Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
"To help make the move of sysctls out of kernel/sysctl.c not incur a
size penalty sysctl has been changed to allow us to not require the
sentinel, the final empty element on the sysctl array. Joel Granados
has been doing all this work.
In the v6.6 kernel we got the major infrastructure changes required to
support this. For v6.7 we had all arch/ and drivers/ modified to
remove the sentinel. For v6.8-rc1 we get a few more updates for fs/
directory only.
The kernel/ directory is left but we'll save that for v6.9-rc1 as
those patches are still being reviewed. After that we then can expect
also the removal of the no longer needed check for procname == NULL.
Let us recap the purpose of this work:
- this helps reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run
time memory consumed by the kernel by about ~64 bytes per array
- the extra 64-byte penalty is no longer inncurred now when we move
sysctls out from kernel/sysctl.c to their own files
Thomas Weißschuh also sent a few cleanups, for v6.9-rc1 we expect to
see further work by Thomas Weißschuh with the constificatin of the
struct ctl_table.
Due to Joel Granados's work, and to help bring in new blood, I have
suggested for him to become a maintainer and he's accepted. So for
v6.9-rc1 I look forward to seeing him sent you a pull request for
further sysctl changes. This also removes Iurii Zaikin as a maintainer
as he has moved on to other projects and has had no time to help at
all"
* tag 'sysctl-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
sysctl: remove struct ctl_path
sysctl: delete unused define SYSCTL_PERM_EMPTY_DIR
coda: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
sysctl: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
fs: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
cachefiles: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
sysclt: Clarify the results of selftest run
sysctl: Add a selftest for handling empty dirs
sysctl: Fix out of bounds access for empty sysctl registers
MAINTAINERS: Add Joel Granados as co-maintainer for proc sysctl
MAINTAINERS: remove Iurii Zaikin from proc sysctl
Pull kselftest update from Shuah Khan:
"Enhancements to reporting test results, fixes to root and user run
behavior and fixing ksft_print_msg() calls"
* tag 'linux_kselftest-next-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest:
tracing/selftests: Add ownership modification tests for eventfs
selftests: sched: Remove initialization to 0 for a static variable
selftests: capabilities: namespace create varies for root and normal user
selftests: prctl: Add prctl test for PR_GET_NAME
kselftest/vDSO: Use ksft_print_msg() rather than printf in vdso_test_abi
kselftest/vDSO: Fix message formatting for clock_id logging
kselftest/vDSO: Make test name reporting for vdso_abi_test tooling friendly
selftests:x86: Fix Format String Warnings in lam.c
selftests/breakpoints: Fix format specifier in ksft_print_msg in step_after_suspend_test.c
selftests:breakpoints: Fix Format String Warning in breakpoint_test
Pull KUnit updates from Shuah Khan:
- a new feature that adds APIs for managing devices introducing a set
of helper functions which allow devices (internally a struct
kunit_device) to be created and managed by KUnit.
These devices will be automatically unregistered on test exit. These
helpers can either use a user-provided struct device_driver, or have
one automatically created and managed by KUnit. In both cases, the
device lives on a new kunit_bus.
- changes to switch drm/tests to use kunit devices
- several fixes and enhancements to attribute feature
- changes to reorganize deferred action function introducing
KUNIT_DEFINE_ACTION_WRAPPER
- new feature adds ability to run tests after boot using debugfs
- fixes and enhancements to string-stream-test:
- parse ERR_PTR in string_stream_destroy()
- unchecked dereference in bug fix in debugfs_print_results()
- handling errors from alloc_string_stream()
- NULL-dereference bug fix in kunit_init_suite()
* tag 'linux_kselftest-kunit-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest: (27 commits)
kunit: Fix some comments which were mistakenly kerneldoc
kunit: Protect string comparisons against NULL
kunit: Add example of kunit_activate_static_stub() with pointer-to-function
kunit: Allow passing function pointer to kunit_activate_static_stub()
kunit: Fix NULL-dereference in kunit_init_suite() if suite->log is NULL
kunit: Reset test->priv after each param iteration
kunit: Add example for using test->priv
drm/tests: Switch to kunit devices
ASoC: topology: Replace fake root_device with kunit_device in tests
overflow: Replace fake root_device with kunit_device
fortify: test: Use kunit_device
kunit: Add APIs for managing devices
Documentation: Add debugfs docs with run after boot
kunit: add ability to run tests after boot using debugfs
kunit: add is_init test attribute
kunit: add example suite to test init suites
kunit: add KUNIT_INIT_TABLE to init linker section
kunit: move KUNIT_TABLE out of INIT_DATA
kunit: tool: add test for parsing attributes
kunit: tool: fix parsing of test attributes
...
Pull nolibc updates from Shuah Khan:
- Support for PIC mode on MIPS
- Support for getrlimit()/setrlimit()
- Replace some custom declarations with UAPI includes
- A new script "run-tests.sh" to run the testsuite over different
architectures and configurations
- A few non-functional code cleanups
- Minor improvements to nolibc-test, primarily to support the test
script
* tag 'linux_kselftest-nolibc-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest: (22 commits)
selftests/nolibc: disable coredump via setrlimit
tools/nolibc: add support for getrlimit/setrlimit
tools/nolibc: drop custom definition of struct rusage
tools/nolibc: drop duplicated testcase ioctl_tiocinq
tools/nolibc: annotate va_list printf formats
selftests/nolibc: make result alignment more robust
tools/nolibc: mips: add support for PIC
selftests/nolibc: run-tests.sh: enable testing via qemu-user
selftests/nolibc: introduce QEMU_ARCH_USER
selftests/nolibc: fix testcase status alignment
selftests/nolibc: add configuration for mipso32be
selftests/nolibc: extraconfig support
selftests/nolibc: explicitly specify ABI for MIPS
selftests/nolibc: use XARCH for MIPS
tools/nolibc: move MIPS ABI validation into arch-mips.h
tools/nolibc: error out on unsupported architecture
selftests/nolibc: add script to run testsuite
selftests/nolibc: support out-of-tree builds
selftests/nolibc: anchor paths in $(srcdir) if possible
selftests/nolibc: use EFI -bios for LoongArch qemu
...
