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2024-06-18sched_ext: Documentation: scheduler: Document extensible scheduler classTejun Heo1-0/+2
Add Documentation/scheduler/sched-ext.rst which gives a high-level overview and pointers to the examples. v6: - Add paragraph explaining debug dump. v5: - Updated to reflect /sys/kernel interface change. Kconfig options added. v4: - README improved, reformatted in markdown and renamed to README.md. v3: - Added tools/sched_ext/README. - Dropped _example prefix from scheduler names. v2: - Apply minor edits suggested by Bagas. Caveats section dropped as all of them are addressed. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com> Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com> Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com> Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com> Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
2024-06-18sched_ext: Add vtime-ordered priority queue to dispatch_q'sTejun Heo1-3/+26
Currently, a dsq is always a FIFO. A task which is dispatched earlier gets consumed or executed earlier. While this is sufficient when dsq's are used for simple staging areas for tasks which are ready to execute, it'd make dsq's a lot more useful if they can implement custom ordering. This patch adds a vtime-ordered priority queue to dsq's. When the BPF scheduler dispatches a task with the new scx_bpf_dispatch_vtime() helper, it can specify the vtime tha the task should be inserted at and the task is inserted into the priority queue in the dsq which is ordered according to time_before64() comparison of the vtime values. A DSQ can either be a FIFO or priority queue and automatically switches between the two depending on whether scx_bpf_dispatch() or scx_bpf_dispatch_vtime() is used. Using the wrong variant while the DSQ already has the other type queued is not allowed and triggers an ops error. Built-in DSQs must always be FIFOs. This makes it very easy for the BPF schedulers to implement proper vtime based scheduling within each dsq very easy and efficient at a negligible cost in terms of code complexity and overhead. scx_simple and scx_example_flatcg are updated to default to weighted vtime scheduling (the latter within each cgroup). FIFO scheduling can be selected with -f option. v4: - As allowing mixing priority queue and FIFO on the same DSQ sometimes led to unexpected starvations, DSQs now error out if both modes are used at the same time and the built-in DSQs are no longer allowed to be priority queues. - Explicit type struct scx_dsq_node added to contain fields needed to be linked on DSQs. This will be used to implement stateful iterator. - Tasks are now always linked on dsq->list whether the DSQ is in FIFO or PRIQ mode. This confines PRIQ related complexities to the enqueue and dequeue paths. Other paths only need to look at dsq->list. This will also ease implementing BPF iterator. - Print p->scx.dsq_flags in debug dump. v3: - SCX_TASK_DSQ_ON_PRIQ flag is moved from p->scx.flags into its own p->scx.dsq_flags. The flag is protected with the dsq lock unlike other flags in p->scx.flags. This led to flag corruption in some cases. - Add comments explaining the interaction between using consumption of p->scx.slice to determine vtime progress and yielding. v2: - p->scx.dsq_vtime was not initialized on load or across cgroup migrations leading to some tasks being stalled for extended period of time depending on how saturated the machine is. Fixed. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
2024-06-18sched_ext: Implement core-sched supportTejun Heo1-0/+3
The core-sched support is composed of the following parts: - task_struct->scx.core_sched_at is added. This is a timestamp which can be used to order tasks. Depending on whether the BPF scheduler implements custom ordering, it tracks either global FIFO ordering of all tasks or local-DSQ ordering within the dispatched tasks on a CPU. - prio_less() is updated to call scx_prio_less() when comparing SCX tasks. scx_prio_less() calls ops.core_sched_before() if available or uses the core_sched_at timestamp. For global FIFO ordering, the BPF scheduler doesn't need to do anything. Otherwise, it should implement ops.core_sched_before() which reflects the ordering. - When core-sched is enabled, balance_scx() balances all SMT siblings so that they all have tasks dispatched if necessary before pick_task_scx() is called. pick_task_scx() picks between the current task and the first dispatched task on the local DSQ based on availability and the core_sched_at timestamps. Note that FIFO ordering is expected among the already dispatched tasks whether running or on the local DSQ, so this path always compares core_sched_at instead of calling into ops.core_sched_before(). qmap_core_sched_before() is added to scx_qmap. It scales the distances from the heads of the queues to compare the tasks across different priority queues and seems to behave as expected. v3: Fixed build error when !CONFIG_SCHED_SMT reported by Andrea Righi. v2: Sched core added the const qualifiers to prio_less task arguments. Explicitly drop them for ops.core_sched_before() task arguments. BPF enforces access control through the verifier, so the qualifier isn't actually operative and only gets in the way when interacting with various helpers. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com> Cc: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
2024-06-18sched_ext: Implement sched_ext_ops.cpu_acquire/release()David Vernet1-1/+3
