We must avoid any recursion into lockdep if KCSAN is enabled on utilities
used by lockdep. One manifestation of this is corruption of lockdep's
IRQ trace state (if TRACE_IRQFLAGS), resulting in spurious warnings
(see below). This commit fixes this by:
1. Using raw_local_irq{save,restore} in kcsan_setup_watchpoint().
2. Disabling lockdep in kcsan_report().
Tested with:
CONFIG_LOCKDEP=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP=y
CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS=y
This fix eliminates spurious warnings such as the following one:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 2 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:4406 check_flags.part.0+0x101/0x220
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 2 Comm: kthreadd Not tainted 5.5.0-rc1+ #11
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:check_flags.part.0+0x101/0x220
<snip>
Call Trace:
lock_is_held_type+0x69/0x150
freezer_fork+0x20b/0x370
cgroup_post_fork+0x2c9/0x5c0
copy_process+0x2675/0x3b40
_do_fork+0xbe/0xa30
? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x40/0x50
? match_held_lock+0x56/0x250
? kthread_park+0xf0/0xf0
kernel_thread+0xa6/0xd0
? kthread_park+0xf0/0xf0
kthreadd+0x321/0x3d0
? kthread_create_on_cpu+0x130/0x130
ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
irq event stamp: 64
hardirqs last enabled at (63): [<ffffffff9a7995d0>] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x40/0x50
hardirqs last disabled at (64): [<ffffffff992a96d2>] kcsan_setup_watchpoint+0x92/0x460
softirqs last enabled at (32): [<ffffffff990489b8>] fpu__copy+0xe8/0x470
softirqs last disabled at (30): [<ffffffff99048939>] fpu__copy+0x69/0x470
Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Tested-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Just a handful of changes in this cycle: an ARM64 performance
optimization, a comment fix and a debug output fix"
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
locking/osq: Use optimized spinning loop for arm64
locking/qspinlock: Fix inaccessible URL of MCS lock paper
locking/lockdep: Fix lockdep_stats indentation problem
Arm64 has a more optimized spinning loop (atomic_cond_read_acquire)
using wfe for spinlock that can boost performance of sibling threads
by putting the current cpu to a wait state that is broken only when
the monitored variable changes or an external event happens.
OSQ has a more complicated spinning loop. Besides the lock value, it
also checks for need_resched() and vcpu_is_preempted(). The check for
need_resched() is not a problem as it is only set by the tick interrupt
handler. That will be detected by the spinning cpu right after iret.
The vcpu_is_preempted() check, however, is a problem as changes to the
preempt state of of previous node will not affect the wait state. For
ARM64, vcpu_is_preempted is not currently defined and so is a no-op.
Will has indicated that he is planning to para-virtualize wfe instead
of defining vcpu_is_preempted for PV support. So just add a comment in
arch/arm64/include/asm/spinlock.h to indicate that vcpu_is_preempted()
should not be defined as suggested.
On a 2-socket 56-core 224-thread ARM64 system, a kernel mutex locking
microbenchmark was run for 10s with and without the patch. The
performance numbers before patch were:
Running locktest with mutex [runtime = 10s, load = 1]
Threads = 224, Min/Mean/Max = 316/123,143/2,121,269
Threads = 224, Total Rate = 2,757 kop/s; Percpu Rate = 12 kop/s
After patch, the numbers were:
Running locktest with mutex [runtime = 10s, load = 1]
Threads = 224, Min/Mean/Max = 334/147,836/1,304,787
Threads = 224, Total Rate = 3,311 kop/s; Percpu Rate = 15 kop/s
So there was about 20% performance improvement.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200113150735.21956-1-longman@redhat.com
It was found that two lines in the output of /proc/lockdep_stats have
indentation problem:
# cat /proc/lockdep_stats
:
in-process chains: 25057
stack-trace entries: 137827 [max: 524288]
number of stack traces: 7973
number of stack hash chains: 6355
combined max dependencies: 1356414598
hardirq-safe locks: 57
hardirq-unsafe locks: 1286
:
All the numbers displayed in /proc/lockdep_stats except the two stack
trace numbers are formatted with a field with of 11. To properly align
all the numbers, a field width of 11 is now added to the two stack
trace numbers.
Fixes: 8c779229d0 ("locking/lockdep: Report more stack trace statistics")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191211213139.29934-1-longman@redhat.com
The commit 91d2a812df ("locking/rwsem: Make handoff writer
optimistically spin on owner") will allow a recently woken up waiting
writer to spin on the owner. Unfortunately, if the owner happens to be
RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN, the code will incorrectly spin on it leading to a
kernel crash. This is fixed by passing the proper non-spinnable bits
to rwsem_spin_on_owner() so that RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN will be treated
as a non-spinnable target.