Pull Landlock updates from Mickaël Salaün:
"New tests, a slight optimization, and some cosmetic changes"
* tag 'landlock-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mic/linux:
landlock: Optimize the number of calls to get_access_mask slightly
selftests/landlock: Rename "permitted" to "allowed" in ftruncate tests
landlock: Remove remaining "inline" modifiers in .c files [v6.6]
landlock: Remove remaining "inline" modifiers in .c files [v6.1]
landlock: Remove remaining "inline" modifiers in .c files [v5.15]
selftests/landlock: Add tests to check unhandled rule's access rights
selftests/landlock: Add tests to check unknown rule's access rights
Pull security module updates from Paul Moore:
- Add three new syscalls: lsm_list_modules(), lsm_get_self_attr(), and
lsm_set_self_attr().
The first syscall simply lists the LSMs enabled, while the second and
third get and set the current process' LSM attributes. Yes, these
syscalls may provide similar functionality to what can be found under
/proc or /sys, but they were designed to support multiple,
simultaneaous (stacked) LSMs from the start as opposed to the current
/proc based solutions which were created at a time when only one LSM
was allowed to be active at a given time.
We have spent considerable time discussing ways to extend the
existing /proc interfaces to support multiple, simultaneaous LSMs and
even our best ideas have been far too ugly to support as a kernel
API; after +20 years in the kernel, I felt the LSM layer had
established itself enough to justify a handful of syscalls.
Support amongst the individual LSM developers has been nearly
unanimous, with a single objection coming from Tetsuo (TOMOYO) as he
is worried that the LSM_ID_XXX token concept will make it more
difficult for out-of-tree LSMs to survive. Several members of the LSM
community have demonstrated the ability for out-of-tree LSMs to
continue to exist by picking high/unused LSM_ID values as well as
pointing out that many kernel APIs rely on integer identifiers, e.g.
syscalls (!), but unfortunately Tetsuo's objections remain.
My personal opinion is that while I have no interest in penalizing
out-of-tree LSMs, I'm not going to penalize in-tree development to
support out-of-tree development, and I view this as a necessary step
forward to support the push for expanded LSM stacking and reduce our
reliance on /proc and /sys which has occassionally been problematic
for some container users. Finally, we have included the linux-api
folks on (all?) recent revisions of the patchset and addressed all of
their concerns.
- Add a new security_file_ioctl_compat() LSM hook to handle the 32-bit
ioctls on 64-bit systems problem.
This patch includes support for all of the existing LSMs which
provide ioctl hooks, although it turns out only SELinux actually
cares about the individual ioctls. It is worth noting that while
Casey (Smack) and Tetsuo (TOMOYO) did not give explicit ACKs to this
patch, they did both indicate they are okay with the changes.
- Fix a potential memory leak in the CALIPSO code when IPv6 is disabled
at boot.
While it's good that we are fixing this, I doubt this is something
users are seeing in the wild as you need to both disable IPv6 and
then attempt to configure IPv6 labeled networking via
NetLabel/CALIPSO; that just doesn't make much sense.
Normally this would go through netdev, but Jakub asked me to take
this patch and of all the trees I maintain, the LSM tree seemed like
the best fit.
- Update the LSM MAINTAINERS entry with additional information about
our process docs, patchwork, bug reporting, etc.
I also noticed that the Lockdown LSM is missing a dedicated
MAINTAINERS entry so I've added that to the pull request. I've been
working with one of the major Lockdown authors/contributors to see if
they are willing to step up and assume a Lockdown maintainer role;
hopefully that will happen soon, but in the meantime I'll continue to
look after it.
- Add a handful of mailmap entries for Serge Hallyn and myself.
* tag 'lsm-pr-20240105' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm: (27 commits)
lsm: new security_file_ioctl_compat() hook
lsm: Add a __counted_by() annotation to lsm_ctx.ctx
calipso: fix memory leak in netlbl_calipso_add_pass()
selftests: remove the LSM_ID_IMA check in lsm/lsm_list_modules_test
MAINTAINERS: add an entry for the lockdown LSM
MAINTAINERS: update the LSM entry
mailmap: add entries for Serge Hallyn's dead accounts
mailmap: update/replace my old email addresses
lsm: mark the lsm_id variables are marked as static
lsm: convert security_setselfattr() to use memdup_user()
lsm: align based on pointer length in lsm_fill_user_ctx()
lsm: consolidate buffer size handling into lsm_fill_user_ctx()
lsm: correct error codes in security_getselfattr()
lsm: cleanup the size counters in security_getselfattr()
lsm: don't yet account for IMA in LSM_CONFIG_COUNT calculation
lsm: drop LSM_ID_IMA
LSM: selftests for Linux Security Module syscalls
SELinux: Add selfattr hooks
AppArmor: Add selfattr hooks
Smack: implement setselfattr and getselfattr hooks
...
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Many singleton patches against the MM code. The patch series which are
included in this merge do the following:
- Peng Zhang has done some mapletree maintainance work in the series
'maple_tree: add mt_free_one() and mt_attr() helpers'
'Some cleanups of maple tree'
- In the series 'mm: use memmap_on_memory semantics for dax/kmem'
Vishal Verma has altered the interworking between memory-hotplug
and dax/kmem so that newly added 'device memory' can more easily
have its memmap placed within that newly added memory.
- Matthew Wilcox continues folio-related work (including a few fixes)
in the patch series
'Add folio_zero_tail() and folio_fill_tail()'
'Make folio_start_writeback return void'
'Fix fault handler's handling of poisoned tail pages'
'Convert aops->error_remove_page to ->error_remove_folio'
'Finish two folio conversions'
'More swap folio conversions'
- Kefeng Wang has also contributed folio-related work in the series
'mm: cleanup and use more folio in page fault'
- Jim Cromie has improved the kmemleak reporting output in the series
'tweak kmemleak report format'.
