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Message-ID: <20250908225752.936257349@linutronix.de>
Date: Tue,  9 Sep 2025 01:00:02 +0200 (CEST)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
 linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
 Peter Zilstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
 Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
 Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
 Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
 Prakash Sangappa <prakash.sangappa@...cle.com>,
 Madadi Vineeth Reddy <vineethr@...ux.ibm.com>,
 K Prateek Nayak <kprateek.nayak@....com>,
 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Subject: [patch 06/12] rseq: Implement sys_rseq_slice_yield()

Provide a new syscall which has the only purpose to yield the CPU after the
kernel granted a time slice extension.

sched_yield() is not suitable for that because it unconditionally
schedules, but the end of the time slice extension is not required to
schedule when the task was already preempted. This also allows to have a
strict check for termination to catch user space invoking random syscalls
including sched_yield() from a time slice extension region.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc: linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
---
 arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl      |    1 +
 arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl                  |    1 +
 arch/arm64/tools/syscall_32.tbl             |    1 +
 arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl       |    1 +
 arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl |    1 +
 arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n32.tbl   |    1 +
 arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl   |    1 +
 arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_o32.tbl   |    1 +
 arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl     |    1 +
 arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl    |    1 +
 arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl       |    1 +
 arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl         |    1 +
 arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl      |    1 +
 arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl      |    1 +
 arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl      |    1 +
 arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl     |    1 +
 include/linux/syscalls.h                    |    1 +
 include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h           |    5 ++++-
 kernel/rseq.c                               |    9 +++++++++
 kernel/sys_ni.c                             |    1 +
 scripts/syscall.tbl                         |    1 +
 21 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
@@ -509,3 +509,4 @@
 577	common	open_tree_attr			sys_open_tree_attr
 578	common	file_getattr			sys_file_getattr
 579	common	file_setattr			sys_file_setattr
+580	common	rseq_slice_yield		sys_rseq_slice_yield
--- a/arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/arm/tools/syscall.tbl
@@ -484,3 +484,4 @@
 467	common	open_tree_attr			sys_open_tree_attr
 468	common	file_getattr			sys_file_getattr
 469	common	file_setattr			sys_file_setattr
+470	common	rseq_slice_yield		sys_rseq_slice_yield
--- a/arch/arm64/tools/syscall_32.tbl
+++ b/arch/arm64/tools/syscall_32.tbl
@@ -481,3 +481,4 @@
 467	common	open_tree_attr			sys_open_tree_attr
 468	common	file_getattr			sys_file_getattr
 469	common	file_setattr			sys_file_setattr
+470	common	rseq_slice_yield		sys_rseq_slice_yield
--- a/arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
@@ -469,3 +469,4 @@
 467	common	open_tree_attr			sys_open_tree_attr
 468	common	file_getattr			sys_file_getattr
 469	common	file_setattr			sys_file_setattr
+470	common	rseq_slice_yield		sys_rseq_slice_yield
--- a/arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
@@ -475,3 +475,4 @@
 467	common	open_tree_attr			sys_open_tree_attr
 468	common	file_getattr			sys_file_getattr
 469	common	file_setattr			sys_file_setattr
+470	common	rseq_slice_yield		sys_rseq_slice_yield
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n32.tbl
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n32.tbl
@@ -408,3 +408,4 @@
 467	n32	open_tree_attr			sys_open_tree_attr
 468	n32	file_getattr			sys_file_getattr
 469	n32	file_setattr			sys_file_setattr
+470	common	rseq_slice_yield		sys_rseq_slice_yield
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl
@@ -384,3 +384,4 @@
 467	n64	open_tree_attr			sys_open_tree_attr
 468	n64	file_getattr			sys_file_getattr
 469	n64	file_setattr			sys_file_setattr
+470	common	rseq_slice_yield		sys_rseq_slice_yield
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_o32.tbl
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_o32.tbl
@@ -457,3 +457,4 @@
 467	o32	open_tree_attr			sys_open_tree_attr
 468	o32	file_getattr			sys_file_getattr
 469	o32	file_setattr			sys_file_setattr
+470	common	rseq_slice_yield		sys_rseq_slice_yield
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
@@ -468,3 +468,4 @@
 467	common	open_tree_attr			sys_open_tree_attr
 468	common	file_getattr			sys_file_getattr
 469	common	file_setattr			sys_file_setattr
+470	common	rseq_slice_yield		sys_rseq_slice_yield
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
@@ -560,3 +560,4 @@
 467	common	open_tree_attr			sys_open_tree_attr
 468	common	file_getattr			sys_file_getattr
 469	common	file_setattr			sys_file_setattr
+470	nospu	rseq_slice_yield		sys_rseq_slice_yield
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
@@ -472,3 +472,4 @@
 467  common	open_tree_attr		sys_open_tree_attr		sys_open_tree_attr
 468  common	file_getattr		sys_file_getattr		sys_file_getattr
 469  common	file_setattr		sys_file_setattr		sys_file_setattr
+470  common	rseq_slice_yield	sys_rseq_slice_yield		sys_rseq_slice_yield
--- a/arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
@@ -473,3 +473,4 @@
 467	common	open_tree_attr			sys_open_tree_attr
 468	common	file_getattr			sys_file_getattr
 469	common	file_setattr			sys_file_setattr
+470	common	rseq_slice_yield		sys_rseq_slice_yield
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
@@ -515,3 +515,4 @@
 467	common	open_tree_attr			sys_open_tree_attr
 468	common	file_getattr			sys_file_getattr
 469	common	file_setattr			sys_file_setattr
+470	common	rseq_slice_yield		sys_rseq_slice_yield
--- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
@@ -475,3 +475,4 @@
 467	i386	open_tree_attr		sys_open_tree_attr
 468	i386	file_getattr		sys_file_getattr
 469	i386	file_setattr		sys_file_setattr
+470	i386	rseq_slice_yield	sys_rseq_slice_yield
--- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
@@ -393,6 +393,7 @@
 467	common	open_tree_attr		sys_open_tree_attr
 468	common	file_getattr		sys_file_getattr
 469	common	file_setattr		sys_file_setattr
+470	common	rseq_slice_yield	sys_rseq_slice_yield
 