Fixes: 91d2a812df ("locking/rwsem: Make handoff writer optimistically spin on owner")
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200115154336.8679-1-longman@redhat.com
If the lockdep code is really running out of the stack_trace entries,
it is likely that buffer overrun can happen and the data immediately
after stack_trace[] will be corrupted.
If there is less than LOCK_TRACE_SIZE_IN_LONGS entries left before
the call to save_trace(), the max_entries computation will leave it
with a very large positive number because of its unsigned nature. The
subsequent call to stack_trace_save() will then corrupt the data after
stack_trace[]. Fix that by changing max_entries to a signed integer
and check for negative value before calling stack_trace_save().
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 12593b7467 ("locking/lockdep: Reduce space occupied by stack traces")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191220135128.14876-1-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This ended up causing some noise in places such as rxrpc running in softirq.
The warning is misleading in this case as the mutex trylock and unlock
operations are done within the same context; and therefore we need not
worry about the PI-boosting issues that comes along with no single-owner
lock guarantees.
While we don't want to support this in mutexes, there is no way out of
this yet; so lets get rid of the WARNs for now, as it is only fair to
code that has historically relied on non-preemptible softirq guarantees.
In addition, changing the lock type is also unviable: exclusive rwsems
have the same issue (just not the WARN_ON) and counting semaphores
would introduce a performance hit as mutexes are a lot more optimized.
This reverts:
a0855d24fc: ("locking/mutex: Complain upon mutex API misuse in IRQ contexts")
Fixes: a0855d24fc: ("locking/mutex: Complain upon mutex API misuse in IRQ contexts")
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Tested-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-afs@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: will@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191210220523.28540-1-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This fixes various data races in spinlock_debug. By testing with KCSAN,
it is observable that the console gets spammed with data races reports,
suggesting these are extremely frequent.
Example data race report:
read to 0xffff8ab24f403c48 of 4 bytes by task 221 on cpu 2:
debug_spin_lock_before kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:85 [inline]
do_raw_spin_lock+0x9b/0x210 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:112
__raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:143 [inline]
_raw_spin_lock+0x39/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:151
spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:338 [inline]
get_partial_node.isra.0.part.0+0x32/0x2f0 mm/slub.c:1873
get_partial_node mm/slub.c:1870 [inline]
<snip>
write to 0xffff8ab24f403c48 of 4 bytes by task 167 on cpu 3:
debug_spin_unlock kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:103 [inline]
do_raw_spin_unlock+0xc9/0x1a0 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:138
__raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:159 [inline]
_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x2d/0x50 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:191
spin_unlock_irqrestore include/linux/spinlock.h:393 [inline]
free_debug_processing+0x1b3/0x210 mm/slub.c:1214
__slab_free+0x292/0x400 mm/slub.c:2864
<snip>
As a side-effect, with KCSAN, this eventually locks up the console, most
likely due to deadlock, e.g. .. -> printk lock -> spinlock_debug ->
KCSAN detects data race -> kcsan_print_report() -> printk lock ->
deadlock.
This fix will 1) avoid the data races, and 2) allow using lock debugging
together with KCSAN.
Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191120155715.28089-1-elver@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- A comprehensive rewrite of the robust/PI futex code's exit handling
to fix various exit races. (Thomas Gleixner et al)
- Rework the generic REFCOUNT_FULL implementation using
atomic_fetch_* operations so that the performance impact of the
cmpxchg() loops is mitigated for common refcount operations.
With these performance improvements the generic implementation of
refcount_t should be good enough for everybody - and this got
confirmed by performance testing, so remove ARCH_HAS_REFCOUNT and
REFCOUNT_FULL entirely, leaving the generic implementation enabled
unconditionally. (Will Deacon)
- Other misc changes, fixes, cleanups"
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (27 commits)
lkdtm: Remove references to CONFIG_REFCOUNT_FULL
locking/refcount: Remove unused 'refcount_error_report()' function
locking/refcount: Consolidate implementations of refcount_t
locking/refcount: Consolidate REFCOUNT_{MAX,SATURATED} definitions
locking/refcount: Move saturation warnings out of line
locking/refcount: Improve performance of generic REFCOUNT_FULL code
locking/refcount: Move the bulk of the REFCOUNT_FULL implementation into the <linux/refcount.h> header
locking/refcount: Remove unused refcount_*_checked() variants
locking/refcount: Ensure integer operands are treated as signed
locking/refcount: Define constants for saturation and max refcount values
futex: Prevent exit livelock
futex: Provide distinct return value when owner is exiting
futex: Add mutex around futex exit
futex: Provide state handling for exec() as well
futex: Sanitize exit state handling
futex: Mark the begin of futex exit explicitly
futex: Set task::futex_state to DEAD right after handling futex exit
futex: Split futex_mm_release() for exit/exec
exit/exec: Seperate mm_release()
futex: Replace PF_EXITPIDONE with a state
...
