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From: David Stevens <stevensd@google.com>
To: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	 Will Deacon <willdeacon@google.com>,
	Quentin Perret <qperret@google.com>,
	 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	 Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	x86@kernel.org,  "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Xin Li <xin@zytor.com>,
	 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>,
	 "Liam R. Howlett" <Liam.Howlett@oracle.com>,
	Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@kernel.org>,
	 Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
	 Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>, Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: David Stevens <stevensd@google.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 06/13] fork: Move vmap stack freeing to work queue
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:14:49 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260424191456.2679717-7-stevensd@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260424191456.2679717-1-stevensd@google.com>

For vmap stacks not immediately released into the stack cache, free them
in a workqueue instead of via call_rcu(). In an RCU context, vfree
already schedules the actual freeing on the per-cpu system workqueue, so
this change only affects when exactly the second attempt to put the
stack into the stack cache occurs.

Moving freeing to a workqueue will allow for freeing dynamic stacks in a
sleepable context (for remove_vm_area), rather than relying on vfree
dispatching to a workqueue via vfree_atomic.

Signed-off-by: David Stevens <stevensd@google.com>
---
 kernel/fork.c | 9 +++++----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 8bf32815f422..01e0bf4f4b02 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct vm_struct *, cached_stacks[NR_CACHED_STACKS]);
 #define GFP_VMAP_STACK (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO)
 
 struct vm_stack {
-	struct rcu_head rcu;
+	struct rcu_work work;
 	struct vm_struct *stack_vm_area;
 };
 
@@ -284,9 +284,9 @@ static inline void free_vmap_stack(struct vm_struct *vm_area)
 	vfree(vm_area->addr);
 }
 
-static void thread_stack_free_rcu(struct rcu_head *rh)
+static void thread_stack_free_work(struct work_struct *work)
 {
-	struct vm_stack *vm_stack = container_of(rh, struct vm_stack, rcu);
+	struct vm_stack *vm_stack = container_of(to_rcu_work(work), struct vm_stack, work);
 	struct vm_struct *vm_area = vm_stack->stack_vm_area;
 
 	if (try_release_thread_stack_to_cache(vm_stack->stack_vm_area))
@@ -305,7 +305,8 @@ static void thread_stack_delayed_free(struct task_struct *tsk)
 		vm_stack = tsk->stack + THREAD_SIZE - sizeof(*vm_stack);
 
 	vm_stack->stack_vm_area = tsk->stack_vm_area;
-	call_rcu(&vm_stack->rcu, thread_stack_free_rcu);
+	INIT_RCU_WORK(&vm_stack->work, thread_stack_free_work);
+	queue_rcu_work(system_wq, &vm_stack->work);
 }
 
 static int free_vm_stack_cache(unsigned int cpu)
-- 
2.54.0.rc2.544.gc7ae2d5bb8-goog



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-04-24 19:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-24 19:14 [PATCH v2 00/13] Dynamic Kernel Stacks David Stevens
2026-04-24 19:14 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] fork: Remove assumption that vm_area->nr_pages equals to THREAD_SIZE David Stevens
2026-04-24 19:14 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] fork: Don't assume fully populated stack during reuse David Stevens
2026-04-24 19:14 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] fork: Move vm_stack to the beginning of the stack David Stevens
2026-04-24 19:14 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] fork: separate vmap stack allocation and free calls David Stevens
2026-04-24 19:14 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] mm/vmalloc: Add a get_vm_area_node() and vmap_pages_range() public functions David Stevens
2026-04-24 19:14 ` David Stevens [this message]
2026-04-24 19:14 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] fork: Dynamic Kernel Stacks David Stevens
2026-04-24 19:14 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] task_stack.h: Add stack_not_used() support for dynamic stack David Stevens
2026-04-24 19:14 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] fork: Dynamic Kernel Stack accounting David Stevens
2026-04-24 19:14 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] fork: Store task pointer in unpopulated stack ptes David Stevens
2026-04-24 19:14 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] x86/entry/fred: encode frame pointer on entry David Stevens
2026-04-24 19:14 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] x86: Add support for dynamic kernel stacks via FRED David Stevens
2026-04-24 19:14 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] x86: Add support for dynamic kernel stacks via IST David Stevens
2026-04-24 19:41 ` [PATCH v2 00/13] Dynamic Kernel Stacks Dave Hansen
2026-04-24 21:35   ` Pasha Tatashin
2026-04-24 22:21     ` Dave Hansen
2026-04-24 22:49       ` David Stevens
2026-04-24 22:26     ` David Laight
2026-04-24 23:06       ` Pasha Tatashin
2026-04-25  9:19   ` H. Peter Anvin

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