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7c8a4671dc |
Merge tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.mount.v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs mount updates from Christian Brauner:
- Add FSMOUNT_NAMESPACE flag to fsmount() that creates a new mount
namespace with the newly created filesystem attached to a copy of the
real rootfs. This returns a namespace file descriptor instead of an
O_PATH mount fd, similar to how OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE works for
open_tree().
This allows creating a new filesystem and immediately placing it in a
new mount namespace in a single operation, which is useful for
container runtimes and other namespace-based isolation mechanisms.
This accompanies OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE and avoids a needless detour via
OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE to get the same effect. Will be especially useful
when you mount an actual filesystem to be used as the container
rootfs.
- Currently, creating a new mount namespace always copies the entire
mount tree from the caller's namespace. For containers and sandboxes
that intend to build their mount table from scratch this is wasteful:
they inherit a potentially large mount tree only to immediately tear
it down.
This series adds support for creating a mount namespace that contains
only a clone of the root mount, with none of the child mounts. Two
new flags are introduced:
- CLONE_EMPTY_MNTNS (0x400000000) for clone3(), using the 64-bit flag space
- UNSHARE_EMPTY_MNTNS (0x00100000) for unshare()
Both flags imply CLONE_NEWNS. The resulting namespace contains a
single nullfs root mount with an immutable empty directory. The
intended workflow is to then mount a real filesystem (e.g., tmpfs)
over the root and build the mount table from there.
- Allow MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH to target the caller's rootfs, allowing to
switch out the rootfs without pivot_root(2).
The traditional approach to switching the rootfs involves
pivot_root(2) or a chroot_fs_refs()-based mechanism that atomically
updates fs->root for all tasks sharing the same fs_struct. This has
consequences for fork(), unshare(CLONE_FS), and setns().
This series instead decomposes root-switching into individually
atomic, locally-scoped steps:
fd_tree = open_tree(-EBADF, "/newroot", OPEN_TREE_CLONE | OPEN_TREE_CLOEXEC);
fchdir(fd_tree);
move_mount(fd_tree, "", AT_FDCWD, "/", MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH | MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH);
chroot(".");
umount2(".", MNT_DETACH);
Since each step only modifies the caller's own state, the
fork/unshare/setns races are eliminated by design.
A key step to making this possible is to remove the locked mount
restriction. Originally MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH doesn't support mounting
beneath a mount that is locked. The locked mount protects the
underlying mount from being revealed. This is a core mechanism of
unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNS). The mounts in the new mount
namespace become locked. That effectively makes the new mount table
useless as the caller cannot ever get rid of any of the mounts no
matter how useless they are.
We can lift this restriction though. We simply transfer the locked
property from the top mount to the mount beneath. This works because
what we care about is to protect the underlying mount aka the parent.
The mount mounted between the parent and the top mount takes over the
job of protecting the parent mount from the top mount mount. This
leaves us free to remove the locked property from the top mount which
can consequently be unmounted:
unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNS)
and we inherit a clone of procfs on /proc then currently we cannot
unmount it as:
umount -l /proc
will fail with EINVAL because the procfs mount is locked.
After this series we can now do:
mount --beneath -t tmpfs tmpfs /proc
umount -l /proc
after which a tmpfs mount has been placed beneath the procfs mount.
The tmpfs mount has become locked and the procfs mount has become
unlocked.
This means you can safely modify an inherited mount table after
unprivileged namespace creation.
Afterwards we simply make it possible to move a mount beneath the
rootfs allowing to upgrade the rootfs.
Removing the locked restriction makes this very useful for containers
created with unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNS) to reshuffle an
inherited mount table safely and MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH makes it possible
to switch out the rootfs instead of using the costly pivot_root(2).
* tag 'vfs-7.1-rc1.mount.v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
selftests/namespaces: remove unused utils.h include from listns_efault_test
selftests/fsmount_ns: add missing TARGETS and fix cap test
selftests/empty_mntns: fix wrong CLONE_EMPTY_MNTNS hex value in comment
selftests/empty_mntns: fix statmount_alloc() signature mismatch
selftests/statmount: remove duplicate wait_for_pid()
mount: always duplicate mount
selftests/filesystems: add MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH rootfs tests
move_mount: allow MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH on the rootfs
move_mount: transfer MNT_LOCKED
selftests/filesystems: add clone3 tests for empty mount namespaces
selftests/filesystems: add tests for empty mount namespaces
namespace: allow creating empty mount namespaces
selftests: add FSMOUNT_NAMESPACE tests
selftests/statmount: add statmount_alloc() helper
tools: update mount.h header
mount: add FSMOUNT_NAMESPACE
mount: simplify __do_loopback()
mount: start iterating from start of rbtree
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Merge tag 'sched-core-2026-04-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Fair scheduling updates:
- Skip SCHED_IDLE rq for SCHED_IDLE tasks (Christian Loehle)
- Remove superfluous rcu_read_lock() in the wakeup path (K Prateek Nayak)
- Simplify the entry condition for update_idle_cpu_scan() (K Prateek Nayak)
- Simplify SIS_UTIL handling in select_idle_cpu() (K Prateek Nayak)
- Avoid overflow in enqueue_entity() (K Prateek Nayak)
- Update overutilized detection (Vincent Guittot)
- Prevent negative lag increase during delayed dequeue (Vincent Guittot)
- Clear buddies for preempt_short (Vincent Guittot)
- Implement more complex proportional newidle balance (Peter Zijlstra)
- Increase weight bits for avg_vruntime (Peter Zijlstra)
- Use full weight to __calc_delta() (Peter Zijlstra)
RT and DL scheduling updates:
- Fix incorrect schedstats for rt and dl thread (Dengjun Su)
- Skip group schedulable check with rt_group_sched=0 (Michal Koutný)
- Move group schedulability check to sched_rt_global_validate()
(Michal Koutný)
- Add reporting of runtime left & abs deadline to sched_getattr()
for DEADLINE tasks (Tommaso Cucinotta)