This changes "to the list" to "from the list" and also deletes the
obsolete comment about the "@nested" argument.
The "nested" argument was removed in this commit, earlier this year:
5facae4f35 ("locking/lockdep: Remove unused @nested argument from lock_release()").
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191104091252.GA31509@mwanda
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Add warning checks if mutex_trylock() or mutex_unlock() are used in
IRQ contexts, under CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y.
While the mutex rules and semantics are explicitly documented, this allows
to expose any abusers and robustifies the whole thing.
While trylock and unlock are non-blocking, calling from IRQ context
is still forbidden (lock must be within the same context as unlock).
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191025033634.3330-1-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Including rwlock.h directly will cause kernel builds to fail
if CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is defined. The correct header file
(rwlock_rt.h OR rwlock.h) will be included by spinlock.h which
is included by locktorture.c anyway.
Remove the include of linux/rwlock.h.
Signed-off-by: Wolfgang M. Reimer <linuxball@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The strncmp() function is error-prone because it is easy to get the
length wrong, especially if the string is subject to change, especially
given the need to account for the terminating nul byte. This commit
therefore substitutes the newly introduced str_has_prefix(), which
does not require a separately specified length.
Signed-off-by: Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This patch reverts commit 75437bb304 (locking/pvqspinlock: Don't
wait if vCPU is preempted). A large performance regression was caused
by this commit. on over-subscription scenarios.
The test was run on a Xeon Skylake box, 2 sockets, 40 cores, 80 threads,
with three VMs of 80 vCPUs each. The score of ebizzy -M is reduced from
13000-14000 records/s to 1700-1800 records/s:
Host Guest score
vanilla w/o kvm optimizations upstream 1700-1800 records/s
vanilla w/o kvm optimizations revert 13000-14000 records/s
vanilla w/ kvm optimizations upstream 4500-5000 records/s
vanilla w/ kvm optimizations revert 14000-15500 records/s
Exit from aggressive wait-early mechanism can result in premature yield
and extra scheduling latency.
Actually, only 6% of wait_early events are caused by vcpu_is_preempted()
being true. However, when one vCPU voluntarily releases its vCPU, all
the subsequently waiters in the queue will do the same and the cascading
effect leads to bad performance.
kvm optimizations:
[1] commit d73eb57b80 (KVM: Boost vCPUs that are delivering interrupts)
[2] commit 266e85a5ec (KVM: X86: Boost queue head vCPU to mitigate lock waiter preemption)
Tested-by: loobinliu@tencent.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
Cc: loobinliu@tencent.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 75437bb304 (locking/pvqspinlock: Don't wait if vCPU is preempted)
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <wanpengli@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
- MAINTAINERS: Add Mark Rutland as perf submaintainer, Juri Lelli and
Vincent Guittot as scheduler submaintainers. Add Dietmar Eggemann,
Steven Rostedt, Ben Segall and Mel Gorman as scheduler reviewers.
As perf and the scheduler is getting bigger and more complex,
document the status quo of current responsibilities and interests,
and spread the review pain^H^H^H^H fun via an increase in the Cc:
linecount generated by scripts/get_maintainer.pl. :-)
- Add another series of patches that brings the -rt (PREEMPT_RT) tree
closer to mainline: split the monolithic CONFIG_PREEMPT dependencies
into a new CONFIG_PREEMPTION category that will allow the eventual
introduction of CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT. Still a few more hundred patches
to go though.
- Extend the CPU cgroup controller with uclamp.min and uclamp.max to
allow the finer shaping of CPU bandwidth usage.
- Micro-optimize energy-aware wake-ups from O(CPUS^2) to O(CPUS).
- Improve the behavior of high CPU count, high thread count
applications running under cpu.cfs_quota_us constraints.
- Improve balancing with SCHED_IDLE (SCHED_BATCH) tasks present.
- Improve CPU isolation housekeeping CPU allocation NUMA locality.
- Fix deadline scheduler bandwidth calculations and logic when cpusets
rebuilds the topology, or when it gets deadline-throttled while it's
being offlined.
- Convert the cpuset_mutex to percpu_rwsem, to allow it to be used from
setscheduler() system calls without creating global serialization.
Add new synchronization between cpuset topology-changing events and
the deadline acceptance tests in setscheduler(), which were broken
before.
- Rework the active_mm state machine to be less confusing and more
optimal.
- Rework (simplify) the pick_next_task() slowpath.
- Improve load-balancing on AMD EPYC systems.
- ... and misc cleanups, smaller fixes and improvements - please see
the Git log for more details.