- In the series 'stackdepot: allow evicting stack traces' Andrey
Konovalov to permits clients (in this case KASAN) to cause eviction
of no longer needed stack traces.
- Charan Teja Kalla has fixed some accounting issues in the page
allocator's atomic reserve calculations in the series 'mm:
page_alloc: fixes for high atomic reserve caluculations'.
- Dmitry Rokosov has added to the samples/ dorectory some sample code
for a userspace memcg event listener application. See the series
'samples: introduce cgroup events listeners'.
- Some mapletree maintanance work from Liam Howlett in the series
'maple_tree: iterator state changes'.
- Nhat Pham has improved zswap's approach to writeback in the series
'workload-specific and memory pressure-driven zswap writeback'.
- DAMON/DAMOS feature and maintenance work from SeongJae Park in the
series
'mm/damon: let users feed and tame/auto-tune DAMOS'
'selftests/damon: add Python-written DAMON functionality tests'
'mm/damon: misc updates for 6.8'
- Yosry Ahmed has improved memcg's stats flushing in the series 'mm:
memcg: subtree stats flushing and thresholds'.
- In the series 'Multi-size THP for anonymous memory' Ryan Roberts
has added a runtime opt-in feature to transparent hugepages which
improves performance by allocating larger chunks of memory during
anonymous page faults.
- Matthew Wilcox has also contributed some cleanup and maintenance
work against eh buffer_head code int he series 'More buffer_head
cleanups'.
- Suren Baghdasaryan has done work on Andrea Arcangeli's series
'userfaultfd move option'. UFFDIO_MOVE permits userspace heap
compaction algorithms to move userspace's pages around rather than
UFFDIO_COPY'a alloc/copy/free.
- Stefan Roesch has developed a 'KSM Advisor', in the series 'mm/ksm:
Add ksm advisor'. This is a governor which tunes KSM's scanning
aggressiveness in response to userspace's current needs.
- Chengming Zhou has optimized zswap's temporary working memory use
in the series 'mm/zswap: dstmem reuse optimizations and cleanups'.
- Matthew Wilcox has performed some maintenance work on the writeback
code, both code and within filesystems. The series is 'Clean up the
writeback paths'.
- Andrey Konovalov has optimized KASAN's handling of alloc and free
stack traces for secondary-level allocators, in the series 'kasan:
save mempool stack traces'.
- Andrey also performed some KASAN maintenance work in the series
'kasan: assorted clean-ups'.
- David Hildenbrand has gone to town on the rmap code. Cleanups, more
pte batching, folio conversions and more. See the series 'mm/rmap:
interface overhaul'.
- Kinsey Ho has contributed some maintenance work on the MGLRU code
in the series 'mm/mglru: Kconfig cleanup'.
- Matthew Wilcox has contributed lruvec page accounting code cleanups
in the series 'Remove some lruvec page accounting functions'"
* tag 'mm-stable-2024-01-08-15-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (361 commits)
mm, treewide: rename MAX_ORDER to MAX_PAGE_ORDER
mm, treewide: introduce NR_PAGE_ORDERS
selftests/mm: add separate UFFDIO_MOVE test for PMD splitting
selftests/mm: skip test if application doesn't has root privileges
selftests/mm: conform test to TAP format output
selftests: mm: hugepage-mmap: conform to TAP format output
selftests/mm: gup_test: conform test to TAP format output
mm/selftests: hugepage-mremap: conform test to TAP format output
mm/vmstat: move pgdemote_* out of CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
mm: zsmalloc: return -ENOSPC rather than -EINVAL in zs_malloc while size is too large
mm/memcontrol: remove __mod_lruvec_page_state()
mm/khugepaged: use a folio more in collapse_file()
slub: use a folio in __kmalloc_large_node
slub: use folio APIs in free_large_kmalloc()
slub: use alloc_pages_node() in alloc_slab_page()
mm: remove inc/dec lruvec page state functions
mm: ratelimit stat flush from workingset shrinker
kasan: stop leaking stack trace handles
mm/mglru: remove CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
mm/mglru: add dummy pmd_dirty()
...
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
- Yafang Shao added task_get_cgroup1() helper to enable a similar BPF
helper so that BPF progs can be more useful on cgroup1 hierarchies.
While cgroup1 is mostly in maintenance mode, this addition is very
small while having an outsized usefulness for users who are still on
cgroup1. Yafang also optimized root cgroup list access by making it
RCU protected in the process.
- Waiman Long optimized rstat operation leading to substantially lower
and more consistent lock hold time while flushing the hierarchical
statistics. As the lock can be acquired briefly in various hot paths,
this reduction has cascading benefits.
- Waiman also improved the quality of isolation for cpuset's isolated
partitions. CPUs which are allocated to isolated partitions are now
excluded from running unbound work items and cpu_is_isolated() test
which is used by vmstat and memcg to reduce interference now includes
cpuset isolated CPUs. While it isn't there yet, the hope is
eventually reaching parity with the isolation level provided by the
`isolcpus` boot param but in a dynamic manner.
