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10 dayscgroup: Fix cgroup_drain_dying() testing the wrong conditionTejun Heo
cgroup_drain_dying() was using cgroup_is_populated() to test whether there are dying tasks to wait for. cgroup_is_populated() tests nr_populated_csets, nr_populated_domain_children and nr_populated_threaded_children, but cgroup_drain_dying() only needs to care about this cgroup's own tasks - whether there are children is cgroup_destroy_locked()'s concern. This caused hangs during shutdown. When systemd tried to rmdir a cgroup that had no direct tasks but had a populated child, cgroup_drain_dying() would enter its wait loop because cgroup_is_populated() was true from nr_populated_domain_children. The task iterator found nothing to wait for, yet the populated state never cleared because it was driven by live tasks in the child cgroup. Fix it by using cgroup_has_tasks() which only tests nr_populated_csets. v3: Fix cgroup_is_populated() -> cgroup_has_tasks() (Sebastian). v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260323200205.1063629-1-tj@kernel.org Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Fixes: 1b164b876c36 ("cgroup: Wait for dying tasks to leave on rmdir") Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
11 dayscgroup: Wait for dying tasks to leave on rmdirTejun Heo
a72f73c4dd9b ("cgroup: Don't expose dead tasks in cgroup") hid PF_EXITING tasks from cgroup.procs so that systemd doesn't see tasks that have already been reaped via waitpid(). However, the populated counter (nr_populated_csets) is only decremented when the task later passes through cgroup_task_dead() in finish_task_switch(). This means cgroup.procs can appear empty while the cgroup is still populated, causing rmdir to fail with -EBUSY. Fix this by making cgroup_rmdir() wait for dying tasks to fully leave. If the cgroup is populated but all remaining tasks have PF_EXITING set (the task iterator returns none due to the existing filter), wait for a kick from cgroup_task_dead() and retry. The wait is brief as tasks are removed from the cgroup's css_set between PF_EXITING assertion in do_exit() and cgroup_task_dead() in finish_task_switch(). v2: cgroup_is_populated() true to false transition happens under css_set_lock not cgroup_mutex, so retest under css_set_lock before sleeping to avoid missed wakeups (Sebastian). Fixes: a72f73c4dd9b ("cgroup: Don't expose dead tasks in cgroup") Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202603222104.2c81684e-lkp@intel.com Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Bert Karwatzki <spasswolf@web.de> Cc: Michal Koutny <mkoutny@suse.com> Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
2026-03-06cgroup: Don't expose dead tasks in cgroupSebastian Andrzej Siewior
Once a task exits it has its state set to TASK_DEAD and then it is removed from the cgroup it belonged to. The last step happens on the task gets out of its last schedule() invocation and is delayed on PREEMPT_RT due to locking constraints. As a result it is possible to receive a pid via waitpid() of a task which is still listed in cgroup.procs for the cgroup it belonged to. This is something that systemd does not expect and as a result it waits for its exit until a time out occurs. This can also be reproduced on !PREEMPT_RT kernel with a significant delay in do_exit() after exit_notify(). Hide the task from the output which have PF_EXITING set which is done before the parent is notified. Keeping zombies with live threads shouldn't break anything (suggested by Tejun). Reported-by: Bert Karwatzki <spasswolf@web.de> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260219164648.3014-1-spasswolf@web.de/ Tested-by: Bert Karwatzki <spasswolf@web.de> Fixes: 9311e6c29b34 ("cgroup: Fix sleeping from invalid context warning on PREEMPT_RT") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.19+ Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-03-03Merge tag 'cgroup-for-7.0-rc2-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo: - Fix circular locking dependency in cpuset partition code by deferring housekeeping_update() calls to a workqueue instead of calling them directly under cpus_read_lock - Fix null-ptr-deref in rebuild_sched_domains_cpuslocked() when generate_sched_domains() returns NULL due to kmalloc failure - Fix incorrect cpuset behavior for effective_xcpus in partition_xcpus_del() and cpuset_update_tasks_cpumask() in update_cpumasks_hier() - Fix race between task migration and cgroup iteration * tag 'cgroup-for-7.0-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup/cpuset: fix null-ptr-deref in rebuild_sched_domains_cpuslocked cgroup/cpuset: Call housekeeping_update() without holding cpus_read_lock cgroup/cpuset: Defer housekeeping_update() calls from CPU hotplug to workqueue cgroup/cpuset: Move housekeeping_update()/rebuild_sched_domains() together kselftest/cgroup: Simplify test_cpuset_prs.sh by removing "S+" command cgroup/cpuset: Set isolated_cpus_updating only if isolated_cpus is changed cgroup/cpuset: Clarify exclusion rules for cpuset internal variables cgroup/cpuset: Fix incorrect use of cpuset_update_tasks_cpumask() in update_cpumasks_hier() cgroup/cpuset: Fix incorrect change to effective_xcpus in partition_xcpus_del() cgroup: fix race between task migration and iteration
2026-02-21Convert 'alloc_flex' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argumentLinus Torvalds
This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex() interface. As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather than 'objs*'. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2026-02-21Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argumentLinus Torvalds
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' | xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/' to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL argument to just drop that argument. Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered: they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically. For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate conversion. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2026-02-21treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar typesKees Cook
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2026-02-12cgroup: fix race between task migration and iterationQingye Zhao
