and without NLM_F_ACK) to ensure the fixes work as intended. This patch (of 2): cgroupstats_user_cmd() returns 0 without sending a reply or a netlink error when the fd passed via CGROUPSTATS_CMD_ATTR_FD does not resolve to an open file in the caller's table. As a result: - clients that did not set NLM_F_ACK block on recv() indefinitely waiting for a CGROUPSTATS_CMD_NEW message that is never emitted; - clients that set NLM_F_ACK receive a misleading "success" ACK (errno == 0) with no statistics payload. Return -EBADF instead so the netlink layer propagates the error to userspace as expected. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/cover.1783713230.git.cyyzero16@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/b4fd9e288e4a48efebaf41b4ffcdb204b06675c4.1783713230.git.cyyzero16@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Yiyang Chen <cyyzero16@gmail.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbirs@nvidia.com> Cc: Dr. Thomas Orgis <thomas.orgis@uni-hamburg.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-03kernel/fork: declare max_threads __read_mostlyJianChunfu1-1/+1
max_threads is initialized once by fork_init()->set_max_threads(), and thereafter is mostly read in hot path, such as copy_process(). The fact that it is mostly read and not written to makes it candidates for __read_mostly declarations. I have already tested on my machine(arm64,256core,kernel-7.1.3) with 'hackbench -P -l 500 -g 100/500/1000/2000' and the results show that there is an average of 13% improvement in performance. before patch: hackbench -g 100 500 1000 2000 1.094 4.651 13.305 36.322 after patch: hackbench -g 100 500 1000 2000 0.823 4.487 11.107 32.987 Above data are the average values obtained from multiple tests, and there was indeed some fluctuation in the data during the tests. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260707092354.465847-1-jansef.jian@hj-micro.com Signed-off-by: JianChunfu <jansef.jian@hj-micro.com> Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Cc: Liam R. Howlett <liam@infradead.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-03kernel: refactor: shorten has_pending_signalsAndrea Calabrese1-22/+4
In has_pending_signals there was a switch/case used for optimizations. However, today's compilers perform loop unrolling efficiently, thus it is not needed anymore. Put i inside the for declaration so we do not risk its escape from the scope. Moreover, i starts now from 0 and counts up, as it is a more usual pattern. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260520062849.183621-2-andrea.calabrese@amarulasolutions.com Signed-off-by: Andrea Calabrese <andrea.calabrese@amarulasolutions.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Huang <adrianhuang0701@gmail.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-03signal: avoid unconditional siginfo copy in send_signal_locked()Oleg Nesterov1-8/+15
send_signal_locked() unconditionally copies siginfo before the namespace translation to avoid corrupting a shared siginfo. Not that I think this can actually hurt performance-wise, just it doesn't look clean to me; the copy is only needed in the unlikely case when the translation will actually change something. Defer it to the two cases where si_pid/si_uid are rewritten, and while at it add #ifdef's just for completeness. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/akkaAgNfUby5_3nM@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan <include@grrlz.net> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-03signal: change sys_kill() to use SEND_SIG_NOINFOOleg Nesterov1-5/+1
prepare_kill_siginfo(PIDTYPE_TGID) fills si_code = SI_USER and sets si_pid/si_uid in the sender's namespace. Then send_signal_locked() translates si_pid/si_uid to the target's namespace. SEND_SIG_NOINFO exists precisely for the case when si_code == SI_USER and si_pid/si_uid are the sender's ids; this is exactly what sys_kill() does via prepare_kill_siginfo(PIDTYPE_TGID). Change sys_kill() to use it directly. SEND_SIG_NOINFO produces the same result: si_code = SI_USER, and __send_signal_locked() computes si_pid/si_uid directly in the target's namespace. The force computation is also the same: both check if the sender is visible in the target's pid namespace. This is just a cleanup and microoptimization (especially with [1]), this skips the has_si_pid_and_uid() block in send_signal_locked() and offloads the namespace translation logic to __send_signal_locked(SEND_SIG_NOINFO) which uses the simpler computations. NOTE: As a "side effect" this also fixes the kill(pid < 0, sig) case where send_signal_locked() rewrites si_pid/si_uid in the shared siginfo, corrupting it for subsequent recipients. But for other group senders like __kill_pgrp_info() we still need the fix from Bradley Morgan [1] who found this problem. TODO: kill prepare_kill_siginfo() and change other users to use SEND_SIG_NOINFO too. This needs trivial changes in __send_signal_locked() and TP_STORE_SIGINFO(). Link: https://lore.kernel.org/aj6btAZqYuv59a8w@redhat.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260622164029.11474-1-include@grrlz.net/ [1] Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan <include@grrlz.net> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-03signal: avoid shared siginfo namespace rewritesBradley Morgan1-0/+4