* tag 'cgroup-for-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
cgroup: Move rcu_head up near the top of cgroup_root
cgroup/cpuset: Include isolated cpuset CPUs in cpu_is_isolated() check
cgroup: Avoid false cacheline sharing of read mostly rstat_cpu
cgroup/rstat: Optimize cgroup_rstat_updated_list()
cgroup: Fix documentation for cpu.idle
cgroup/cpuset: Expose cpuset.cpus.isolated
workqueue: Move workqueue_set_unbound_cpumask() and its helpers inside CONFIG_SYSFS
cgroup/rstat: Reduce cpu_lock hold time in cgroup_rstat_flush_locked()
cgroup/cpuset: Take isolated CPUs out of workqueue unbound cpumask
cgroup/cpuset: Keep track of CPUs in isolated partitions
selftests/cgroup: Minor code cleanup and reorganization of test_cpuset_prs.sh
workqueue: Add workqueue_unbound_exclude_cpumask() to exclude CPUs from wq_unbound_cpumask
selftests: cgroup: Fixes a typo in a comment
cgroup: Add a new helper for cgroup1 hierarchy
cgroup: Add annotation for holding namespace_sem in current_cgns_cgroup_from_root()
cgroup: Eliminate the need for cgroup_mutex in proc_cgroup_show()
cgroup: Make operations on the cgroup root_list RCU safe
cgroup: Remove unnecessary list_empty()
Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
"CPU features:
- Remove ARM64_HAS_NO_HW_PREFETCH copy_page() optimisation for ye
olde Thunder-X machines
- Avoid mapping KPTI trampoline when it is not required
- Make CPU capability API more robust during early initialisation
Early idreg overrides:
- Remove dependencies on core kernel helpers from the early
command-line parsing logic in preparation for moving this code
before the kernel is mapped
FPsimd:
- Restore kernel-mode fpsimd context lazily, allowing us to run
fpsimd code sequences in the kernel with pre-emption enabled
KBuild:
- Install 'vmlinuz.efi' when CONFIG_EFI_ZBOOT=y
- Makefile cleanups
LPA2 prep:
- Preparatory work for enabling the 'LPA2' extension, which will
introduce 52-bit virtual and physical addressing even with 4KiB
pages (including for KVM guests).
Misc:
- Remove dead code and fix a typo
MM:
- Pass NUMA node information for IRQ stack allocations
Perf:
- Add perf support for the Synopsys DesignWare PCIe PMU
- Add support for event counting thresholds (FEAT_PMUv3_TH)
introduced in Armv8.8
- Add support for i.MX8DXL SoCs to the IMX DDR PMU driver.
- Minor PMU driver fixes and optimisations
RIP VPIPT:
- Remove what support we had for the obsolete VPIPT I-cache policy
Selftests:
- Improvements to the SVE and SME selftests
Stacktrace:
- Refactor kernel unwind logic so that it can used by BPF unwinding
and, eventually, reliable backtracing
Sysregs:
- Update a bunch of register definitions based on the latest XML drop
from Arm"
* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (87 commits)
kselftest/arm64: Don't probe the current VL for unsupported vector types
efi/libstub: zboot: do not use $(shell ...) in cmd_copy_and_pad
arm64: properly install vmlinuz.efi
arm64/sysreg: Add missing system instruction definitions for FGT
arm64/sysreg: Add missing system register definitions for FGT
arm64/sysreg: Add missing ExtTrcBuff field definition to ID_AA64DFR0_EL1
arm64/sysreg: Add missing Pauth_LR field definitions to ID_AA64ISAR1_EL1
arm64: memory: remove duplicated include
arm: perf: Fix ARCH=arm build with GCC
arm64: Align boot cpucap handling with system cpucap handling
arm64: Cleanup system cpucap handling
MAINTAINERS: add maintainers for DesignWare PCIe PMU driver
drivers/perf: add DesignWare PCIe PMU driver
PCI: Move pci_clear_and_set_dword() helper to PCI header
PCI: Add Alibaba Vendor ID to linux/pci_ids.h
docs: perf: Add description for Synopsys DesignWare PCIe PMU driver
arm64: irq: set the correct node for shadow call stack
Revert "perf/arm_dmc620: Remove duplicate format attribute #defines"
arm64: fpsimd: Implement lazy restore for kernel mode FPSIMD
arm64: fpsimd: Preserve/restore kernel mode NEON at context switch
...
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
- Add initial support to recognise the HeXin C2000 processor.
- Add papr-vpd and papr-sysparm character device drivers for VPD &
sysparm retrieval, so userspace tools can be adapted to avoid doing
raw firmware calls from userspace.
- Sched domains optimisations for shared processor partitions on
P9/P10.
- A series of optimisations for KVM running as a nested HV under
PowerVM.
- Other small features and fixes.
Thanks to Aditya Gupta, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Arnd Bergmann, Christophe
Leroy, Colin Ian King, Dario Binacchi, David Heidelberg, Geoff Levand,
Gustavo A. R. Silva, Haoran Liu, Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kevin Hao,
Kunwu Chan, Li kunyu, Li zeming, Masahiro Yamada, Michal Suchánek,
Nathan Lynch, Naveen N Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Randy Dunlap, Sathvika
Vasireddy, Srikar Dronamraju, Stephen Rothwell, Vaibhav Jain, and
Zhao Ke.
* tag 'powerpc-6.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (96 commits)
powerpc/ps3_defconfig: Disable PPC64_BIG_ENDIAN_ELF_ABI_V2
powerpc/86xx: Drop unused CONFIG_MPC8610
powerpc/powernv: Add error handling to opal_prd_range_is_valid
selftests/powerpc: Fix spelling mistake "EACCESS" -> "EACCES"
powerpc/hvcall: Reorder Nestedv2 hcall opcodes
powerpc/ps3: Add missing set_freezable() for ps3_probe_thread()
powerpc/mpc83xx: Use wait_event_freezable() for freezable kthread
powerpc/mpc83xx: Add the missing set_freezable() for agent_thread_fn()
powerpc/fsl: Fix fsl,tmu-calibration to match the schema
powerpc/smp: Dynamically build Powerpc topology
powerpc/smp: Avoid asym packing within thread_group of a core
powerpc/smp: Add __ro_after_init attribute
powerpc/smp: Disable MC domain for shared processor
powerpc/smp: Enable Asym packing for cores on shared processor
powerpc/sched: Cleanup vcpu_is_preempted()
powerpc: add cpu_spec.cpu_features to vmcoreinfo
powerpc/imc-pmu: Add a null pointer check in update_events_in_group()
powerpc/powernv: Add a null pointer check in opal_powercap_init()
powerpc/powernv: Add a null pointer check in opal_event_init()
powerpc/powernv: Add a null pointer check to scom_debug_init_one()
...