 #
 # Due to a historical design error, certain syscalls are numbered differently
--- a/arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
+++ b/arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
@@ -440,3 +440,4 @@
 467	common	open_tree_attr			sys_open_tree_attr
 468	common	file_getattr			sys_file_getattr
 469	common	file_setattr			sys_file_setattr
+470	common	rseq_slice_yield		sys_rseq_slice_yield
--- a/include/linux/syscalls.h
+++ b/include/linux/syscalls.h
@@ -957,6 +957,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_statx(int dfd, const
 			  unsigned mask, struct statx __user *buffer);
 asmlinkage long sys_rseq(struct rseq __user *rseq, uint32_t rseq_len,
 			 int flags, uint32_t sig);
+asmlinkage long sys_rseq_slice_yield(void);
 asmlinkage long sys_open_tree(int dfd, const char __user *path, unsigned flags);
 asmlinkage long sys_open_tree_attr(int dfd, const char __user *path,
 				   unsigned flags,
--- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
+++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
@@ -858,8 +858,11 @@
 #define __NR_file_setattr 469
 __SYSCALL(__NR_file_setattr, sys_file_setattr)
 
+#define __NR_rseq_slice_yield 470
+__SYSCALL(__NR_rseq_slice_yield, sys_rseq_slice_yield)
+
 #undef __NR_syscalls
-#define __NR_syscalls 470
+#define __NR_syscalls 471
 
 /*
  * 32 bit systems traditionally used different
--- a/kernel/rseq.c
+++ b/kernel/rseq.c
@@ -542,6 +542,15 @@ int rseq_slice_extension_prctl(unsigned
 	return -EFAULT;
 }
 
+SYSCALL_DEFINE0(rseq_slice_yield)
+{
+	if (need_resched()) {
+		schedule();
+		return 1;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int __init rseq_slice_cmdline(char *str)
 {
 	bool on;
--- a/kernel/sys_ni.c
+++ b/kernel/sys_ni.c
@@ -390,5 +390,6 @@ COND_SYSCALL(setuid16);
 
 /* restartable sequence */
 COND_SYSCALL(rseq);
+COND_SYSCALL(rseq_sched_yield);
 
 COND_SYSCALL(uretprobe);
--- a/scripts/syscall.tbl
+++ b/scripts/syscall.tbl
@@ -410,3 +410,4 @@
 467	common	open_tree_attr			sys_open_tree_attr
 468	common	file_getattr			sys_file_getattr
 469	common	file_setattr			sys_file_setattr
+470	common	rseq_sched_yield		sys_rseq_sched_yield


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