Scheduling topology updates by K Prateek Nayak:
- Compute sd_weight considering cpuset partitions
- Extract "imb_numa_nr" calculation into a separate helper
- Allocate per-CPU sched_domain_shared in s_data
- Switch to assigning "sd->shared" from s_data
- Remove sched_domain_shared allocation with sd_data
Energy-aware scheduling updates:
- Filter false overloaded_group case for EAS (Vincent Guittot)
- PM: EM: Switch to rcu_dereference_all() in wakeup path
(Dietmar Eggemann)
Infrastructure updates:
- Replace use of system_unbound_wq with system_dfl_wq (Marco Crivellari)
Proxy scheduling updates by John Stultz:
- Make class_schedulers avoid pushing current, and get rid of proxy_tag_curr()
- Minimise repeated sched_proxy_exec() checking
- Fix potentially missing balancing with Proxy Exec
- Fix and improve task::blocked_on et al handling
- Add assert_balance_callbacks_empty() helper
- Add logic to zap balancing callbacks if we pick again
- Move attach_one_task() and attach_task() helpers to sched.h
- Handle blocked-waiter migration (and return migration)
- Add K Prateek Nayak to scheduler reviewers for proxy execution
Misc cleanups and fixes by John Stultz, Joseph Salisbury, Peter
Zijlstra, K Prateek Nayak, Michal Koutný, Randy Dunlap, Shrikanth
Hegde, Vincent Guittot, Zhan Xusheng, Xie Yuanbin and Vincent Guittot"
* tag 'sched-core-2026-04-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (46 commits)
sched/eevdf: Clear buddies for preempt_short
sched/rt: Cleanup global RT bandwidth functions
sched/rt: Move group schedulability check to sched_rt_global_validate()
sched/rt: Skip group schedulable check with rt_group_sched=0
sched/fair: Avoid overflow in enqueue_entity()
sched: Use u64 for bandwidth ratio calculations
sched/fair: Prevent negative lag increase during delayed dequeue
sched/fair: Use sched_energy_enabled()
sched: Handle blocked-waiter migration (and return migration)
sched: Move attach_one_task and attach_task helpers to sched.h
sched: Add logic to zap balance callbacks if we pick again
sched: Add assert_balance_callbacks_empty helper
sched/locking: Add special p->blocked_on==PROXY_WAKING value for proxy return-migration
sched: Fix modifying donor->blocked on without proper locking
locking: Add task::blocked_lock to serialize blocked_on state
sched: Fix potentially missing balancing with Proxy Exec
sched: Minimise repeated sched_proxy_exec() checking
sched: Make class_schedulers avoid pushing current, and get rid of proxy_tag_curr()
MAINTAINERS: Add K Prateek Nayak to scheduler reviewers
sched/core: Get this cpu once in ttwu_queue_cond()
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namespace: allow creating empty mount namespaces
Add support for creating a mount namespace that contains only a copy of the root mount from the caller's mount namespace, with none of the child mounts. This is useful for containers and sandboxes that want to start with a minimal mount table and populate it from scratch rather than inheriting and then tearing down the full mount tree. Two new flags are introduced: - CLONE_EMPTY_MNTNS for clone3(), using the 64-bit flag space. - UNSHARE_EMPTY_MNTNS for unshare(), reusing the CLONE_PARENT_SETTID bit which has no meaning for unshare. Both flags imply CLONE_NEWNS. For the unshare path, UNSHARE_EMPTY_MNTNS is converted to CLONE_EMPTY_MNTNS in unshare_nsproxy_namespaces() before it reaches copy_mnt_ns(), so the mount namespace code only needs to handle a single flag. In copy_mnt_ns(), when CLONE_EMPTY_MNTNS is set, clone_mnt() is used instead of copy_tree() to clone only the root mount. The caller's root and working directory are both reset to the root dentry of the new mount. The cleanup variables are changed from vfsmount pointers with __free(mntput) to struct path with __free(path_put) because the empty mount namespace path needs to release both mount and dentry references when replacing the caller's root and pwd. In the normal (non-empty) path only the mount component is set, and dput(NULL) is a no-op so path_put remains correct there as well. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260306-work-empty-mntns-consolidated-v1-1-6eb30529bbb0@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> |
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pidfd: add CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL
Add a new clone3() flag CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL that ties a child's lifetime to the pidfd returned from clone3(). When the last reference to the struct file created by clone3() is closed the kernel sends SIGKILL to the child. A pidfd obtained via pidfd_open() for the same process does not keep the child alive and does not trigger autokill - only the specific struct file from clone3() has this property. This is useful for container runtimes, service managers, and sandboxed subprocess execution - any scenario where the child must die if the parent crashes or abandons the pidfd. CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL requires both CLONE_PIDFD (the whole point is tying lifetime to the pidfd file) and CLONE_AUTOREAP (a killed child with no one to reap it would become a zombie). CLONE_THREAD is rejected because autokill targets a process not a thread. The clone3 pidfd is identified by the PIDFD_AUTOKILL file flag set on the struct file at clone3() time. The pidfs .release handler checks this flag and sends SIGKILL via do_send_sig_info(SIGKILL, SEND_SIG_PRIV, ...) only when it is set. Files from pidfd_open() or open_by_handle_at() are distinct struct files that do not carry this flag. dup()/fork() share the same struct file so they extend the child's lifetime until the last reference drops. CLONE_PIDFD_AUTOKILL uses a privilege model based on CLONE_NNP: without CLONE_NNP the child could escalate privileges via setuid/setgid exec after being spawned, so the caller must have CAP_SYS_ADMIN in its user namespace. With CLONE_NNP the child can never gain new privileges so unprivileged usage is allowed. This is a deliberate departure from the pdeath_signal model which is reset during secureexec and commit_creds() rendering it useless for container runtimes that need to deprivilege themselves. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260226-work-pidfs-autoreap-v5-3-d148b984a989@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> |
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clone: add CLONE_NNP
Add a new clone3() flag CLONE_NNP that sets no_new_privs on the child process at clone time. This is analogous to prctl(PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS) but applied at process creation rather than requiring a separate step after the child starts running. CLONE_NNP is rejected with CLONE_THREAD. It's conceptually a lot simpler if the whole thread-group is forced into NNP and not have single threads running around with NNP. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260226-work-pidfs-autoreap-v5-2-d148b984a989@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> |