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (53 commits)
sched/psi: Correct overly pessimistic size calculation
sched/fair: Speed-up energy-aware wake-ups
sched/uclamp: Always use 'enum uclamp_id' for clamp_id values
sched/uclamp: Update CPU's refcount on TG's clamp changes
sched/uclamp: Use TG's clamps to restrict TASK's clamps
sched/uclamp: Propagate system defaults to the root group
sched/uclamp: Propagate parent clamps
sched/uclamp: Extend CPU's cgroup controller
sched/topology: Improve load balancing on AMD EPYC systems
arch, ia64: Make NUMA select SMP
sched, perf: MAINTAINERS update, add submaintainers and reviewers
sched/fair: Use rq_lock/unlock in online_fair_sched_group
cpufreq: schedutil: fix equation in comment
sched: Rework pick_next_task() slow-path
sched: Allow put_prev_task() to drop rq->lock
sched/fair: Expose newidle_balance()
sched: Add task_struct pointer to sched_class::set_curr_task
sched: Rework CPU hotplug task selection
sched/{rt,deadline}: Fix set_next_task vs pick_next_task
sched: Fix kerneldoc comment for ia64_set_curr_task
...
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
- improve rwsem scalability
- add uninitialized rwsem debugging check
- reduce lockdep's stacktrace memory usage and add diagnostics
- misc cleanups, code consolidation and constification
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
mutex: Fix up mutex_waiter usage
locking/mutex: Use mutex flags macro instead of hard code
locking/mutex: Make __mutex_owner static to mutex.c
locking/qspinlock,x86: Clarify virt_spin_lock_key
locking/rwsem: Check for operations on an uninitialized rwsem
locking/rwsem: Make handoff writer optimistically spin on owner
locking/lockdep: Report more stack trace statistics
locking/lockdep: Reduce space occupied by stack traces
stacktrace: Constify 'entries' arguments
locking/lockdep: Make it clear that what lock_class::key points at is not modified
The patch moving bits into mutex.c was a little too much; by also
moving struct mutex_waiter a few less common CONFIGs would no longer
build.
Fixes: 5f35d5a66b ("locking/mutex: Make __mutex_owner static to mutex.c")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
__mutex_owner() should only be used by the mutex api's.
So, to put this restiction let's move the __mutex_owner()
function definition from linux/mutex.h to mutex.c file.
There exist functions that uses __mutex_owner() like
mutex_is_locked() and mutex_trylock_recursive(), So
to keep legacy thing intact move them as well and
export them.
Move mutex_waiter structure also to keep it private to the
file.
Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <mojha@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com
Cc: will@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1564585504-3543-1-git-send-email-mojha@codeaurora.org
Currently rwsems is the only locking primitive that lacks this
debug feature. Add it under CONFIG_DEBUG_RWSEMS and do the magic
checking in the locking fastpath (trylock) operation such that
we cover all cases. The unlocking part is pretty straightforward.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: mingo@kernel.org
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190729044735.9632-1-dave@stgolabs.net
When the handoff bit is set by a writer, no other tasks other than
the setting writer itself is allowed to acquire the lock. If the
to-be-handoff'ed writer goes to sleep, there will be a wakeup latency
period where the lock is free, but no one can acquire it. That is less
than ideal.
To reduce that latency, the handoff writer will now optimistically spin
on the owner if it happens to be a on-cpu writer. It will spin until
it releases the lock and the to-be-handoff'ed writer can then acquire
the lock immediately without any delay. Of course, if the owner is not
a on-cpu writer, the to-be-handoff'ed writer will have to sleep anyway.
The optimistic spinning code is also modified to not stop spinning
when the handoff bit is set. This will prevent an occasional setting of
handoff bit from causing a bunch of optimistic spinners from entering
into the wait queue causing significant reduction in throughput.
On a 1-socket 22-core 44-thread Skylake system, the AIM7 shared_memory
workload was run with 7000 users. The throughput (jobs/min) of the
following kernels were as follows:
1) 5.2-rc6
- 8,092,486
2) 5.2-rc6 + tip's rwsem patches
- 7,567,568
3) 5.2-rc6 + tip's rwsem patches + this patch
- 7,954,545
Using perf-record(1), the %cpu time used by rwsem_down_write_slowpath(),
rwsem_down_write_failed() and their callees for the 3 kernels were 1.70%,
5.46% and 2.08% respectively.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190625143913.24154-1-longman@redhat.com
Security is a wonderful thing, but so is the ability to debug based on
lockdep warnings. This commit therefore makes lockdep lock addresses
visible in the clear.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Returning the pointer that was passed in allows us to write
slightly more idiomatic code. Convert a few users.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190704221323.24290-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Report the number of stack traces and the number of stack trace hash
chains. These two numbers are useful because these allow to estimate
the number of stack trace hash collisions.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190722182443.216015-5-bvanassche@acm.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Although commit 669de8bda8 ("kernel/workqueue: Use dynamic lockdep keys
for workqueues") unregisters dynamic lockdep keys when a workqueue is
destroyed, a side effect of that commit is that all stack traces
associated with the lockdep key are leaked when a workqueue is destroyed.
