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During boot, to initialize unbound CPU pods, wq_pod_init() was called from
workqueue_init(). This is early enough for NUMA nodes to be set up but
before SMP is brought up and CPU topology information is populated.
Workqueue is in the process of improving CPU locality for unbound workqueues
and will need access to topology information during pod init. This adds a
new init function workqueue_init_topology() which is called after CPU
topology information is available and replaces wq_pod_init().
As unbound CPU pods are now initialized after workqueues are activated, we
need to revisit the workqueues to apply the pod configuration. Workqueues
which are created before workqueue_init_topology() are set up so that they
always use the default worker pool. After pods are set up in
workqueue_init_topology(), wq_update_pod() is called on all existing
workqueues to update the pool associations accordingly.
Note that wq_update_pod_attrs_buf allocation is moved to
workqueue_init_early(). This isn't necessary right now but enables further
generalization of pod handling in the future.
This patch changes the initialization sequence but the end result should be
the same.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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wq_pod_init() is called from workqueue_init() and responsible for
initializing unbound CPU pods according to NUMA node. Workqueue is in the
process of improving affinity awareness and wants to use other topology
information to initialize unbound CPU pods; however, unlike NUMA nodes,
other topology information isn't yet available in workqueue_init().
The next patch will introduce a later stage init function for workqueue
which will be responsible for initializing unbound CPU pods. Relocate
wq_pod_init() below workqueue_init() where the new init function is going to
be located so that the diff can show the content differences.
Just a relocation. No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Workqueue is in the process of improving CPU affinity awareness. It will
become more flexible and won't be tied to NUMA node boundaries. This patch
renames all NUMA related names in workqueue.c to use "pod" instead.
While "pod" isn't a very common term, it short and captures the grouping of
CPUs well enough. These names are only going to be used within workqueue
implementation proper, so the specific naming doesn't matter that much.
* wq_numa_possible_cpumask -> wq_pod_cpus
* wq_numa_enabled -> wq_pod_enabled
* wq_update_unbound_numa_attrs_buf -> wq_update_pod_attrs_buf
* workqueue_select_cpu_near -> select_numa_node_cpu
This rename is different from others. The function is only used by
queue_work_node() and specifically tries to find a CPU in the specified
NUMA node. As workqueue affinity will become more flexible and untied from
NUMA, this function's name should specifically describe that it's for
NUMA.
* wq_calc_node_cpumask -> wq_calc_pod_cpumask
* wq_update_unbound_numa -> wq_update_pod
* wq_numa_init -> wq_pod_init
* node -> pod in local variables
Only renames. No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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With the recent removal of NUMA related module param and sysfs knob,
workqueue_attrs->no_numa is now only used to implement ordered workqueues.
Let's rename the field so that it's less confusing especially with the
planned CPU affinity awareness improvements.
Just a rename. No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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A pwq (pool_workqueue) represents an association between a workqueue and a
worker_pool. When a work item is queued, the workqueue selects the pwq to
use, which in turn determines the pool, and queues the work item to the pool
through the pwq. pwq is also what implements the maximum concurrency limit -
@max_active.
As a per-cpu workqueue should be assocaited with a different worker_pool on
each CPU, it always had per-cpu pwq's that are accessed through wq->cpu_pwq.
However, unbound workqueues were sharing a pwq within each NUMA node by
default. The sharing has several downsides:
* Because @max_active is per-pwq, the meaning of @max_active changes
depending on the machine configuration and whether workqueue NUMA locality
support is enabled.
* Makes per-cpu and unbound code deviate.
* Gets in the way of making workqueue CPU locality awareness more flexible.
This patch makes unbound workqueues use per-cpu pwq's the same way per-cpu
workqueues do by making the following changes:
* wq->numa_pwq_tbl[] is removed and unbound workqueues now use wq->cpu_pwq
just like per-cpu workqueues. wq->cpu_pwq is now RCU protected for unbound
workqueues.
* numa_pwq_tbl_install() is renamed to install_unbound_pwq() and installs
the specified pwq to the target CPU's wq->cpu_pwq.
* apply_wqattrs_prepare() now always allocates a separate pwq for each CPU
unless the workqueue is ordered. If ordered, all CPUs use wq->dfl_pwq.
This makes the return value of wq_calc_node_cpumask() unnecessary. It now
returns void.
* @max_active now means the same thing for both per-cpu and unbound
workqueues. WQ_UNBOUND_MAX_ACTIVE now equals WQ_MAX_ACTIVE and
documentation is updated accordingly. WQ_UNBOUND_MAX_ACTIVE is no longer
used in workqueue implementation and will be removed later.
* All unbound pwq operations which used to be per-numa-node are now per-cpu.