Pull vfs mount updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the work to retrieve detailed information about mounts
via two new system calls. This is hopefully the beginning of the end
of the saga that started with fsinfo() years ago.
The LWN articles in [1] and [2] can serve as a summary so we can avoid
rehashing everything here.
At LSFMM in May 2022 we got into a room and agreed on what we want to
do about fsinfo(). Basically, split it into pieces. This is the first
part of that agreement. Specifically, it is concerned with retrieving
information about mounts. So this only concerns the mount information
retrieval, not the mount table change notification, or the extended
filesystem specific mount option work. That is separate work.
Currently mounts have a 32bit id. Mount ids are already in heavy use
by libmount and other low-level userspace but they can't be relied
upon because they're recycled very quickly. We agreed that mounts
should carry a unique 64bit id by which they can be referenced
directly. This is now implemented as part of this work.
The new 64bit mount id is exposed in statx() through the new
STATX_MNT_ID_UNIQUE flag. If the flag isn't raised the old mount id is
returned. If it is raised and the kernel supports the new 64bit mount
id the flag is raised in the result mask and the new 64bit mount id is
returned. New and old mount ids do not overlap so they cannot be
conflated.
Two new system calls are introduced that operate on the 64bit mount
id: statmount() and listmount(). A summary of the api and usage can be
found on LWN as well (cf. [3]) but of course, I'll provide a summary
here as well.
Both system calls rely on struct mnt_id_req. Which is the request
struct used to pass the 64bit mount id identifying the mount to
operate on. It is extensible to allow for the addition of new
parameters and for future use in other apis that make use of mount
ids.
statmount() mimicks the semantics of statx() and exposes a set flags
that userspace may raise in mnt_id_req to request specific information
to be retrieved. A statmount() call returns a struct statmount filled
in with information about the requested mount. Supported requests are
indicated by raising the request flag passed in struct mnt_id_req in
the @mask argument in struct statmount.
Currently we do support:
- STATMOUNT_SB_BASIC:
Basic filesystem info
- STATMOUNT_MNT_BASIC
Mount information (mount id, parent mount id, mount attributes etc)
- STATMOUNT_PROPAGATE_FROM
Propagation from what mount in current namespace
- STATMOUNT_MNT_ROOT
Path of the root of the mount (e.g., mount --bind /bla /mnt returns /bla)
- STATMOUNT_MNT_POINT
Path of the mount point (e.g., mount --bind /bla /mnt returns /mnt)
- STATMOUNT_FS_TYPE
Name of the filesystem type as the magic number isn't enough due to submounts
The string options STATMOUNT_MNT_{ROOT,POINT} and STATMOUNT_FS_TYPE
are appended to the end of the struct. Userspace can use the offsets
in @fs_type, @mnt_root, and @mnt_point to reference those strings
easily.
The struct statmount reserves quite a bit of space currently for
future extensibility. This isn't really a problem and if this bothers
us we can just send a follow-up pull request during this cycle.
listmount() is given a 64bit mount id via mnt_id_req just as
statmount(). It takes a buffer and a size to return an array of the
64bit ids of the child mounts of the requested mount. Userspace can
thus choose to either retrieve child mounts for a mount in batches or
iterate through the child mounts. For most use-cases it will be
sufficient to just leave space for a few child mounts. But for big
mount tables having an iterator is really helpful. Iterating through a
mount table works by setting @param in mnt_id_req to the mount id of
the last child mount retrieved in the previous listmount() call"
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/934469 [1]
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/829212 [2]
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/950569 [3]
* tag 'vfs-6.8.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
add selftest for statmount/listmount
fs: keep struct mnt_id_req extensible
wire up syscalls for statmount/listmount
add listmount(2) syscall
statmount: simplify string option retrieval
statmount: simplify numeric option retrieval
add statmount(2) syscall
namespace: extract show_path() helper
mounts: keep list of mounts in an rbtree
add unique mount ID
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the usual miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes
for vfs and individual fses.
Features:
- Add Jan Kara as VFS reviewer
- Show correct device and inode numbers in proc/<pid>/maps for vma
files on stacked filesystems. This is now easily doable thanks to
the backing file work from the last cycles. This comes with
selftests
Cleanups:
- Remove a redundant might_sleep() from wait_on_inode()
- Initialize pointer with NULL, not 0
- Clarify comment on access_override_creds()
- Rework and simplify eventfd_signal() and eventfd_signal_mask()
helpers
- Process aio completions in batches to avoid needless wakeups
- Completely decouple struct mnt_idmap from namespaces. We now only
keep the actual idmapping around and don't stash references to
namespaces
- Reformat maintainer entries to indicate that a given subsystem
belongs to fs/
- Simplify fput() for files that were never opened
- Get rid of various pointless file helpers
- Rename various file helpers
- Rename struct file members after SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU switch from
last cycle
- Make relatime_need_update() return bool
- Use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_USER when allocating superblocks
- Replace deprecated ida_simple_*() calls with their current ida_*()
counterparts
Fixes:
- Fix comments on user namespace id mapping helpers. They aren't
kernel doc comments so they shouldn't be using /**
- s/Retuns/Returns/g in various places
- Add missing parameter documentation on can_move_mount_beneath()
- Rename i_mapping->private_data to i_mapping->i_private_data
- Fix a false-positive lockdep warning in pipe_write() for watch
queues
- Improve __fget_files_rcu() code generation to improve performance
- Only notify writer that pipe resizing has finished after setting
pipe->max_usage otherwise writers are never notified that the pipe
has been resized and hang
- Fix some kernel docs in hfsplus
- s/passs/pass/g in various places
- Fix kernel docs in ntfs
- Fix kcalloc() arguments order reported by gcc 14
- Fix uninitialized value in reiserfs"
* tag 'vfs-6.8.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (36 commits)
reiserfs: fix uninit-value in comp_keys
watch_queue: fix kcalloc() arguments order
ntfs: dir.c: fix kernel-doc function parameter warnings
fs: fix doc comment typo fs tree wide
selftests/overlayfs: verify device and inode numbers in /proc/pid/maps
fs/proc: show correct device and inode numbers in /proc/pid/maps
eventfd: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API
fs: super: use GFP_KERNEL instead of GFP_USER for super block allocation
fs/hfsplus: wrapper.c: fix kernel-doc warnings
fs: add Jan Kara as reviewer
fs/inode: Make relatime_need_update return bool
pipe: wakeup wr_wait after setting max_usage
file: remove __receive_fd()
file: stop exposing receive_fd_user()
fs: replace f_rcuhead with f_task_work
file: remove pointless wrapper
file: s/close_fd_get_file()/file_close_fd()/g
Improve __fget_files_rcu() code generation (and thus __fget_light())
file: massage cleanup of files that failed to open
fs/pipe: Fix lockdep false-positive in watchqueue pipe_write()
...