Fix this by storing each unique stack trace once. Other changes in this
patch are:
- Use NULL instead of { .nr_entries = 0 } to represent 'no trace'.
- Store a pointer to a stack trace in struct lock_class and struct
lock_list instead of storing 'nr_entries' and 'offset'.
This patch avoids that the following program triggers the "BUG:
MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES too low!" complaint:
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
int main()
{
for (;;) {
int fd = open("/dev/infiniband/rdma_cm", O_RDWR);
close(fd);
}
}
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reported-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Yuyang Du <duyuyang@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190722182443.216015-4-bvanassche@acm.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This patch does not change the behavior of the lockdep code.
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190722182443.216015-2-bvanassche@acm.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
An uninitialized/ zeroed mutex will go unnoticed because there is no
check for it. There is a magic check in the unlock's slowpath path which
might go unnoticed if the unlock happens in the fastpath.
Add a ->magic check early in the mutex_lock() and mutex_trylock() path.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190703092125.lsdf4gpsh2plhavb@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
As Will Deacon points out, CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING implies TRACE_IRQFLAGS,
so the conditions I added in the previous patch, and some others in the
same file can be simplified by only checking for the former.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Yuyang Du <duyuyang@gmail.com>
Fixes: 886532aee3 ("locking/lockdep: Move mark_lock() inside CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS && CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190628102919.2345242-1-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The usage is now hidden in an #ifdef, so we need to move
the variable itself in there as well to avoid this warning:
kernel/locking/lockdep_proc.c:203:21: error: unused variable 'class' [-Werror,-Wunused-variable]
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Yuyang Du <duyuyang@gmail.com>
Cc: frederic@kernel.org
Fixes: 68d41d8c94 ("locking/lockdep: Fix lock used or unused stats error")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190715092809.736834-1-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Since we just reviewed read_slowpath for ACQUIRE correctness, add a
few coments to retain our findings.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
While reviewing another read_slowpath patch, both Will and I noticed
another missing ACQUIRE, namely:
X = 0;
CPU0 CPU1
rwsem_down_read()
for (;;) {
set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
X = 1;
rwsem_up_write();
rwsem_mark_wake()
atomic_long_add(adjustment, &sem->count);
smp_store_release(&waiter->task, NULL);
if (!waiter.task)
break;
...
}
r = X;
Allows 'r == 0'.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reported-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 1da177e4c3 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
LTP mtest06 has been observed to occasionally hit "still mapped when
deleted" and following BUG_ON on arm64.
The extra mapcount originated from pagefault handler, which handled
pagefault for vma that has already been detached. vma is detached
under mmap_sem write lock by detach_vmas_to_be_unmapped(), which
also invalidates vmacache.
When the pagefault handler (under mmap_sem read lock) calls
find_vma(), vmacache_valid() wrongly reports vmacache as valid.
After rwsem down_read() returns via 'queue empty' path (as of v5.2),
it does so without an ACQUIRE on sem->count:
down_read()
__down_read()
rwsem_down_read_failed()
__rwsem_down_read_failed_common()
raw_spin_lock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
if (list_empty(&sem->wait_list)) {
if (atomic_long_read(&sem->count) >= 0) {
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
return sem;
The problem can be reproduced by running LTP mtest06 in a loop and
building the kernel (-j $NCPUS) in parallel. It does reproduces since
v4.20 on arm64 HPE Apollo 70 (224 CPUs, 256GB RAM, 2 nodes). It
triggers reliably in about an hour.
The patched kernel ran fine for 10+ hours.
Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dbueso@suse.de
Fixes: 4b486b535c ("locking/rwsem: Exit read lock slowpath if queue empty & no writer")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/50b8914e20d1d62bb2dee42d342836c2c16ebee7.1563438048.git.jstancek@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
For writer, the owner value is cleared on unlock. For reader, it is
left intact on unlock for providing better debugging aid on crash dump
and the unlock of one reader may not mean the lock is free.
As a result, the owner_on_cpu() shouldn't be used on read-owner
as the task pointer value may not be valid and it might have
been freed. That is the case in rwsem_spin_on_owner(), but not in
rwsem_can_spin_on_owner(). This can lead to use-after-free error from
KASAN. For example,
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in rwsem_down_write_slowpath
(/home/miguel/kernel/linux/kernel/locking/rwsem.c:669
/home/miguel/kernel/linux/kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1125)
Fix this by checking for RWSEM_READER_OWNED flag before calling
owner_on_cpu().