For most unbound workqueue users, this shouldn't cause noticeable changes.
Work item issue and completion will be a small bit faster, flush_workqueue()
would become a bit more expensive, and the total concurrency limit would
likely become higher. All @max_active==1 use cases are currently being
audited for conversion into alloc_ordered_workqueue() and they shouldn't be
affected once the audit and conversion is complete.
One area where the behavior change may be more noticeable is
workqueue_congested() as the reported congestion state is now per CPU
instead of NUMA node. There are only two users of this interface -
drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1 and net/smc. Maintainers of both subsystems are
cc'd. Inputs on the behavior change would be very much appreciated.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@cornelisnetworks.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Karsten Graul <kgraul@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jan Karcher <jaka@linux.ibm.com>
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When a CPU went online or offline, wq_update_unbound_numa() was called only
on the CPU which was going up or down. This works fine because all CPUs on
the same NUMA node share the same pool_workqueue slot - one CPU updating it
updates it for everyone in the node.
However, future changes will make each CPU use a separate pool_workqueue
even when they're sharing the same worker_pool, which requires updating
pool_workqueue's for all CPUs which may be sharing the same pool_workqueue
on hotplug.
To accommodate the planned changes, this patch updates
workqueue_on/offline_cpu() so that they call wq_update_unbound_numa() for
all CPUs sharing the same NUMA node as the CPU going up or down. In the
current code, the second+ calls would be noops and there shouldn't be any
behavior changes.
* As wq_update_unbound_numa() is now called on multiple CPUs per each
hotplug event, @cpu is renamed to @hotplug_cpu and another @cpu argument
is added. The former indicates the CPU being hot[un]plugged and the latter
the CPU whose pool_workqueue is being updated.
* In wq_update_unbound_numa(), cpu_off is renamed to off_cpu for consistency
with the new @hotplug_cpu.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Currently, all per-cpu pwq's (pool_workqueue's) are allocated directly
through a per-cpu allocation and thus, unlike unbound workqueues, not
reference counted. This difference in lifetime management between the two
types is a bit confusing.
Unbound workqueues are currently accessed through wq->numa_pwq_tbl[] which
isn't suitiable for the planned CPU locality related improvements. The plan
is to unify pwq handling across per-cpu and unbound workqueues so that
they're always accessed through wq->cpu_pwq.
In preparation, this patch makes per-cpu pwq's to be allocated, reference
counted and released the same way as unbound pwq's. wq->cpu_pwq now holds
pointers to pwq's instead of containing them directly.
pwq_unbound_release_workfn() is renamed to pwq_release_workfn() as it's now
also used for per-cpu work items.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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pool_workqueue release path is currently bounced to system_wq; however, this
is a bit tricky because this bouncing occurs while holding a pool lock and
thus has risk of causing a A-A deadlock. This is currently addressed by the
fact that only unbound workqueues use this bouncing path and system_wq is a
per-cpu workqueue.
While this works, it's brittle and requires a work-around like setting the
lockdep subclass for the lock of unbound pools. Besides, future changes will
use the bouncing path for per-cpu workqueues too making the current approach
unusable.
Let's just use a dedicated kthread_worker to untangle the dependency. This
is just one more kthread for all workqueues and makes the pwq release logic
simpler and more robust.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Unbound workqueue CPU affinity is going to receive an overhaul and the NUMA
specific knobs won't make sense anymore. Remove them. Also, the pool_ids
knob was used for debugging and not really meaningful given that there is no
visibility into the pools associated with those IDs. Remove it too. A future
patch will improve overall visibility.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Collect first_idle_worker(), worker_enter/leave_idle(),
find_worker_executing_work(), move_linked_works() and wake_up_worker() into
one place. These functions will later be used to implement higher level
worker management logic.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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wq->cpu_pwqs is a percpu variable carraying one pointer to a pool_workqueue.
The field name being plural is unusual and confusing. Rename it to singular.
This patch doesn't cause any functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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insert_work() always tried to wake up a worker; however, the only time it
needs to try to wake up a worker is when a new active work item is queued.
When a work item goes on the inactive list or queueing a flush work item,
there's no reason to try to wake up a worker.
This patch moves the worker wakeup logic out of insert_work() and places it
in the active new work item queueing path in __queue_work().
While at it:
* __queue_work() is dereferencing pwq->pool repeatedly. Add local variable
pool.
* Every caller of insert_work() calls debug_work_activate(). Consolidate the
invocations into insert_work().
* In __queue_work() pool->watchdog_ts update is relocated slightly. This is
to better accommodate future changes.