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clone: add CLONE_AUTOREAP
Add a new clone3() flag CLONE_AUTOREAP that makes a child process auto-reap on exit without ever becoming a zombie. This is a per-process property in contrast to the existing auto-reap mechanism via SA_NOCLDWAIT or SIG_IGN for SIGCHLD which applies to all children of a given parent. Currently the only way to automatically reap children is to set SA_NOCLDWAIT or SIG_IGN on SIGCHLD. This is a parent-scoped property affecting all children which makes it unsuitable for libraries or applications that need selective auto-reaping of specific children while still being able to wait() on others. CLONE_AUTOREAP stores an autoreap flag in the child's signal_struct. When the child exits do_notify_parent() checks this flag and causes exit_notify() to transition the task directly to EXIT_DEAD. Since the flag lives on the child it survives reparenting: if the original parent exits and the child is reparented to a subreaper or init the child still auto-reaps when it eventually exits. CLONE_AUTOREAP can be combined with CLONE_PIDFD to allow the parent to monitor the child's exit via poll() and retrieve exit status via PIDFD_GET_INFO. Without CLONE_PIDFD it provides a fire-and-forget pattern where the parent simply doesn't care about the child's exit status. No exit signal is delivered so exit_signal must be zero. CLONE_AUTOREAP is rejected in combination with CLONE_PARENT. If a CLONE_AUTOREAP child were to clone(CLONE_PARENT) the new grandchild would inherit exit_signal == 0 from the autoreap parent's group leader but without signal->autoreap. This grandchild would become a zombie that never sends a signal and is never autoreaped - confusing and arguably broken behavior. The flag is not inherited by the autoreap process's own children. Each child that should be autoreaped must be explicitly created with CLONE_AUTOREAP. Link: https://github.com/uapi-group/kernel-features/issues/45 Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260226-work-pidfs-autoreap-v5-1-d148b984a989@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> |
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sched/deadline: Add reporting of runtime left & abs deadline to sched_getattr() for DEADLINE tasks
The SCHED_DEADLINE scheduler allows reading the statically configured run-time, deadline, and period parameters through the sched_getattr() system call. However, there is no immediate way to access, from user space, the current parameters used within the scheduler: the instantaneous runtime left in the current cycle, as well as the current absolute deadline. The `flags' sched_getattr() parameter, so far mandated to contain zero, now supports the SCHED_GETATTR_FLAG_DL_DYNAMIC=1 flag, to request retrieval of the leftover runtime and absolute deadline, converted to a CLOCK_MONOTONIC reference, instead of the statically configured parameters. This feature is useful for adaptive SCHED_DEADLINE tasks that need to modify their behavior depending on whether or not there is enough runtime left in the current period, and/or what is the current absolute deadline. Notes: - before returning the instantaneous parameters, the runtime is updated; - the abs deadline is returned shifted from rq_clock() to ktime_get_ns(), in CLOCK_MONOTONIC reference; this causes multiple invocations from the same period to return values that may differ for a few ns (showing some small drift), albeit the deadline doesn't move, in rq_clock() reference; - the abs deadline value returned to user-space, as unsigned 64-bit value, can represent nearly 585 years since boot time; - setting flags=0 provides the old behavior (retrieve static parameters). See also the notes from discussion held at OSPM 2025 on the topic "Making user space aware of current deadline-scheduler parameters". Signed-off-by: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@santannapisa.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Tested-by: Matteo Martelli <matteo.martelli@codethink.co.uk> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250912053937.31636-2-tommaso.cucinotta@santannapisa.it |
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sched_ext: Implement BPF extensible scheduler class
Implement a new scheduler class sched_ext (SCX), which allows scheduling
policies to be implemented as BPF programs to achieve the following:
1. Ease of experimentation and exploration: Enabling rapid iteration of new
scheduling policies.
2. Customization: Building application-specific schedulers which implement
policies that are not applicable to general-purpose schedulers.
3. Rapid scheduler deployments: Non-disruptive swap outs of scheduling
policies in production environments.
sched_ext leverages BPF’s struct_ops feature to define a structure which
exports function callbacks and flags to BPF programs that wish to implement
scheduling policies. The struct_ops structure exported by sched_ext is
struct sched_ext_ops, and is conceptually similar to struct sched_class. The
role of sched_ext is to map the complex sched_class callbacks to the more
simple and ergonomic struct sched_ext_ops callbacks.
For more detailed discussion on the motivations and overview, please refer
to the cover letter.
Later patches will also add several example schedulers and documentation.
This patch implements the minimum core framework to enable implementation of
BPF schedulers. Subsequent patches will gradually add functionalities
including safety guarantee mechanisms, nohz and cgroup support.
include/linux/sched/ext.h defines struct sched_ext_ops. With the comment on
top, each operation should be self-explanatory. The followings are worth
noting:
- Both "sched_ext" and its shorthand "scx" are used. If the identifier
already has "sched" in it, "ext" is used; otherwise, "scx".
- In sched_ext_ops, only .name is mandatory. Every operation is optional and
if omitted a simple but functional default behavior is provided.
- A new policy constant SCHED_EXT is added and a task can select sched_ext
by invoking sched_setscheduler(2) with the new policy constant. However,
if the BPF scheduler is not loaded, SCHED_EXT is the same as SCHED_NORMAL
and the task is scheduled by CFS. When the BPF scheduler is loaded, all
tasks which have the SCHED_EXT policy are switched to sched_ext.
- To bridge the workflow imbalance between the scheduler core and
sched_ext_ops callbacks, sched_ext uses simple FIFOs called dispatch
queues (dsq's). By default, there is one global dsq (SCX_DSQ_GLOBAL), and
one local per-CPU dsq (SCX_DSQ_LOCAL). SCX_DSQ_GLOBAL is provided for
convenience and need not be used by a scheduler that doesn't require it.
SCX_DSQ_LOCAL is the per-CPU FIFO that sched_ext pulls from when putting
the next task on the CPU. The BPF scheduler can manage an arbitrary number
of dsq's using scx_bpf_create_dsq() and scx_bpf_destroy_dsq().
