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@ 2025-07-16 12:39 Bhupesh
  2025-07-16 12:39 ` [PATCH v5 1/3] exec: Remove obsolete comments Bhupesh
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From: Bhupesh @ 2025-07-16 12:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: akpm
  Cc: bhupesh, kernel-dev, linux-kernel, bpf, linux-perf-users,
	linux-fsdevel, linux-mm, oliver.sang, lkp, laoar.shao, pmladek,
	rostedt, mathieu.desnoyers, arnaldo.melo, alexei.starovoitov,
	andrii.nakryiko, mirq-linux, peterz, willy, david, viro, keescook,
	ebiederm, brauner, jack, mingo, juri.lelli, bsegall, mgorman,
	vschneid, linux-trace-kernel, kees, torvalds

Changes since v4:
================
- v4 can be seen here: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250507110444.963779-1-bhupesh@igalia.com/
- As suggested by Kees, replaced tsk->comm with tsk->comm_str, inside 'task_struct'
  where TASK_COMM_EXT_LEN is 64-bytes.

Changes since v3:
================
- v3 can be seen here: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250507110444.963779-1-bhupesh@igalia.com/
- As suggested by Petr and Steven, used 'comm_ext' name instead of
  'real_comm'. Correspondingly the macro name is changed to 'TASK_COMM_EXT_LEN'
  for the 64-byte extended comm.
- Rebased this patchset on linux-next/master, which contain the following patch from
  Steven now:
       155fd6c3e2f0 ("tracing/sched: Use __string() instead of fixed lengths for task->comm")
- Accordingly, v4 drops the changes done for 'trace/sched' events in v3,
  but retains the 'safe' memcpy' changes for other kernel trace users.

Changes since v2:
================
- v2 can be seen here: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250331121820.455916-1-bhupesh@igalia.com/
- As suggested by Yafang and Kees, picked Linus' suggested approach for
  this version (see: <https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjAmmHUg6vho1KjzQi2=psR30+CogFd4aXrThr2gsiS4g@mail.gmail.com/>).
- Dropped kthreads patch from this version. It would be sent out
  separately, if we have a consensus on this approach.

Changes since v1:
================
- v1 can be seen here: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250314052715.610377-1-bhupesh@igalia.com/
- As suggested by Kees, added [PATCH 3/3] to have a consistent
  'full_name' entry inside 'task_struct' which both tasks and
  kthreads can use.
- Fixed the commit message to indicate that the existing ABI
  '/proc/$pid/task/$tid/comm' remains untouched and a parallel
  '/proc/$pid/task/$tid/full_name' ABI for new (interested) users.

While working with user-space debugging tools which work especially
on linux gaming platforms, I found that the task name is truncated due
to the limitation of TASK_COMM_LEN.

Now, during debug tracing, seeing truncated names is not very useful,
especially on gaming platforms where the number of tasks running can
be very high.

This patchset does not touch 'TASK_COMM_LEN' at all, i.e.
'TASK_COMM_LEN' and the 16-byte design remains untouched.

Via this patchset, as Kees suggested 'tsk->comm' is replaced
with 'tsk->comm_str', inside 'task_struct':
       union {
               char    comm_str[TASK_COMM_EXT_LEN];
       };

where TASK_COMM_EXT_LEN is 64-bytes.

And then 'get_task_comm()' to pass 'tsk->comm_str'
to the existing users.

This would mean that ABI is maintained while ensuring that:

- Existing users of 'get_task_comm'/ 'set_task_comm' will get 'tsk->comm_str'
  truncated to a maximum of 'TASK_COMM_LEN' (16-bytes) to maintain ABI,
- New / Modified users of 'get_task_comm'/ 'set_task_comm' will get
 'tsk->comm_str' supported for a maximum of 'TASK_COMM_EXTLEN' (64-bytes).

Note, that the existing users have not been modified to migrate to
'TASK_COMM_EXT_LEN', in case they have hard-coded expectations of
dealing with only a 'TASK_COMM_LEN' long 'tsk->comm_str'.