When a task is migrated out of a css_set, cgroup_migrate_add_task() first moves it from cset->tasks to cset->mg_tasks via: list_move_tail(&task->cg_list, &cset->mg_tasks); If a css_task_iter currently has it->task_pos pointing to this task, css_set_move_task() calls css_task_iter_skip() to keep the iterator valid. However, since the task has already been moved to ->mg_tasks, the iterator is advanced relative to the mg_tasks list instead of the original tasks list. As a result, remaining tasks on cset->tasks, as well as tasks queued on cset->mg_tasks, can be skipped by iteration. Fix this by calling css_set_skip_task_iters() before unlinking task->cg_list from cset->tasks. This advances all active iterators to the next task on cset->tasks, so iteration continues correctly even when a task is concurrently being migrated. This race is hard to hit in practice without instrumentation, but it can be reproduced by artificially slowing down cgroup_procs_show(). For example, on an Android device a temporary /sys/kernel/cgroup/cgroup_test knob can be added to inject a delay into cgroup_procs_show(), and then: 1) Spawn three long-running tasks (PIDs 101, 102, 103). 2) Create a test cgroup and move the tasks into it. 3) Enable a large delay via /sys/kernel/cgroup/cgroup_test. 4) In one shell, read cgroup.procs from the test cgroup. 5) Within the delay window, in another shell migrate PID 102 by writing it to a different cgroup.procs file. Under this setup, cgroup.procs can intermittently show only PID 101 while skipping PID 103. Once the migration completes, reading the file again shows all tasks as expected. Note that this change does not allow removing the existing css_set_skip_task_iters() call in css_set_move_task(). The new call in cgroup_migrate_add_task() only handles iterators that are racing with migration while the task is still on cset->tasks. Iterators may also start after the task has been moved to cset->mg_tasks. If we dropped css_set_skip_task_iters() from css_set_move_task(), such iterators could keep task_pos pointing to a migrating task, causing css_task_iter_advance() to malfunction on the destination css_set, up to and including crashes or infinite loops. The race window between migration and iteration is very small, and css_task_iter is not on a hot path. In the worst case, when an iterator is positioned on the first thread of the migrating process, cgroup_migrate_add_task() may have to skip multiple tasks via css_set_skip_task_iters(). However, this only happens when migration and iteration actually race, so the performance impact is negligible compared to the correctness fix provided here. Fixes: b636fd38dc40 ("cgroup: Implement css_task_iter_skip()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.2+ Signed-off-by: Qingye Zhao <zhaoqingye@honor.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-02-11Merge tag 'cgroup-for-6.20' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: - cpuset changes: - Continue separating v1 and v2 implementations by moving more v1-specific logic into cpuset-v1.c - Improve partition handling. Sibling partitions are no longer invalidated on cpuset.cpus conflict, cpuset.cpus changes no longer fail in v2, and effective_xcpus computation is made consistent - Fix partition effective CPUs overlap that caused a warning on cpuset removal when sibling partitions shared CPUs - Increase the maximum cgroup subsystem count from 16 to 32 to accommodate future subsystem additions - Misc cleanups and selftest improvements including switching to css_is_online() helper, removing dead code and stale documentation references, using lockdep_assert_cpuset_lock_held() consistently, and adding polling helpers for asynchronously updated cgroup statistics * tag 'cgroup-for-6.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (21 commits) cpuset: fix overlap of partition effective CPUs cgroup: increase maximum subsystem count from 16 to 32 cgroup: Remove stale cpu.rt.max reference from documentation cpuset: replace direct lockdep_assert_held() with lockdep_assert_cpuset_lock_held() cgroup/cpuset: Move the v1 empty cpus/mems check to cpuset1_validate_change() cgroup/cpuset: Don't invalidate sibling partitions on cpuset.cpus conflict cgroup/cpuset: Don't fail cpuset.cpus change in v2 cgroup/cpuset: Consistently compute effective_xcpus in update_cpumasks_hier() cgroup/cpuset: Streamline rm_siblings_excl_cpus() cpuset: remove dead code in cpuset-v1.c cpuset: remove v1-specific code from generate_sched_domains cpuset: separate generate_sched_domains for v1 and v2 cpuset: move update_domain_attr_tree to cpuset_v1.c cpuset: add cpuset1_init helper for v1 initialization cpuset: add cpuset1_online_css helper for v1-specific operations cpuset: add lockdep_assert_cpuset_lock_held helper cpuset: Remove unnecessary checks in rebuild_sched_domains_locked cgroup: switch to css_is_online() helper selftests: cgroup: Replace sleep with cg_read_key_long_poll() for waiting on nr_dying_descendants selftests: cgroup: make test_memcg_sock robust against delayed sock stats ...
2026-02-01cgroup: increase maximum subsystem count from 16 to 32Chen Ridong
The current cgroup subsystem limit of 16 is insufficient, as the number of existing subsystems has already reached this limit. When adding a new subsystem that is not yet in the mainline kernel, building with `make allmodconfig` requires first bypassing the `BUILD_BUG_ON(CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT > 16)` restriction to allow compilation to succeed. However, the kernel still fails to boot afterward. This patch increases the maximum number of supported cgroup subsystems from 16 to 32, providing enough room for future subsystem additions. Signed-off-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Tested-by: JP Kobryn <inwardvessel@gmail.com> Acked-by: JP Kobryn <inwardvessel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-01-15kernel: cgroup: Add SPDX-License-Identifier linesTim Bird
Add GPL-2.0 SPDX license id lines to a few old files, replacing the reference to the COPYING file. The COPYING file at the time of creation of these files (2007 and 2005) was GPL-v2.0, with an additional clause indicating that only v2 applied. Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@sony.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2026-01-07cgroup: Eliminate cgrp_ancestor_storage in cgroup_rootMichal Koutný
The cgrp_ancestor_storage has two drawbacks: - it's not guaranteed that the member immediately follows struct cgrp in cgroup_root (root cgroup's ancestors[0] might thus point to a padding and not in cgrp_ancestor_storage proper), - this idiom raises warnings with -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end. Instead of relying on the auxiliary member in cgroup_root, define the 0-th level ancestor inside struct cgroup (needed for static allocation of cgrp_dfl_root), deeper cgroups would allocate flexible _low_ancestors[]. Unionized alias through ancestors[] will transparently join the two ranges. The above change would still leave the flexible array at the end of struct cgroup inside cgroup_root, so move cgrp also towards the end of cgroup_root to resolve the -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5fb74444-2fbb-476e-b1bf-3f3e279d0ced@embeddedor.com/ Reported-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b3eb050d-9451-4b60-b06c-ace7dab57497@embeddedor.com/ Cc: David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com> Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-12-08cgroup: switch to css_is_online() helperChen Ridong