- sched_ext guarantees system integrity no matter what the BPF scheduler
does. To enable this, each task's ownership is tracked through
p->scx.ops_state and all tasks are put on scx_tasks list. The disable path
can always recover and revert all tasks back to CFS. See p->scx.ops_state
and scx_tasks.
- A task is not tied to its rq while enqueued. This decouples CPU selection
from queueing and allows sharing a scheduling queue across an arbitrary
subset of CPUs. This adds some complexities as a task may need to be
bounced between rq's right before it starts executing. See
dispatch_to_local_dsq() and move_task_to_local_dsq().
- One complication that arises from the above weak association between task
and rq is that synchronizing with dequeue() gets complicated as dequeue()
may happen anytime while the task is enqueued and the dispatch path might
need to release the rq lock to transfer the task. Solving this requires a
bit of complexity. See the logic around p->scx.sticky_cpu and
p->scx.ops_qseq.
- Both enable and disable paths are a bit complicated. The enable path
switches all tasks without blocking to avoid issues which can arise from
partially switched states (e.g. the switching task itself being starved).
The disable path can't trust the BPF scheduler at all, so it also has to
guarantee forward progress without blocking. See scx_ops_enable() and
scx_ops_disable_workfn().
- When sched_ext is disabled, static_branches are used to shut down the
entry points from hot paths.
v7: - scx_ops_bypass() was incorrectly and unnecessarily trying to grab
scx_ops_enable_mutex which can lead to deadlocks in the disable path.
Fixed.
- Fixed TASK_DEAD handling bug in scx_ops_enable() path which could lead
to use-after-free.
- Consolidated per-cpu variable usages and other cleanups.
v6: - SCX_NR_ONLINE_OPS replaced with SCX_OPI_*_BEGIN/END so that multiple
groups can be expressed. Later CPU hotplug operations are put into
their own group.
- SCX_OPS_DISABLING state is replaced with the new bypass mechanism
which allows temporarily putting the system into simple FIFO
scheduling mode bypassing the BPF scheduler. In addition to the shut
down path, this will also be used to isolate the BPF scheduler across
PM events. Enabling and disabling the bypass mode requires iterating
all runnable tasks. rq->scx.runnable_list addition is moved from the
later watchdog patch.
- ops.prep_enable() is replaced with ops.init_task() and
ops.enable/disable() are now called whenever the task enters and
leaves sched_ext instead of when the task becomes schedulable on
sched_ext and stops being so. A new operation - ops.exit_task() - is
called when the task stops being schedulable on sched_ext.
- scx_bpf_dispatch() can now be called from ops.select_cpu() too. This
removes the need for communicating local dispatch decision made by
ops.select_cpu() to ops.enqueue() via per-task storage.
SCX_KF_SELECT_CPU is added to support the change.
- SCX_TASK_ENQ_LOCAL which told the BPF scheudler that
scx_select_cpu_dfl() wants the task to be dispatched to the local DSQ
was removed. Instead, scx_bpf_select_cpu_dfl() now dispatches directly
if it finds a suitable idle CPU. If such behavior is not desired,
users can use scx_bpf_select_cpu_dfl() which returns the verdict in a
bool out param.
- scx_select_cpu_dfl() was mishandling WAKE_SYNC and could end up
queueing many tasks on a local DSQ which makes tasks to execute in
order while other CPUs stay idle which made some hackbench numbers
really bad. Fixed.
- The current state of sched_ext can now be monitored through files
under /sys/sched_ext instead of /sys/kernel/debug/sched/ext. This is
to enable monitoring on kernels which don't enable debugfs.
- sched_ext wasn't telling BPF that ops.dispatch()'s @prev argument may
be NULL and a BPF scheduler which derefs the pointer without checking
could crash the kernel. Tell BPF. This is currently a bit ugly. A
better way to annotate this is expected in the future.
- scx_exit_info updated to carry pointers to message buffers instead of
embedding them directly. This decouples buffer sizes from API so that
they can be changed without breaking compatibility.
- exit_code added to scx_exit_info. This is used to indicate different
exit conditions on non-error exits and will be used to handle e.g. CPU
hotplugs.
- The patch "sched_ext: Allow BPF schedulers to switch all eligible
tasks into sched_ext" is folded in and the interface is changed so
that partial switching is indicated with a new ops flag
%SCX_OPS_SWITCH_PARTIAL. This makes scx_bpf_switch_all() unnecessasry
and in turn SCX_KF_INIT. ops.init() is now called with
SCX_KF_SLEEPABLE.
- Code reorganized so that only the parts necessary to integrate with
the rest of the kernel are in the header files.
- Changes to reflect the BPF and other kernel changes including the
addition of bpf_sched_ext_ops.cfi_stubs.
v5: - To accommodate 32bit configs, p->scx.ops_state is now atomic_long_t
instead of atomic64_t and scx_dsp_buf_ent.qseq which uses
load_acquire/store_release is now unsigned long instead of u64.
- Fix the bug where bpf_scx_btf_struct_access() was allowing write
access to arbitrary fields.
- Distinguish kfuncs which can be called from any sched_ext ops and from
anywhere. e.g. scx_bpf_pick_idle_cpu() can now be called only from
sched_ext ops.
- Rename "type" to "kind" in scx_exit_info to make it easier to use on
languages in which "type" is a reserved keyword.
- Since
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clone3: allow spawning processes into cgroups
This adds support for creating a process in a different cgroup than its parent. Callers can limit and account processes and threads right from the moment they are spawned: - A service manager can directly spawn new services into dedicated cgroups. - A process can be directly created in a frozen cgroup and will be frozen as well. - The initial accounting jitter experienced by process supervisors and daemons is eliminated with this. - Threaded applications or even thread implementations can choose to create a specific cgroup layout where each thread is spawned directly into a dedicated cgroup. This feature is limited to the unified hierarchy. Callers need to pass a directory file descriptor for the target cgroup. The caller can choose to pass an O_PATH file descriptor. All usual migration restrictions apply, i.e. there can be no processes in inner nodes. In general, creating a process directly in a target cgroup adheres to all migration restrictions. One of the biggest advantages of this feature is that CLONE_INTO_GROUP does not need to grab the write side of the cgroup cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem. This global lock makes moving tasks/threads around super expensive. With clone3() this lock is avoided. Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
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ns: Introduce Time Namespace
Time Namespace isolates clock values.
