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2024-06-18sched_ext: Implement BPF extensible scheduler classTejun Heo
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 cff9b2332ab7 ("kernel/sched: Modify initial boot task idle setup"), PF_IDLE is not set on idle tasks which haven't been online yet which made scx_task_iter_next_filtered() include those idle tasks in iterations leading to oopses. Update scx_task_iter_next_filtered() to directly test p->sched_class against idle_sched_class instead of using is_idle_task() which tests PF_IDLE. - Other updates to match upstream changes such as adding const to set_cpumask() param and renaming check_preempt_curr() to wakeup_preempt(). v4: - SCHED_CHANGE_BLOCK replaced with the previous sched_deq_and_put_task()/sched_enq_and_set_tsak() pair. This is because upstream is adaopting a different generic cleanup mechanism. Once that lands, the code will be adapted accordingly. - task_on_scx() used to test whether a task should be switched into SCX, which is confusing. Renamed to task_should_scx(). task_on_scx() now tests whether a task is currently on SCX. - scx_has_idle_cpus is barely used anymore and replaced with direct check on the idle cpumask. - SCX_PICK_IDLE_CORE added and scx_pick_idle_cpu() improved to prefer fully idle cores. - ops.enable() now sees up-to-date p->scx.weight value. - ttwu_queue path is disabled for tasks on SCX to avoid confusing BPF schedulers expecting ->select_cpu() call. - Use cpu_smt_mask() instead of topology_sibling_cpumask() like the rest of the scheduler. v3: - ops.set_weight() added to allow BPF schedulers to track weight changes without polling p->scx.weight. - move_task_to_local_dsq() was losing SCX-specific enq_flags when enqueueing the task on the target dsq because it goes through activate_task() which loses the upper 32bit of the flags. Carry the flags through rq->scx.extra_enq_flags. - scx_bpf_dispatch(), scx_bpf_pick_idle_cpu(), scx_bpf_task_running() and scx_bpf_task_cpu() now use the new KF_RCU instead of KF_TRUSTED_ARGS to make it easier for BPF schedulers to call them. - The kfunc helper access control mechanism implemented through sched_ext_entity.kf_mask is improved. Now SCX_CALL_OP*() is always used when invoking scx_ops operations. v2: - balance_scx_on_up() is dropped. Instead, on UP, balance_scx() is called from put_prev_taks_scx() and pick_next_task_scx() as necessary. To determine whether balance_scx() should be called from put_prev_task_scx(), SCX_TASK_DEQD_FOR_SLEEP flag is added. See the comment in put_prev_task_scx() for details. - sched_deq_and_put_task() / sched_enq_and_set_task() sequences replaced with SCHED_CHANGE_BLOCK(). - Unused all_dsqs list removed. This was a left-over from previous iterations. - p->scx.kf_mask is added to track and enforce which kfunc helpers are allowed. Also, init/exit sequences are updated to make some kfuncs always safe to call regardless of the current BPF scheduler state. Combined, this should make all the kfuncs safe. - BPF now supports sleepable struct_ops operations. Hacky workaround removed and operations and kfunc helpers are tagged appropriately. - BPF now supports bitmask / cpumask helpers. scx_bpf_get_idle_cpumask() and friends are added so that BPF schedulers can use the idle masks with the generic helpers. This replaces the hacky kfunc helpers added by a separate patch in V1. - CONFIG_SCHED_CLASS_EXT can no longer be enabled if SCHED_CORE is enabled. This restriction will be removed by a later patch which adds core-sched support. - Add MAINTAINERS entries and other misc changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Co-authored-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com> Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com> Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com> Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com> Cc: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
2020-02-12clone3: allow spawning processes into cgroupsChristian Brauner
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>
2020-01-14ns: Introduce Time NamespaceAndrei Vagin
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
2019-11-25Merge tag 'threads-v5.5' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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
2019-11-15fork: extend clone3() to support setting a PIDAdrian Reber
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>
2019-11-05clone3: validate stack argumentsChristian Brauner
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 Fixes: 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add clone3") Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.3 Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191031113608.20713-1-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
2019-10-21clone3: add CLONE_CLEAR_SIGHANDChristian Brauner
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
2019-10-04Merge tag 'copy-struct-from-user-v5.4-rc2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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
2019-10-03sched: add kernel-doc for struct clone_argsChristian Brauner
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>
2019-10-01clone3: switch to copy_struct_from_user()Aleksa Sarai
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>
2019-09-30sched: Add __ASSEMBLY__ guards around struct clone_argsSeth Forshee
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. Fixes: 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add clone3") Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190917071853.12385-1-seth.forshee@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
2019-07-11Merge tag 'clone3-v5.3' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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
2019-06-24sched/uclamp: Extend sched_setattr() to support utilization clampingPatrick Bellasi
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>
2019-06-24sched/core: Allow sched_setattr() to use the current policyPatrick Bellasi