Reported-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.com>
Tested-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Fixes: 94a9717b3c ("locking/rwsem: Make rwsem->owner an atomic_long_t")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/81e82d5b-5074-77e8-7204-28479bbe0df0@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Convert the locking documents to ReST and add them to the
kernel development book where it belongs.
Most of the stuff here is just to make Sphinx to properly
parse the text file, as they're already in good shape,
not requiring massive changes in order to be parsed.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
The stats variable nr_unused_locks is incremented every time a new lock
class is register and decremented when the lock is first used in
__lock_acquire(). And after all, it is shown and checked in lockdep_stats.
However, under configurations that either CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS or
CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING is not defined:
The commit:
0918065151 ("locking/lockdep: Consolidate lock usage bit initialization")
missed marking the LOCK_USED flag at IRQ usage initialization because
as mark_usage() is not called. And the commit:
886532aee3 ("locking/lockdep: Move mark_lock() inside CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS && CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING")
further made mark_lock() not defined such that the LOCK_USED cannot be
marked at all when the lock is first acquired.
As a result, we fix this by not showing and checking the stats under such
configurations for lockdep_stats.
Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Yuyang Du <duyuyang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: frederic@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190709101522.9117-1-duyuyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle are:
- rwsem scalability improvements, phase #2, by Waiman Long, which are
rather impressive:
"On a 2-socket 40-core 80-thread Skylake system with 40 reader
and writer locking threads, the min/mean/max locking operations
done in a 5-second testing window before the patchset were:
40 readers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 1,807/1,808/1,810
40 writers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 1,807/50,344/151,255
After the patchset, they became:
40 readers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 30,057/31,359/32,741
40 writers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 94,466/95,845/97,098"
There's a lot of changes to the locking implementation that makes
it similar to qrwlock, including owner handoff for more fair
locking.
Another microbenchmark shows how across the spectrum the
improvements are:
"With a locking microbenchmark running on 5.1 based kernel, the
total locking rates (in kops/s) on a 2-socket Skylake system
with equal numbers of readers and writers (mixed) before and
after this patchset were:
# of Threads Before Patch After Patch
------------ ------------ -----------
2 2,618 4,193
4 1,202 3,726
8 802 3,622
16 729 3,359
32 319 2,826
64 102 2,744"
The changes are extensive and the patch-set has been through
several iterations addressing various locking workloads. There
might be more regressions, but unless they are pathological I
believe we want to use this new implementation as the baseline
going forward.
- jump-label optimizations by Daniel Bristot de Oliveira: the primary
motivation was to remove IPI disturbance of isolated RT-workload
CPUs, which resulted in the implementation of batched jump-label
updates. Beyond the improvement of the real-time characteristics
kernel, in one test this patchset improved static key update
overhead from 57 msecs to just 1.4 msecs - which is a nice speedup
as well.
- atomic64_t cross-arch type cleanups by Mark Rutland: over the last
~10 years of atomic64_t existence the various types used by the
APIs only had to be self-consistent within each architecture -
which means they became wildly inconsistent across architectures.
Mark puts and end to this by reworking all the atomic64
implementations to use 's64' as the base type for atomic64_t, and
to ensure that this type is consistently used for parameters and
return values in the API, avoiding further problems in this area.
- A large set of small improvements to lockdep by Yuyang Du: type
cleanups, output cleanups, function return type and othr cleanups
all around the place.
- A set of percpu ops cleanups and fixes by Peter Zijlstra.
- Misc other changes - please see the Git log for more details"
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (82 commits)
locking/lockdep: increase size of counters for lockdep statistics
locking/atomics: Use sed(1) instead of non-standard head(1) option
locking/lockdep: Move mark_lock() inside CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS && CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
x86/jump_label: Make tp_vec_nr static
x86/percpu: Optimize raw_cpu_xchg()
x86/percpu, sched/fair: Avoid local_clock()
x86/percpu, x86/irq: Relax {set,get}_irq_regs()
x86/percpu: Relax smp_processor_id()
x86/percpu: Differentiate this_cpu_{}() and __this_cpu_{}()
locking/rwsem: Guard against making count negative
locking/rwsem: Adaptive disabling of reader optimistic spinning
locking/rwsem: Enable time-based spinning on reader-owned rwsem
locking/rwsem: Make rwsem->owner an atomic_long_t
locking/rwsem: Enable readers spinning on writer
locking/rwsem: Clarify usage of owner's nonspinaable bit
locking/rwsem: Wake up almost all readers in wait queue
locking/rwsem: More optimal RT task handling of null owner
locking/rwsem: Always release wait_lock before waking up tasks
locking/rwsem: Implement lock handoff to prevent lock starvation
locking/rwsem: Make rwsem_spin_on_owner() return owner state
...
When system has been running for a long time, signed integer
counters are not enough for some lockdep statistics. Using
unsigned long counters can satisfy the requirement. Besides,
most of lockdep statistics are unsigned. It is better to use
unsigned int instead of int.