Use the new css_is_online() helper that has been introduced to check css online state, instead of testing the CSS_ONLINE flag directly. This improves readability and centralizes the state check logic. No functional changes intended. Signed-off-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-12-05Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "__vmalloc()/kvmalloc() and no-block support" (Uladzislau Rezki) Rework the vmalloc() code to support non-blocking allocations (GFP_ATOIC, GFP_NOWAIT) "ksm: fix exec/fork inheritance" (xu xin) Fix a rare case where the KSM MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY prctl state is not inherited across fork/exec "mm/zswap: misc cleanup of code and documentations" (SeongJae Park) Some light maintenance work on the zswap code "mm/page_owner: add debugfs files 'show_handles' and 'show_stacks_handles'" (Mauricio Faria de Oliveira) Enhance the /sys/kernel/debug/page_owner debug feature by adding unique identifiers to differentiate the various stack traces so that userspace monitoring tools can better match stack traces over time "mm/page_alloc: pcp->batch cleanups" (Joshua Hahn) Minor alterations to the page allocator's per-cpu-pages feature "Improve UFFDIO_MOVE scalability by removing anon_vma lock" (Lokesh Gidra) Address a scalability issue in userfaultfd's UFFDIO_MOVE operation "kasan: cleanups for kasan_enabled() checks" (Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov) "drivers/base/node: fold node register and unregister functions" (Donet Tom) Clean up the NUMA node handling code a little "mm: some optimizations for prot numa" (Kefeng Wang) Cleanups and small optimizations to the NUMA allocation hinting code "mm/page_alloc: Batch callers of free_pcppages_bulk" (Joshua Hahn) Address long lock hold times at boot on large machines. These were causing (harmless) softlockup warnings "optimize the logic for handling dirty file folios during reclaim" (Baolin Wang) Remove some now-unnecessary work from page reclaim "mm/damon: allow DAMOS auto-tuned for per-memcg per-node memory usage" (SeongJae Park) Enhance the DAMOS auto-tuning feature "mm/damon: fixes for address alignment issues in DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM" (Quanmin Yan) Fix DAMON_LRU_SORT and DAMON_RECLAIM with certain userspace configuration "expand mmap_prepare functionality, port more users" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Enhance the new(ish) file_operations.mmap_prepare() method and port additional callsites from the old ->mmap() over to ->mmap_prepare() "Fix stale IOTLB entries for kernel address space" (Lu Baolu) Fix a bug (and possible security issue on non-x86) in the IOMMU code. In some situations the IOMMU could be left hanging onto a stale kernel pagetable entry "mm/huge_memory: cleanup __split_unmapped_folio()" (Wei Yang) Clean up and optimize the folio splitting code "mm, swap: misc cleanup and bugfix" (Kairui Song) Some cleanups and a minor fix in the swap discard code "mm/damon: misc documentation fixups" (SeongJae Park) "mm/damon: support pin-point targets removal" (SeongJae Park) Permit userspace to remove a specific monitoring target in the middle of the current targets list "mm: MISC follow-up patches for linux/pgalloc.h" (Harry Yoo) A couple of cleanups related to mm header file inclusion "mm/swapfile.c: select swap devices of default priority round robin" (Baoquan He) improve the selection of swap devices for NUMA machines "mm: Convert memory block states (MEM_*) macros to enums" (Israel Batista) Change the memory block labels from macros to enums so they will appear in kernel debug info "ksm: perform a range-walk to jump over holes in break_ksm" (Pedro Demarchi Gomes) Address an inefficiency when KSM unmerges an address range "mm/damon/tests: fix memory bugs in kunit tests" (SeongJae Park) Fix leaks and unhandled malloc() failures in DAMON userspace unit tests "some cleanups for pageout()" (Baolin Wang) Clean up a couple of minor things in the page scanner's writeback-for-eviction code "mm/hugetlb: refactor sysfs/sysctl interfaces" (Hui Zhu) Move hugetlb's sysfs/sysctl handling code into a new file "introduce VM_MAYBE_GUARD and make it sticky" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Make the VMA guard regions available in /proc/pid/smaps and improves the mergeability of guarded VMAs "mm: perform guard region install/remove under VMA lock" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Reduce mmap lock contention for callers performing VMA guard region operations "vma_start_write_killable" (Matthew Wilcox) Start work on permitting applications to be killed when they are waiting on a read_lock on the VMA lock "mm/damon/tests: add more tests for online parameters commit" (SeongJae Park) Add additional userspace testing of DAMON's "commit" feature "mm/damon: misc cleanups" (SeongJae Park) "make VM_SOFTDIRTY a sticky VMA flag" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Address the possible loss of a VMA's VM_SOFTDIRTY flag when that VMA is merged with another "mm: support device-private THP" (Balbir Singh) Introduce support for Transparent Huge Page (THP) migration in zone device-private memory "Optimize folio split in memory failure" (Zi Yan) "mm/huge_memory: Define split_type and consolidate split support checks" (Wei Yang) Some more cleanups in the folio splitting code "mm: remove is_swap_[pte, pmd]() + non-swap entries, introduce leaf entries" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Clean up our handling of pagetable leaf entries by introducing the concept of 'software leaf entries', of type softleaf_t "reparent the THP split queue" (Muchun Song) Reparent the THP split queue to its parent memcg. This is in preparation for addressing the long-standing "dying memcg" problem, wherein dead memcg's linger for too long, consuming memory resources "unify PMD scan results and remove redundant cleanup" (Wei Yang) A little cleanup in the hugepage collapse code "zram: introduce writeback bio batching" (Sergey Senozhatsky) Improve zram writeback efficiency by introducing batched bio writeback support "memcg: cleanup the memcg stats interfaces" (Shakeel Butt) Clean up our handling of the interrupt safety of some memcg stats "make vmalloc gfp flags usage more apparent" (Vishal Moola) Clean up vmalloc's handling of incoming GFP flags "mm: Add soft-dirty and uffd-wp support for RISC-V" (Chunyan Zhang) Teach soft dirty and userfaultfd write protect tracking to use RISC-V's Svrsw60t59b extension "mm: swap: small fixes and comment cleanups" (Youngjun Park) Fix a small bug and clean up some of the swap code "initial work on making VMA flags a bitmap" (Lorenzo Stoakes) Start work on converting the vma struct's flags to a bitmap, so we stop running out of them, especially on 32-bit "mm/swapfile: fix and cleanup swap list iterations" (Youngjun Park) Address a possible bug in the swap discard code and clean things up a little [ This merge also reverts commit ebb9aeb980e5 ("vfio/nvgrace-gpu: register device memory for poison handling") because it looks broken to me, I've asked for clarification - Linus ] * tag 'mm-stable-2025-12-03-21-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits) mm: fix vma_start_write_killable() signal handling mm/swapfile: use plist_for_each_entry in __folio_throttle_swaprate mm/swapfile: fix list iteration when next node is removed during discard fs/proc/task_mmu.c: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() huge pte handling mm/kfence: add reboot notifier to disable KFENCE on shutdown memcg: remove inc/dec_lruvec_kmem_state helpers selftests/mm/uffd: initialize char variable to Null mm: fix DEBUG_RODATA_TEST indentation in Kconfig mm: introduce VMA flags bitmap type tools/testing/vma: eliminate dependency on vma->__vm_flags mm: simplify and rename mm flags function for clarity mm: declare VMA flags by bit zram: fix a spelling mistake mm/page_alloc: optimize lowmem_reserve max lookup using its semantic monotonicity mm/vmscan: skip increasing kswapd_failures when reclaim was boosted pagemap: update BUDDY flag documentation mm: swap: remove scan_swap_map_slots() references from comments mm: swap: change swap_alloc_slow() to void mm, swap: remove redundant comment for read_swap_cache_async mm, swap: use SWP_SOLIDSTATE to determine if swap is rotational ...