This makes wakeups more precise and will help the planned change to assign
work items to workers before waking them up. No behavior changes intended.
v2: WARN_ON_ONCE(pool != last_pool) added in __queue_work() to clarify as
suggested by Lai.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
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* Drop the trivial optimization in worker_thread() where it bypasses calling
process_scheduled_works() if the first work item isn't linked. This is a
mostly pointless micro optimization and gets in the way of improving the
work processing path.
* Consolidate pool->watchdog_ts updates in the two callers into
process_scheduled_works().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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worker_pool->flags
worker->flags used to be accessed from scheduler hooks without grabbing
pool->lock for concurrency management. This is no longer true since
6d25be5782e4 ("sched/core, workqueues: Distangle worker accounting from rq
lock"). Also, it's unclear why worker_pool->flags was using the "X" rule.
All relevant users are accessing it under the pool lock.
Let's drop the special "X" rule and use the "L" rule for these flag fields
instead. While at it, replace the CONTEXT comment with
lockdep_assert_held().
This allows worker_set/clr_flags() to be used from context which isn't the
worker itself. This will be used later to implement assinging work items to
workers before waking them up so that workqueue can have better control over
which worker executes which work item on which CPU.
The only actual changes are sanity checks. There shouldn't be any visible
behavior changes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Unbound workqueue execution locality improvement patchset is about to
applied which will cause merge conflicts with changes in for-6.5-fixes.
Let's avoid future merge conflict by pulling in for-6.5-fixes.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Use LIST_HEAD() to initialize cull_list instead of open-coding it.
Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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wq_cpu_intensive_thresh_us is used to detect CPU-hogging per-cpu work items.
Once detected, they're excluded from concurrency management to prevent them
from blocking other per-cpu work items. If CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is
enabled, repeat offenders are also reported so that the code can be updated.
The default threshold is 10ms which is long enough to do fair bit of work on
modern CPUs while short enough to be usually not noticeable. This
unfortunately leads to a lot of, arguable spurious, detections on very slow
CPUs. Using the same threshold across CPUs whose performance levels may be
apart by multiple levels of magnitude doesn't make whole lot of sense.
This patch scales up wq_cpu_intensive_thresh_us upto 1 second when BogoMIPS
is below 4000. This is obviously very inaccurate but it doesn't have to be
accurate to be useful. The mechanism is still useful when the threshold is
fully scaled up and the benefits of reports are usually shared with everyone
regardless of who's reporting, so as long as there are sufficient number of
fast machines reporting, we don't lose much.
Some (or is it all?) ARM CPUs systemtically report significantly lower
BogoMIPS. While this doesn't break anything, given how widespread ARM CPUs
are, it's at least a missed opportunity and it probably would be a good idea
to teach workqueue about it.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-and-Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
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constrain wq_unbound_cpumask at boot time
Motivation of doing this is to better improve boot times for devices when
we want to prevent our workqueue works from running on some specific CPUs,
e,g, some CPUs are busy with interrupts.
Signed-off-by: tiozhang <tiozhang@didiglobal.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Based on commit c4f135d643823a86 ("workqueue: Wrap flush_workqueue() using
a macro"), all in-tree users stopped flushing system-wide workqueues.
Therefore, start emitting runtime message so that all out-of-tree users
will understand that they need to update their code.
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
- Concurrency-managed per-cpu work items that hog CPUs and delay the
execution of other work items are now automatically detected and
excluded from concurrency management. Reporting on such work items
can also be enabled through a config option.
- Added tools/workqueue/wq_monitor.py which improves visibility into
workqueue usages and behaviors.
- Arnd's minimal fix for gcc-13 enum warning on 32bit compiles,
superseded by commit afa4bb778e48 in mainline.
* tag 'wq-for-6.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: Disable per-cpu CPU hog detection when wq_cpu_intensive_thresh_us is 0
workqueue: Fix WARN_ON_ONCE() triggers in worker_enter_idle()
workqueue: fix enum type for gcc-13
workqueue: Track and monitor per-workqueue CPU time usage
workqueue: Report work funcs that trigger automatic CPU_INTENSIVE mechanism
workqueue: Automatically mark CPU-hogging work items CPU_INTENSIVE
workqueue: Improve locking rule description for worker fields
workqueue: Move worker_set/clr_flags() upwards
workqueue: Re-order struct worker fields
workqueue: Add pwq->stats[] and a monitoring script
Further upgrade queue_work_on() comment
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Dave Airlie reports that gcc-13.1.1 has started complaining about some
of the workqueue code in 32-bit arm builds:
kernel/workqueue.c: In function ‘get_work_pwq’:
kernel/workqueue.c:713:24: error: cast to pointer from integer of different size [-Werror=int-to-pointer-cast]
713 | return (void *)(data & WORK_STRUCT_WQ_DATA_MASK);
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[ ... a couple of other cases ... ]
and while it's not immediately clear exactly why gcc started complaining
about it now, I suspect it's some C23-induced enum type handlign fixup in
gcc-13 is the cause.