Remove unused variables.
- max_recursion_depth
- nr_cyclic_check_recursions
- nr_find_usage_forwards_recursions
- nr_find_usage_backwards_recursions
Signed-off-by: Kobe Wu <kobe-cp.wu@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: <wsd_upstream@mediatek.com>
Cc: Eason Lin <eason-yh.lin@mediatek.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1561365348-16050-1-git-send-email-kobe-cp.wu@mediatek.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The last cleanup patch triggered another issue, as now another function
should be moved into the same section:
kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3580:12: error: 'mark_lock' defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
static int mark_lock(struct task_struct *curr, struct held_lock *this,
Move mark_lock() into the same #ifdef section as its only caller, and
remove the now-unused mark_lock_irq() stub helper.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Yuyang Du <duyuyang@gmail.com>
Fixes: 0d2cc3b345 ("locking/lockdep: Move valid_state() inside CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS && CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190617124718.1232976-1-arnd@arndb.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The upper bits of the count field is used as reader count. When
sufficient number of active readers are present, the most significant
bit will be set and the count becomes negative. If the number of active
readers keep on piling up, we may eventually overflow the reader counts.
This is not likely to happen unless the number of bits reserved for
reader count is reduced because those bits are need for other purpose.
To prevent this count overflow from happening, the most significant
bit is now treated as a guard bit (RWSEM_FLAG_READFAIL). Read-lock
attempts will now fail for both the fast and slow paths whenever this
bit is set. So all those extra readers will be put to sleep in the wait
list. Wakeup will not happen until the reader count reaches 0.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520205918.22251-17-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reader optimistic spinning is helpful when the reader critical section
is short and there aren't that many readers around. It makes readers
relatively more preferred than writers. When a writer times out spinning
on a reader-owned lock and set the nospinnable bits, there are two main
reasons for that.
1) The reader critical section is long, perhaps the task sleeps after
acquiring the read lock.
2) There are just too many readers contending the lock causing it to
take a while to service all of them.
In the former case, long reader critical section will impede the progress
of writers which is usually more important for system performance.
In the later case, reader optimistic spinning tends to make the reader
groups that contain readers that acquire the lock together smaller
leading to more of them. That may hurt performance in some cases. In
other words, the setting of nonspinnable bits indicates that reader
optimistic spinning may not be helpful for those workloads that cause it.
Therefore, any writers that have observed the setting of the writer
nonspinnable bit for a given rwsem after they fail to acquire the lock
via optimistic spinning will set the reader nonspinnable bit once they
acquire the write lock. Similarly, readers that observe the setting
of reader nonspinnable bit at slowpath entry will also set the reader
nonspinnable bit when they acquire the read lock via the wakeup path.
Once the reader nonspinnable bit is on, it will only be reset when
a writer is able to acquire the rwsem in the fast path or somehow a
reader or writer in the slowpath doesn't observe the nonspinable bit.
This is to discourage reader optmistic spinning on that particular
rwsem and make writers more preferred. This adaptive disabling of reader
optimistic spinning will alleviate some of the negative side effect of
this feature.
In addition, this patch tries to make readers in the spinning queue
follow the phase-fair principle after quitting optimistic spinning
by checking if another reader has somehow acquired a read lock after
this reader enters the optimistic spinning queue. If so and the rwsem
is still reader-owned, this reader is in the right read-phase and can
attempt to acquire the lock.
On a 2-socket 40-core 80-thread Skylake system, the page_fault1 test of
the will-it-scale benchmark was run with various number of threads. The
number of operations done before reader optimistic spinning patches,
this patch and after this patch were:
Threads Before rspin Before patch After patch %change
------- ------------ ------------ ----------- -------
20 5541068 5345484 5455667 -3.5%/ +2.1%
40 10185150 7292313 9219276 -28.5%/+26.4%
60 8196733 6460517 7181209 -21.2%/+11.2%
80 9508864 6739559 8107025 -29.1%/+20.3%
This patch doesn't recover all the lost performance, but it is more
than half. Given the fact that reader optimistic spinning does benefit
some workloads, this is a good compromise.
Using the rwsem locking microbenchmark with very short critical section,
this patch doesn't have too much impact on locking performance as shown
by the locking rates (kops/s) below with equal numbers of readers and
writers before and after this patch:
# of Threads Pre-patch Post-patch
------------ --------- ----------
2 4,730 4,969
4 4,814 4,786
8 4,866 4,815
16 4,715 4,511
32 3,338 3,500
64 3,212 3,389
80 3,110 3,044
When running the locking microbenchmark with 40 dedicated reader and writer
threads, however, the reader performance is curtailed to favor the writer.
