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backoff when acquiring the lock
The wait list is sorted by stamp order, and the only waiting task that may
have to back off is the first waiter with a context.
The regular slow path does not have to wake any other tasks at all, since
all other waiters that would have to back off were either woken up when
the waiter was added to the list, or detected the condition before they
added themselves.
Median timings taken of a contention-heavy GPU workload:
Without this series:
real 0m59.900s
user 0m7.516s
sys 2m16.076s
With changes up to and including this patch:
real 0m52.946s
user 0m7.272s
sys 1m55.964s
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Hähnle <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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wait list
While adding our task as a waiter, detect if another task should back off
because of us.
With this patch, we establish the invariant that the wait list contains
at most one (sleeping) waiter with ww_ctx->acquired > 0, and this waiter
will be the first waiter with a context.
Since only waiters with ww_ctx->acquired > 0 have to back off, this allows
us to be much more economical with wakeups.
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Hähnle <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Add regular waiters in stamp order. Keep adding waiters that have no
context in FIFO order and take care not to starve them.
While adding our task as a waiter, back off if we detect that there is
a waiter with a lower stamp in front of us.
Make sure to call lock_contended even when we back off early.
For w/w mutexes, being first in the wait list is only stable when
taking the lock without a context. Therefore, the purpose of the first
flag is split into two: 'first' remains to indicate whether we want to
spin optimistically, while 'handoff' indicates that we should be
prepared to accept a handoff.
For w/w locking with a context, we always accept handoffs after the
first schedule(), to handle the following sequence of events:
1. Task #0 unlocks and hands off to Task #2 which is first in line
2. Task #1 adds itself in front of Task #2
3. Task #2 wakes up and must accept the handoff even though it is no
longer first in line
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Hähnle <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: =?UTF-8?q?Nicolai=20H=C3=A4hnle?= <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Keep the documentation in the header file since there is no good place
for it in mutex.c: there are two rather different implementations with
different EXPORT_SYMBOLs for each function.
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Hähnle <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: =?UTF-8?q?Nicolai=20H=C3=A4hnle?= <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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We will add a new field to struct mutex_waiter. This field must be
initialized for all waiters if any waiter uses the ww_use_ctx path.
So there is a trade-off: Keep ww_mutex locking without a context on
the faster non-use_ww_ctx path, at the cost of adding the
initialization to all mutex locks (including non-ww_mutexes), or avoid
the additional cost for non-ww_mutex locks, at the cost of adding
additional checks to the use_ww_ctx path.
We take the latter choice. It may be worth eliminating the users of
ww_mutex_lock(lock, NULL), but there are a lot of them.
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Hähnle <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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The function will be re-used in subsequent patches.
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Hähnle <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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While reviewing the ww_mutex patches, I noticed that it was still
possible to (incorrectly) succeed for (incorrect) code like:
mutex_lock(&a);
mutex_lock(&a);
This was possible if the second mutex_lock() would block (as expected)
but then receive a spurious wakeup. At that point it would find itself
at the front of the queue, request a handoff and instantly claim
ownership and continue, since owner would point to itself.
Avoid this scenario and simplify the code by introducing a third low
bit to signal handoff pickup. So once we request handoff, unlock
clears the handoff bit and sets the pickup bit along with the new
owner.
This also removes the need for the .handoff argument to
__mutex_trylock(), since that becomes superfluous with PICKUP.
In order to guarantee enough low bits, ensure task_struct alignment is
at least L1_CACHE_BYTES (which seems a good ideal regardless).
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Fixes: 9d659ae14b54 ("locking/mutex: Add lock handoff to avoid starvation")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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This is a nasty interface and setting the state of a foreign task must
not be done. As of the following commit:
be628be0956 ("bcache: Make gc wakeup sane, remove set_task_state()")
... everyone in the kernel calls set_task_state() with current, allowing
the helper to be removed.
However, as the comment indicates, it is still around for those archs
where computing current is more expensive than using a pointer, at least
in theory. An important arch that is affected is arm64, however this has
been addressed now [1] and performance is up to par making no difference
with either calls.
Of all the callers, if any, it's the locking bits that would care most
about this -- ie: we end up passing a tsk pointer to a lot of the lock
slowpath, and setting ->state on that. The following numbers are based
on two tests: a custom ad-hoc microbenchmark that just measures
latencies (for ~65 million calls) between get_task_state() vs
get_current_state().
Secondly for a higher overview, an unlink microbenchmark was used,
which pounds on a single file with open, close,unlink combos with
increasing thread counts (up to 4x ncpus). While the workload is quite
unrealistic, it does contend a lot on the inode mutex or now rwsem.