2025-12-03Merge tag 'cgroup-for-6.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: - Defer task cgroup unlink until after the dying task's final context switch so that controllers see the cgroup properly populated until the task is truly gone - cpuset cleanups and simplifications. Enforce that domain isolated CPUs stay in root or isolated partitions and fail if isolated+nohz_full would leave no housekeeping CPU. Fix sched/deadline root domain handling during CPU hot-unplug and race for tasks in attaching cpusets - Misc fixes including memory reclaim protection documentation and selftest KTAP conformance * tag 'cgroup-for-6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (21 commits) cpuset: Treat cpusets in attaching as populated sched/deadline: Walk up cpuset hierarchy to decide root domain when hot-unplug cgroup/cpuset: Introduce cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked() docs: cgroup: No special handling of unpopulated memcgs docs: cgroup: Note about sibling relative reclaim protection docs: cgroup: Explain reclaim protection target selftests/cgroup: conform test to KTAP format output cpuset: remove need_rebuild_sched_domains cpuset: remove global remote_children list cpuset: simplify node setting on error cgroup: include missing header for struct irq_work cgroup: Fix sleeping from invalid context warning on PREEMPT_RT cgroup/cpuset: Globally track isolated_cpus update cgroup/cpuset: Ensure domain isolated CPUs stay in root or isolated partition cgroup/cpuset: Move up prstate_housekeeping_conflict() helper cgroup/cpuset: Fail if isolated and nohz_full don't leave any housekeeping cgroup/cpuset: Rename update_unbound_workqueue_cpumask() to update_isolation_cpumasks() cgroup: Defer task cgroup unlink until after the task is done switching out cgroup: Move dying_tasks cleanup from cgroup_task_release() to cgroup_task_free() cgroup: Rename cgroup lifecycle hooks to cgroup_task_*() ...
2025-12-01Merge tag 'kernel-6.19-rc1.cred' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull cred guard updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains substantial credential infrastructure improvements adding guard-based credential management that simplifies code and eliminates manual reference counting in many subsystems. Features: - Kernel Credential Guards Add with_kernel_creds() and scoped_with_kernel_creds() guards that allow using the kernel credentials without allocating and copying them. This was requested by Linus after seeing repeated prepare_kernel_creds() calls that duplicate the kernel credentials only to drop them again later. The new guards completely avoid the allocation and never expose the temporary variable to hold the kernel credentials anywhere in callers. - Generic Credential Guards Add scoped_with_creds() guards for the common override_creds() and revert_creds() pattern. This builds on earlier work that made override_creds()/revert_creds() completely reference count free. - Prepare Credential Guards Add prepare credential guards for the more complex pattern of preparing a new set of credentials and overriding the current credentials with them: - prepare_creds() - modify new creds - override_creds() - revert_creds() - put_cred() Cleanups: - Make init_cred static since it should not be directly accessed - Add kernel_cred() helper to properly access the kernel credentials - Fix scoped_class() macro that was introduced two cycles ago - coredump: split out do_coredump() from vfs_coredump() for cleaner credential handling - coredump: move revert_cred() before coredump_cleanup() - coredump: mark struct mm_struct as const - coredump: pass struct linux_binfmt as const - sev-dev: use guard for path" * tag 'kernel-6.19-rc1.cred' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (36 commits) trace: use override credential guard trace: use prepare credential guard coredump: use override credential guard coredump: use prepare credential guard coredump: split out do_coredump() from vfs_coredump() coredump: mark struct mm_struct as const coredump: pass struct linux_binfmt as const coredump: move revert_cred() before coredump_cleanup() sev-dev: use override credential guards sev-dev: use prepare credential guard sev-dev: use guard for path cred: add prepare credential guard net/dns_resolver: use credential guards in dns_query() cgroup: use credential guards in cgroup_attach_permissions() act: use credential guards in acct_write_process() smb: use credential guards in cifs_get_spnego_key() nfs: use credential guards in nfs_idmap_get_key() nfs: use credential guards in nfs_local_call_write() nfs: use credential guards in nfs_local_call_read() erofs: use credential guards ...
2025-11-16memcg: net: track network throttling due to memcg memory pressureShakeel Butt
The kernel can throttle network sockets if the memory cgroup associated with the corresponding socket is under memory pressure. The throttling actions include clamping the transmit window, failing to expand receive or send buffers, aggressively prune out-of-order receive queue, FIN deferred to a retransmitted packet and more. Let's add memcg metric to track such throttling actions. At the moment memcg memory pressure is defined through vmpressure and in future it may be defined using PSI or we may add more flexible way for the users to define memory pressure, maybe through ebpf. However the potential throttling actions will remain the same, so this newly introduced metric will continue to track throttling actions irrespective of how memcg memory pressure is defined. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251016161035.86161-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Sedlak <daniel.sedlak@cdn77.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Jakub Kacinski <kuba@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2025-11-11cgroup: include missing header for struct irq_workBert Karwatzki
To compile cgroup.c with PREEMPT_RT=y include header which declares struct irq_work. Fixes: 9311e6c29b34 ("cgroup: Fix sleeping from invalid context warning on PREEMPT_RT") Signed-off-by: Bert Karwatzki <spasswolf@web.de> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-11-11ns: drop custom reference count initialization for initial namespacesChristian Brauner
Initial namespaces don't modify their reference count anymore. They remain fixed at one so drop the custom refcount initializations. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251110-work-namespace-nstree-fixes-v1-16-e8a9264e0fb9@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-11Merge branch 'kbuild-6.19.fms.extension'Christian Brauner
Bring in the shared branch with the kbuild tree to enable '-fms-extensions' for 6.19. Further namespace cleanup work requires this extension. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-06cgroup: Fix sleeping from invalid context warning on PREEMPT_RTTejun Heo
cgroup_task_dead() is called from finish_task_switch() which runs with preemption disabled and doesn't allow scheduling even on PREEMPT_RT. The function needs to acquire css_set_lock which is a regular spinlock that can sleep on RT kernels, leading to "sleeping function called from invalid context" warnings. css_set_lock is too large in scope to convert to a raw_spinlock. However, the unlinking operations don't need to run synchronously - they just need to complete after the task is done running. On PREEMPT_RT, defer the work through irq_work. While the work doesn't need to happen immediately, it can't be delayed indefinitely either as the dead task pins the cgroup and task_struct can be pinned indefinitely. Use the lazy version of irq_work to allow batching and lower impact while ensuring timely completion. v2: Use IRQ_WORK_INIT_LAZY instead of immediate irq_work and add explanation for why the work can't be delayed indefinitely (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior). Fixes: d245698d727a ("cgroup: Defer task cgroup unlink until after the task is done switching out") Reported-by: Calvin Owens <calvin@wbinvd.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251104181114.489391-1-calvin@wbinvd.org Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-11-04cgroup: use credential guards in cgroup_attach_permissions()Christian Brauner