Whatever the reason for starting to complain, the code and data types
are indeed disgusting enough that the complaint is warranted.
The wq code ends up creating various "helper constants" (like that
WORK_STRUCT_WQ_DATA_MASK) using an enum type, which is all kinds of
confused. The mask needs to be 'unsigned long', not some unspecified
enum type.
To make matters worse, the actual "mask and cast to a pointer" is
repeated a couple of times, and the cast isn't even always done to the
right pointer, but - as the error case above - to a 'void *' with then
the compiler finishing the job.
That's now how we roll in the kernel.
So create the masks using the proper types rather than some ambiguous
enumeration, and use a nice helper that actually does the type
conversion in one well-defined place.
Incidentally, this magically makes clang generate better code. That,
admittedly, is really just a sign of clang having been seriously
confused before, and cleaning up the typing unconfuses the compiler too.
Reported-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAPM=9twNnV4zMCvrPkw3H-ajZOH-01JVh_kDrxdPYQErz8ZTdA@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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is 0
If workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us is set to 0, the detection mechanism
for CPU-hogging per-cpu work item will keep triggering spuriously:
workqueue: process_srcu hogged CPU for >0us 4 times, consider switching to WQ_UNBOUND
workqueue: gc_worker hogged CPU for >0us 4 times, consider switching to WQ_UNBOUND
workqueue: gc_worker hogged CPU for >0us 8 times, consider switching to WQ_UNBOUND
workqueue: wait_rcu_exp_gp hogged CPU for >0us 4 times, consider switching to WQ_UNBOUND
workqueue: kfree_rcu_monitor hogged CPU for >0us 4 times, consider switching to WQ_UNBOUND
workqueue: kfree_rcu_monitor hogged CPU for >0us 8 times, consider switching to WQ_UNBOUND
workqueue: reg_todo hogged CPU for >0us 4 times, consider switching to WQ_UNBOUND
This commit therefore disables the CPU-hog detection mechanism when
workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us is set to 0.
tj: Patch description updated and the condition check on
cpu_intensive_thresh_us separated into a separate if statement for
readability.
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Currently, pool->nr_running can be modified from timer tick, that means the
timer tick can run nested inside a not-irq-protected section that's in the
process of modifying nr_running. Consider the following scenario:
CPU0
kworker/0:2 (events)
worker_clr_flags(worker, WORKER_PREP | WORKER_REBOUND);
->pool->nr_running++; (1)
process_one_work()
->worker->current_func(work);
->schedule()
->wq_worker_sleeping()
->worker->sleeping = 1;
->pool->nr_running--; (0)
....
->wq_worker_running()
....
CPU0 by interrupt:
wq_worker_tick()
->worker_set_flags(worker, WORKER_CPU_INTENSIVE);
->pool->nr_running--; (-1)
->worker->flags |= WORKER_CPU_INTENSIVE;
....
->if (!(worker->flags & WORKER_NOT_RUNNING))
->pool->nr_running++; (will not execute)
->worker->sleeping = 0;
....
->worker_clr_flags(worker, WORKER_CPU_INTENSIVE);
->pool->nr_running++; (0)
....
worker_set_flags(worker, WORKER_PREP);
->pool->nr_running--; (-1)
....
worker_enter_idle()
->WARN_ON_ONCE(pool->nr_workers == pool->nr_idle && pool->nr_running);
if the nr_workers is equal to nr_idle, due to the nr_running is not zero,
will trigger WARN_ON_ONCE().
[ 2.460602] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 63 at kernel/workqueue.c:1999 worker_enter_idle+0xb2/0xc0
[ 2.462163] Modules linked in:
[ 2.463401] CPU: 0 PID: 63 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted 6.4.0-rc2-next-20230519 #1
[ 2.463771] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014
[ 2.465127] Workqueue: 0x0 (events)
[ 2.465678] RIP: 0010:worker_enter_idle+0xb2/0xc0
...
[ 2.472614] Call Trace:
[ 2.473152] <TASK>
[ 2.474182] worker_thread+0x71/0x430
[ 2.474992] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x28/0x50
[ 2.475263] kthread+0x103/0x120
[ 2.475493] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
[ 2.476355] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 2.476635] ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50
[ 2.477051] </TASK>
This commit therefore add the check of worker->sleeping in wq_worker_tick(),
if the worker->sleeping is not zero, directly return.
tj: Updated comment and description.
Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Closes: https://qa-reports.linaro.org/lkft/linux-next-master/build/next-20230519/testrun/17078554/suite/boot/test/clang-nightly-lkftconfig/log
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Now that wq_worker_tick() is there, we can easily track the rough CPU time
consumption of each workqueue by charging the whole tick whenever a tick
hits an active workqueue. While not super accurate, it provides reasonable
visibility into the workqueues that consume a lot of CPU cycles.
wq_monitor.py is updated to report the per-workqueue CPU times.
v2: wq_monitor.py was using "cputime" as the key when outputting in json
format. Use "cpu_time" instead for consistency with other fields.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Workqueue now automatically marks per-cpu work items that hog CPU for too
long as CPU_INTENSIVE, which excludes them from concurrency management and
prevents stalling other concurrency-managed work items. If a work function
keeps running over the thershold, it likely needs to be switched to use an
unbound workqueue.
This patch adds a debug mechanism which tracks the work functions which
trigger the automatic CPU_INTENSIVE mechanism and report them using
pr_warn() with exponential backoff.
v3: Documentation update.
v2: Drop bouncing to kthread_worker for printing messages. It was to avoid
introducing circular locking dependency through printk but not effective
as it still had pool lock -> wci_lock -> printk -> pool lock loop. Let's
just print directly using printk_deferred().
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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If a per-cpu work item hogs the CPU, it can prevent other work items from
starting through concurrency management. A per-cpu workqueue which intends
to host such CPU-hogging work items can choose to not participate in
concurrency management by setting %WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE; however, this can be
error-prone and difficult to debug when missed.
This patch adds an automatic CPU usage based detection. If a
concurrency-managed work item consumes more CPU time than the threshold
(10ms by default) continuously without intervening sleeps, wq_worker_tick()
which is called from scheduler_tick() will detect the condition and
automatically mark it CPU_INTENSIVE.
The mechanism isn't foolproof:
* Detection depends on tick hitting the work item. Getting preempted at the
right timings may allow a violating work item to evade detection at least
temporarily.
* nohz_full CPUs may not be running ticks and thus can fail detection.
* Even when detection is working, the 10ms detection delays can add up if
many CPU-hogging work items are queued at the same time.
However, in vast majority of cases, this should be able to detect violations
reliably and provide reasonable protection with a small increase in code
complexity.
If some work items trigger this condition repeatedly, the bigger problem
likely is the CPU being saturated with such per-cpu work items and the
solution would be making them UNBOUND. The next patch will add a debug
mechanism to help spot such cases.
v4: Documentation for workqueue.cpu_intensive_thresh_us added to
kernel-parameters.txt.
v3: Switch to use wq_worker_tick() instead of hooking into preemptions as
suggested by Peter.
v2: Lai pointed out that wq_worker_stopping() also needs to be called from
preemption and rtlock paths and an earlier patch was updated
accordingly. This patch adds a comment describing the risk of infinte
recursions and how they're avoided.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
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* Some worker fields are modified only by the worker itself while holding
pool->lock thus making them safe to read from self, IRQ context if the CPU
is running the worker or while holding pool->lock. Add 'K' locking rule
for them.
* worker->sleeping is currently marked "None" which isn't very descriptive.
It's used only by the worker itself. Add 'S' locking rule for it.
A future patch will depend on the 'K' rule to access worker->current_* from
the scheduler ticks.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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They are going to be used in wq_worker_stopping(). Move them upwards.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
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Currently, the only way to peer into workqueue operations is through
tracing. While possible, it isn't easy or convenient to monitor
per-workqueue behaviors over time this way. Let's add pwq->stats[] that
track relevant events and a drgn monitoring script -
tools/workqueue/wq_monitor.py.
It's arguable whether this needs to be configurable. However, it currently
only has several counters and the runtime overhead shouldn't be noticeable
given that they're on pwq's which are per-cpu on per-cpu workqueues and
per-numa-node on unbound ones. Let's keep it simple for the time being.
v2: Patch reordered to earlier with fewer fields. Field will be added back
gradually. Help message improved.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
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The current queue_work_on() docbook comment says that the caller must
ensure that the specified CPU can't go away, and further says that the
penalty for failing to nail down the specified CPU is that the workqueue
handler might find itself executing on some other CPU. This is true
as far as it goes, but fails to note what happens if the specified CPU
never was online. Therefore, further expand this comment to say that
specifying a CPU that was never online will result in a splat.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
"Mostly changes from Petr to improve warning and error reporting.
