From: Jinchao Wang <wangjinchao600@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
"H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
x86@kernel.org, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
Jinchao Wang <wangjinchao600@gmail.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 10/13] mm/kwatch: add anchor thread for global watchpoints
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:32:53 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260714183253.12848-1-wangjinchao600@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260714182243.10687-1-wangjinchao600@gmail.com>
Global variables have no function whose execution can bound the
watch window. Provide one: a kernel thread sleeps for the configured
duration inside a dedicated noinline function,
kwatch_global_anchor(), and the probe runtime hooks that function
like any other target.
When the duration expires the thread schedules a work item that
tears the session down; the expired flag is cleared under the
control-plane mutex so a stale work item from a previous session
cannot stop a new one.
Signed-off-by: Jinchao Wang <wangjinchao600@gmail.com>
---
mm/kwatch/Makefile | 2 +-
mm/kwatch/anchor.c | 82 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 mm/kwatch/anchor.c
diff --git a/mm/kwatch/Makefile b/mm/kwatch/Makefile
index f04673cc5b1c..b196c794619a 100644
--- a/mm/kwatch/Makefile
+++ b/mm/kwatch/Makefile
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
obj-$(CONFIG_KWATCH) += kwatch.o
-kwatch-y := deref.o task_ctx.o hwbp.o probe.o
+kwatch-y := deref.o task_ctx.o hwbp.o probe.o anchor.o
diff --git a/mm/kwatch/anchor.c b/mm/kwatch/anchor.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..11da6aff9413
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mm/kwatch/anchor.c
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
+
+#include <linux/kthread.h>
+#include <linux/wait.h>
+#include <linux/jiffies.h>
+#include <linux/err.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
+
+#include "kwatch.h"
+
+static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(kwatch_anchor_wq);
+static struct task_struct *kwatch_anchor_tsk;
+static bool kwatch_anchor_expired;
+
+bool kwatch_anchor_has_expired(void)
+{
+ return READ_ONCE(kwatch_anchor_expired);
+}
+
+void kwatch_anchor_clear_expired(void)
+{
+ WRITE_ONCE(kwatch_anchor_expired, false);
+}
+
+static void kwatch_auto_stop_handler(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ kwatch_auto_stop();
+}
+
+static DECLARE_WORK(kwatch_auto_stop_work, kwatch_auto_stop_handler);
+
+noinline void kwatch_global_anchor(unsigned long duration_sec)
+{
+ wait_event_timeout(kwatch_anchor_wq, kthread_should_stop(),
+ duration_sec * HZ);
+}
+
+static int kwatch_anchor_thread_fn(void *data)
+{
+ unsigned long duration = (unsigned long)data;
+
+ kwatch_global_anchor(duration);
+
+ if (!kthread_should_stop()) {
+ /* mark before scheduling; cleared under the control mutex */
+ WRITE_ONCE(kwatch_anchor_expired, true);
+ schedule_work(&kwatch_auto_stop_work);
+ }
+
+ while (!kthread_should_stop())
+ schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(HZ);
+
+ return 0;
+}
+
+int kwatch_anchor_start(u16 duration)
+{
+ kwatch_anchor_tsk = kthread_run(kwatch_anchor_thread_fn,
+ (void *)(unsigned long)duration,
+ "kwatch_anchor");
+ if (IS_ERR(kwatch_anchor_tsk)) {
+ int ret = PTR_ERR(kwatch_anchor_tsk);
+
+ kwatch_anchor_tsk = NULL;
+ return ret;
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
+
+void kwatch_anchor_stop(void)
+{
+ if (kwatch_anchor_tsk) {
+ kthread_stop(kwatch_anchor_tsk);
+ kwatch_anchor_tsk = NULL;
+ }
+}
+
+void kwatch_anchor_cancel_work(void)
+{
+ cancel_work_sync(&kwatch_auto_stop_work);
+}
--
2.53.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-14 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-14 18:22 [RFC PATCH 00/13] mm/kwatch: dynamic hardware watchpoints for hunting memory corruption Jinchao Wang
2026-07-14 18:22 ` [RFC PATCH 01/13] arch: add HAVE_REINSTALL_HW_BREAKPOINT Jinchao Wang
2026-07-14 18:22 ` [RFC PATCH 02/13] x86/hw_breakpoint: Unify breakpoint install/uninstall Jinchao Wang
2026-07-14 18:47 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-14 18:22 ` [RFC PATCH 03/13] x86/hw_breakpoint: Add arch_reinstall_hw_breakpoint Jinchao Wang
2026-07-14 19:22 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-14 18:30 ` [RFC PATCH 04/13] HWBP: Add modify_wide_hw_breakpoint_local() API Jinchao Wang
2026-07-14 19:41 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-14 18:31 ` [RFC PATCH 05/13] mm/kwatch: add watch expression parser and dereference engine Jinchao Wang
2026-07-14 18:45 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-14 18:31 ` [RFC PATCH 06/13] mm/kwatch: add lockless per-task context pool Jinchao Wang
2026-07-14 18:44 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-14 18:31 ` [RFC PATCH 07/13] stacktrace: export stack_trace_save_regs() Jinchao Wang
2026-07-14 18:42 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-14 18:32 ` [RFC PATCH 08/13] mm/kwatch: add hardware breakpoint backend Jinchao Wang
2026-07-14 18:50 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-14 21:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2026-07-14 18:32 ` [RFC PATCH 09/13] mm/kwatch: add probe lifecycle runtime Jinchao Wang
2026-07-14 19:53 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-14 18:32 ` Jinchao Wang [this message]
2026-07-14 18:48 ` [RFC PATCH 10/13] mm/kwatch: add anchor thread for global watchpoints sashiko-bot
2026-07-14 18:33 ` [RFC PATCH 11/13] mm/kwatch: add debugfs control plane Jinchao Wang
2026-07-14 18:58 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-14 18:33 ` [RFC PATCH 12/13] mm/kwatch: add KUnit tests for the watch expression parser Jinchao Wang
2026-07-14 18:50 ` sashiko-bot
2026-07-14 18:33 ` [RFC PATCH 13/13] Documentation/dev-tools: document KWatch Jinchao Wang
2026-07-14 18:48 ` sashiko-bot
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