Use credential guards for scoped credential override with automatic restoration on scope exit. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251103-work-creds-guards-simple-v1-15-a3e156839e7f@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-03cgroup: Defer task cgroup unlink until after the task is done switching outTejun Heo
When a task exits, css_set_move_task(tsk, cset, NULL, false) unlinks the task from its cgroup. From the cgroup's perspective, the task is now gone. If this makes the cgroup empty, it can be removed, triggering ->css_offline() callbacks that notify controllers the cgroup is going offline resource-wise. However, the exiting task can still run, perform memory operations, and schedule until the final context switch in finish_task_switch(). This creates a confusing situation where controllers are told a cgroup is offline while resource activities are still happening in it. While this hasn't broken existing controllers, it has caused direct confusion for sched_ext schedulers. Split cgroup_task_exit() into two functions. cgroup_task_exit() now only calls the subsystem exit callbacks and continues to be called from do_exit(). The css_set cleanup is moved to the new cgroup_task_dead() which is called from finish_task_switch() after the final context switch, so that the cgroup only appears empty after the task is truly done running. This also reorders operations so that subsys->exit() is now called before unlinking from the cgroup, which shouldn't break anything. Cc: Dan Schatzberg <dschatzberg@meta.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-11-03cgroup: Move dying_tasks cleanup from cgroup_task_release() to ↵Tejun Heo
cgroup_task_free() Currently, cgroup_task_exit() adds thread group leaders with live member threads to their css_set's dying_tasks list (so cgroup.procs iteration can still see the leader), and cgroup_task_release() later removes them with list_del_init(&task->cg_list). An upcoming patch will defer the dying_tasks list addition, moving it from cgroup_task_exit() (called from do_exit()) to a new function called from finish_task_switch(). However, release_task() (which calls cgroup_task_release()) can run either before or after finish_task_switch(), creating a race where cgroup_task_release() might try to remove the task from dying_tasks before or while it's being added. Move the list_del_init() from cgroup_task_release() to cgroup_task_free() to fix this race. cgroup_task_free() runs from __put_task_struct(), which is always after both paths, making the cleanup safe. Cc: Dan Schatzberg <dschatzberg@meta.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-11-03cgroup: Rename cgroup lifecycle hooks to cgroup_task_*()Tejun Heo
The current names cgroup_exit(), cgroup_release(), and cgroup_free() are confusing because they look like they're operating on cgroups themselves when they're actually task lifecycle hooks. For example, cgroup_init() initializes the cgroup subsystem while cgroup_exit() is a task exit notification to cgroup. Rename them to cgroup_task_exit(), cgroup_task_release(), and cgroup_task_free() to make it clear that these operate on tasks. Cc: Dan Schatzberg <dschatzberg@meta.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-11-03ns: rename to exit_nsproxy_namespaces()Christian Brauner
The current naming is very misleading as this really isn't exiting all of the task's namespaces. It is only exiting the namespaces that hang of off nsproxy. Reflect that in the name. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251029-work-namespace-nstree-listns-v4-10-2e6f823ebdc0@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-11-03ns: use NS_COMMON_INIT() for all namespacesChristian Brauner
Now that we have a common initializer use it for all static namespaces. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-10-03cgroup: Fix seqcount lockdep assertion in cgroup freezerNirbhay Sharma
The commit afa3701c0e45 ("cgroup: cgroup.stat.local time accounting") introduced a seqcount to track freeze timing but initialized it as a plain seqcount_t using seqcount_init(). However, the write-side critical section in cgroup_do_freeze() holds the css_set_lock spinlock while calling write_seqcount_begin(). On PREEMPT_RT kernels, spinlocks do not disable preemption, causing the lockdep assertion for a plain seqcount_t, which checks for preemption being disabled, to fail. This triggers the following warning: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 9692 at include/linux/seqlock.h:221 Fix this by changing the type to seqcount_spinlock_t and initializing it with seqcount_spinlock_init() to associate css_set_lock with the seqcount. This allows lockdep to correctly validate that the spinlock is held during write operations, resolving the assertion failure on all kernel configurations. Reported-by: syzbot+27a2519eb4dad86d0156@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=27a2519eb4dad86d0156 Fixes: afa3701c0e45 ("cgroup: cgroup.stat.local time accounting") Signed-off-by: Nirbhay Sharma <nirbhay.lkd@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251002165510.KtY3IT--@linutronix.de/ Acked-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-09-30Merge tag 'bpf-next-6.18' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov: - Support pulling non-linear xdp data with bpf_xdp_pull_data() kfunc (Amery Hung) Applied as a stable branch in bpf-next and net-next trees. - Support reading skb metadata via bpf_dynptr (Jakub Sitnicki) Also a stable branch in bpf-next and net-next trees. - Enforce expected_attach_type for tailcall compatibility (Daniel Borkmann) - Replace path-sensitive with path-insensitive live stack analysis in the verifier (Eduard Zingerman) This is a significant change in the verification logic. More details, motivation, long term plans are in the cover letter/merge commit. - Support signed BPF programs (KP Singh) This is another major feature that took years to materialize. Algorithm details are in the cover letter/marge commit - Add support for may_goto instruction to s390 JIT (Ilya Leoshkevich) - Add support for may_goto instruction to arm64 JIT (Puranjay Mohan) - Fix USDT SIB argument handling in libbpf (Jiawei Zhao) - Allow uprobe-bpf program to change context registers (Jiri Olsa) - Support signed loads from BPF arena (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi and Puranjay Mohan) - Allow access to union arguments in tracing programs (Leon Hwang) - Optimize rcu_read_lock() + migrate_disable() combination where it's used in BPF subsystem (Menglong Dong) - Introduce bpf_task_work_schedule*() kfuncs to schedule deferred execution of BPF callback in the context of a specific task using the kernel’s task_work infrastructure (Mykyta Yatsenko) - Enforce RCU protection for KF_RCU_PROTECTED kfuncs (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi) - Add stress test for rqspinlock in NMI (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi) - Improve the precision of tnum multiplier verifier operation (Nandakumar Edamana) - Use tnums to improve is_branch_taken() logic (Paul Chaignon) - Add support for atomic operations in arena in riscv JIT (Pu Lehui) - Report arena faults to BPF error stream (Puranjay Mohan) - Search for tracefs at /sys/kernel/tracing first in bpftool (Quentin Monnet) - Add bpf_strcasecmp() kfunc (Rong Tao) - Support lookup_and_delete_elem command in BPF_MAP_STACK_TRACE (Tao Chen) * tag 'bpf-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (197 commits) libbpf: Replace AF_ALG with open coded SHA-256 selftests/bpf: Add stress test for rqspinlock in NMI selftests/bpf: Add test case for different expected_attach_type bpf: Enforce expected_attach_type for tailcall compatibility bpftool: Remove duplicate string.h header bpf: Remove duplicate crypto/sha2.h header libbpf: Fix error when st-prefix_ops and ops from differ btf selftests/bpf: Test changing packet data from kfunc selftests/bpf: Add stacktrace map lookup_and_delete_elem test case selftests/bpf: Refactor stacktrace_map case with skeleton bpf: Add lookup_and_delete_elem for BPF_MAP_STACK_TRACE selftests/bpf: Fix flaky bpf_cookie selftest selftests/bpf: Test changing packet data from global functions with a kfunc bpf: Emit struct bpf_xdp_sock type in vmlinux BTF selftests/bpf: Task_work selftest cleanup fixes MAINTAINERS: Delete inactive maintainers from AF_XDP bpf: Mark kfuncs as __noclone selftests/bpf: Add kprobe multi write ctx attach test selftests/bpf: Add kprobe write ctx attach test selftests/bpf: Add uprobe context ip register change test ...