Workqueue now reports more of the relevant failures with better
context which should help debugging"
* tag 'wq-for-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: Introduce show_freezable_workqueues
workqueue: Print backtraces from CPUs with hung CPU bound workqueues
workqueue: Warn when a rescuer could not be created
workqueue: Interrupted create_worker() is not a repeated event
workqueue: Warn when a new worker could not be created
workqueue: Fix hung time report of worker pools
workqueue: Simplify a pr_warn() call in wq_select_unbound_cpu()
MAINTAINERS: Add workqueue_internal.h to the WORKQUEUE entry
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Currently show_all_workqueue is called if freeze fails at the time of
freeze the workqueues, which shows the status of all workqueues and of
all worker pools. In this cases we may only need to dump state of only
workqueues that are freezable and busy.
This patch defines show_freezable_workqueues, which uses
show_one_workqueue, a granular function that shows the state of individual
workqueues, so that dump only the state of freezable workqueues
at that time.
tj: Minor message adjustment.
Signed-off-by: Jungseung Lee <js07.lee@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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The workqueue watchdog reports a lockup when there was not any progress
in the worker pool for a long time. The progress means that a pending
work item starts being proceed.
Worker pools for unbound workqueues always wake up an idle worker and
try to process the work immediately. The last idle worker has to create
new worker first. The stall might happen only when a new worker could
not be created in which case an error should get printed. Another problem
might be too high load. In this case, workers are victims of a global
system problem.
Worker pools for CPU bound workqueues are designed for lightweight
work items that do not need much CPU time. They are proceed one by
one on a single worker. New worker is used only when a work is sleeping.
It creates one additional scenario. The stall might happen when
the CPU-bound workqueue is used for CPU-intensive work.
More precisely, the stall is detected when a CPU-bound worker is in
the TASK_RUNNING state for too long. In this case, it might be useful
to see the backtrace from the problematic worker.
The information how long a worker is in the running state is not available.
But the CPU-bound worker pools do not have many workers in the running
state by definition. And only few pools are typically blocked.
It should be acceptable to print backtraces from all workers in
TASK_RUNNING state in the stalled worker pools. The number of false
positives should be very low.
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Rescuers are created when a workqueue with WQ_MEM_RECLAIM is allocated.
It typically happens during the system boot.
systemd switches the root filesystem from initrd to the booted system
during boot. It kills processes that block the switch for too long.
One of the process might be modprobe that tries to create a workqueue.
These problems are hard to reproduce. Also alloc_workqueue() does not
pass the error code. Make the debugging easier by printing an error,
similar to create_worker().
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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kthread_create_on_node() might get interrupted(). It is rare but realistic.
For example, when an unbound workqueue is allocated in module_init()
callback. It is done in the context of the "modprobe" process. And,
for example, systemd might kill pending processes when switching root
from initrd to the booted system.
The interrupt is a one-off event and the race might be hard to reproduce.
It is always worth printing.
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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The workqueue watchdog reports a lockup when there was not any progress
in the worker pool for a long time. The progress means that a pending
work item starts being proceed.
The progress is guaranteed by using idle workers or creating new workers
for pending work items.
There are several reasons why a new worker could not be created:
+ there is not enough memory
+ there is no free pool ID (IDR API)
+ the system reached PID limit
+ the process creating the new worker was interrupted
+ the last idle worker (manager) has not been scheduled for a long
time. It was not able to even start creating the kthread.
None of these failures is reported at the moment. The only clue is that
show_one_worker_pool() prints that there is a manager. It is the last
idle worker that is responsible for creating a new one. But it is not
clear if create_worker() is failing and why.
Make the debugging easier by printing errors in create_worker().
The error code is important, especially from kthread_create_on_node().
It helps to distinguish the various reasons. For example, reaching
memory limit (-ENOMEM), other system limits (-EAGAIN), or process
interrupted (-EINTR).
Use pr_once() to avoid repeating the same error every CREATE_COOLDOWN
for each stuck worker pool.
Ratelimited printk() might be better. It would help to know if the problem
remains. It would be more clear if the create_worker() errors and workqueue
stalls are related. Also old messages might get lost when the internal log
buffer is full. The problem is that printk() might touch the watchdog.
For example, see touch_nmi_watchdog() in serial8250_console_write().
It would require synchronization of the begin and length of the ratelimit
interval with the workqueue watchdog. Otherwise, the error messages
might break the watchdog. This does not look worth the complexity.
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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The workqueue watchdog prints a warning when there is no progress in
a worker pool. Where the progress means that the pool started processing
a pending work item.
Note that it is perfectly fine to process work items much longer.
The progress should be guaranteed by waking up or creating idle
workers.
show_one_worker_pool() prints state of non-idle worker pool. It shows
a delay since the last pool->watchdog_ts.
The timestamp is updated when a first pending work is queued in
__queue_work(). Also it is updated when a work is dequeued for
processing in worker_thread() and rescuer_thread().
