From 7ac592aa35a684ff1858fb9ec282886b9e3575ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Hyser Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 17:40:15 -0400 Subject: sched: prctl() core-scheduling interface This patch provides support for setting and copying core scheduling 'task cookies' between threads (PID), processes (TGID), and process groups (PGID). The value of core scheduling isn't that tasks don't share a core, 'nosmt' can do that. The value lies in exploiting all the sharing opportunities that exist to recover possible lost performance and that requires a degree of flexibility in the API. From a security perspective (and there are others), the thread, process and process group distinction is an existent hierarchal categorization of tasks that reflects many of the security concerns about 'data sharing'. For example, protecting against cache-snooping by a thread that can just read the memory directly isn't all that useful. With this in mind, subcommands to CREATE/SHARE (TO/FROM) provide a mechanism to create and share cookies. CREATE/SHARE_TO specify a target pid with enum pidtype used to specify the scope of the targeted tasks. For example, PIDTYPE_TGID will share the cookie with the process and all of it's threads as typically desired in a security scenario. API: prctl(PR_SCHED_CORE, PR_SCHED_CORE_GET, tgtpid, pidtype, &cookie) prctl(PR_SCHED_CORE, PR_SCHED_CORE_CREATE, tgtpid, pidtype, NULL) prctl(PR_SCHED_CORE, PR_SCHED_CORE_SHARE_TO, tgtpid, pidtype, NULL) prctl(PR_SCHED_CORE, PR_SCHED_CORE_SHARE_FROM, srcpid, pidtype, NULL) where 'tgtpid/srcpid == 0' implies the current process and pidtype is kernel enum pid_type {PIDTYPE_PID, PIDTYPE_TGID, PIDTYPE_PGID, ...}. For return values, EINVAL, ENOMEM are what they say. ESRCH means the tgtpid/srcpid was not found. EPERM indicates lack of PTRACE permission access to tgtpid/srcpid. ENODEV indicates your machines lacks SMT. [peterz: complete rewrite] Signed-off-by: Chris Hyser Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Tested-by: Don Hiatt Tested-by: Hongyu Ning Tested-by: Vincent Guittot Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210422123309.039845339@infradead.org --- include/uapi/linux/prctl.h | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/uapi') diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h b/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h index 18a9f59dc067..967d9c55323d 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h @@ -259,4 +259,12 @@ struct prctl_mm_map { #define PR_PAC_SET_ENABLED_KEYS 60 #define PR_PAC_GET_ENABLED_KEYS 61 +/* Request the scheduler to share a core */ +#define PR_SCHED_CORE 62 +# define PR_SCHED_CORE_GET 0 +# define PR_SCHED_CORE_CREATE 1 /* create unique core_sched cookie */ +# define PR_SCHED_CORE_SHARE_TO 2 /* push core_sched cookie to pid */ +# define PR_SCHED_CORE_SHARE_FROM 3 /* pull core_sched cookie to pid */ +# define PR_SCHED_CORE_MAX 4 + #endif /* _LINUX_PRCTL_H */ -- cgit v1.2.3