Before patch:
40 readers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 204,026/234,309/254,816
40 writers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 88,515/95,884/115,644
After patch:
40 readers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 33,813/35,260/36,791
40 writers, Iterations Min/Mean/Max = 95,368/96,565/97,798
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520205918.22251-16-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
When the rwsem is owned by reader, writers stop optimistic spinning
simply because there is no easy way to figure out if all the readers
are actively running or not. However, there are scenarios where
the readers are unlikely to sleep and optimistic spinning can help
performance.
This patch provides a simple mechanism for spinning on a reader-owned
rwsem by a writer. It is a time threshold based spinning where the
allowable spinning time can vary from 10us to 25us depending on the
condition of the rwsem.
When the time threshold is exceeded, the nonspinnable bits will be set
in the owner field to indicate that no more optimistic spinning will
be allowed on this rwsem until it becomes writer owned again. Not even
readers is allowed to acquire the reader-locked rwsem by optimistic
spinning for fairness.
We also want a writer to acquire the lock after the readers hold the
lock for a relatively long time. In order to give preference to writers
under such a circumstance, the single RWSEM_NONSPINNABLE bit is now split
into two - one for reader and one for writer. When optimistic spinning
is disabled, both bits will be set. When the reader count drop down
to 0, the writer nonspinnable bit will be cleared to allow writers to
spin on the lock, but not the readers. When a writer acquires the lock,
it will write its own task structure pointer into sem->owner and clear
the reader nonspinnable bit in the process.
The time taken for each iteration of the reader-owned rwsem spinning
loop varies. Below are sample minimum elapsed times for 16 iterations
of the loop.
System Time for 16 Iterations
------ ----------------------
1-socket Skylake ~800ns
4-socket Broadwell ~300ns
2-socket ThunderX2 (arm64) ~250ns
When the lock cacheline is contended, we can see up to almost 10X
increase in elapsed time. So 25us will be at most 500, 1300 and 1600
iterations for each of the above systems.
With a locking microbenchmark running on 5.1 based kernel, the total
locking rates (in kops/s) on a 8-socket IvyBridge-EX system with
equal numbers of readers and writers before and after this patch were
as follows:
# of Threads Pre-patch Post-patch
------------ --------- ----------
2 1,759 6,684
4 1,684 6,738
8 1,074 7,222
16 900 7,163
32 458 7,316
64 208 520
128 168 425
240 143 474
This patch gives a big boost in performance for mixed reader/writer
workloads.
With 32 locking threads, the rwsem lock event data were:
rwsem_opt_fail=79850
rwsem_opt_nospin=5069
rwsem_opt_rlock=597484
rwsem_opt_wlock=957339
rwsem_sleep_reader=57782
rwsem_sleep_writer=55663
With 64 locking threads, the data looked like:
rwsem_opt_fail=346723
rwsem_opt_nospin=6293
rwsem_opt_rlock=1127119
rwsem_opt_wlock=1400628
rwsem_sleep_reader=308201
rwsem_sleep_writer=72281
So a lot more threads acquired the lock in the slowpath and more threads
went to sleep.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520205918.22251-15-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The rwsem->owner contains not just the task structure pointer, it also
holds some flags for storing the current state of the rwsem. Some of
the flags may have to be atomically updated. To reflect the new reality,
the owner is now changed to an atomic_long_t type.
New helper functions are added to properly separate out the task
structure pointer and the embedded flags.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520205918.22251-14-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This patch enables readers to optimistically spin on a
rwsem when it is owned by a writer instead of going to sleep
directly. The rwsem_can_spin_on_owner() function is extracted
out of rwsem_optimistic_spin() and is called directly by
rwsem_down_read_slowpath() and rwsem_down_write_slowpath().
With a locking microbenchmark running on 5.1 based kernel, the total
locking rates (in kops/s) on a 8-socket IvyBrige-EX system with equal
numbers of readers and writers before and after the patch were as
follows:
# of Threads Pre-patch Post-patch
------------ --------- ----------
4 1,674 1,684
8 1,062 1,074
16 924 900
32 300 458
64 195 208
128 164 168
240 149 143
The performance change wasn't significant in this case, but this change
is required by a follow-on patch.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520205918.22251-13-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Bit 1 of sem->owner (RWSEM_ANONYMOUSLY_OWNED) is used to designate an
anonymous owner - readers or an anonymous writer. The setting of this
anonymous bit is used as an indicator that optimistic spinning cannot
be done on this rwsem.
With the upcoming reader optimistic spinning patches, a reader-owned
rwsem can be spinned on for a limit period of time. We still need
this bit to indicate a rwsem is nonspinnable, but not setting this
bit loses its meaning that the owner is known. So rename the bit
to RWSEM_NONSPINNABLE to clarify its meaning.
This patch also fixes a DEBUG_RWSEMS_WARN_ON() bug in __up_write().
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520205918.22251-12-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>