2025-09-30Merge tag 'cgroup-for-6.18' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: - Extensive cpuset code cleanup and refactoring work with no functional changes: CPU mask computation logic refactoring, introducing new helpers, removing redundant code paths, and improving error handling for better maintainability. - A few bug fixes to cpuset including fixes for partition creation failures when isolcpus is in use, missing error returns, and null pointer access prevention in free_tmpmasks(). - Core cgroup changes include replacing the global percpu_rwsem with per-threadgroup rwsem when writing to cgroup.procs for better scalability, workqueue conversions to use WQ_PERCPU and system_percpu_wq to prepare for workqueue default switching from percpu to unbound, and removal of unused code including the post_attach callback. - New cgroup.stat.local time accounting feature that tracks frozen time duration. - Misc changes including selftests updates (new freezer time tests and backward compatibility fixes), documentation sync, string function safety improvements, and 64-bit division fixes. * tag 'cgroup-for-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (39 commits) cpuset: remove is_prs_invalid helper cpuset: remove impossible warning in update_parent_effective_cpumask cpuset: remove redundant special case for null input in node mask update cpuset: fix missing error return in update_cpumask cpuset: Use new excpus for nocpu error check when enabling root partition cpuset: fix failure to enable isolated partition when containing isolcpus Documentation: cgroup-v2: Sync manual toctree cpuset: use partition_cpus_change for setting exclusive cpus cpuset: use parse_cpulist for setting cpus.exclusive cpuset: introduce partition_cpus_change cpuset: refactor cpus_allowed_validate_change cpuset: refactor out validate_partition cpuset: introduce cpus_excl_conflict and mems_excl_conflict helpers cpuset: refactor CPU mask buffer parsing logic cpuset: Refactor exclusive CPU mask computation logic cpuset: change return type of is_partition_[in]valid to bool cpuset: remove unused assignment to trialcs->partition_root_state cpuset: move the root cpuset write check earlier cgroup/cpuset: Remove redundant rcu_read_lock/unlock() in spin_lock cgroup: Remove redundant rcu_read_lock/unlock() in spin_lock ...
2025-09-29Merge tag 'namespace-6.18-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs Pull namespace updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains a larger set of changes around the generic namespace infrastructure of the kernel. Each specific namespace type (net, cgroup, mnt, ...) embedds a struct ns_common which carries the reference count of the namespace and so on. We open-coded and cargo-culted so many quirks for each namespace type that it just wasn't scalable anymore. So given there's a bunch of new changes coming in that area I've started cleaning all of this up. The core change is to make it possible to correctly initialize every namespace uniformly and derive the correct initialization settings from the type of the namespace such as namespace operations, namespace type and so on. This leaves the new ns_common_init() function with a single parameter which is the specific namespace type which derives the correct parameters statically. This also means the compiler will yell as soon as someone does something remotely fishy. The ns_common_init() addition also allows us to remove ns_alloc_inum() and drops any special-casing of the initial network namespace in the network namespace initialization code that Linus complained about. Another part is reworking the reference counting. The reference counting was open-coded and copy-pasted for each namespace type even though they all followed the same rules. This also removes all open accesses to the reference count and makes it private and only uses a very small set of dedicated helpers to manipulate them just like we do for e.g., files. In addition this generalizes the mount namespace iteration infrastructure introduced a few cycles ago. As reminder, the vfs makes it possible to iterate sequentially and bidirectionally through all mount namespaces on the system or all mount namespaces that the caller holds privilege over. This allow userspace to iterate over all mounts in all mount namespaces using the listmount() and statmount() system call. Each mount namespace has a unique identifier for the lifetime of the systems that is exposed to userspace. The network namespace also has a unique identifier working exactly the same way. This extends the concept to all other namespace types. The new nstree type makes it possible to lookup namespaces purely by their identifier and to walk the namespace list sequentially and bidirectionally for all namespace types, allowing userspace to iterate through all namespaces. Looking up namespaces in the namespace tree works completely locklessly. This also means we can move the mount namespace onto the generic infrastructure and remove a bunch of code and members from struct mnt_namespace itself. There's a bunch of stuff coming on top of this in the future but for now this uses the generic namespace tree to extend a concept introduced first for pidfs a few cycles ago. For a while now we have supported pidfs file handles for pidfds. This has proven to be very useful. This extends the concept to cover namespaces as well. It is possible to encode and decode namespace file handles using the common name_to_handle_at() and open_by_handle_at() apis. As with pidfs file handles, namespace file handles are exhaustive, meaning it is not required to actually hold a reference to nsfs in able to decode aka open_by_handle_at() a namespace file handle. Instead the FD_NSFS_ROOT constant can be passed which will let the kernel grab a reference to the root of nsfs internally and thus decode the file handle. Namespaces file descriptors can already be derived from pidfds which means they aren't subject to overmount protection bugs. IOW, it's irrelevant if the caller would not have access to an appropriate /proc/<pid>/ns/ directory as they could always just derive the namespace based on a pidfd already. It has the same advantage as pidfds. It's possible to reliably and for the lifetime of the system refer to a namespace without pinning any resources and to compare them trivially. Permission checking is kept simple. If the caller is located in the namespace the file handle refers to they are able to open it otherwise they must hold privilege over the owning namespace of the relevant namespace. The namespace file handle layout is exposed as uapi and has a stable and extensible format. For now it simply contains the namespace identifier, the namespace type, and the inode number. The stable format means that userspace may construct its own namespace file handles without going through name_to_handle_at() as they are already allowed for pidfs and cgroup file handles" * tag 'namespace-6.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (65 commits) ns: drop assert ns: move ns type into struct ns_common nstree: make struct ns_tree private ns: add ns_debug() ns: simplify ns_common_init() further cgroup: add missing ns_common include ns: use inode initializer for initial namespaces selftests/namespaces: verify initial namespace inode numbers ns: rename to __ns_ref nsfs: port to ns_ref_*() helpers net: port to ns_ref_*() helpers uts: port to ns_ref_*() helpers ipv4: use check_net() net: use check_net() net-sysfs: use check_net() user: port to ns_ref_*() helpers time: port to ns_ref_*() helpers pid: port to ns_ref_*() helpers ipc: port to ns_ref_*() helpers cgroup: port to ns_ref_*() helpers ...