The kernel provides access to several clocks CLOCK_REALTIME,
CLOCK_MONOTONIC, CLOCK_BOOTTIME, etc.
CLOCK_REALTIME
System-wide clock that measures real (i.e., wall-clock) time.
CLOCK_MONOTONIC
Clock that cannot be set and represents monotonic time since
some unspecified starting point.
CLOCK_BOOTTIME
Identical to CLOCK_MONOTONIC, except it also includes any time
that the system is suspended.
For many users, the time namespace means the ability to changes date and
time in a container (CLOCK_REALTIME). Providing per namespace notions of
CLOCK_REALTIME would be complex with a massive overhead, but has a dubious
value.
But in the context of checkpoint/restore functionality, monotonic and
boottime clocks become interesting. Both clocks are monotonic with
unspecified starting points. These clocks are widely used to measure time
slices and set timers. After restoring or migrating processes, it has to be
guaranteed that they never go backward. In an ideal case, the behavior of
these clocks should be the same as for a case when a whole system is
suspended. All this means that it is required to set CLOCK_MONOTONIC and
CLOCK_BOOTTIME clocks, which can be achieved by adding per-namespace
offsets for clocks.
A time namespace is similar to a pid namespace in the way how it is
created: unshare(CLONE_NEWTIME) system call creates a new time namespace,
but doesn't set it to the current process. Then all children of the process
will be born in the new time namespace, or a process can use the setns()
system call to join a namespace.
This scheme allows setting clock offsets for a namespace, before any
processes appear in it.
All available clone flags have been used, so CLONE_NEWTIME uses the highest
bit of CSIGNAL. It means that it can be used only with the unshare() and
the clone3() system calls.
[ tglx: Adjusted paragraph about clone3() to reality and massaged the
changelog a bit. ]
Co-developed-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://criu.org/Time_namespace
Link: https://lists.openvz.org/pipermail/criu/2018-June/041504.html
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191112012724.250792-4-dima@arista.com
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Merge tag 'threads-v5.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull thread management updates from Christian Brauner: - A pidfd's fdinfo file currently contains the field "Pid:\t<pid>" where <pid> is the pid of the process in the pid namespace of the procfs instance the fdinfo file for the pidfd was opened in. The fdinfo file has now gained a new "NSpid:\t<ns-pid1>[\t<ns-pid2>[...]]" field which lists the pids of the process in all child pid namespaces provided the pid namespace of the procfs instance it is looked up under has an ancestoral relationship with the pid namespace of the process. If it does not 0 will be shown and no further pid namespaces will be listed. Tests included. (Christian Kellner) - If the process the pidfd references has already exited, print -1 for the Pid and NSpid fields in the pidfd's fdinfo file. Tests included. (me) - Add CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND. This lets callers clear all signal handler that are not SIG_DFL or SIG_IGN at process creation time. This originated as a feature request from glibc to improve performance and elimate races in their posix_spawn() implementation. Tests included. (me) - Add support for choosing a specific pid for a process with clone3(). This is the feature which was part of the thread update for v5.4 but after a discussion at LPC in Lisbon we decided to delay it for one more cycle in order to make the interface more generic. This has now done. It is now possible to choose a specific pid in a whole pid namespaces (sub)hierarchy instead of just one pid namespace. In order to choose a specific pid the caller must have CAP_SYS_ADMIN in all owning user namespaces of the target pid namespaces. Tests included. (Adrian Reber) - Test improvements and extensions. (Andrei Vagin, me) * tag 'threads-v5.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux: selftests/clone3: skip if clone3() is ENOSYS selftests/clone3: check that all pids are released on error paths selftests/clone3: report a correct number of fails selftests/clone3: flush stdout and stderr before clone3() and _exit() selftests: add tests for clone3() with *set_tid fork: extend clone3() to support setting a PID selftests: add tests for clone3() tests: test CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND clone3: add CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND pid: use pid_has_task() in pidfd_open() exit: use pid_has_task() in do_wait() pid: use pid_has_task() in __change_pid() test: verify fdinfo for pidfd of reaped process pidfd: check pid has attached task in fdinfo pidfd: add tests for NSpid info in fdinfo pidfd: add NSpid entries to fdinfo |
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fork: extend clone3() to support setting a PID
The main motivation to add set_tid to clone3() is CRIU.
To restore a process with the same PID/TID CRIU currently uses
/proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pid. It writes the desired (PID - 1) to
ns_last_pid and then (quickly) does a clone(). This works most of the
time, but it is racy. It is also slow as it requires multiple syscalls.
Extending clone3() to support *set_tid makes it possible restore a
process using CRIU without accessing /proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pid and
race free (as long as the desired PID/TID is available).
This clone3() extension places the same restrictions (CAP_SYS_ADMIN)
on clone3() with *set_tid as they are currently in place for ns_last_pid.
The original version of this change was using a single value for
set_tid. At the 2019 LPC, after presenting set_tid, it was, however,
decided to change set_tid to an array to enable setting the PID of a
process in multiple PID namespaces at the same time. If a process is
created in a PID namespace it is possible to influence the PID inside
and outside of the PID namespace. Details also in the corresponding
selftest.
To create a process with the following PIDs:
PID NS level Requested PID
0 (host) 31496
1 42
2 1
For that example the two newly introduced parameters to struct
clone_args (set_tid and set_tid_size) would need to be:
set_tid[0] = 1;
set_tid[1] = 42;
set_tid[2] = 31496;
set_tid_size = 3;
If only the PIDs of the two innermost nested PID namespaces should be
defined it would look like this:
set_tid[0] = 1;
set_tid[1] = 42;
set_tid_size = 2;
The PID of the newly created process would then be the next available
free PID in the PID namespace level 0 (host) and 42 in the PID namespace
at level 1 and the PID of the process in the innermost PID namespace
would be 1.