Scheduler classes are strictly ordered and when a higher priority class has tasks to run, the lower priority ones lose access to the CPU. Being able to monitor and act on these events are necessary for use cases includling strict core-scheduling and latency management. This patch adds two operations ops.cpu_acquire() and .cpu_release(). The former is invoked when a CPU becomes available to the BPF scheduler and the opposite for the latter. This patch also implements scx_bpf_reenqueue_local() which can be called from .cpu_release() to trigger requeueing of all tasks in the local dsq of the CPU so that the tasks can be reassigned to other available CPUs. scx_pair is updated to use .cpu_acquire/release() along with %SCX_KICK_WAIT to make the pair scheduling guarantee strict even when a CPU is preempted by a higher priority scheduler class. scx_qmap is updated to use .cpu_acquire/release() to empty the local dsq of a preempted CPU. A similar approach can be adopted by BPF schedulers that want to have a tight control over latency. v4: Use the new SCX_KICK_IDLE to wake up a CPU after re-enqueueing. v3: Drop the const qualifier from scx_cpu_release_args.task. BPF enforces access control through the verifier, so the qualifier isn't actually operative and only gets in the way when interacting with various helpers. v2: Add p->scx.kf_mask annotation to allow calling scx_bpf_reenqueue_local() from ops.cpu_release() nested inside ops.init() and other sleepable operations. Signed-off-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com> Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com> Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
2024-06-18sched_ext: Track tasks that are subjects of the in-flight SCX operationTejun Heo1-0/+2
When some SCX operations are in flight, it is known that the subject task's rq lock is held throughout which makes it safe to access certain fields of the task - e.g. its current task_group. We want to add SCX kfunc helpers that can make use of this guarantee - e.g. to help determining the currently associated CPU cgroup from the task's current task_group. As it'd be dangerous call such a helper on a task which isn't rq lock protected, the helper should be able to verify the input task and reject accordingly. This patch adds sched_ext_entity.kf_tasks[] that track the tasks which are currently being operated on by a terminal SCX operation. The new SCX_CALL_OP_[2]TASK[_RET]() can be used when invoking SCX operations which take tasks as arguments and the scx_kf_allowed_on_arg_tasks() can be used by kfunc helpers to verify the input task status. Note that as sched_ext_entity.kf_tasks[] can't handle nesting, the tracking is currently only limited to terminal SCX operations. If needed in the future, this restriction can be removed by moving the tracking to the task side with a couple per-task counters. v2: Updated to reflect the addition of SCX_KF_SELECT_CPU. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
2024-06-18sched_ext: Implement tickless supportTejun Heo1-0/+1
Allow BPF schedulers to indicate tickless operation by setting p->scx.slice to SCX_SLICE_INF. A CPU whose current task has infinte slice goes into tickless operation. scx_central is updated to use tickless operations for all tasks and instead use a BPF timer to expire slices. This also uses the SCX_ENQ_PREEMPT and task state tracking added by the previous patches. Currently, there is no way to pin the timer on the central CPU, so it may end up on one of the worker CPUs; however, outside of that, the worker CPUs can go tickless both while running sched_ext tasks and idling. With schbench running, scx_central shows: root@test ~# grep ^LOC /proc/interrupts; sleep 10; grep ^LOC /proc/interrupts LOC: 142024 656 664 449 Local timer interrupts LOC: 161663 663 665 449 Local timer interrupts Without it: root@test ~ [SIGINT]# grep ^LOC /proc/interrupts; sleep 10; grep ^LOC /proc/interrupts LOC: 188778 3142 3793 3993 Local timer interrupts LOC: 198993 5314 6323 6438 Local timer interrupts While scx_central itself is too barebone to be useful as a production scheduler, a more featureful central scheduler can be built using the same approach. Google's experience shows that such an approach can have significant benefits for certain applications such as VM hosting. v4: Allow operation even if BPF_F_TIMER_CPU_PIN is not available. v3: Pin the central scheduler's timer on the central_cpu using BPF_F_TIMER_CPU_PIN. v2: Convert to BPF inline iterators. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com> Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com> Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com> Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
2024-06-18sched_ext: Implement scx_bpf_kick_cpu() and task preemption supportTejun Heo1-0/+4
It's often useful to wake up and/or trigger reschedule on other CPUs. This patch adds scx_bpf_kick_cpu() kfunc helper that BPF scheduler can call to kick the target CPU into the scheduling path. As a sched_ext task relinquishes its CPU only after its slice is depleted, this patch also adds SCX_KICK_PREEMPT and SCX_ENQ_PREEMPT which clears the slice of the target CPU's current task to guarantee that sched_ext's scheduling path runs on the CPU. If SCX_KICK_IDLE is specified, the target CPU is kicked iff the CPU is idle to guarantee that the target CPU will go through at least one full sched_ext scheduling cycle after the kicking. This can be used to wake up idle CPUs without incurring unnecessary overhead if it isn't currently idle. As a demonstration of how backward compatibility can be supported using BPF CO-RE, tools/sched_ext/include/scx/compat.bpf.h is added. It provides __COMPAT_scx_bpf_kick_cpu_IDLE() which uses SCX_KICK_IDLE if available or becomes a regular kicking otherwise. This allows schedulers to use the new SCX_KICK_IDLE while maintaining support for older kernels. The plan is to temporarily use compat helpers to ease API updates and drop them after a few kernel releases. v5: - SCX_KICK_IDLE added. Note that this also adds a compat mechanism for schedulers so that they can support kernels without SCX_KICK_IDLE. This is useful as a demonstration of how new feature flags can be added in a backward compatible way. - kick_cpus_irq_workfn() reimplemented so that it touches the pending cpumasks only as necessary to reduce kicking overhead on machines with a lot of CPUs. - tools/sched_ext/include/scx/compat.bpf.h added. v4: - Move example scheduler to its own patch. v3: - Make scx_example_central switch all tasks by default. - Convert to BPF inline iterators. v2: - Julia Lawall reported that scx_example_central can overflow the dispatch buffer and malfunction. As scheduling for other CPUs can't be handled by the automatic retry mechanism, fix by implementing an explicit overflow and retry handling. - Updated to use generic BPF cpumask helpers. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com> Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com> Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com> Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
2024-06-18sched_ext: Print debug dump after an error exitTejun Heo1-0/+32
If a BPF scheduler triggers an error, the scheduler is aborted and the system is reverted to the built-in scheduler. In the process, a lot of information which may be useful for figuring out what happened can be lost. This patch adds debug dump which captures information which may be useful for debugging including runqueue and runnable thread states at the time of failure. The following shows a debug dump after triggering the watchdog: root@test ~# os/work/tools/sched_ext/build/bin/scx_qmap -t 100 stats : enq=1 dsp=0 delta=1 deq=0 stats : enq=90 dsp=90 delta=0 deq=0 stats : enq=156 dsp=156 delta=0 deq=0 stats : enq=218 dsp=218 delta=0 deq=0 stats : enq=255 dsp=255 delta=0 deq=0 stats : enq=271 dsp=271 delta=0 deq=0 stats : enq=284 dsp=284 delta=0 deq=0 stats : enq=293 dsp=293 delta=0 deq=0 DEBUG DUMP ================================================================================ kworker/u32:12[320] triggered exit kind 1026: runnable task stall (stress[1530] failed to run for 6.841s) Backtrace: scx_watchdog_workfn+0x136/0x1c0 process_scheduled_works+0x2b5/0x600 worker_thread+0x269/0x360 kthread+0xeb/0x110 ret_from_fork+0x36/0x40 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 QMAP FIFO[0]: QMAP FIFO[1]: QMAP FIFO[2]: 1436 QMAP FIFO[3]: QMAP FIFO[4]: CPU states ---------- CPU 0 : nr_run=1 ops_qseq=244 curr=swapper/0[0] class=idle_sched_class QMAP: dsp_idx=1 dsp_cnt=0 R stress[1530] -6841ms scx_state/flags=3/0x1 ops_state/qseq=2/20 sticky/holding_cpu=-1/-1 dsq_id=(n/a) cpus=ff QMAP: force_local=0 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20 CPU 2 : nr_run=2 ops_qseq=142 curr=swapper/2[0] class=idle_sched_class QMAP: dsp_idx=1 dsp_cnt=0 R sshd[1703] -5905ms scx_state/flags=3/0x9 ops_state/qseq=2/88 sticky/holding_cpu=-1/-1 dsq_id=(n/a) cpus=ff QMAP: force_local=1 __x64_sys_ppoll+0xf6/0x120 do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x150 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e R fish[1539] -4141ms scx_state/flags=3/0x9 ops_state/qseq=2/124 sticky/holding_cpu=-1/-1 dsq_id=(n/a) cpus=ff QMAP: force_local=1 futex_wait+0x60/0xe0 do_futex+0x109/0x180 __x64_sys_futex+0x117/0x190 do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x150 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e CPU 3 : nr_run=2 ops_qseq=162 curr=kworker/u32:12[320] class=ext_sched_class QMAP: dsp_idx=1 dsp_cnt=0 *R kworker/u32:12[320] +0ms scx_state/flags=3/0xd ops_state/qseq=0/0 sticky/holding_cpu=-1/-1 dsq_id=(n/a) cpus=ff QMAP: force_local=0 scx_dump_state+0x613/0x6f0 scx_ops_error_irq_workfn+0x1f/0x40 irq_work_run_list+0x82/0xd0 irq_work_run+0x14/0x30 __sysvec_irq_work+0x40/0x140 sysvec_irq_work+0x60/0x70 asm_sysvec_irq_work+0x16/0x20 scx_watchdog_workfn+0x15f/0x1c0 process_scheduled_works+0x2b5/0x600 worker_thread+0x269/0x360 kthread+0xeb/0x110 ret_from_fork+0x36/0x40 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 R kworker/3:2[1436] +0ms scx_state/flags=3/0x9 ops_state/qseq=2/160 sticky/holding_cpu=-1/-1 dsq_id=(n/a) cpus=08 QMAP: force_local=0 kthread+0xeb/0x110 ret_from_fork+0x36/0x40 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 CPU 7 : nr_run=0 ops_qseq=76 curr=swapper/7[0] class=idle_sched_class ================================================================================ EXIT: runnable task stall (stress[1530] failed to run for 6.841s) It shows that CPU 3 was running the watchdog when it triggered the error condition and the scx_qmap thread has been queued on CPU 0 for over 5 seconds but failed to run. It also prints out scx_qmap specific information - e.g. which tasks are queued on each FIFO and so on using the dump_*() ops. This dump has proved pretty useful for developing and debugging BPF schedulers. Debug dump is generated automatically when the BPF scheduler exits due to an error. The debug buffer used in such cases is determined by sched_ext_ops.exit_dump_len and defaults to 32k. If the debug dump overruns the available buffer, the output is truncated and marked accordingly. Debug dump output can also be read through the sched_ext_dump tracepoint. When read through the tracepoint, there is no length limit. SysRq-D can be used to trigger debug dump at any time while a BPF scheduler is loaded. This is non-destructive - the scheduler keeps running afterwards. The output can be read through the sched_ext_dump tracepoint. v2: - The size of exit debug dump buffer can now be customized using sched_ext_ops.exit_dump_len. - sched_ext_ops.dump*() added to enable dumping of BPF scheduler specific information. - Tracpoint output and SysRq-D triggering added. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com>
2024-06-18sched_ext: Print sched_ext info when dumping stackDavid Vernet1-0/+2
It would be useful to see what the sched_ext scheduler state is, and what scheduler is running, when we're dumping a task's stack. This patch therefore adds a new print_scx_info() function that's called in the same context as print_worker_info() and print_stop_info(). An example dump follows. BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000999 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP CPU: 13 PID: 2047 Comm: insmod Tainted: G O 6.6.0-work-10323-gb58d4cae8e99-dirty #34 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS unknown 2/2/2022 Sched_ext: qmap (enabled+all), task: runnable_at=-17ms RIP: 0010:init_module+0x9/0x1000 [test_module] ... v3: - scx_ops_enable_state_str[] definition moved to an earlier patch as it's now used by core implementation. - Convert jiffy delta to msecs using jiffies_to_msecs() instead of multiplying by (HZ / MSEC_PER_SEC). The conversion is implemented in jiffies_delta_msecs(). v2: - We are now using scx_ops_enable_state_str[] outside CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG. Move it outside of CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG and to the top. This was reported by Changwoo and Andrea. Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com> Reported-by: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com> Reported-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2024-06-18sched_ext: Allow BPF schedulers to disallow specific tasks from joining ↵Tejun Heo1-0/+12
SCHED_EXT BPF schedulers might not want to schedule certain tasks - e.g. kernel threads. This patch adds p->scx.disallow which can be set by BPF schedulers in such cases. The field can be changed anytime and setting it in ops.prep_enable() guarantees that the task can never be scheduled by sched_ext. scx_qmap is updated with the -d option to disallow a specific PID: # echo $$ 1092 # grep -E '(policy)|(ext\.enabled)' /proc/self/sched policy : 0 ext.enabled : 0 # ./set-scx 1092 # grep -E '(policy)|(ext\.enabled)' /proc/self/sched policy : 7 ext.enabled : 0 Run "scx_qmap -p -d 1092" in another terminal. # cat /sys/kernel/sched_ext/nr_rejected 1 # grep -E '(policy)|(ext\.enabled)' /proc/self/sched policy : 0 ext.enabled : 0 # ./set-scx 1092 setparam failed for 1092 (Permission denied) - v4: Refreshed on top of tip:sched/core. - v3: Update description to reflect /sys/kernel/sched_ext interface change. - v2: Use atomic_long_t instead of atomic64_t for scx_kick_cpus_pnt_seqs to accommodate 32bit archs. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com> Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com> Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com> Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com> Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
2024-06-18sched_ext: Implement runnable task stall watchdogDavid Vernet1-0/+1
The most common and critical way that a BPF scheduler can misbehave is by failing to run runnable tasks for too long. This patch implements a watchdog. * All tasks record when they become runnable. * A watchdog work periodically scans all runnable tasks. If any task has stayed runnable for too long, the BPF scheduler is aborted. * scheduler_tick() monitors whether the watchdog itself is stuck. If so, the BPF scheduler is aborted. Because the watchdog only scans the tasks which are currently runnable and usually very infrequently, the overhead should be negligible. scx_qmap is updated so that it can be told to stall user and/or kernel tasks. A detected task stall looks like the following: sched_ext: BPF scheduler "qmap" errored, disabling sched_ext: runnable task stall (dbus-daemon[953] failed to run for 6.478s) scx_check_timeout_workfn+0x10e/0x1b0 process_one_work+0x287/0x560 worker_thread+0x234/0x420 kthread+0xe9/0x100 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 A detected watchdog stall: sched_ext: BPF scheduler "qmap" errored, disabling sched_ext: runnable task stall (watchdog failed to check in for 5.001s) scheduler_tick+0x2eb/0x340 update_process_times+0x7a/0x90 tick_sched_timer+0xd8/0x130 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x178/0x3b0 hrtimer_interrupt+0xfc/0x390 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xb7/0x2b0 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x90/0xb0 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1b/0x20 default_idle+0x14/0x20 arch_cpu_idle+0xf/0x20 default_idle_call+0x50/0x90 do_idle+0xe8/0x240 cpu_startup_entry+0x1d/0x20 kernel_init+0x0/0x190 start_kernel+0x0/0x392 start_kernel+0x324/0x392 x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c x86_64_start_kernel+0x104/0x109 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xce/0xdb Note that this patch exposes scx_ops_error[_type]() in kernel/sched/ext.h to inline scx_notify_sched_tick(). v4: - While disabling, cancel_delayed_work_sync(&scx_watchdog_work) was being called before forward progress was guaranteed and thus could lead to system lockup. Relocated. - While enabling, it was comparing msecs against jiffies without conversion leading to spurious load failures on lower HZ kernels. Fixed. - runnable list management is now used by core bypass logic and moved to the patch implementing sched_ext core. v3: - bpf_scx_init_member() was incorrectly comparing ops->timeout_ms against SCX_WATCHDOG_MAX_TIMEOUT which is in jiffies without conversion leading to spurious load failures in lower HZ kernels. Fixed. v2: - Julia Lawall noticed that the watchdog code was mixing msecs and jiffies. Fix by using jiffies for everything. Signed-off-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com> Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com> Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
2024-06-18sched_ext: Implement BPF extensible scheduler classTejun Heo4-1/+147
Implement a new scheduler class sched_ext (SCX), which allows scheduling policies to be implemented as BPF programs to achieve the following: 1. Ease of experimentation and exploration: Enabling rapid iteration of new scheduling policies. 2. Customization: Building application-specific schedulers which implement policies that are not applicable to general-purpose schedulers. 3. Rapid scheduler deployments: Non-disruptive swap outs of scheduling policies in production environments. sched_ext leverages BPF’s struct_ops feature to define a structure which exports function callbacks and flags to BPF programs that wish to implement scheduling policies. The struct_ops structure exported by sched_ext is struct sched_ext_ops, and is conceptually similar to struct sched_class. The role of sched_ext is to map the complex sched_class callbacks to the more simple and ergonomic struct sched_ext_ops callbacks. For more detailed discussion on the motivations and overview, please refer to the cover letter. Later patches will also add several example schedulers and documentation. This patch implements the minimum core framework to enable implementation of BPF schedulers. Subsequent patches will gradually add functionalities including safety guarantee mechanisms, nohz and cgroup support. include/linux/sched/ext.h defines struct sched_ext_ops. With the comment on top, each operation should be self-explanatory. The followings are worth noting: - Both "sched_ext" and its shorthand "scx" are used. If the identifier already has "sched" in it, "ext" is used; otherwise, "scx". - In sched_ext_ops, only .name is mandatory. Every operation is optional and if omitted a simple but functional default behavior is provided. - A new policy constant SCHED_EXT is added and a task can select sched_ext by invoking sched_setscheduler(2) with the new policy constant. However, if the BPF scheduler is not loaded, SCHED_EXT is the same as SCHED_NORMAL and the task is scheduled by CFS. When the BPF scheduler is loaded, all tasks which have the SCHED_EXT policy are switched to sched_ext. - To bridge the workflow imbalance between the scheduler core and sched_ext_ops callbacks, sched_ext uses simple FIFOs called dispatch queues (dsq's). By default, there is one global dsq (SCX_DSQ_GLOBAL), and one local per-CPU dsq (SCX_DSQ_LOCAL). SCX_DSQ_GLOBAL is provided for convenience and need not be used by a scheduler that doesn't require it. SCX_DSQ_LOCAL is the per-CPU FIFO that sched_ext pulls from when putting the next task on the CPU. The BPF scheduler can manage an arbitrary number of dsq's using scx_bpf_create_dsq() and scx_bpf_destroy_dsq(). - sched_ext guarantees system integrity no matter what the BPF scheduler does. To enable this, each task's ownership is tracked through p->scx.ops_state and all tasks are put on scx_tasks list. The disable path can always recover and revert all tasks back to CFS. See p->scx.ops_state and scx_tasks. - A task is not tied to its rq while enqueued. This decouples CPU selection from queueing and allows sharing a scheduling queue across an arbitrary subset of CPUs. This adds some complexities as a task may need to be bounced between rq's right before it starts executing. See dispatch_to_local_dsq() and move_task_to_local_dsq(). - One complication that arises from the above weak association between task and rq is that synchronizing with dequeue() gets complicated as dequeue() may happen anytime while the task is enqueued and the dispatch path might need to release the rq lock to transfer the task. Solving this requires a bit of complexity. See the logic around p->scx.sticky_cpu and p->scx.ops_qseq. - Both enable and disable paths are a bit complicated. The enable path switches all tasks without blocking to avoid issues which can arise from partially switched states (e.g. the switching task itself being starved). The disable path can't trust the BPF scheduler at all, so it also has to guarantee forward progress without blocking. See scx_ops_enable() and scx_ops_disable_workfn(). - When sched_ext is disabled, static_branches are used to shut down the entry points from hot paths. v7: - scx_ops_bypass() was incorrectly and unnecessarily trying to grab scx_ops_enable_mutex which can lead to deadlocks in the disable path. Fixed. - Fixed TASK_DEAD handling bug in scx_ops_enable() path which could lead to use-after-free. - Consolidated per-cpu variable usages and other cleanups. v6: - SCX_NR_ONLINE_OPS replaced with SCX_OPI_*_BEGIN/END so that multiple groups can be expressed. Later CPU hotplug operations are put into their own group. - SCX_OPS_DISABLING state is replaced with the new bypass mechanism which allows temporarily putting the system into simple FIFO scheduling mode bypassing the BPF scheduler. In addition to the shut down path, this will also be used to isolate the BPF scheduler across PM events. Enabling and disabling the bypass mode requires iterating all runnable tasks. rq->scx.runnable_list addition is moved from the later watchdog patch. - ops.prep_enable() is replaced with ops.init_task() and ops.enable/disable() are now called whenever the task enters and leaves sched_ext instead of when the task becomes schedulable on sched_ext and stops being so. A new operation - ops.exit_task() - is called when the task stops being schedulable on sched_ext. - scx_bpf_dispatch() can now be called from ops.select_cpu() too. This removes the need for communicating local dispatch decision made by ops.select_cpu() to ops.enqueue() via per-task storage. SCX_KF_SELECT_CPU is added to support the change. - SCX_TASK_ENQ_LOCAL which told the BPF scheudler that scx_select_cpu_dfl() wants the task to be dispatched to the local DSQ was removed. Instead, scx_bpf_select_cpu_dfl() now dispatches directly if it finds a suitable idle CPU. If such behavior is not desired, users can use scx_bpf_select_cpu_dfl() which returns the verdict in a bool out param. - scx_select_cpu_dfl() was mishandling WAKE_SYNC and could end up queueing many tasks on a local DSQ which makes tasks to execute in order while other CPUs stay idle which made some hackbench numbers really bad. Fixed. - The current state of sched_ext can now be monitored through files under /sys/sched_ext instead of /sys/kernel/debug/sched/ext. This is to enable monitoring on kernels which don't enable debugfs. - sched_ext wasn't telling BPF that ops.dispatch()'s @prev argument may be NULL and a BPF scheduler which derefs the pointer without checking could crash the kernel. Tell BPF. This is currently a bit ugly. A better way to annotate this is expected in the future. - scx_exit_info updated to carry pointers to message buffers instead of embedding them directly. This decouples buffer sizes from API so that they can be changed without breaking compatibility. - exit_code added to scx_exit_info. This is used to indicate different exit conditions on non-error exits and will be used to handle e.g. CPU hotplugs. - The patch "sched_ext: Allow BPF schedulers to switch all eligible tasks into sched_ext" is folded in and the interface is changed so that partial switching is indicated with a new ops flag %SCX_OPS_SWITCH_PARTIAL. This makes scx_bpf_switch_all() unnecessasry and in turn SCX_KF_INIT. ops.init() is now called with SCX_KF_SLEEPABLE. - Code reorganized so that only the parts necessary to integrate with the rest of the kernel are in the header files. - Changes to reflect the BPF and other kernel changes including the addition of bpf_sched_ext_ops.cfi_stubs. v5: - To accommodate 32bit configs, p->scx.ops_state is now atomic_long_t instead of atomic64_t and scx_dsp_buf_ent.qseq which uses load_acquire/store_release is now unsigned long instead of u64. - Fix the bug where bpf_scx_btf_struct_access() was allowing write access to arbitrary fields. - Distinguish kfuncs which can be called from any sched_ext ops and from anywhere. e.g. scx_bpf_pick_idle_cpu() can now be called only from sched_ext ops. - Rename "type" to "kind" in scx_exit_info to make it easier to use on languages in which "type" is a reserved keyword. - Since cff9b2332ab7 ("kernel/sched: Modify initial boot task idle setup"), PF_IDLE is not set on idle tasks which haven't been online yet which made scx_task_iter_next_filtered() include those idle tasks in iterations leading to oopses. Update scx_task_iter_next_filtered() to directly test p->sched_class against idle_sched_class instead of using is_idle_task() which tests PF_IDLE. - Other updates to match upstream changes such as adding const to set_cpumask() param and renaming check_preempt_curr() to wakeup_preempt(). v4: - SCHED_CHANGE_BLOCK replaced with the previous sched_deq_and_put_task()/sched_enq_and_set_tsak() pair. This is because upstream is adaopting a different generic cleanup mechanism. Once that lands, the code will be adapted accordingly. - task_on_scx() used to test whether a task should be switched into SCX, which is confusing. Renamed to task_should_scx(). task_on_scx() now tests whether a task is currently on SCX. - scx_has_idle_cpus is barely used anymore and replaced with direct check on the idle cpumask. - SCX_PICK_IDLE_CORE added and scx_pick_idle_cpu() improved to prefer fully idle cores. - ops.enable() now sees up-to-date p->scx.weight value. - ttwu_queue path is disabled for tasks on SCX to avoid confusing BPF schedulers expecting ->select_cpu() call. - Use cpu_smt_mask() instead of topology_sibling_cpumask() like the rest of the scheduler. v3: - ops.set_weight() added to allow BPF schedulers to track weight changes without polling p->scx.weight. - move_task_to_local_dsq() was losing SCX-specific enq_flags when enqueueing the task on the target dsq because it goes through activate_task() which loses the upper 32bit of the flags. Carry the flags through rq->scx.extra_enq_flags. - scx_bpf_dispatch(), scx_bpf_pick_idle_cpu(), scx_bpf_task_running() and scx_bpf_task_cpu() now use the new KF_RCU instead of KF_TRUSTED_ARGS to make it easier for BPF schedulers to call them. - The kfunc helper access control mechanism implemented through sched_ext_entity.kf_mask is improved. Now SCX_CALL_OP*() is always used when invoking scx_ops operations. v2: - balance_scx_on_up() is dropped. Instead, on UP, balance_scx() is called from put_prev_taks_scx() and pick_next_task_scx() as necessary. To determine whether balance_scx() should be called from put_prev_task_scx(), SCX_TASK_DEQD_FOR_SLEEP flag is added. See the comment in put_prev_task_scx() for details. - sched_deq_and_put_task() / sched_enq_and_set_task() sequences replaced with SCHED_CHANGE_BLOCK(). - Unused all_dsqs list removed. This was a left-over from previous iterations. - p->scx.kf_mask is added to track and enforce which kfunc helpers are allowed. Also, init/exit sequences are updated to make some kfuncs always safe to call regardless of the current BPF scheduler state. Combined, this should make all the kfuncs safe. - BPF now supports sleepable struct_ops operations. Hacky workaround removed and operations and kfunc helpers are tagged appropriately. - BPF now supports bitmask / cpumask helpers. scx_bpf_get_idle_cpumask() and friends are added so that BPF schedulers can use the idle masks with the generic helpers. This replaces the hacky kfunc helpers added by a separate patch in V1. - CONFIG_SCHED_CLASS_EXT can no longer be enabled if SCHED_CORE is enabled. This restriction will be removed by a later patch which adds core-sched support. - Add MAINTAINERS entries and other misc changes. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Co-authored-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com> Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com> Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com> Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com> Cc: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
2024-06-18sched_ext: Add boilerplate for extensible scheduler classTejun Heo1-0/+12
This adds dummy implementations of sched_ext interfaces which interact with the scheduler core and hook them in the correct places. As they're all dummies, this doesn't cause any behavior changes. This is split out to help reviewing. v2: balance_scx_on_up() dropped. This will be handled in sched_ext proper. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com> Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com> Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com> Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
2024-06-18sched: Factor out cgroup weight conversion functionsTejun Heo1-2/+2
Factor out sched_weight_from/to_cgroup() which convert between scheduler shares and cgroup weight. No functional change. The factored out functions will be used by a new BPF extensible sched_class so that the weights can be exposed to the BPF programs in a way which is consistent cgroup weights and easier to interpret. The weight conversions will be used regardless of cgroup usage. It's just borrowing the cgroup weight range as it's more intuitive. CGROUP_WEIGHT_MIN/DFL/MAX constants are moved outside CONFIG_CGROUPS so that the conversion helpers can always be defined. v2: The helpers are now defined regardless of COFNIG_CGROUPS. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com> Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com> Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com> Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
2024-06-18sched: Allow sched_cgroup_fork() to fail and introduce sched_cancel_fork()Tejun Heo1-1/+2
A new BPF extensible sched_class will need more control over the forking process. It wants to be able to fail from sched_cgroup_fork() after the new task's sched_task_group is initialized so that the loaded BPF program can prepare the task with its cgroup association is established and reject fork if e.g. allocation fails. Allow sched_cgroup_fork() to fail by making it return int instead of void and adding sched_cancel_fork() to undo sched_fork() in the error path. sched_cgroup_fork() doesn't fail yet and this patch shouldn't cause any behavior changes. v2: Patch description updated to detail the expected use. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: David Vernet <dvernet@meta.com> Acked-by: Josh Don <joshdon@google.com> Acked-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com> Acked-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
2024-06-18Merge branch 'bpf/for-next' into sched_ext-baseTejun Heo52-427/+573
2024-06-14bpf: Track delta between "linked" registers.Alexei Starovoitov1-1/+11
Compilers can generate the code r1 = r2 r1 += 0x1 if r2 < 1000 goto ... use knowledge of r2 range in subsequent r1 operations So remember constant delta between r2 and r1 and update r1 after 'if' condition. Unfortunately LLVM still uses this pattern for loops with 'can_loop' construct: for (i = 0; i < 1000 && can_loop; i++) The "undo" pass was introduced in LLVM https://reviews.llvm.org/D121937 to prevent this optimization, but it cannot cover all cases. Instead of fighting middle end optimizer in BPF backend teach the verifier about this pattern. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240613013815.953-3-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
2024-06-13bpf: Add CHECKSUM_COMPLETE to bpf test progsVadim Fedorenko1-0/+2
Add special flag to validate that TC BPF program properly updates checksum information in skb. Signed-off-by: Vadim Fedorenko <vadfed@meta.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240606145851.229116-1-vadfed@meta.com
2024-06-12bpf: treewide: Align kfunc signatures to prog point-of-viewDaniel Xu1-4/+4
Previously, kfunc declarations in bpf_kfuncs.h (and others) used "user facing" types for kfuncs prototypes while the actual kfunc definitions used "kernel facing" types. More specifically: bpf_dynptr vs bpf_dynptr_kern, __sk_buff vs sk_buff, and xdp_md vs xdp_buff. It wasn't an issue before, as the verifier allows aliased types. However, since we are now generating kfunc prototypes in vmlinux.h (in addition to keeping bpf_kfuncs.h around), this conflict creates compilation errors. Fix this conflict by using "user facing" types in kfunc definitions. This results in more casts, but otherwise has no additional runtime cost. Note, similar to 5b268d1ebcdc ("bpf: Have bpf_rdonly_cast() take a const pointer"), we also make kfuncs take const arguments where appropriate in order to make the kfunc more permissive. Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b58346a63a0e66bc9b7504da751b526b0b189a67.1718207789.git.dxu@dxuuu.xyz Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2024-06-12bpf: verifier: Relax caller requirements for kfunc projection type argsDaniel Xu1-0/+1
Currently, if a kfunc accepts a projection type as an argument (eg struct __sk_buff *), the caller must exactly provide exactly the same type with provable provenance. However in practice, kfuncs that accept projection types _must_ cast to the underlying type before use b/c projection type layouts are completely made up. Thus, it is ok to relax the verifier rules around implicit conversions. We will use this functionality in the next commit when we align kfuncs to user-facing types. Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e2c025cb09ccfd4af1ec9e18284dc3cecff7514d.1718207789.git.dxu@dxuuu.xyz Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2024-06-10ice: add and use roundup_u64 instead of open coding equivalentJacob Keller1-0/+28
In ice_ptp_cfg_clkout(), the ice driver needs to calculate the nearest next second of a current time value specified in nanoseconds. It implements this using div64_u64, because the time value is a u64. It could use div_u64 since NSEC_PER_SEC is smaller than 32-bits. Ideally this would be implemented directly with roundup(), but that can't work on all platforms due to a division which requires using the specific macros and functions due to platform restrictions, and to ensure that the most appropriate and fast instructions are used. The kernel doesn't currently provide any 64-bit equivalents for doing roundup. Attempting to use roundup() on a 32-bit platform will result in a link failure due to not having a direct 64-bit division. The closest equivalent for this is DIV64_U64_ROUND_UP, which does a division always rounding up. However, this only computes the division, and forces use of the div64_u64 in cases where the divisor is a 32bit value and could make use of div_u64. Introduce DIV_U64_ROUND_UP based on div_u64, and then use it to implement roundup_u64 which takes a u64 input value and a u32 rounding value. The name roundup_u64 matches the naming scheme of div_u64, and future patches could implement roundup64_u64 if they need to round by a multiple that is greater than 32-bits. Replace the logic in ice_ptp.c which does this equivalent with the newly added roundup_u64. Tested-by: Pucha Himasekhar Reddy <himasekharx.reddy.pucha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240607-next-2024-06-03-intel-next-batch-v3-2-d1470cee3347@intel.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2024-06-10Merge tag 'for-netdev' of ↵Jakub Kicinski1-3/+10
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next Daniel Borkmann says: ==================== pull-request: bpf-next 2024-06-06 We've added 54 non-merge commits during the last 10 day(s) which contain a total of 50 files changed, 1887 insertions(+), 527 deletions(-). The main changes are: 1) Add a user space notification mechanism via epoll when a struct_ops object is getting detached/unregistered, from Kui-Feng Lee. 2) Big batch of BPF selftest refactoring for sockmap and BPF congctl tests, from Geliang Tang. 3) Add BTF field (type and string fields, right now) iterator support to libbpf instead of using existing callback-based approaches, from Andrii Nakryiko. 4) Extend BPF selftests for the latter with a new btf_field_iter selftest, from Alan Maguire. 5) Add new kfuncs for a generic, open-coded bits iterator, from Yafang Shao. 6) Fix BPF selftests' kallsyms_find() helper under kernels configured with CONFIG_LTO_CLANG_THIN, from Yonghong Song. 7) Remove a bunch of unused structs in BPF selftests, from David Alan Gilbert. 8) Convert test_sockmap section names into names understood by libbpf so it can deduce program type and attach type, from Jakub Sitnicki. 9) Extend libbpf with the ability to configure log verbosity via LIBBPF_LOG_LEVEL environment variable, from Mykyta Yatsenko. 10) Fix BPF selftests with regards to bpf_cookie and find_vma flakiness in nested VMs, from Song Liu. 11) Extend riscv32/64 JITs to introduce shift/add helpers to generate Zba optimization, from Xiao Wang. 12) Enable BPF programs to declare arrays and struct fields with kptr, bpf_rb_root, and bpf_list_head, from Kui-Feng Lee. * tag 'for-netdev' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (54 commits) selftests/bpf: Drop useless arguments of do_test in bpf_tcp_ca selftests/bpf: Use start_test in test_dctcp in bpf_tcp_ca selftests/bpf: Use start_test in test_dctcp_fallback in bpf_tcp_ca selftests/bpf: Add start_test helper in bpf_tcp_ca selftests/bpf: Use connect_to_fd_opts in do_test in bpf_tcp_ca libbpf: Auto-attach struct_ops BPF maps in BPF skeleton selftests/bpf: Add btf_field_iter selftests selftests/bpf: Fix send_signal test with nested CONFIG_PARAVIRT libbpf: Remove callback-based type/string BTF field visitor helpers bpftool: Use BTF field iterator in btfgen libbpf: Make use of BTF field iterator in BTF handling code libbpf: Make use of BTF field iterator in BPF linker code libbpf: Add BTF field iterator selftests/bpf: Ignore .llvm.<hash> suffix in kallsyms_find() selftests/bpf: Fix bpf_cookie and find_vma in nested VM selftests/bpf: Test global bpf_list_head arrays. selftests/bpf: Test global bpf_rb_root arrays and fields in nested struct types. selftests/bpf: Test kptr arrays and kptrs in nested struct fields. bpf: limit the number of levels of a nested struct type. bpf: look into the types of the fields of a struct type recursively. ... ==================== Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240606223146.23020-1-daniel@iogearbox.net Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2024-06-10Merge tag 'wireless-next-2024-06-07' of ↵Jakub Kicinski5-72/+240
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next Kalle Valo says: ==================== wireless-next patches for v6.11 The first "new features" pull request for v6.11 with changes both in stack and in drivers. Nothing out of ordinary, except that we have two conflicts this time: net/mac80211/cfg.c https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240531124415.05b25e7a@canb.auug.org.au drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/netdev.c https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240603110023.23572803@canb.auug.org.au Major changes: cfg80211/mac80211 * parse Transmit Power Envelope (TPE) data in mac80211 instead of in drivers wilc1000 * read MAC address during probe to make it visible to user space iwlwifi * bump FW API to 91 for BZ/SC devices * report 64-bit radiotap timestamp * enable P2P low latency by default * handle Transmit Power Envelope (TPE) advertised by AP * start using guard() rtlwifi * RTL8192DU support ath12k * remove unsupported tx monitor handling * channel 2 in 6 GHz band support * Spatial Multiplexing Power Save (SMPS) in 6 GHz band support * multiple BSSID (MBSSID) and Enhanced Multi-BSSID Advertisements (EMA) support * dynamic VLAN support * add panic handler for resetting the firmware state ath10k * add qcom,no-msa-ready-indicator Device Tree property * LED support for various chipsets * tag 'wireless-next-2024-06-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wireless/wireless-next: (194 commits) wifi: ath12k: add hw_link_id in ath12k_pdev wifi: ath12k: add panic handler wifi: rtw89: chan: Use swap() in rtw89_swap_sub_entity() wifi: brcm80211: remove unused structs wifi: brcm80211: use sizeof(*pointer) instead of sizeof(type) wifi: ath12k: do not process consecutive RDDM event dt-bindings: net: wireless: ath11k: Drop "qcom,ipq8074-wcss-pil" from example wifi: ath12k: fix memory leak in ath12k_dp_rx_peer_frag_setup() wifi: rtlwifi: handle return value of usb init TX/RX wifi: rtlwifi: Enable the new rtl8192du driver wifi: rtlwifi: Add rtl8192du/sw.c wifi: rtlwifi: Constify rtl_hal_cfg.{ops,usb_interface_cfg} and rtl_priv.cfg wifi: rtlwifi: Add rtl8192du/dm.{c,h} wifi: rtlwifi: Add rtl8192du/fw.{c,h} and rtl8192du/led.{c,h} wifi: rtlwifi: Add rtl8192du/rf.{c,h} wifi: rtlwifi: Add rtl8192du/trx.{c,h} wifi: rtlwifi: Add rtl8192du/phy.{c,h} wifi: rtlwifi: Add rtl8192du/hw.{c,h} wifi: rtlwifi: Add new members to struct rtl_priv for RTL8192DU wifi: rtlwifi: Add rtl8192du/table.{c,h} ... Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> ==================== Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240607093517.41394C2BBFC@smtp.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2024-06-10net: netlink: remove the cb_mutex "injection" from netlink coreJakub Kicinski1-1/+0
Back in 2007, in commit af65bdfce98d ("[NETLINK]: Switch cb_lock spinlock to mutex and allow to override it") netlink core was extended to allow subsystems to replace the dump mutex lock with its own lock. The mechanism was used by rtnetlink to take rtnl_lock but it isn't sufficiently flexible for other users. Over the 17 years since it was added no other user appeared. Since rtnetlink needs conditional locking now, and doesn't use it either, axe this feature complete. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon.com>