The delay is misleading when there is no pending work item. In this
case it shows how long the last work item is being proceed. Show
zero instead. There is no stall if there is no pending work.
Fixes: 82607adcf9cdf40fb7b ("workqueue: implement lockup detector")
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Use pr_warn_once() to achieve the same thing. It's simpler.
Signed-off-by: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Direct access to the struct bus_type dev_root pointer is going away soon
so replace that with a call to bus_get_dev_root() instead, which is what
it is there for.
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230313182918.1312597-8-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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!CONFIG_SMP builds complain about rebind_worker() being unused. Its only
user, rebind_workers() is indeed only defined for CONFIG_SMP, so just fold
the two lines back up there.
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/20230113143102.2e94d74f@canb.auug.org.au
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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It has been reported that isolated CPUs can suffer from interference due to
per-CPU kworkers waking up just to die.
A surge of workqueue activity during initial setup of a latency-sensitive
application (refresh_vm_stats() being one of the culprits) can cause extra
per-CPU kworkers to be spawned. Then, said latency-sensitive task can be
running merrily on an isolated CPU only to be interrupted sometime later by
a kworker marked for death (cf. IDLE_WORKER_TIMEOUT, 5 minutes after last
kworker activity).
Prevent this by affining kworkers to the wq_unbound_cpumask (which doesn't
contain isolated CPUs, cf. HK_TYPE_WQ) before waking them up after marking
them with WORKER_DIE.
Changing the affinity does require a sleepable context, leverage the newly
introduced pool->idle_cull_work to get that.
Remove dying workers from pool->workers and keep track of them in a
separate list. This intentionally prevents for_each_loop_worker() from
iterating over workers that are marked for death.
Rename destroy_worker() to set_working_dying() to better reflect its
effects and relationship with wake_dying_workers().
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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put_unbound_pool() currently passes wq_manager_inactive() as exit condition
to rcuwait_wait_event(), which grabs pool->lock to check for
pool->flags & POOL_MANAGER_ACTIVE
A later patch will require destroy_worker() to be invoked with
wq_pool_attach_mutex held, which needs to be acquired before
pool->lock. A mutex cannot be acquired within rcuwait_wait_event(), as
it could clobber the task state set by rcuwait_wait_event()
Instead, restructure the waiting logic to acquire any necessary lock
outside of rcuwait_wait_event().
Since further work cannot be inserted into unbound pwqs that have reached
->refcnt==0, this is bound to make forward progress as eventually the
worklist will be drained and need_more_worker(pool) will remain false,
preventing any worker from stealing the manager position from us.
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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A later patch will require a sleepable context in the idle worker timeout
function. Converting worker_pool.idle_timer to a delayed_work gives us just
that, however this would imply turning all idle_timer expiries into
scheduler events (waking up a worker to handle the dwork).
Instead, implement a "custom dwork" where the timer callback does some
extra checks before queuing the associated work.
No change in functionality intended.
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Later patches will reuse this code, move it into reusable functions.
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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When unbind_workers() reads wq_unbound_cpumask to set the affinity of
freshly-unbound kworkers, it only holds wq_pool_attach_mutex. This isn't
sufficient as wq_unbound_cpumask is only protected by wq_pool_mutex.
Make wq_unbound_cpumask protected with wq_pool_attach_mutex and also
remove the need of temporary saved_cpumask.
Fixes: 10a5a651e3af ("workqueue: Restrict kworker in the offline CPU pool running on housekeeping CPUs")
Reported-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshan.ljs@antgroup.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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The show_pwq() function dumps out a pool_workqueue structure's activity,
including the pending work-queue handlers:
Showing busy workqueues and worker pools:
workqueue events: flags=0x0
pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x1 nice=0 active=10/256 refcnt=11
in-flight: 7:test_work_func, 64:test_work_func, 249:test_work_func
pending: test_work_func, test_work_func, test_work_func1, test_work_func1, test_work_func1, test_work_func1, test_work_func1
When large systems are facing certain types of hang conditions, it is not
unusual for this "pending" list to contain runs of hundreds of identical
function names. This "wall of text" is difficult to read, and worse yet,
it can be interleaved with other output such as stack traces.
Therefore, make show_pwq() use run-length encoding so that the above
printout instead looks like this:
Showing busy workqueues and worker pools:
workqueue events: flags=0x0
pwq 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x1 nice=0 active=10/256 refcnt=11
in-flight: 7:test_work_func, 64:test_work_func, 249:test_work_func
pending: 2*test_work_func, 5*test_work_func1
When no comma would be printed, including the WORK_STRUCT_LINKED case,
a new run is started unconditionally.