send_signal_locked() rewrites sender ids for the target namespace. Group sends reuse the same siginfo, so one recipient can affect the next. Copy the siginfo before changing it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/86a8857d58d43ee26a8b365b837fd24830343494.1782159692.git.include@grrlz.net Fixes: 7a0cf094944e ("signal: Correct namespace fixups of si_pid and si_uid") Signed-off-by: Bradley Morgan <include@grrlz.net> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Adrian Huang <adrianhuang0701@gmail.com> Cc: Aleksandr Nogikh <nogikh@google.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Cc: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-03watchdog/softlockup: fix softlockup typosMatthew Chen1-8/+8
Fix misspellings of "softlockup" in the watchdog enabled bit definitions and related comments. Also fix a nearby "successful" typo. No functional change. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260615174557.1836562-1-edcr1790@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Matthew Chen <edcr1790@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-03kernel/params: fix a pr_debug(" %p ") in parse_one()Jim Cromie1-2/+2
Inside parse_one(), the core parameter-parsing engine prints the address of the parameter-set callback function using %p: pr_debug("handling %s with %p\n", param, params[i].ops->set); Since the string value of the parameter being parsed (val) is already available, print the parameter name and its value instead, and avoid tainting the kernel by exposing a kernel-ptr. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260618190715.3563047-1-jim.cromie@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-03resource: downgrade "resource sanity check" warning to debug levelManuel Quintero Fonseca1-1/+1
The "resource sanity check" warning need not mean that there is a functional issue and in the cases when there isn't one, it is just useless and confusing noise. For this reason, downgrade the log level of it from "warn" to "debug". This reduces log clutter while keeping the diagnostic information available for debugging purposes if needed. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260523000131.7086-1-sakunix@yahoo.com Signed-off-by: Manuel Quintero Fonseca <sakunix@yahoo.com> Cc: Andriy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> Cc: Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org> Cc: Mika Westeberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-08-03binfmt_misc: correctly account pre-opened interpretersChristian Brauner1-0/+6
An 'F' entry, and every interpreter a 'B' entry binds, holds a file open from registration until the entry goes away, pinning the file, its inode, the mount it came from and that mount's superblock. Nothing bounds how many of those a user namespace can hold. An entry binds at most BINFMT_MISC_INTERP_MAX interpreters, but nothing caps the entries. Charge each binding to the user namespace and uid that makes it against a new UCOUNT_BINFMT_MISC_INTERPRETERS. Going over budget causes -ENOSPC. A per-instance cap would suck. Instances are keyed on the user namespace. So any constant is multiplied by the number of namespaces the caller creates. Creating those is virtually free. A ucount charges the namespace and every one of its ancestors. And a namespace can raise only its own limit. So nesting buys nothing. The knob is /proc/sys/user/max_binfmt_misc_interpreters. Leave it at the max_threads/2 default fork_init() gives a new type. No existing configuration comes close to that. binfmt_misc is tristate, which makes it the first ucount user that can be built as a module. Export inc_ucount() and dec_ucount(); without them CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m fails to link. Export them to binfmt_misc alone: charging a ucount type is not something a module has any business doing in general, and the list is trivial to extend if a second user shows up. init_user_ns and init_binfmt_misc are already exported for the same module. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260803-work-binfmt_misc-interplimit-v1-1-4a2435500bd9@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
2026-08-03sched_ext: Eject the top rescue consumer on overloadTejun Heo5-11/+141