The set_tid array is used to specify the PID of a process starting
from the innermost nested PID namespaces up to set_tid_size PID namespaces.
set_tid_size cannot be larger then the current PID namespace level.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Reber <areber@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191115123621.142252-1-areber@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
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fa729c4df5 |
clone3: validate stack arguments
Validate the stack arguments and setup the stack depening on whether or not
it is growing down or up.
Legacy clone() required userspace to know in which direction the stack is
growing and pass down the stack pointer appropriately. To make things more
confusing microblaze uses a variant of the clone() syscall selected by
CONFIG_CLONE_BACKWARDS3 that takes an additional stack_size argument.
IA64 has a separate clone2() syscall which also takes an additional
stack_size argument. Finally, parisc has a stack that is growing upwards.
Userspace therefore has a lot nasty code like the following:
#define __STACK_SIZE (8 * 1024 * 1024)
pid_t sys_clone(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg, int flags, int *pidfd)
{
pid_t ret;
void *stack;
stack = malloc(__STACK_SIZE);
if (!stack)
return -ENOMEM;
#ifdef __ia64__
ret = __clone2(fn, stack, __STACK_SIZE, flags | SIGCHLD, arg, pidfd);
#elif defined(__parisc__) /* stack grows up */
ret = clone(fn, stack, flags | SIGCHLD, arg, pidfd);
#else
ret = clone(fn, stack + __STACK_SIZE, flags | SIGCHLD, arg, pidfd);
#endif
return ret;
}
or even crazier variants such as [3].
With clone3() we have the ability to validate the stack. We can check that
when stack_size is passed, the stack pointer is valid and the other way
around. We can also check that the memory area userspace gave us is fine to
use via access_ok(). Furthermore, we probably should not require
userspace to know in which direction the stack is growing. It is easy
for us to do this in the kernel and I couldn't find the original
reasoning behind exposing this detail to userspace.
/* Intentional user visible API change */
clone3() was released with 5.3. Currently, it is not documented and very
unclear to userspace how the stack and stack_size argument have to be
passed. After talking to glibc folks we concluded that trying to change
clone3() to setup the stack instead of requiring userspace to do this is
the right course of action.
Note, that this is an explicit change in user visible behavior we introduce
with this patch. If it breaks someone's use-case we will revert! (And then
e.g. place the new behavior under an appropriate flag.)
Breaking someone's use-case is very unlikely though. First, neither glibc
nor musl currently expose a wrapper for clone3(). Second, there is no real
motivation for anyone to use clone3() directly since it does not provide
features that legacy clone doesn't. New features for clone3() will first
happen in v5.5 which is why v5.4 is still a good time to try and make that
change now and backport it to v5.3. Searches on [4] did not reveal any
packages calling clone3().
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAG48ez3q=BeNcuVTKBN79kJui4vC6nw0Bfq6xc-i0neheT17TA@mail.gmail.com
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191028172143.4vnnjpdljfnexaq5@wittgenstein
[3]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/5238e9575906297608ff802a27e2ff9effa3b338/src/basic/raw-clone.h#L31
[4]: https://codesearch.debian.net
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clone3: add CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHAND
Reset all signal handlers of the child not set to SIG_IGN to SIG_DFL. Mutually exclusive with CLONE_SIGHAND to not disturb other thread's signal handler. In the spirit of closer cooperation between glibc developers and kernel developers (cf. [2]) this patchset came out of a discussion on the glibc mailing list for improving posix_spawn() (cf. [1], [3], [4]). Kernel support for this feature has been explicitly requested by glibc and I see no reason not to help them with this. The child helper process on Linux posix_spawn must ensure that no signal handlers are enabled, so the signal disposition must be either SIG_DFL or SIG_IGN. However, it requires a sigprocmask to obtain the current signal mask and at least _NSIG sigaction calls to reset the signal handlers for each posix_spawn call or complex state tracking that might lead to data corruption in glibc. Adding this flags lets glibc avoid these problems. [1]: https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-10/msg00149.html [3]: https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-10/msg00158.html [4]: https://www.sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2019-10/msg00160.html [2]: https://lwn.net/Articles/799331/ '[...] by asking for better cooperation with the C-library projects in general. They should be copied on patches containing ABI changes, for example. I noted that there are often times where C-library developers wish the kernel community had done things differently; how could those be avoided in the future? Members of the audience suggested that more glibc developers should perhaps join the linux-api list. The other suggestion was to "copy Florian on everything".' Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191014104538.3096-1-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com |
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e524d16e7e |
Merge tag 'copy-struct-from-user-v5.4-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull copy_struct_from_user() helper from Christian Brauner: "This contains the copy_struct_from_user() helper which got split out from the openat2() patchset. It is a generic interface designed to copy a struct from userspace. The helper will be especially useful for structs versioned by size of which we have quite a few. This allows for backwards compatibility, i.e. an extended struct can be passed to an older kernel, or a legacy struct can be passed to a newer kernel. For the first case (extended struct, older kernel) the new fields in an extended struct can be set to zero and the struct safely passed to an older kernel. The most obvious benefit is that this helper lets us get rid of duplicate code present in at least sched_setattr(), perf_event_open(), and clone3(). More importantly it will also help to ensure that users implementing versioning-by-size end up with the same core semantics. This point is especially crucial since we have at least one case where versioning-by-size is used but with slighly different semantics: sched_setattr(), perf_event_open(), and clone3() all do do similar checks to copy_struct_from_user() while rt_sigprocmask(2) always rejects differently-sized struct arguments. With this pull request we also switch over sched_setattr(), perf_event_open(), and clone3() to use the new helper" * tag 'copy-struct-from-user-v5.4-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux: usercopy: Add parentheses around assignment in test_copy_struct_from_user perf_event_open: switch to copy_struct_from_user() sched_setattr: switch to copy_struct_from_user() clone3: switch to copy_struct_from_user() lib: introduce copy_struct_from_user() helper |
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78f6face5a |
sched: add kernel-doc for struct clone_args
Add kernel-doc for struct clone_args for the clone3() syscall. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191001114701.24661-3-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> |
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f14c234b4b |
clone3: switch to copy_struct_from_user()
Switch clone3() syscall from it's own copying struct clone_args from userspace to the new dedicated copy_struct_from_user() helper. The change is very straightforward, and helps unify the syscall interface for struct-from-userspace syscalls. Additionally, explicitly define CLONE_ARGS_SIZE_VER0 to match the other users of the struct-extension pattern. Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> [christian.brauner@ubuntu.com: improve commit message] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191001011055.19283-3-cyphar@cyphar.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> |
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61129dd29f |
sched: Add __ASSEMBLY__ guards around struct clone_args
The addition of struct clone_args to uapi/linux/sched.h is not protected
by __ASSEMBLY__ guards, causing a failure to build from source for glibc
on RISC-V. Add the guards to fix this.