Pull networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski:
"Including fixes from wireless and netfilter.
We haven't accumulated much over the break. If it wasn't for the
uninterrupted stream of fixes for Intel drivers this PR would be very
slim. There was a handful of user reports, however, either they stood
out because of the lower traffic or users have had more time to test
over the break. The ones which are v6.7-relevant should be wrapped up.
Current release - regressions:
- Revert "net: ipv6/addrconf: clamp preferred_lft to the minimum
required", it caused issues on networks where routers send prefixes
with preferred_lft=0
- wifi:
- iwlwifi: pcie: don't synchronize IRQs from IRQ, prevent deadlock
- mac80211: fix re-adding debugfs entries during reconfiguration
Current release - new code bugs:
- tcp: print AO/MD5 messages only if there are any keys
Previous releases - regressions:
- virtio_net: fix missing dma unmap for resize, prevent OOM
Previous releases - always broken:
- mptcp: prevent tcp diag from closing listener subflows
- nf_tables:
- set transport header offset for egress hook, fix IPv4 mangling
- skip set commit for deleted/destroyed sets, avoid double deactivation
- nat: make sure action is set for all ct states, fix openvswitch
matching on ICMP packets in related state
- eth: mlxbf_gige: fix receive hang under heavy traffic
- eth: r8169: fix PCI error on system resume for RTL8168FP
- net: add missing getsockopt(SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW) and cmsg handling"
* tag 'net-6.7-rc9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (52 commits)
net/tcp: Only produce AO/MD5 logs if there are any keys
net: Implement missing SO_TIMESTAMPING_NEW cmsg support
bnxt_en: Remove mis-applied code from bnxt_cfg_ntp_filters()
net: ravb: Wait for operating mode to be applied
asix: Add check for usbnet_get_endpoints
octeontx2-af: Re-enable MAC TX in otx2_stop processing
octeontx2-af: Always configure NIX TX link credits based on max frame size
net/smc: fix invalid link access in dumping SMC-R connections
net/qla3xxx: fix potential memleak in ql_alloc_buffer_queues
virtio_net: fix missing dma unmap for resize
igc: Fix hicredit calculation
ice: fix Get link status data length
i40e: Restore VF MSI-X state during PCI reset
i40e: fix use-after-free in i40e_aqc_add_filters()
net: Save and restore msg_namelen in sock_sendmsg
netfilter: nft_immediate: drop chain reference counter on error
netfilter: nf_nat: fix action not being set for all ct states
net: bcmgenet: Fix FCS generation for fragmented skbuffs
mptcp: prevent tcp diag from closing listener subflows
MAINTAINERS: add Geliang as reviewer for MPTCP
...
* for-next/selftests:
kselftest/arm64: Don't probe the current VL for unsupported vector types
kselftest/arm64: Log SVCR when the SME tests barf
kselftest/arm64: Improve output for skipped TPIDR2 ABI test
Similar to commit be80942465 ("selftests: bonding: do not set port down
before adding to bond"). The bond-arp-interval-causes-panic test failed
after commit a4abfa627c ("net: rtnetlink: Enslave device before bringing
it up") as the kernel will set the port down _after_ adding to bond if setting
port down specifically.
Fix it by removing the link down operation when adding to bond.
Fixes: 2ffd57327f ("selftests: bonding: cause oops in bond_rr_gen_slave_id")
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Benjamin Poirier <benjamin.poirier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When running tests on a CI system (e.g. LAVA) it is useful to output test
results in TAP (Test Anything Protocol) format so that the CI can parse
the fine-grained results to show regressions. Many of the mm selftest
binaries already output using the TAP format. And the kselftests runner
(run_kselftest.sh) also uses the format. CI systems such as LAVA can
already handle nested TAP reports. However, with the mm selftests we have
3 levels of nesting (run_kselftest.sh -> run_vmtests.sh -> individual test
binaries) and the middle level did not previously support TAP, which
breaks the parser.
Let's fix that by teaching run_vmtests.sh to output using the TAP format.
Ideally this would be opt-in via a command line argument to avoid the
possibility of breaking anyone's existing scripts that might scrape the
output. However, it is not possible to pass arguments to tests invoked
via run_kselftest.sh. So I've implemented an opt-out option (-n), which
will revert to the existing output format.
Future changes to this file should be aware of 2 new conventions:
- output that is part of the TAP reporting is piped through tap_output
- general output is piped through tap_prefix
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231214162434.3580009-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Tested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Aishwarya TCV <aishwarya.tcv@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In some cases the result of test were hidden inside the stdout and it
was difficult to identify when a test was skipped and why.
List of changes
1. Capitalize all the words that express a test result : "OK", "SKIPPED"
and "FAIL".
2. Place all test result text at the end of the message. This will
prevent the result from being hidden when stdout is verbose.
3. Any other explanation that comes after the result text will be placed
in a new line.
4. All failures are marked as "FAIL"
5. Pipped the failure to stderr in tests 8, 9, 10.
6. Replaced bogus "FAIL" with "SKIPPED" in test 0007
7. All "..." are prefixed and followed by a space.
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Basic test to ensure that empty directories can be registered and that
they in turn can serve as a base dir for other registrations.
