Hi Greg,
Le Sat, Nov 09, 2024 at 03:54:09PM +0100, Greg KH a écrit :
> On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 11:23:24AM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > Le Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 09:14:15PM -0500, Sasha Levin a écrit :
> > > The patch below does not apply to the v4.19-stable tree.
> > > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > > id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Sasha
> >
> > Please try this:
> >
> > ---
> > >From ee0d95090203b7ee4cb1f29c586cd7d0dbf79fff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Benjamin Segall <bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:35:35 -0700
> > Subject: [PATCH] posix-cpu-timers: Clear TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER on clone
> >
> > When cloning a new thread, its posix_cputimers are not inherited, and
> > are cleared by posix_cputimers_init(). However, this does not clear the
> > tick dependency it creates in tsk->tick_dep_mask, and the handler does
> > not reach the code to clear the dependency if there were no timers to
> > begin with.
> >
> > Thus if a thread has a cputimer running before clone/fork, all
> > descendants will prevent nohz_full unless they create a cputimer of
> > their own.
> >
> > Fix this by entirely clearing the tick_dep_mask in copy_process().
> > (There is currently no inherited state that needs a tick dependency)
> >
> > Process-wide timers do not have this problem because fork does not copy
> > signal_struct as a baseline, it creates one from scratch.
> >
> > Fixes: b78783000d5c ("posix-cpu-timers: Migrate to use new tick dependency mask model")
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Segall <bsegall@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/xm26o737bq8o.fsf@xxxxxxxxxx
> > ---
> > include/linux/tick.h | 8 ++++++++
> > kernel/fork.c | 2 ++
> > 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/tick.h b/include/linux/tick.h
> > index 443726085f6c..832381b812c2 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/tick.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/tick.h
> > @@ -233,12 +233,19 @@ static inline void tick_dep_set_task(struct task_struct *tsk,
> > if (tick_nohz_full_enabled())
> > tick_nohz_dep_set_task(tsk, bit);
> > }
> > +
> > static inline void tick_dep_clear_task(struct task_struct *tsk,
> > enum tick_dep_bits bit)
> > {
> > if (tick_nohz_full_enabled())
> > tick_nohz_dep_clear_task(tsk, bit);
> > }
> > +
> > +static inline void tick_dep_init_task(struct task_struct *tsk)
> > +{
> > + atomic_set(&tsk->tick_dep_mask, 0);
> > +}
> > +
> > static inline void tick_dep_set_signal(struct signal_struct *signal,
> > enum tick_dep_bits bit)
> > {
> > @@ -272,6 +279,7 @@ static inline void tick_dep_set_task(struct task_struct *tsk,
> > enum tick_dep_bits bit) { }
> > static inline void tick_dep_clear_task(struct task_struct *tsk,
> > enum tick_dep_bits bit) { }
> > +static inline void tick_dep_init_task(struct task_struct *tsk) { }
> > static inline void tick_dep_set_signal(struct signal_struct *signal,
> > enum tick_dep_bits bit) { }
> > static inline void tick_dep_clear_signal(struct signal_struct *signal,
> > diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> > index b65871600507..1fb06d8952bc 100644
> > --- a/kernel/fork.c
> > +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> > @@ -91,6 +91,7 @@
> > #include <linux/kcov.h>
> > #include <linux/livepatch.h>
> > #include <linux/thread_info.h>
> > +#include <linux/tick.h>
> >
> > #include <asm/pgtable.h>
> > #include <asm/pgalloc.h>
> > @@ -1829,6 +1830,7 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
> > acct_clear_integrals(p);
> >
> > posix_cpu_timers_init(p);
> > + tick_dep_init_task(p);
> >
> > p->io_context = NULL;
> > audit_set_context(p, NULL);
> > --
> > 2.46.0
> >
> >
>
> What is the git id of this in Linus's tree?
b5413156bad9 (posix-cpu-timers: Clear TICK_DEP_BIT_POSIX_TIMER on clone)
Thanks.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