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8f6ccf6159 |
Merge tag 'clone3-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull clone3 system call from Christian Brauner:
"This adds the clone3 syscall which is an extensible successor to clone
after we snagged the last flag with CLONE_PIDFD during the 5.2 merge
window for clone(). It cleanly supports all of the flags from clone()
and thus all legacy workloads.
There are few user visible differences between clone3 and clone.
First, CLONE_DETACHED will cause EINVAL with clone3 so we can reuse
this flag. Second, the CSIGNAL flag is deprecated and will cause
EINVAL to be reported. It is superseeded by a dedicated "exit_signal"
argument in struct clone_args thus freeing up even more flags. And
third, clone3 gives CLONE_PIDFD a dedicated return argument in struct
clone_args instead of abusing CLONE_PARENT_SETTID's parent_tidptr
argument.
The clone3 uapi is designed to be easy to handle on 32- and 64 bit:
/* uapi */
struct clone_args {
__aligned_u64 flags;
__aligned_u64 pidfd;
__aligned_u64 child_tid;
__aligned_u64 parent_tid;
__aligned_u64 exit_signal;
__aligned_u64 stack;
__aligned_u64 stack_size;
__aligned_u64 tls;
};
and a separate kernel struct is used that uses proper kernel typing:
/* kernel internal */
struct kernel_clone_args {
u64 flags;
int __user *pidfd;
int __user *child_tid;
int __user *parent_tid;
int exit_signal;
unsigned long stack;
unsigned long stack_size;
unsigned long tls;
};
The system call comes with a size argument which enables the kernel to
detect what version of clone_args userspace is passing in. clone3
validates that any additional bytes a given kernel does not know about
are set to zero and that the size never exceeds a page.
A nice feature is that this patchset allowed us to cleanup and
simplify various core kernel codepaths in kernel/fork.c by making the
internal _do_fork() function take struct kernel_clone_args even for
legacy clone().
This patch also unblocks the time namespace patchset which wants to
introduce a new CLONE_TIMENS flag.
Note, that clone3 has only been wired up for x86{_32,64}, arm{64}, and
xtensa. These were the architectures that did not require special
massaging.
Other architectures treat fork-like system calls individually and
after some back and forth neither Arnd nor I felt confident that we
dared to add clone3 unconditionally to all architectures. We agreed to
leave this up to individual architecture maintainers. This is why
there's an additional patch that introduces __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3
which any architecture can set once it has implemented support for
clone3. The patch also adds a cond_syscall(clone3) for architectures
such as nios2 or h8300 that generate their syscall table by simply
including asm-generic/unistd.h. The hope is to get rid of
__ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3 and cond_syscall() rather soon"
* tag 'clone3-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
arch: handle arches who do not yet define clone3
arch: wire-up clone3() syscall
fork: add clone3
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sched/uclamp: Extend sched_setattr() to support utilization clamping
The SCHED_DEADLINE scheduling class provides an advanced and formal model to define tasks requirements that can translate into proper decisions for both task placements and frequencies selections. Other classes have a more simplified model based on the POSIX concept of priorities. Such a simple priority based model however does not allow to exploit most advanced features of the Linux scheduler like, for example, driving frequencies selection via the schedutil cpufreq governor. However, also for non SCHED_DEADLINE tasks, it's still interesting to define tasks properties to support scheduler decisions. Utilization clamping exposes to user-space a new set of per-task attributes the scheduler can use as hints about the expected/required utilization for a task. This allows to implement a "proactive" per-task frequency control policy, a more advanced policy than the current one based just on "passive" measured task utilization. For example, it's possible to boost interactive tasks (e.g. to get better performance) or cap background tasks (e.g. to be more energy/thermal efficient). Introduce a new API to set utilization clamping values for a specified task by extending sched_setattr(), a syscall which already allows to define task specific properties for different scheduling classes. A new pair of attributes allows to specify a minimum and maximum utilization the scheduler can consider for a task. Do that by validating the required clamp values before and then applying the required changes using _the_ same pattern already in use for __setscheduler(). This ensures that the task is re-enqueued with the new clamp values. Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alessio Balsini <balsini@android.com> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com> Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190621084217.8167-7-patrick.bellasi@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
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sched/core: Allow sched_setattr() to use the current policy
The sched_setattr() syscall mandates that a policy is always specified. This requires to always know which policy a task will have when attributes are configured and this makes it impossible to add more generic task attributes valid across different scheduling policies. Reading the policy before setting generic tasks attributes is racy since we cannot be sure it is not changed concurrently. Introduce the required support to change generic task attributes without affecting the current task policy. This is done by adding an attribute flag (SCHED_FLAG_KEEP_POLICY) to enforce the usage of the current policy. Add support for the SETPARAM_POLICY policy, which is already used by the sched_setparam() POSIX syscall, to the sched_setattr() non-POSIX syscall. Signed-off-by: Patrick Bellasi <patrick.bellasi@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alessio Balsini <balsini@android.com> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com> Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Quentin Perret <quentin.perret@arm.com> Cc: Rafael J . Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Steve Muckle <smuckle@google.com> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190621084217.8167-6-patrick.bellasi@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
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fork: add clone3
This adds the clone3 system call.
As mentioned several times already (cf. [7], [8]) here's the promised
patchset for clone3().
We recently merged the CLONE_PIDFD patchset (cf. [1]). It took the last
free flag from clone().