Add one test to the sysctl selftest module. It first registers an empty
directory under "empty_add" and then uses that as a base to register
another empty dir.
The sysctl bash script then checks that "empty_add" is present and that
there an empty directory within it.
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Pull misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
"11 hotfixes. 7 are cc:stable and the other 4 address post-6.6 issues
or are not considered backporting material"
* tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2023-12-27-15-00' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm:
mailmap: add an old address for Naoya Horiguchi
mm/memory-failure: cast index to loff_t before shifting it
mm/memory-failure: check the mapcount of the precise page
mm/memory-failure: pass the folio and the page to collect_procs()
selftests: secretmem: floor the memory size to the multiple of page_size
mm: migrate high-order folios in swap cache correctly
maple_tree: do not preallocate nodes for slot stores
mm/filemap: avoid buffered read/write race to read inconsistent data
kunit: kasan_test: disable fortify string checker on kmalloc_oob_memset
kexec: select CRYPTO from KEXEC_FILE instead of depending on it
kexec: fix KEXEC_FILE dependencies
Pull kvm fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
"RISC-V:
- Fix a race condition in updating external interrupt for
trap-n-emulated IMSIC swfile
- Fix print_reg defaults in get-reg-list selftest
ARM:
- Ensure a vCPU's redistributor is unregistered from the MMIO bus if
vCPU creation fails
- Fix building KVM selftests for arm64 from the top-level Makefile
x86:
- Fix breakage for SEV-ES guests that use XSAVES
Selftests:
- Fix bad use of strcat(), by not using strcat() at all"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: SEV: Do not intercept accesses to MSR_IA32_XSS for SEV-ES guests
KVM: selftests: Fix dynamic generation of configuration names
RISCV: KVM: update external interrupt atomically for IMSIC swfile
KVM: riscv: selftests: Fix get-reg-list print_reg defaults
KVM: selftests: Ensure sysreg-defs.h is generated at the expected path
KVM: Convert comment into an assertion in kvm_io_bus_register_dev()
KVM: arm64: vgic: Ensure that slots_lock is held in vgic_register_all_redist_iodevs()
KVM: arm64: vgic: Force vcpu vgic teardown on vcpu destroy
KVM: arm64: vgic: Add a non-locking primitive for kvm_vgic_vcpu_destroy()
KVM: arm64: vgic: Simplify kvm_vgic_destroy()
KVM/riscv fixes for 6.7, take #1
- Fix a race condition in updating external interrupt for
trap-n-emulated IMSIC swfile
- Fix print_reg defaults in get-reg-list selftest
KVM/arm64 fixes for 6.7, part #2
- Ensure a vCPU's redistributor is unregistered from the MMIO bus
if vCPU creation fails
- Fix building KVM selftests for arm64 from the top-level Makefile
As there were bugs found with the ownership of eventfs dynamic file
creation. Add a test to test it.
It will remount tracefs with a different gid and check the ownership of
the eventfs directory, as well as the system and event directories. It
will also check the event file directories.
It then does a chgrp on each of these as well to see if they all get
updated as expected.
Then it remounts the tracefs file system back to the original group and
makes sure that all the updated files and directories were reset back to
the original ownership.
It does the same for instances that change the ownership of he instance
directory.
Note, because the uid is not reset by a remount, it is tested for every
file by switching it to a new owner and then back again.
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull sound fixes from Takashi Iwai:
"Apparently there were so many kids wishing bug fixes that made Santa
busy; here we have lots of fixes although it's a bit late. But all
changes are device-specific, hence it should be relatively safe to
apply.
Most of changes are for Cirrus codecs (for both ASoC and HD-audio),
while the remaining are fixes for TI codecs, HD-audio and USB-audio
quirks"
* tag 'sound-6.7-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound: (24 commits)
ALSA: hda: cs35l41: Only add SPI CS GPIO if SPI is enabled in kernel
ALSA: hda: cs35l41: Do not allow uninitialised variables to be freed
ASoC: fsl_sai: Fix channel swap issue on i.MX8MP
ASoC: hdmi-codec: fix missing report for jack initial status
ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirks for ASUS Zenbook 2023 Models
ALSA: hda: cs35l41: Support additional ASUS Zenbook 2023 Models
ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirks for ASUS Zenbook 2022 Models
ALSA: hda: cs35l41: Support additional ASUS Zenbook 2022 Models
ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirks for ASUS ROG 2023 models
ALSA: hda: cs35l41: Support additional ASUS ROG 2023 models
ALSA: hda: cs35l41: Add config table to support many laptops without _DSD
ASoC: Intel: bytcr_rt5640: Add new swapped-speakers quirk
ASoC: Intel: bytcr_rt5640: Add quirk for the Medion Lifetab S10346
kselftest: alsa: fixed a print formatting warning
ALSA: usb-audio: Increase delay in MOTU M quirk
ASoC: tas2781: check the validity of prm_no/cfg_no
ALSA: hda/tas2781: select program 0, conf 0 by default
ALSA: hda/realtek: Add quirk for ASUS ROG GV302XA
ASoC: cs42l43: Don't enable bias sense during type detect
ASoC: Intel: soc-acpi-intel-mtl-match: Change CS35L56 prefixes to AMPn
...
Pull networking fixes from Paolo Abeni:
"Including fixes from WiFi and bpf.
Current release - regressions:
- bpf: syzkaller found null ptr deref in unix_bpf proto add
- eth: i40e: fix ST code value for clause 45
Previous releases - regressions:
- core: return error from sk_stream_wait_connect() if sk_wait_event()
fails
- ipv6: revert remove expired routes with a separated list of routes
- wifi rfkill:
- set GPIO direction
- fix crash with WED rx support enabled
- bluetooth:
- fix deadlock in vhci_send_frame
- fix use-after-free in bt_sock_recvmsg
- eth: mlx5e: fix a race in command alloc flow
- eth: ice: fix PF with enabled XDP going no-carrier after reset
- eth: bnxt_en: do not map packet buffers twice
Previous releases - always broken:
- core:
- check vlan filter feature in vlan_vids_add_by_dev() and
vlan_vids_del_by_dev()
- check dev->gso_max_size in gso_features_check()
- mptcp: fix inconsistent state on fastopen race
- phy: skip LED triggers on PHYs on SFP modules
- eth: mlx5e:
- fix double free of encap_header
- fix slab-out-of-bounds in mlx5_query_nic_vport_mac_list()"
* tag 'net-6.7-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (69 commits)
net: check dev->gso_max_size in gso_features_check()
kselftest: rtnetlink.sh: use grep_fail when expecting the cmd fail
net/ipv6: Revert remove expired routes with a separated list of routes
net: avoid build bug in skb extension length calculation
net: ethernet: mtk_wed: fix possible NULL pointer dereference in mtk_wed_wo_queue_tx_clean()
net: stmmac: fix incorrect flag check in timestamp interrupt
selftests: add vlan hw filter tests
net: check vlan filter feature in vlan_vids_add_by_dev() and vlan_vids_del_by_dev()
net: hns3: add new maintainer for the HNS3 ethernet driver
net: mana: select PAGE_POOL
net: ks8851: Fix TX stall caused by TX buffer overrun
ice: Fix PF with enabled XDP going no-carrier after reset
ice: alter feature support check for SRIOV and LAG
ice: stop trashing VF VSI aggregator node ID information
mailmap: add entries for Geliang Tang
mptcp: fill in missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION()
mptcp: fix inconsistent state on fastopen race
selftests: mptcp: join: fix subflow_send_ack lookup
net: phy: skip LED triggers on PHYs on SFP modules
bpf: Add missing BPF_LINK_TYPE invocations
...
Daniel Borkmann says:
====================
pull-request: bpf 2023-12-21
Hi David, hi Jakub, hi Paolo, hi Eric,
The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net* tree.
We've added 3 non-merge commits during the last 5 day(s) which contain
a total of 4 files changed, 45 insertions(+).
The main changes are:
1) Fix a syzkaller splat which triggered an oob issue in bpf_link_show_fdinfo(),
from Jiri Olsa.
2) Fix another syzkaller-found issue which triggered a NULL pointer dereference
in BPF sockmap for unconnected unix sockets, from John Fastabend.
bpf-for-netdev
* tag 'for-netdev' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf:
bpf: Add missing BPF_LINK_TYPE invocations
bpf: sockmap, test for unconnected af_unix sock
bpf: syzkaller found null ptr deref in unix_bpf proto add
====================
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231221104844.1374-1-daniel@iogearbox.net
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
run_cmd_grep_fail should be used when expecting the cmd fail, or the ret
will be set to 1, and the total test return 1 when exiting. This would cause
the result report to fail if run via run_kselftest.sh.
Before fix:
# ./rtnetlink.sh -t kci_test_addrlft
PASS: preferred_lft addresses have expired
# echo $?
1
After fix:
# ./rtnetlink.sh -t kci_test_addrlft
PASS: preferred_lft addresses have expired
# echo $?
0
Fixes: 9c2a19f715 ("kselftest: rtnetlink.sh: add verbose flag")
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231219065737.1725120-1-liuhangbin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Add a test for reproducing the update_schemes_tried_{regions,bytes}
command-causing indefinite hang bug that fixed by commit 7d6fa31a2f
("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes: add timeout for update_schemes_tried_regions"),
to avoid mistakenly re-introducing the bug. Refer to the fix commit for
more details of the bug.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231212194810.54457-6-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Add a selftest for verifying the accuracy of DAMON's access monitoring
functionality. The test starts a program of artificial access pattern,
monitor the access pattern using DAMON, and check if DAMON finds expected
amount of hot data region (working set size) with only acceptable error
rate.
Note that the acceptable error rate is set with only naive assumptions and
small number of tests. Hence failures of the test may not always mean
DAMON is broken. Rather than that, those could be a signal to better
understand the real accuracy level of DAMON in wider environments. Based
on further finding, we could optimize DAMON or adjust the expectation of
the test.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231212194810.54457-5-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Implement update_schemes_tried_bytes command of DAMON sysfs interface in
_damon_sysfs.py. It is not only making the update, but also read the
updated value from the sysfs interface and store it in the Kdamond python
objects so that the user of the module can easily get the value.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231212194810.54457-4-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "selftests/damon: add Python-written DAMON functionality
tests", v2.
DAMON exports most of its functionality via its sysfs interface. Hence
most DAMON functionality tests could be implemented using the interface.
However, because the interfaces require simple but multiple operations for
many controls, writing all such tests from the scratch could be repetitive
and time consuming.
Implement a minimum DAMON sysfs control module, and a couple of DAMON
functionality tests using the control module. The first test is for
ensuring minimum accuracy of data access monitoring, and the second test
is for finding if a previously found and fixed bug is introduced again.
Note that the DAMON sysfs control module is only for avoiding duplicating
code in tests. For convenient and general control of DAMON, users should
use DAMON user-space tools that developed for the purpose, such as
damo[1].
[1] https://github.com/damonitor/damo
Patches Sequence
----------------
This patchset is constructed with five patches. The first three patches
implement a Python-written test implementation-purpose DAMON sysfs control
module. The implementation is incrementally done in the sequence of the
basic data structure (first patch) first, kdamonds start command (second
patch) next, and finally DAMOS tried bytes update command (third patch).
Then two patches for implementing selftests using the module follows. The
fourth patch implements a basic functionality test of DAMON for working
set estimation accuracy. Finally, the fifth patch implements a corner
case test for a previously found bug.
This patch (of 5):
Implement a python module for DAMON sysfs controls. The module is aimed
to be useful for writing DAMON functionality tests in future.
Nonetheless, this module is only representing a subset of DAMON sysfs
files. Following commits will implement more DAMON sysfs controls.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231212194810.54457-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231212194810.54457-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
