From: Tiwei Bie <tiwei....@antgroup.com> This series adds initial symmetric multi-processing (SMP) support to UML. With this support, users can tell UML to start multiple virtual CPUs, each represented as a separate host thread.
In UML, kthreads and normal threads (when running in kernel mode) can be scheduled and executed simultaneously on different virtual CPUs. However, the userspace code of normal threads currently still runs within their respective single-threaded stubs. So SMP within the kernel is supported. SMP across different guest processes is also supported. Currently, the limitation is that multi-threading within the same guest process does not yet support true SMP in userspace, as it would require converting the stub into a multi-threaded implementation, which is not covered in this series. Extending the stub to support true SMP in userspace could be done later and requires careful design. It may be better to handle it in a follow-up series. Here are some steps to try out SMP support in UML: 1. Build UML with CONFIG_SMP=y and, for example, CONFIG_NR_CPUS=8. 2. Launch a UML instance with, for example, 8 virtual CPUs. $ ./linux mem=16G ncpus=8 seccomp=on init=/bin/sh ubd0=$your_rootfs_image RFC: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-um/20250713172536.404809-1-tiwei....@linux.dev/ Tiwei Bie (9): um: Stop tracking virtual CPUs via mm_cpumask() um: Remove unused cpu_data and current_cpu_data macros um: vdso: Implement __vdso_getcpu() via syscall um: Preserve errno within signal handler um: Turn signals_* into thread-local variables um: Determine sleep based on need_resched() um: Define timers on a per-CPU basis um: Support directing IO signals to calling thread um: Add initial SMP support arch/um/Kconfig | 39 +++- arch/um/include/asm/Kbuild | 3 +- arch/um/include/asm/current.h | 5 +- arch/um/include/asm/hardirq.h | 24 ++- arch/um/include/asm/irqflags.h | 4 +- arch/um/include/asm/mmu.h | 10 + arch/um/include/asm/mmu_context.h | 11 - arch/um/include/asm/percpu.h | 20 ++ arch/um/include/asm/pgtable.h | 2 + arch/um/include/asm/processor-generic.h | 8 +- arch/um/include/asm/smp.h | 23 +- arch/um/include/asm/spinlock.h | 8 + arch/um/include/linux/smp-internal.h | 21 ++ arch/um/include/linux/time-internal.h | 3 + arch/um/include/shared/kern_util.h | 2 + arch/um/include/shared/longjmp.h | 3 +- arch/um/include/shared/os.h | 15 +- arch/um/include/shared/skas/mm_id.h | 3 + arch/um/include/shared/smp.h | 19 ++ arch/um/kernel/Makefile | 1 + arch/um/kernel/irq.c | 35 +++- arch/um/kernel/ksyms.c | 2 +- arch/um/kernel/mem.c | 2 + arch/um/kernel/process.c | 20 +- arch/um/kernel/skas/mmu.c | 32 ++- arch/um/kernel/smp.c | 266 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/um/kernel/time.c | 54 +++-- arch/um/kernel/tlb.c | 5 +- arch/um/kernel/trap.c | 2 +- arch/um/kernel/um_arch.c | 24 ++- arch/um/os-Linux/Makefile | 4 +- arch/um/os-Linux/file.c | 10 +- arch/um/os-Linux/main.c | 5 +- arch/um/os-Linux/process.c | 10 + arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c | 14 +- arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c | 9 + arch/um/os-Linux/smp.c | 86 ++++++++ arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c | 4 + arch/um/os-Linux/time.c | 42 ++-- arch/x86/um/vdso/um_vdso.c | 18 +- 40 files changed, 769 insertions(+), 99 deletions(-) create mode 100644 arch/um/include/asm/percpu.h create mode 100644 arch/um/include/asm/spinlock.h create mode 100644 arch/um/include/linux/smp-internal.h create mode 100644 arch/um/include/shared/smp.h create mode 100644 arch/um/kernel/smp.c create mode 100644 arch/um/os-Linux/smp.c -- 2.34.1