2025-09-25ns: move ns type into struct ns_commonChristian Brauner
It's misplaced in struct proc_ns_operations and ns->ops might be NULL if the namespace is compiled out but we still want to know the type of the namespace for the initial namespace struct. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-19ns: use inode initializer for initial namespacesChristian Brauner
Just use the common helper we have. Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-19ns: rename to __ns_refChristian Brauner
Make it easier to grep and rename to ns_count. Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-19cgroup: support ns lookupChristian Brauner
Support the generic ns lookup infrastructure to support file handles for namespaces. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2025-09-16cgroup: Remove redundant rcu_read_lock/unlock() in spin_lockpengdonglin
Since commit a8bb74acd8efe ("rcu: Consolidate RCU-sched update-side function definitions") there is no difference between rcu_read_lock(), rcu_read_lock_bh() and rcu_read_lock_sched() in terms of RCU read section and the relevant grace period. That means that spin_lock(), which implies rcu_read_lock_sched(), also implies rcu_read_lock(). There is no need no explicitly start a RCU read section if one has already been started implicitly by spin_lock(). Simplify the code and remove the inner rcu_read_lock() invocation. Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: pengdonglin <pengdonglin@xiaomi.com> Signed-off-by: pengdonglin <dolinux.peng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-09-15bpf: Do not limit bpf_cgroup_from_id to current's namespaceKumar Kartikeya Dwivedi
The bpf_cgroup_from_id kfunc relies on cgroup_get_from_id to obtain the cgroup corresponding to a given cgroup ID. This helper can be called in a lot of contexts where the current thread can be random. A recent example was its use in sched_ext's ops.tick(), to obtain the root cgroup pointer. Since the current task can be whatever random user space task preempted by the timer tick, this makes the behavior of the helper unreliable. Refactor out __cgroup_get_from_id as the non-namespace aware version of cgroup_get_from_id, and change bpf_cgroup_from_id to make use of it. There is no compatibility breakage here, since changing the namespace against which the lookup is being done to the root cgroup namespace only permits a wider set of lookups to succeed now. The cgroup IDs across namespaces are globally unique, and thus don't need to be retranslated. Reported-by: Dan Schatzberg <dschatzberg@meta.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250915032618.1551762-2-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-09-10cgroup: replace global percpu_rwsem with per threadgroup resem when writing ↵Yi Tao
to cgroup.procs The static usage pattern of creating a cgroup, enabling controllers, and then seeding it with CLONE_INTO_CGROUP doesn't require write locking cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem and thus doesn't benefit from this patch. To avoid affecting other users, the per threadgroup rwsem is only used when the favordynmods is enabled. As computer hardware advances, modern systems are typically equipped with many CPU cores and large amounts of memory, enabling the deployment of numerous applications. On such systems, container creation and deletion become frequent operations, making cgroup process migration no longer a cold path. This leads to noticeable contention with common process operations such as fork, exec, and exit. To alleviate the contention between cgroup process migration and operations like process fork, this patch modifies lock to take the write lock on signal_struct->group_rwsem when writing pid to cgroup.procs/threads instead of holding a global write lock. Cgroup process migration has historically relied on signal_struct->group_rwsem to protect thread group integrity. In commit <1ed1328792ff> ("sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem"), this was changed to a global cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem. The advantage of using a global lock was simplified handling of process group migrations. This patch retains the use of the global lock for protecting process group migration, while reducing contention by using per thread group lock during cgroup.procs/threads writes. The locking behavior is as follows: write cgroup.procs/threads | process fork,exec,exit | process group migration ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ cgroup_lock() | down_read(&g_rwsem) | cgroup_lock() down_write(&p_rwsem) | down_read(&p_rwsem) | down_write(&g_rwsem) critical section | critical section | critical section up_write(&p_rwsem) | up_read(&p_rwsem) | up_write(&g_rwsem) cgroup_unlock() | up_read(&g_rwsem) | cgroup_unlock() g_rwsem denotes cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem, p_rwsem denotes signal_struct->group_rwsem. This patch eliminates contention between cgroup migration and fork operations for threads that belong to different thread groups, thereby reducing the long-tail latency of cgroup migrations and lowering system load. With this patch, under heavy fork and exec interference, the long-tail latency of cgroup migration has been reduced from milliseconds to microseconds. Under heavy cgroup migration interference, the multi-CPU score of the spawn test case in UnixBench increased by 9%. tj: Update comment in cgroup_favor_dynmods() and switch WARN_ONCE() to pr_warn_once(). Signed-off-by: Yi Tao <escape@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-09-10cgroup: relocate cgroup_attach_lock within cgroup_procs_write_startYi Tao
Later patches will introduce a new parameter `task` to cgroup_attach_lock, thus adjusting the position of cgroup_attach_lock within cgroup_procs_write_start. Between obtaining the threadgroup leader via PID and acquiring the cgroup attach lock, the threadgroup leader may change, which could lead to incorrect cgroup migration. Therefore, after acquiring the cgroup attach lock, we check whether the threadgroup leader has changed, and if so, retry the operation. tj: Minor comment adjustments. Signed-off-by: Yi Tao <escape@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-09-10cgroup: refactor the cgroup_attach_lock code to make it clearerYi Tao
Dynamic cgroup migration involving threadgroup locks can be in one of two states: no lock held, or holding the global lock. Explicitly declaring the different lock modes to make the code easier to understand and facilitates future extensions of the lock modes. Signed-off-by: Yi Tao <escape@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-09-05cgroup: Merge branch 'for-6.17-fixes' into for-6.18Tejun Heo
Pull for-6.17-fixes to receive 79f919a89c9d ("cgroup: split cgroup_destroy_wq into 3 workqueues") to resolve its conflict with 7fa33aa3b001 ("cgroup: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users"). The latter adds WQ_PERCPU when creating cgroup_destroy_wq and the former splits the workqueue into three. Resolve by applying WQ_PERCPU to the three split workqueues. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-09-05cgroup: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue usersMarco Crivellari
Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND. This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API. alloc_workqueue() treats all queues as per-CPU by default, while unbound workqueues must opt-in via WQ_UNBOUND. This default is suboptimal: most workloads benefit from unbound queues, allowing the scheduler to place worker threads where they’re needed and reducing noise when CPUs are isolated. This patch adds a new WQ_PERCPU flag to explicitly request the use of the per-CPU behavior. Both flags coexist for one release cycle to allow callers to transition their calls. Once migration is complete, WQ_UNBOUND can be removed and unbound will become the implicit default. With the introduction of the WQ_PERCPU flag (equivalent to !WQ_UNBOUND), any alloc_workqueue() caller that doesn’t explicitly specify WQ_UNBOUND must now use WQ_PERCPU. All existing users have been updated accordingly. Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-09-05cgroup: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wqMarco Crivellari
Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND. This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API. system_wq is a per-CPU worqueue, yet nothing in its name tells about that CPU affinity constraint, which is very often not required by users. Make it clear by adding a system_percpu_wq. queue_work() / queue_delayed_work() mod_delayed_work() will now use the new per-cpu wq: whether the user still stick on the old name a warn will be printed along a wq redirect to the new one. This patch add the new system_percpu_wq except for mm, fs and net subsystem, whom are handled in separated patches. The old wq will be kept for a few release cylces. Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-09-04cgroup: Remove unused local variables from cgroup_procs_write_finish()Tejun Heo
d8b269e009bb ("cgroup: Remove unused cgroup_subsys::post_attach") made $ss and $ssid unused but didn't drop them leading to compilation warnings. Drop them. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Chuyi Zhou <zhouchuyi@bytedance.com>
2025-09-04cgroup: Remove unused cgroup_subsys::post_attachChuyi Zhou
cgroup_subsys::post_attach callback was introduced in commit 5cf1cacb49ae ("cgroup, cpuset: replace cpuset_post_attach_flush() with cgroup_subsys->post_attach callback") and only cpuset would use this callback to wait for the mm migration to complete at the end of __cgroup_procs_write(). Since the previous patch defer the flush operation until returning to userspace, no one use this callback now. Remove this callback from cgroup_subsys. Signed-off-by: Chuyi Zhou <zhouchuyi@bytedance.com> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-08-25cgroup: Fix 64-bit division in cgroup.stat.localTiffany Yang
Fix the following build error for 32-bit systems: arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: kernel/cgroup/cgroup.o: in function `cgroup_core_local_stat_show': >> kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:3781:(.text+0x28f4): undefined reference to `__aeabi_uldivmod' arm-linux-gnueabi-ld: (__aeabi_uldivmod): Unknown destination type (ARM/Thumb) in kernel/cgroup/cgroup.o >> kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:3781:(.text+0x28f4): dangerous relocation: unsupported relocation Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202508230604.KyvqOy81-lkp@intel.com/ Signed-off-by: Tiffany Yang <ynaffit@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-08-22cgroup: cgroup.stat.local time accountingTiffany Yang
There isn't yet a clear way to identify a set of "lost" time that everyone (or at least a wider group of users) cares about. However, users can perform some delay accounting by iterating over components of interest. This patch allows cgroup v2 freezing time to be one of those components. Track the cumulative time that each v2 cgroup spends freezing and expose it to userland via a new local stat file in cgroupfs. Thank you to Michal, who provided the ASCII art in the updated documentation. To access this value: $ mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/test $ cat /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.stat.local freeze_time_total 0 Ensure consistent freeze time reads with freeze_seq, a per-cgroup sequence counter. Writes are serialized using the css_set_lock. Signed-off-by: Tiffany Yang <ynaffit@google.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-08-22cgroup/psi: Set of->priv to NULL upon file releaseChen Ridong
Setting of->priv to NULL when the file is released enables earlier bug detection. This allows potential bugs to manifest as NULL pointer dereferences rather than use-after-free errors[1], which are generally more difficult to diagnose. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/cgroups/38ef3ff9-b380-44f0-9315-8b3714b0948d@huaweicloud.com/T/#m8a3b3f88f0ff3da5925d342e90043394f8b2091b Signed-off-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-08-22cgroup: split cgroup_destroy_wq into 3 workqueuesChen Ridong
A hung task can occur during [1] LTP cgroup testing when repeatedly mounting/unmounting perf_event and net_prio controllers with systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1. The hang manifests in cgroup_lock_and_drain_offline() during root destruction. Related case: cgroup_fj_function_perf_event cgroup_fj_function.sh perf_event cgroup_fj_function_net_prio cgroup_fj_function.sh net_prio Call Trace: cgroup_lock_and_drain_offline+0x14c/0x1e8 cgroup_destroy_root+0x3c/0x2c0 css_free_rwork_fn+0x248/0x338 process_one_work+0x16c/0x3b8 worker_thread+0x22c/0x3b0 kthread+0xec/0x100 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 Root Cause: CPU0 CPU1 mount perf_event umount net_prio cgroup1_get_tree cgroup_kill_sb rebind_subsystems // root destruction enqueues // cgroup_destroy_wq // kill all perf_event css // one perf_event css A is dying // css A offline enqueues cgroup_destroy_wq // root destruction will be executed first css_free_rwork_fn cgroup_destroy_root cgroup_lock_and_drain_offline // some perf descendants are dying // cgroup_destroy_wq max_active = 1 // waiting for css A to die Problem scenario: 1. CPU0 mounts perf_event (rebind_subsystems) 2. CPU1 unmounts net_prio (cgroup_kill_sb), queuing root destruction work 3. A dying perf_event CSS gets queued for offline after root destruction 4. Root destruction waits for offline completion, but offline work is blocked behind root destruction in cgroup_destroy_wq (max_active=1) Solution: Split cgroup_destroy_wq into three dedicated workqueues: cgroup_offline_wq – Handles CSS offline operations cgroup_release_wq – Manages resource release cgroup_free_wq – Performs final memory deallocation This separation eliminates blocking in the CSS free path while waiting for offline operations to complete. [1] https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/blob/master/runtest/controllers Fixes: 334c3679ec4b ("cgroup: reimplement rebind_subsystems() using cgroup_apply_control() and friends") Reported-by: Gao Yingjie <gaoyingjie@uniontech.com> Signed-off-by: Chen Ridong <chenridong@huawei.com> Suggested-by: Teju Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2025-06-09cgroup: Add bpf prog revisions to struct cgroup_bpfYonghong Song
One of key items in mprog API is revision for prog list. The revision number will be increased if the prog list changed, e.g., attach, detach or replace. Add 'revisions' field to struct cgroup_bpf, representing revisions for all cgroup related attachment types. The initial revision value is set to 1, the same as kernel mprog implementations. Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250606163136.2428732-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev