[PATCH v0.7 0/5] sched,mm,x86/uaccess: implement User Managed Concurrency Groups

From: Peter Oskolkov
Date: Tue Oct 12 2021 - 19:25:33 EST


User Managed Concurrency Groups (UMCG) is an M:N threading
subsystem/toolkit that lets user space application developers implement
in-process user space schedulers.

Key changes from the previous patchset
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210917180323.278250-1-posk@xxxxxxxxxx/ :

- userspace atomic helpers moved into mm/
- UMCG task states are now tagged with timestamps
- cross-mm interactions (wakeups) are not permitted
- several smaller fixes and refactorings

These big things remain to be addressed (in no particular order):
- support tracing/debugging
- make context switches faster (see umcg_do_context_switch in umcg.c)
- support other architectures
- cleanup and post userspace support in tools/lib/umcg/
- cleanup and post selftests in tools/testing/selftests/umcg/
- allow cross-mm wakeups (securely)

I'm working on finalizing libumcg and kselftests.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oskolkov <posk@xxxxxxxxxx>

Peter Oskolkov (5):
sched/umcg: add WF_CURRENT_CPU and externise ttwu
mm, x86/uaccess: add userspace atomic helpers
sched/umcg: implement UMCG syscalls
sched/umcg: add Documentation/userspace-api/umcg.rst
sched/umcg: add Documentation/userspace-api/umcg.txt

Documentation/userspace-api/umcg.rst | 611 ++++++++++++++++
Documentation/userspace-api/umcg.txt | 594 ++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 2 +
arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h | 93 +++
fs/exec.c | 1 +
include/linux/sched.h | 71 ++
include/linux/syscalls.h | 3 +
include/linux/uaccess.h | 46 ++
include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h | 6 +-
include/uapi/linux/umcg.h | 137 ++++
init/Kconfig | 10 +
kernel/entry/common.c | 4 +-
kernel/exit.c | 5 +
kernel/sched/Makefile | 1 +
kernel/sched/core.c | 12 +-
kernel/sched/fair.c | 4 +
kernel/sched/sched.h | 15 +-
kernel/sched/umcg.c | 926 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
kernel/sys_ni.c | 4 +
mm/maccess.c | 264 +++++++
20 files changed, 2797 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/umcg.rst
create mode 100644 Documentation/userspace-api/umcg.txt
create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/umcg.h
create mode 100644 kernel/sched/umcg.c

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