Independent of the CLONE_PIDFD patchset a time namespace has been discussed
at Linux Plumber Conference last year and has been sent out and reviewed
(cf. [5]). It is expected that it will go upstream in the not too distant
future. However, it relies on the addition of the CLONE_NEWTIME flag to
clone(). The only other good candidate - CLONE_DETACHED - is currently not
recyclable as we have identified at least two large or widely used
codebases that currently pass this flag (cf. [2], [3], and [4]). Given that
CLONE_PIDFD grabbed the last clone() flag the time namespace is effectively
blocked. clone3() has the advantage that it will unblock this patchset
again. In general, clone3() is extensible and allows for the implementation
of new features.
The idea is to keep clone3() very simple and close to the original clone(),
specifically, to keep on supporting old clone()-based workloads.
We know there have been various creative proposals how a new process
creation syscall or even api is supposed to look like. Some people even
going so far as to argue that the traditional fork()+exec() split should be
abandoned in favor of an in-kernel version of spawn(). Independent of
whether or not we personally think spawn() is a good idea this patchset has
and does not want to have anything to do with this.
One stance we take is that there's no real good alternative to
clone()+exec() and we need and want to support this model going forward;
independent of spawn().
The following requirements guided clone3():
- bump the number of available flags
- move arguments that are currently passed as separate arguments
in clone() into a dedicated struct clone_args
- choose a struct layout that is easy to handle on 32 and on 64 bit
- choose a struct layout that is extensible
- give new flags that currently need to abuse another flag's dedicated
return argument in clone() their own dedicated return argument
(e.g. CLONE_PIDFD)
- use a separate kernel internal struct kernel_clone_args that is
properly typed according to current kernel conventions in fork.c and is
different from the uapi struct clone_args
- port _do_fork() to use kernel_clone_args so that all process creation
syscalls such as fork(), vfork(), clone(), and clone3() behave identical
(Arnd suggested, that we can probably also port do_fork() itself in a
separate patchset.)
- ease of transition for userspace from clone() to clone3()
This very much means that we do *not* remove functionality that userspace
currently relies on as the latter is a good way of creating a syscall
that won't be adopted.
- do not try to be clever or complex: keep clone3() as dumb as possible
In accordance with Linus suggestions (cf. [11]), clone3() has the following
signature:
/* uapi */
struct clone_args {
__aligned_u64 flags;
__aligned_u64 pidfd;
__aligned_u64 child_tid;
__aligned_u64 parent_tid;
__aligned_u64 exit_signal;
__aligned_u64 stack;
__aligned_u64 stack_size;
__aligned_u64 tls;
};
/* kernel internal */
struct kernel_clone_args {
u64 flags;
int __user *pidfd;
int __user *child_tid;
int __user *parent_tid;
int exit_signal;
unsigned long stack;
unsigned long stack_size;
unsigned long tls;
};
long sys_clone3(struct clone_args __user *uargs, size_t size)
clone3() cleanly supports all of the supported flags from clone() and thus
all legacy workloads.
The advantage of sticking close to the old clone() is the low cost for
userspace to switch to this new api. Quite a lot of userspace apis (e.g.
pthreads) are based on the clone() syscall. With the new clone3() syscall
supporting all of the old workloads and opening up the ability to add new
features should make switching to it for userspace more appealing. In
essence, glibc can just write a simple wrapper to switch from clone() to
clone3().
There has been some interest in this patchset already. We have received a
patch from the CRIU corner for clone3() that would set the PID/TID of a
restored process without /proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pid to eliminate a race.
/* User visible differences to legacy clone() */
- CLONE_DETACHED will cause EINVAL with clone3()
- CSIGNAL is deprecated
It is superseeded by a dedicated "exit_signal" argument in struct
clone_args freeing up space for additional flags.
This is based on a suggestion from Andrei and Linus (cf. [9] and [10])
/* References */
[1]:
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clone: add CLONE_PIDFD
This patchset makes it possible to retrieve pid file descriptors at process creation time by introducing the new flag CLONE_PIDFD to the clone() system call. Linus originally suggested to implement this as a new flag to clone() instead of making it a separate system call. As spotted by Linus, there is exactly one bit for clone() left. CLONE_PIDFD creates file descriptors based on the anonymous inode implementation in the kernel that will also be used to implement the new mount api. They serve as a simple opaque handle on pids. Logically, this makes it possible to interpret a pidfd differently, narrowing or widening the scope of various operations (e.g. signal sending). Thus, a pidfd cannot just refer to a tgid, but also a tid, or in theory - given appropriate flag arguments in relevant syscalls - a process group or session. A pidfd does not represent a privilege. This does not imply it cannot ever be that way but for now this is not the case. A pidfd comes with additional information in fdinfo if the kernel supports procfs. The fdinfo file contains the pid of the process in the callers pid namespace in the same format as the procfs status file, i.e. "Pid:\t%d". As suggested by Oleg, with CLONE_PIDFD the pidfd is returned in the parent_tidptr argument of clone. This has the advantage that we can give back the associated pid and the pidfd at the same time. To remove worries about missing metadata access this patchset comes with a sample program that illustrates how a combination of CLONE_PIDFD, and pidfd_send_signal() can be used to gain race-free access to process metadata through /proc/<pid>. The sample program can easily be translated into a helper that would be suitable for inclusion in libc so that users don't have to worry about writing it themselves. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io> Co-developed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirsky <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> |
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34be39305a |
sched/deadline: Implement "runtime overrun signal" support
This patch adds the possibility of getting the delivery of a SIGXCPU signal whenever there is a runtime overrun. The request is done through the sched_flags field within the sched_attr structure. Forward port of https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/16/170 Tested-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1513077024-25461-1-git-send-email-claudio@evidence.eu.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
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6f52b16c5b |
License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license
Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default are files without license information under the default license of the kernel, which is GPLV2. Marking them GPLV2 would exclude them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception which is in the kernels COPYING file: NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". otherwise syscall usage would not be possible. Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX license identifier. The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the Linux syscall exception. SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. See the previous patch in this series for the methodology of how this patch was researched. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |