lwn.git/kernel, branch docs-5.13

Merge tag 'io_uring-5.12-2021-03-05' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2021-03-05T20:44:43+00:00

Pull io_uring fixes from Jens Axboe: "A bit of a mix between fallout from the worker change, cleanups and reductions now possible from that change, and fixes in general. In detail: - Fully serialize manager and worker creation, fixing races due to that. - Clean up some naming that had gone stale. - SQPOLL fixes. - Fix race condition around task_work rework that went into this merge window. - Implement unshare. Used for when the original task does unshare(2) or setuid/seteuid and friends, drops the original workers and forks new ones. - Drop the only remaining piece of state shuffling we had left, which was cred. Move it into issue instead, and we can drop all of that code too. - Kill f_op->flush() usage. That was such a nasty hack that we had out of necessity, we no longer need it. - Following from ->flush() removal, we can also drop various bits of ctx state related to SQPOLL and cancelations. - Fix an issue with IOPOLL retry, which originally was fallout from a filemap change (removing iov_iter_revert()), but uncovered an issue with iovec re-import too late. - Fix an issue with system suspend. - Use xchg() for fallback work, instead of cmpxchg(). - Properly destroy io-wq on exec. - Add create_io_thread() core helper, and use that in io-wq and io_uring. This allows us to remove various silly completion events related to thread setup. - A few error handling fixes. This should be the grunt of fixes necessary for the new workers, next week should be quieter. We've got a pending series from Pavel on cancelations, and how tasks and rings are indexed. Outside of that, should just be minor fixes. Even with these fixes, we're still killing a net ~80 lines" * tag 'io_uring-5.12-2021-03-05' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (41 commits) io_uring: don't restrict issue_flags for io_openat io_uring: make SQPOLL thread parking saner io-wq: kill hashed waitqueue before manager exits io_uring: clear IOCB_WAITQ for non -EIOCBQUEUED return io_uring: don't keep looping for more events if we can't flush overflow io_uring: move to using create_io_thread() kernel: provide create_io_thread() helper io_uring: reliably cancel linked timeouts io_uring: cancel-match based on flags io-wq: ensure all pending work is canceled on exit io_uring: ensure that threads freeze on suspend io_uring: remove extra in_idle wake up io_uring: inline __io_queue_async_work() io_uring: inline io_req_clean_work() io_uring: choose right tctx->io_wq for try cancel io_uring: fix -EAGAIN retry with IOPOLL io-wq: fix error path leak of buffered write hash map io_uring: remove sqo_task io_uring: kill sqo_dead and sqo submission halting io_uring: ignore double poll add on the same waitqueue head ...

kernel: provide create_io_thread() helper

2021-03-04T22:45:03+00:00

Provide a generic helper for setting up an io_uring worker. Returns a task_struct so that the caller can do whatever setup is needed, then call wake_up_new_task() to kick it into gear. Add a kernel_clone_args member, io_thread, which tells copy_process() to mark the task with PF_IO_WORKER. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

tracing: Skip selftests if tracing is disabled

2021-03-04T14:51:25+00:00

If tracing is disabled for some reason (traceoff_on_warning, command line, etc), the ftrace selftests are guaranteed to fail, as their results are defined by trace data in the ring buffers. If the ring buffers are turned off, the tests will fail, due to lack of data. Because tracing being disabled is for a specific reason (warning, user decided to, etc), it does not make sense to enable tracing to run the self tests, as the test output may corrupt the reason for the tracing to be disabled. Instead, simply skip the self tests and report that they are being skipped due to tracing being disabled. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Fix memory leak in __create_synth_event()

2021-03-04T14:45:57+00:00

kmemleak report: unreferenced object 0xc5a6f708 (size 8): comm "ftracetest", pid 1209, jiffies 4294911500 (age 6.816s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 00 c1 3d 60 14 83 1f 8a ..=`.... backtrace: [] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x2a6/0x460 [<7d3d60a6>] kstrndup+0x37/0x70 [<45a0e739>] argv_split+0x1c/0x120 [] __create_synth_event+0x192/0xb00 [<0708b8a3>] create_synth_event+0xbb/0x150 [<3d1941e1>] create_dyn_event+0x5c/0xb0 [<5cf8b9e3>] trace_parse_run_command+0xa7/0x140 [<04deb2ef>] dyn_event_write+0x10/0x20 [<8779ac95>] vfs_write+0xa9/0x3c0 [] ksys_write+0x89/0xc0 [] __ia32_sys_write+0x15/0x20 [<7ce02d85>] __do_fast_syscall_32+0x45/0x80 [] do_fast_syscall_32+0x29/0x60 [<2467454a>] do_SYSENTER_32+0x15/0x20 [<9beaa61d>] entry_SYSENTER_32+0xa9/0xfc unreferenced object 0xc5a6f078 (size 8): comm "ftracetest", pid 1209, jiffies 4294911500 (age 6.816s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 08 f7 a6 c5 00 00 00 00 ........ backtrace: [] __kmalloc+0x2b6/0x470 [] argv_split+0x82/0x120 [] __create_synth_event+0x192/0xb00 [<0708b8a3>] create_synth_event+0xbb/0x150 [<3d1941e1>] create_dyn_event+0x5c/0xb0 [<5cf8b9e3>] trace_parse_run_command+0xa7/0x140 [<04deb2ef>] dyn_event_write+0x10/0x20 [<8779ac95>] vfs_write+0xa9/0x3c0 [] ksys_write+0x89/0xc0 [] __ia32_sys_write+0x15/0x20 [<7ce02d85>] __do_fast_syscall_32+0x45/0x80 [] do_fast_syscall_32+0x29/0x60 [<2467454a>] do_SYSENTER_32+0x15/0x20 [<9beaa61d>] entry_SYSENTER_32+0xa9/0xfc In __create_synth_event(), while iterating field/type arguments, the argv_split() will return array of atleast 2 elements even when zero arguments(argc=0) are passed. for e.g. when there is double delimiter or string ends with delimiter To fix call argv_free() even when argc=0. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210304094521.GA1826@cosmos Signed-off-by: Vamshi K Sthambamkadi Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ring-buffer: Add a little more information and a WARN when time stamp going backwards is detected

2021-03-04T14:45:17+00:00

When the CONFIG_RING_BUFFER_VALIDATE_TIME_DELTAS is enabled, and the time stamps are detected as not being valid, it reports information about the write stamp, but does not show the before_stamp which is still useful information. Also, it should give a warning once, such that tests detect this happening. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

ring-buffer: Force before_stamp and write_stamp to be different on discard

2021-03-04T14:45:17+00:00

Part of the logic of the new time stamp code depends on the before_stamp and the write_stamp to be different if the write_stamp does not match the last event on the buffer, as it will be used to calculate the delta of the next event written on the buffer. The discard logic depends on this, as the next event to come in needs to inject a full timestamp as it can not rely on the last event timestamp in the buffer because it is unknown due to events after it being discarded. But by changing the write_stamp back to the time before it, it forces the next event to use a full time stamp, instead of relying on it. The issue came when a full time stamp was used for the event, and rb_time_delta() returns zero in that case. The update to the write_stamp (which subtracts delta) made it not change. Then when the event is removed from the buffer, because the before_stamp and write_stamp still match, the next event written would calculate its delta from the write_stamp, but that would be wrong as the write_stamp is of the time of the event that was discarded. In the case that the delta change being made to write_stamp is zero, set the before_stamp to zero as well, and this will force the next event to inject a full timestamp and not use the current write_stamp. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: a389d86f7fd09 ("ring-buffer: Have nested events still record running time stamp") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Fix help text of TRACEPOINT_BENCHMARK in Kconfig

2021-03-04T14:45:17+00:00

It's "cond_resched()" not "cond_sched()". Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1863065.aFVDpXsuPd@devpool47 Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

tracing: Remove duplicate declaration from trace.h

2021-03-04T14:44:47+00:00

A declaration of function "int trace_empty(struct trace_iterator *iter)" shows up twice in the header file kernel/trace/trace.h Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210304092348.208033-1-y.karadz@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Yordan Karadzhov (VMware) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

Merge tag 'block-5.12-2021-02-27' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2021-02-28T19:23:38+00:00

Pull more block updates from Jens Axboe: "A few stragglers (and one due to me missing it originally), and fixes for changes in this merge window mostly. In particular: - blktrace cleanups (Chaitanya, Greg) - Kill dead blk_pm_* functions (Bart) - Fixes for the bio alloc changes (Christoph) - Fix for the partition changes (Christoph, Ming) - Fix for turning off iopoll with polled IO inflight (Jeffle) - nbd disconnect fix (Josef) - loop fsync error fix (Mauricio) - kyber update depth fix (Yang) - max_sectors alignment fix (Mikulas) - Add bio_max_segs helper (Matthew)" * tag 'block-5.12-2021-02-27' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (21 commits) block: Add bio_max_segs blktrace: fix documentation for blk_fill_rw() block: memory allocations in bounce_clone_bio must not fail block: remove the gfp_mask argument to bounce_clone_bio block: fix bounce_clone_bio for passthrough bios block-crypto-fallback: use a bio_set for splitting bios block: fix logging on capacity change blk-settings: align max_sectors on "logical_block_size" boundary block: reopen the device in blkdev_reread_part block: don't skip empty device in in disk_uevent blktrace: remove debugfs file dentries from struct blk_trace nbd: handle device refs for DESTROY_ON_DISCONNECT properly kyber: introduce kyber_depth_updated() loop: fix I/O error on fsync() in detached loop devices block: fix potential IO hang when turning off io_poll block: get rid of the trace rq insert wrapper blktrace: fix blk_rq_merge documentation blktrace: fix blk_rq_issue documentation blktrace: add blk_fill_rwbs documentation comment block: remove superfluous param in blk_fill_rwbs() ...

Merge tag 'io_uring-worker.v3-2021-02-25' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2021-02-27T16:29:02+00:00

Pull io_uring thread rewrite from Jens Axboe: "This converts the io-wq workers to be forked off the tasks in question instead of being kernel threads that assume various bits of the original task identity. This kills > 400 lines of code from io_uring/io-wq, and it's the worst part of the code. We've had several bugs in this area, and the worry is always that we could be missing some pieces for file types doing unusual things (recent /dev/tty example comes to mind, userfaultfd reads installing file descriptors is another fun one... - both of which need special handling, and I bet it's not the last weird oddity we'll find). With these identical workers, we can have full confidence that we're never missing anything. That, in itself, is a huge win. Outside of that, it's also more efficient since we're not wasting space and code on tracking state, or switching between different states. I'm sure we're going to find little things to patch up after this series, but testing has been pretty thorough, from the usual regression suite to production. Any issue that may crop up should be manageable. There's also a nice series of further reductions we can do on top of this, but I wanted to get the meat of it out sooner rather than later. The general worry here isn't that it's fundamentally broken. Most of the little issues we've found over the last week have been related to just changes in how thread startup/exit is done, since that's the main difference between using kthreads and these kinds of threads. In fact, if all goes according to plan, I want to get this into the 5.10 and 5.11 stable branches as well. That said, the changes outside of io_uring/io-wq are: - arch setup, simple one-liner to each arch copy_thread() implementation. - Removal of net and proc restrictions for io_uring, they are no longer needed or useful" * tag 'io_uring-worker.v3-2021-02-25' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (30 commits) io-wq: remove now unused IO_WQ_BIT_ERROR io_uring: fix SQPOLL thread handling over exec io-wq: improve manager/worker handling over exec io_uring: ensure SQPOLL startup is triggered before error shutdown io-wq: make buffered file write hashed work map per-ctx io-wq: fix race around io_worker grabbing io-wq: fix races around manager/worker creation and task exit io_uring: ensure io-wq context is always destroyed for tasks arch: ensure parisc/powerpc handle PF_IO_WORKER in copy_thread() io_uring: cleanup ->user usage io-wq: remove nr_process accounting io_uring: flag new native workers with IORING_FEAT_NATIVE_WORKERS net: remove cmsg restriction from io_uring based send/recvmsg calls Revert "proc: don't allow async path resolution of /proc/self components" Revert "proc: don't allow async path resolution of /proc/thread-self components" io_uring: move SQPOLL thread io-wq forked worker io-wq: make io_wq_fork_thread() available to other users io-wq: only remove worker from free_list, if it was there io_uring: remove io_identity io_uring: remove any grabbing of context ...