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>
2019-06-09fork: add clone3Christian Brauner
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]: b3e5838252665ee4cfa76b82bdf1198dca81e5be [2]: https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/security/sandbox/linux/SandboxFilter.cpp#343 [3]: https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/thread/pthread_create.c#n233 [4]: https://sources.debian.org/src/blcr/0.8.5-2.3/cr_module/cr_dump_self.c/?hl=740#L740 [5]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190425161416.26600-1-dima@arista.com/ [6]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190425161416.26600-2-dima@arista.com/ [7]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHrFyr5HxpGXA2YrKza-oB-GGwJCqwPfyhD-Y5wbktWZdt0sGQ@mail.gmail.com/ [8]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190524102756.qjsjxukuq2f4t6bo@brauner.io/ [9]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190529222414.GA6492@gmail.com/ [10]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whQP-Ykxi=zSYaV9iXsHsENa+2fdj-zYKwyeyed63Lsfw@mail.gmail.com/ [11]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wieuV4hGwznPsX-8E0G2FKhx3NjZ9X3dTKh5zKd+iqOBw@mail.gmail.com/ Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Adrian Reber <adrian@lisas.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
2019-05-07clone: add CLONE_PIDFDChristian Brauner
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>
2018-01-10sched/deadline: Implement "runtime overrun signal" supportJuri Lelli
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>
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no ↵Greg Kroah-Hartman
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>
2017-06-08sched/deadline: Make GRUB a task's flagLuca Abeni
This patch introduces the SCHED_FLAG_RECLAIM flag to specify that a DL task is allowed to reclaim unused CPU time (using the GRUB algorithm). Tested-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@santannapisa.it> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Claudio Scordino <claudio@evidence.eu.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Tommaso Cucinotta <tommaso.cucinotta@sssup.it> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1495138417-6203-7-git-send-email-luca.abeni@santannapisa.it Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-16sched: new clone flag CLONE_NEWCGROUP for cgroup namespaceAditya Kali
CLONE_NEWCGROUP will be used to create new cgroup namespace. Signed-off-by: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com> Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2014-11-16sched: Update comments about CLONE_NEWUTS and CLONE_NEWIPCChen Hanxiao
Remove question mark: s/New utsname group?/New utsname namespace Unified style for IPC: s/New ipcs/New ipc namespace Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415091082-15093-1-git-send-email-chenhanxiao@cn.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-10-28sched: Update comments for CLONE_NEWNSChen Hanxiao
Signed-off-by: Chen Hanxiao <chenhanxiao@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412674147-8941-1-git-send-email-chenhanxiao@cn.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-16sched: Move SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK into attr::sched_flagsPeter Zijlstra
I noticed the new sched_{set,get}attr() calls didn't properly deal with the SCHED_RESET_ON_FORK hack. Instead of propagating the flags in high bits nonsense use the brand spanking new attr::sched_flags field. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Cc: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140115162242.GJ31570@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-13sched/deadline: Add SCHED_DEADLINE structures & implementationDario Faggioli
Introduces the data structures, constants and symbols needed for SCHED_DEADLINE implementation. Core data structure of SCHED_DEADLINE are defined, along with their initializers. Hooks for checking if a task belong to the new policy are also added where they are needed. Adds a scheduling class, in sched/dl.c and a new policy called SCHED_DEADLINE. It is an implementation of the Earliest Deadline First (EDF) scheduling algorithm, augmented with a mechanism (called Constant Bandwidth Server, CBS) that makes it possible to isolate the behaviour of tasks between each other. The typical -deadline task will be made up of a computation phase (instance) which is activated on a periodic or sporadic fashion. The expected (maximum) duration of such computation is called the task's runtime; the time interval by which each instance need to be completed is called the task's relative deadline. The task's absolute deadline is dynamically calculated as the time instant a task (better, an instance) activates plus the relative deadline. The EDF algorithms selects the task with the smallest absolute deadline as the one to be executed first, while the CBS ensures each task to run for at most its runtime every (relative) deadline length time interval, avoiding any interference between different tasks (bandwidth isolation). Thanks to this feature, also tasks that do not strictly comply with the computational model sketched above can effectively use the new policy. To summarize, this patch: - introduces the data structures, constants and symbols needed; - implements the core logic of the scheduling algorithm in the new scheduling class file; - provides all the glue code between the new scheduling class and the core scheduler and refines the interactions between sched/dl and the other existing scheduling classes. Signed-off-by: Dario Faggioli <raistlin@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <michael@amarulasolutions.com> Signed-off-by: Fabio Checconi <fchecconi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1383831828-15501-4-git-send-email-juri.lelli@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-10-13UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linuxDavid Howells
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>