Due to the weird Makefile setup of sched the various files do not
compile as stand alone units. The new generation of editors are trying
to do just this -- mostly to offer fancy things like completions but
also better syntax highlighting and code navigation.
Specifically, I've been playing around with neovim and clangd.
Setting up clangd on the kernel source is a giant pain in the arse
(this really should be improved), but once you do manage, you run into
dumb stuff like the above.
Fix up the scheduler files to at least pretend to work.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250523164348.GN39944@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
Pull timer cleanup from Thomas Gleixner:
"The delayed from_timer() API cleanup:
The renaming to the timer_*() namespace was delayed due massive
conflicts against Linux-next. Now that everything is upstream finish
the conversion"
* tag 'timers-cleanups-2025-06-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
treewide, timers: Rename from_timer() to timer_container_of()
Pull more tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
- Fix regression of waiting a long time on updating trace event filters
When the faultable trace points were added, it needed task trace RCU
synchronization.
This was added to the tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() function.
The filter logic always called this function whenever it updated the
trace event filters before freeing the old filters. This increased
the time of "trace-cmd record" from taking 13 seconds to running over
2 minutes to complete.
Move the freeing of the filters to call_rcu*() logic, which brings
the time back down to 13 seconds.
- Fix ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set() error path lock protection
The error path of the ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set() released the
mutex too early and allowed subsequent accesses to setting the
subbuffer size to corrupt the data and cause a bug.
By moving the mutex locking to the end of the error path, it prevents
the reentrant access to the critical data and also allows the
function to convert the taking of the mutex over to the guard()
logic.
- Remove unused power management clock events
The clock events were added in 2010 for power management. In 2011 arm
used them. In 2013 the code they were used in was removed. These
events have been wasting memory since then.
- Fix sparse warnings
There was a few places that sparse warned about trace_events_filter.c
where file->filter was referenced directly, but it is annotated with
an __rcu tag. Use the helper functions and fix them up to use
rcu_dereference() properly.
* tag 'trace-v6.16-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing: Add rcu annotation around file->filter accesses
tracing: PM: Remove unused clock events
ring-buffer: Fix buffer locking in ring_buffer_subbuf_order_set()
tracing: Fix regression of filter waiting a long time on RCU synchronization
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- Add support for the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FOR_MODULES() macro, which
exports a symbol only to specified modules
- Improve ABI handling in gendwarfksyms
- Forcibly link lib-y objects to vmlinux even if CONFIG_MODULES=n
- Add checkers for redundant or missing <linux/export.h> inclusion
- Deprecate the extra-y syntax
- Fix a genksyms bug when including enum constants from *.symref files
* tag 'kbuild-v6.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (28 commits)
genksyms: Fix enum consts from a reference affecting new values
arch: use always-$(KBUILD_BUILTIN) for vmlinux.lds
kbuild: set y instead of 1 to KBUILD_{BUILTIN,MODULES}
efi/libstub: use 'targets' instead of extra-y in Makefile
module: make __mod_device_table__* symbols static
scripts/misc-check: check unnecessary #include <linux/export.h> when W=1
scripts/misc-check: check missing #include <linux/export.h> when W=1
scripts/misc-check: add double-quotes to satisfy shellcheck
kbuild: move W=1 check for scripts/misc-check to top-level Makefile
scripts/tags.sh: allow to use alternative ctags implementation
kconfig: introduce menu type enum
docs: symbol-namespaces: fix reST warning with literal block
kbuild: link lib-y objects to vmlinux forcibly even when CONFIG_MODULES=n
tinyconfig: enable CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION
docs/core-api/symbol-namespaces: drop table of contents and section numbering
modpost: check forbidden MODULE_IMPORT_NS("module:") at compile time
kbuild: move kbuild syntax processing to scripts/Makefile.build
Makefile: remove dependency on archscripts for header installation
Documentation/kbuild: Add new gendwarfksyms kABI rules
Documentation/kbuild: Drop section numbers
...
Pull misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
"13 hotfixes.
6 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.15 issues or aren't
considered necessary for -stable kernels. 11 are for MM"
* tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2025-06-06-16-02' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm:
kernel/rcu/tree_stall: add /sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count
MAINTAINERS: add mm swap section
kmsan: test: add module description
MAINTAINERS: add tlb trace events to MMU GATHER AND TLB INVALIDATION
mm/hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare() vs GUP-fast race
mm/hugetlb: unshare page tables during VMA split, not before
MAINTAINERS: add Alistair as reviewer of mm memory policy
iov_iter: use iov_offset for length calculation in iov_iter_aligned_bvec
mm/mempolicy: fix incorrect freeing of wi_kobj
alloc_tag: handle module codetag load errors as module load failures
mm/madvise: handle madvise_lock() failure during race unwinding
mm: fix vmstat after removing NR_BOUNCE
KVM: s390: rename PROT_NONE to PROT_TYPE_DUMMY
Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt:
- Support for the FWFT SBI extension, which is part of SBI 3.0 and a
dependency for many new SBI and ISA extensions
- Support for getrandom() in the VDSO
- Support for mseal
- Optimized routines for raid6 syndrome and recovery calculations
- kexec_file() supports loading Image-formatted kernel binaries
- Improvements to the instruction patching framework to allow for
atomic instruction patching, along with rules as to how systems need
to behave in order to function correctly
- Support for a handful of new ISA extensions: Svinval, Zicbop, Zabha,
some SiFive vendor extensions
- Various fixes and cleanups, including: misaligned access handling,
perf symbol mangling, module loading, PUD THPs, and improved uaccess
routines
* tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.16-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (69 commits)
riscv: uaccess: Only restore the CSR_STATUS SUM bit
RISC-V: vDSO: Wire up getrandom() vDSO implementation
riscv: enable mseal sysmap for RV64
raid6: Add RISC-V SIMD syndrome and recovery calculations
riscv: mm: Add support for Svinval extension
RISC-V: Documentation: Add enough title underlines to CMODX
riscv: Improve Kconfig help for RISCV_ISA_V_PREEMPTIVE
MAINTAINERS: Update Atish's email address
riscv: uaccess: do not do misaligned accesses in get/put_user()
riscv: process: use unsigned int instead of unsigned long for put_user()
riscv: make unsafe user copy routines use existing assembly routines
riscv: hwprobe: export Zabha extension
riscv: Make regs_irqs_disabled() more clear
perf symbols: Ignore mapping symbols on riscv
RISC-V: Kconfig: Fix help text of CMDLINE_EXTEND
riscv: module: Optimize PLT/GOT entry counting
riscv: Add support for PUD THP
riscv: xchg: Prefetch the destination word for sc.w
riscv: Add ARCH_HAS_PREFETCH[W] support with Zicbop
riscv: Add support for Zicbop
...
When faultable trace events were added, a trace event may no longer use
normal RCU to synchronize but instead used synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace().
This synchronization takes a much longer time to synchronize.
The filter logic would free the filters by calling
tracepoint_synchronize_unregister() after it unhooked the filter strings
and before freeing them. With this function now calling
synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace() this increased the time to free a filter
tremendously. On a PREEMPT_RT system, it was even more noticeable.
# time trace-cmd record -p function sleep 1
[..]
real 2m29.052s
user 0m0.244s
sys 0m20.136s
As trace-cmd would clear out all the filters before recording, it could
take up to 2 minutes to do a recording of "sleep 1".
To find out where the issues was:
~# trace-cmd sqlhist -e -n sched_stack select start.prev_state as state, end.next_comm as comm, TIMESTAMP_DELTA_USECS as delta, start.STACKTRACE as stack from sched_switch as start join sched_switch as end on start.prev_pid = end.next_pid
Which will produce the following commands (and -e will also execute them):
echo 's:sched_stack s64 state; char comm[16]; u64 delta; unsigned long stack[];' >> /sys/kernel/tracing/dynamic_events
echo 'hist:keys=prev_pid:__arg_18057_2=prev_state,__arg_18057_4=common_timestamp.usecs,__arg_18057_7=common_stacktrace' >> /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
echo 'hist:keys=next_pid:__state_18057_1=$__arg_18057_2,__comm_18057_3=next_comm,__delta_18057_5=common_timestamp.usecs-$__arg_18057_4,__stack_18057_6=$__arg_18057_7:onmatch(sched.sched_switch).trace(sched_stack,$__state_18057_1,$__comm_18057_3,$__delta_18057_5,$__stack_18057_6)' >> /sys/kernel/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
The above creates a synthetic event that creates a stack trace when a task
schedules out and records it with the time it scheduled back in. Basically
the time a task is off the CPU. It also records the state of the task when
it left the CPU (running, blocked, sleeping, etc). It also saves the comm
of the task as "comm" (needed for the next command).
~# echo 'hist:keys=state,stack.stacktrace:vals=delta:sort=state,delta if comm == "trace-cmd" && state & 3' > /sys/kernel/tracing/events/synthetic/sched_stack/trigger
The above creates a histogram with buckets per state, per stack, and the
value of the total time it was off the CPU for that stack trace. It filters
on tasks with "comm == trace-cmd" and only the sleeping and blocked states
(1 - sleeping, 2 - blocked).
~# trace-cmd record -p function sleep 1
~# cat /sys/kernel/tracing/events/synthetic/sched_stack/hist | tail -18
{ state: 2, stack.stacktrace __schedule+0x1545/0x3700
schedule+0xe2/0x390
schedule_timeout+0x175/0x200
wait_for_completion_state+0x294/0x440
__wait_rcu_gp+0x247/0x4f0
synchronize_rcu_tasks_generic+0x151/0x230
apply_subsystem_event_filter+0xa2b/0x1300
subsystem_filter_write+0x67/0xc0
vfs_write+0x1e2/0xeb0
ksys_write+0xff/0x1d0
do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x420
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
} hitcount: 237 delta: 99756288 <<--------------- Delta is 99 seconds!
Totals:
Hits: 525
Entries: 21
Dropped: 0
This shows that this particular trace waited for 99 seconds on
synchronize_rcu_tasks() in apply_subsystem_event_filter().
In fact, there's a lot of places in the filter code that spends a lot of
time waiting for synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace() in order to free the
filters.
Add helper functions that will use call_rcu*() variants to asynchronously
free the filters. This brings the timings back to normal:
# time trace-cmd record -p function sleep 1
[..]
real 0m14.681s
user 0m0.335s
sys 0m28.616s
And the histogram also shows this:
~# cat /sys/kernel/tracing/events/synthetic/sched_stack/hist | tail -21
{ state: 2, stack.stacktrace __schedule+0x1545/0x3700
schedule+0xe2/0x390
schedule_timeout+0x175/0x200
wait_for_completion_state+0x294/0x440
__wait_rcu_gp+0x247/0x4f0
synchronize_rcu_normal+0x3db/0x5c0
tracing_reset_online_cpus+0x8f/0x1e0
tracing_open+0x335/0x440
do_dentry_open+0x4c6/0x17a0
vfs_open+0x82/0x360
path_openat+0x1a36/0x2990
do_filp_open+0x1c5/0x420
do_sys_openat2+0xed/0x180
__x64_sys_openat+0x108/0x1d0
do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x420
} hitcount: 2 delta: 77044
Totals:
Hits: 55
Entries: 28
Dropped: 0
Where the total waiting time of synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace() is 77
milliseconds.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Andreas Ziegler <ziegler.andreas@siemens.com>
Cc: Felix MOESSBAUER <felix.moessbauer@siemens.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250606201936.1e3d09a9@batman.local.home
Reported-by: "Flot, Julien" <julien.flot@siemens.com>
Tested-by: Julien Flot <julien.flot@siemens.com>
Fixes: a363d27cdb ("tracing: Allow system call tracepoints to handle page faults")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/240017f656631c7dd4017aa93d91f41f653788ea.camel@siemens.com/
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