When rescue demand on a cpu persistently exceeds the configured bandwidth, tasks age on that cpu's rescue DSQ until the stall watchdog fires. The watchdog blames the waiting task's owner, but the misbehaving party is whoever floods the queue, not whoever happens to time out. Track each sched's recent rescue consumption per cpu as a decaying average. Once the oldest waiter on a cpu's rescue DSQ has been queued past a threshold derived from the rescue knobs (4s at the defaults), the rescue timer ejects the sub with the highest recent consumption on that cpu with SCX_EXIT_ERROR_RESCUE. With no recent consumer there is no victim and nothing is ejected - the generic stall watchdog eventually blames the waiter's owner instead. Ejections on a cpu are spaced one threshold apart so the freed bandwidth can drain the backlog before another sub is judged. The overload check only wins the race against the stall watchdog when the watchdog timeout clears the threshold, and a single in-budget wait must not cross the trigger on its own. Warn on a scheduler whose timeout doesn't fit and on knobs whose funding period exceeds half the threshold. v2: - Track kill_at in jiffies_64 - on 32-bit, the time_before() grace check wraps 2^31 ticks after the last ejection and suppresses ejections. (sashiko AI) - Track rescue_avg_at in jiffies_64 likewise - the unsigned long decay delta truncates mod 2^32 on 32-bit and can revive a weeks-old usage average in the victim pick. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-08-03sched_ext: Add bandwidth-limited rescue execution for stranded tasksTejun Heo6-33/+558
A local DSQ insert lacking the needed caps is diverted to the reject DSQ and bounced back through ops.enqueue() so the scheduler can re-decide. That recovery assumes the scheduler has somewhere legal to send the task. When it doesn't, e.g. when the task's affinity is restricted to cids delegated away, the task starves until the stall watchdog ejects the scheduler. An exiting task is worse - it skips ops.enqueue() and the rejection becomes a self-requeuing cycle that burns the CPU until the watchdog fires. Add SCX_ENQ_RESCUE, a fallback modifier on local DSQ inserts. When the insert would be rejected for missing caps, the kernel takes over and runs the task on the target CPU without consulting the owning scheduler. The kernel sets the flag itself when enqueueing an exiting task. Rescue is a last-resort forward-progress backstop with a persistent disadvantage, not a way around cap enforcement. A per-CPU token bucket accrues rescue_bandwidth_ppt (default 2%) of CPU time and rescues run one at a time in arrival order. Each is granted a slice of the rescue_quantum_us (default 5ms) quantum divided across the waiters, waits at the tail of the local DSQ claiming no priority, and rejoins its scheduler as a fresh arrival once the slice is served. The schedulers keep their normal control over an admitted rescuee and may preempt or reslice it. Service is measured on CPU time actually received, so neither shortens the rescue. Prolonged denial escalates - the remaining slice turns into protected execution (SCX_TASK_PROTECTED) and the rescuee preempts the current task. Escalation is paced by the same bucket, and delivered service converges on the configured bandwidth no matter how aggressively the schedulers dispatch. Both knobs are root-only and SCX_RESCUE_DISABLE turns rescue off, making SCX_ENQ_RESCUE inserts reject as usual. v2: - Add SCX_OPS_OPEN() fix-ups for the new ops fields so cpu-form schedulers setting them still load on older kernels. (Andrea) Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
2026-08-03sched_ext: Add SCX_TASK_PROTECTEDTejun Heo2-24/+143
A BPF scheduler can displace any of its tasks at will - cut a running one's slice with an SCX_ENQ_PREEMPT dispatch, an SCX_KICK_PREEMPT kick or a direct shortening, and jump a queued one with HEAD insertions. Sometimes the kernel needs a slice and a DSQ position to stick regardless. Add SCX_TASK_PROTECTED, guarding both: - The slice becomes immutable. Every scheduler-reachable write is refused and counted as SCX_EV_SLICE_DENIED. Higher scheduling classes are unaffected. PREEMPT|IMMED can't preempt a running protected task and gets reenqueued. - A protected task that reached the head of its DSQ keeps it - HEAD insertions land behind the leading run of protected tasks and reenqueue sweeps skip them. Only rq-owned DSQs can hold protected tasks, so the walk runs only for them. The bit lives in p->scx.flags so that both the refusal and the head walk read it under the rq lock that protects it. Protection ends when the slice is consumed, when the task leaves the rq except for a save/restore on the running task, on a yield, when the scheduler enters bypass, and when the task leaves scx. The flag is kernel-internal and not used yet. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>