This output is more readable, places less stress on the hardware,
firmware, and software on the console-log path, and reduces interference
with other output.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Currently if the user queues a new work item unintentionally
into a wq after the destroy_workqueue(wq), the work still can
be queued and scheduled without any noticeable kernel message
before the end of a RCU grace period.
As a debug-aid facility, this commit adds a new flag
__WQ_DESTROYING to spot that issue by triggering a kernel WARN
message.
Signed-off-by: Richard Clark <richard.xnu.clark@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Earlier commits in this series allow battery-powered systems to build
their kernels with the default-disabled CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y Kconfig option.
This Kconfig option causes call_rcu() to delay its callbacks in order
to batch them. This means that a given RCU grace period covers more
callbacks, thus reducing the number of grace periods, in turn reducing
the amount of energy consumed, which increases battery lifetime which
can be a very good thing. This is not a subtle effect: In some important
use cases, the battery lifetime is increased by more than 10%.
This CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y option is available only for CPUs that offload
callbacks, for example, CPUs mentioned in the rcu_nocbs kernel boot
parameter passed to kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y.
Delaying callbacks is normally not a problem because most callbacks do
nothing but free memory. If the system is short on memory, a shrinker
will kick all currently queued lazy callbacks out of their laziness,
thus freeing their memory in short order. Similarly, the rcu_barrier()
function, which blocks until all currently queued callbacks are invoked,
will also kick lazy callbacks, thus enabling rcu_barrier() to complete
in a timely manner.
However, there are some cases where laziness is not a good option.
For example, synchronize_rcu() invokes call_rcu(), and blocks until
the newly queued callback is invoked. It would not be a good for
synchronize_rcu() to block for ten seconds, even on an idle system.
Therefore, synchronize_rcu() invokes call_rcu_hurry() instead of
call_rcu(). The arrival of a non-lazy call_rcu_hurry() callback on a
given CPU kicks any lazy callbacks that might be already queued on that
CPU. After all, if there is going to be a grace period, all callbacks
might as well get full benefit from it.
Yes, this could be done the other way around by creating a
call_rcu_lazy(), but earlier experience with this approach and
feedback at the 2022 Linux Plumbers Conference shifted the approach
to call_rcu() being lazy with call_rcu_hurry() for the few places
where laziness is inappropriate.
And another call_rcu() instance that cannot be lazy is the one
in queue_rcu_work(), given that callers to queue_rcu_work() are
not necessarily OK with long delays.
Therefore, make queue_rcu_work() use call_rcu_hurry() in order to revert
to the old behavior.
[ paulmck: Apply s/call_rcu_flush/call_rcu_hurry/ feedback from Tejun Heo. ]
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull kcfi updates from Kees Cook:
"This replaces the prior support for Clang's standard Control Flow
Integrity (CFI) instrumentation, which has required a lot of special
conditions (e.g. LTO) and work-arounds.
The new implementation ("Kernel CFI") is specific to C, directly
designed for the Linux kernel, and takes advantage of architectural
features like x86's IBT. This series retains arm64 support and adds
x86 support.
GCC support is expected in the future[1], and additional "generic"
architectural support is expected soon[2].
Summary:
- treewide: Remove old CFI support details
- arm64: Replace Clang CFI support with Clang KCFI support
- x86: Introduce Clang KCFI support"
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107048 [1]
Link: https://github.com/samitolvanen/llvm-project/commits/kcfi_generic [2]
* tag 'kcfi-v6.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (22 commits)
x86: Add support for CONFIG_CFI_CLANG
x86/purgatory: Disable CFI
x86: Add types to indirectly called assembly functions
x86/tools/relocs: Ignore __kcfi_typeid_ relocations
kallsyms: Drop CONFIG_CFI_CLANG workarounds
objtool: Disable CFI warnings
objtool: Preserve special st_shndx indexes in elf_update_symbol
treewide: Drop __cficanonical
treewide: Drop WARN_ON_FUNCTION_MISMATCH
treewide: Drop function_nocfi
init: Drop __nocfi from __init
arm64: Drop unneeded __nocfi attributes
arm64: Add CFI error handling
arm64: Add types to indirect called assembly functions
psci: Fix the function type for psci_initcall_t
lkdtm: Emit an indirect call for CFI tests
cfi: Add type helper macros
cfi: Switch to -fsanitize=kcfi
cfi: Drop __CFI_ADDRESSABLE
cfi: Remove CONFIG_CFI_CLANG_SHADOW
...
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CONFIG_CFI_CLANG no longer breaks cross-module function address
equality, which makes WARN_ON_FUNCTION_MISMATCH unnecessary. Remove
the definition and switch back to WARN_ON_ONCE.
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220908215504.3686827-15-samitolvanen@google.com
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