After this change, gdb is able to show full name of the task, using a
simple app which generates threads with long names [see 1]:
  # gdb ./threadnames -ex "run info thread" -ex "detach" -ex "quit" > log
  # cat log

  NameThatIsTooLongForComm[4662]

[1]. https://github.com/lostgoat/tasknames

Bhupesh (3):
  exec: Remove obsolete comments
  treewide: Switch memcpy() users of 'task->comm' to a more safer
    implementation
  treewide: Switch from tsk->comm to tsk->comm_str which is 64 bytes
    long

 arch/arm64/kernel/traps.c        |  2 +-
 arch/arm64/kvm/mmu.c             |  2 +-
 block/blk-core.c                 |  2 +-
 block/bsg.c                      |  2 +-
 drivers/char/random.c            |  2 +-
 drivers/hid/hid-core.c           |  6 +++---
 drivers/mmc/host/tmio_mmc_core.c |  6 +++---
 drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c          |  2 +-
 drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c        |  2 +-
 drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c |  2 +-
 drivers/tty/tty_io.c             |  8 ++++----
 drivers/usb/core/devio.c         | 16 ++++++++--------
 drivers/usb/core/message.c       |  2 +-
 drivers/vfio/group.c             |  2 +-
 drivers/vfio/vfio_iommu_type1.c  |  2 +-
 drivers/vfio/vfio_main.c         |  2 +-
 drivers/xen/evtchn.c             |  2 +-
 drivers/xen/grant-table.c        |  2 +-
 fs/binfmt_elf.c                  |  2 +-
 fs/coredump.c                    |  4 ++--
 fs/drop_caches.c                 |  2 +-
 fs/exec.c                        |  8 ++++----
 fs/ext4/dir.c                    |  2 +-
 fs/ext4/inode.c                  |  2 +-
 fs/ext4/namei.c                  |  2 +-
 fs/ext4/super.c                  | 12 ++++++------
 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c             |  2 +-
 fs/ioctl.c                       |  2 +-
 fs/iomap/direct-io.c             |  2 +-
 fs/jbd2/transaction.c            |  2 +-
 fs/locks.c                       |  2 +-
 fs/netfs/internal.h              |  2 +-
 fs/proc/base.c                   |  2 +-
 fs/read_write.c                  |  2 +-
 fs/splice.c                      |  2 +-
 include/linux/coredump.h         |  3 ++-
 include/linux/filter.h           |  2 +-
 include/linux/ratelimit.h        |  2 +-
 include/linux/sched.h            | 17 ++++++++++-------
 include/trace/events/block.h     |  5 +++++
 include/trace/events/oom.h       |  1 +
 include/trace/events/osnoise.h   |  1 +
 include/trace/events/signal.h    |  1 +
 include/trace/events/task.h      |  2 ++
 init/init_task.c                 |  2 +-
 ipc/sem.c                        |  2 +-
 kernel/acct.c                    |  2 +-
 kernel/audit.c                   |  4 ++--
 kernel/auditsc.c                 | 10 +++++-----
 kernel/bpf/helpers.c             |  2 +-
 kernel/capability.c              |  4 ++--
 kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c        |  2 +-
 kernel/cred.c                    |  4 ++--
 kernel/events/core.c             |  2 +-
 kernel/exit.c                    |  6 +++---
 kernel/fork.c                    |  9 +++++++--
 kernel/freezer.c                 |  4 ++--
 kernel/futex/waitwake.c          |  2 +-
 kernel/hung_task.c               | 10 +++++-----
 kernel/irq/manage.c              |  2 +-
 kernel/kthread.c                 |  2 +-
 kernel/locking/rtmutex.c         |  2 +-
 kernel/printk/printk.c           |  2 +-
 kernel/sched/core.c              | 22 +++++++++++-----------
 kernel/sched/debug.c             |  4 ++--
 kernel/signal.c                  |  6 +++---
 kernel/sys.c                     |  6 +++---
 kernel/sysctl.c                  |  2 +-
 kernel/time/itimer.c             |  4 ++--
 kernel/time/posix-cpu-timers.c   |  2 +-
 kernel/tsacct.c                  |  2 +-
 kernel/workqueue.c               |  6 +++---
 lib/dump_stack.c                 |  2 +-
 lib/nlattr.c                     |  6 +++---
 mm/compaction.c                  |  2 +-
 mm/filemap.c                     |  4 ++--
 mm/gup.c                         |  2 +-
 mm/memfd.c                       |  2 +-
 mm/memory-failure.c              | 10 +++++-----
 mm/memory.c                      |  2 +-
 mm/mmap.c                        |  4 ++--
 mm/oom_kill.c                    | 18 +++++++++---------
 mm/page_alloc.c                  |  4 ++--
 mm/util.c                        |  2 +-
 net/core/sock.c                  |  2 +-
 net/dns_resolver/internal.h      |  2 +-
 net/ipv4/raw.c                   |  2 +-
 net/ipv4/tcp.c                   |  2 +-
 net/socket.c                     |  2 +-
 security/lsm_audit.c             |  4 ++--
 90 files changed, 184 insertions(+), 165 deletions(-)

-- 
2.38.1



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