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
== 1. x86-64 ==
Avg runtime set_task_state(): 601 msecs
Avg runtime set_current_state(): 552 msecs
vanilla dirty
Hmean unlink1-processes-2 36089.26 ( 0.00%) 38977.33 ( 8.00%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-5 28555.01 ( 0.00%) 29832.55 ( 4.28%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-8 37323.75 ( 0.00%) 44974.57 ( 20.50%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-12 43571.88 ( 0.00%) 44283.01 ( 1.63%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-21 34431.52 ( 0.00%) 38284.45 ( 11.19%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-30 34813.26 ( 0.00%) 37975.17 ( 9.08%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-48 37048.90 ( 0.00%) 39862.78 ( 7.59%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-79 35630.01 ( 0.00%) 36855.30 ( 3.44%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-110 36115.85 ( 0.00%) 39843.91 ( 10.32%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-141 32546.96 ( 0.00%) 35418.52 ( 8.82%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-172 34674.79 ( 0.00%) 36899.21 ( 6.42%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-203 37303.11 ( 0.00%) 36393.04 ( -2.44%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-224 35712.13 ( 0.00%) 36685.96 ( 2.73%)
== 2. ppc64le ==
Avg runtime set_task_state(): 938 msecs
Avg runtime set_current_state: 940 msecs
vanilla dirty
Hmean unlink1-processes-2 19269.19 ( 0.00%) 30704.50 ( 59.35%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-5 20106.15 ( 0.00%) 21804.15 ( 8.45%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-8 17496.97 ( 0.00%) 17243.28 ( -1.45%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-12 14224.15 ( 0.00%) 17240.21 ( 21.20%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-21 14155.66 ( 0.00%) 15681.23 ( 10.78%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-30 14450.70 ( 0.00%) 15995.83 ( 10.69%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-48 16945.57 ( 0.00%) 16370.42 ( -3.39%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-79 15788.39 ( 0.00%) 14639.27 ( -7.28%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-110 14268.48 ( 0.00%) 14377.40 ( 0.76%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-141 14023.65 ( 0.00%) 16271.69 ( 16.03%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-172 13417.62 ( 0.00%) 16067.55 ( 19.75%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-203 15293.08 ( 0.00%) 15440.40 ( 0.96%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-234 13719.32 ( 0.00%) 16190.74 ( 18.01%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-265 16400.97 ( 0.00%) 16115.22 ( -1.74%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-296 14388.60 ( 0.00%) 16216.13 ( 12.70%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-320 15771.85 ( 0.00%) 15905.96 ( 0.85%)
x86-64 (known to be fast for get_current()/this_cpu_read_stable() caching)
and ppc64 (with paca) show similar improvements in the unlink microbenches.
The small delta for ppc64 (2ms), does not represent the gains on the unlink
runs. In the case of x86, there was a decent amount of variation in the
latency runs, but always within a 20 to 50ms increase), ppc was more constant.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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This patch effectively replaces the tsk pointer dereference
(which is obviously == current), to directly use get_current()
macro. This is to make the removal of setting foreign task
states smoother and painfully obvious. Performance win on some
archs such as x86-64 and ppc64. On a microbenchmark that calls
set_task_state() vs set_current_state() and an inode rwsem
pounding benchmark doing unlink:
== 1. x86-64 ==
Avg runtime set_task_state(): 601 msecs
Avg runtime set_current_state(): 552 msecs
vanilla dirty
Hmean unlink1-processes-2 36089.26 ( 0.00%) 38977.33 ( 8.00%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-5 28555.01 ( 0.00%) 29832.55 ( 4.28%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-8 37323.75 ( 0.00%) 44974.57 ( 20.50%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-12 43571.88 ( 0.00%) 44283.01 ( 1.63%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-21 34431.52 ( 0.00%) 38284.45 ( 11.19%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-30 34813.26 ( 0.00%) 37975.17 ( 9.08%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-48 37048.90 ( 0.00%) 39862.78 ( 7.59%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-79 35630.01 ( 0.00%) 36855.30 ( 3.44%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-110 36115.85 ( 0.00%) 39843.91 ( 10.32%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-141 32546.96 ( 0.00%) 35418.52 ( 8.82%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-172 34674.79 ( 0.00%) 36899.21 ( 6.42%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-203 37303.11 ( 0.00%) 36393.04 ( -2.44%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-224 35712.13 ( 0.00%) 36685.96 ( 2.73%)
== 2. ppc64le ==
Avg runtime set_task_state(): 938 msecs
Avg runtime set_current_state: 940 msecs
vanilla dirty
Hmean unlink1-processes-2 19269.19 ( 0.00%) 30704.50 ( 59.35%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-5 20106.15 ( 0.00%) 21804.15 ( 8.45%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-8 17496.97 ( 0.00%) 17243.28 ( -1.45%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-12 14224.15 ( 0.00%) 17240.21 ( 21.20%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-21 14155.66 ( 0.00%) 15681.23 ( 10.78%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-30 14450.70 ( 0.00%) 15995.83 ( 10.69%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-48 16945.57 ( 0.00%) 16370.42 ( -3.39%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-79 15788.39 ( 0.00%) 14639.27 ( -7.28%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-110 14268.48 ( 0.00%) 14377.40 ( 0.76%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-141 14023.65 ( 0.00%) 16271.69 ( 16.03%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-172 13417.62 ( 0.00%) 16067.55 ( 19.75%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-203 15293.08 ( 0.00%) 15440.40 ( 0.96%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-234 13719.32 ( 0.00%) 16190.74 ( 18.01%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-265 16400.97 ( 0.00%) 16115.22 ( -1.74%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-296 14388.60 ( 0.00%) 16216.13 ( 12.70%)
Hmean unlink1-processes-320 15771.85 ( 0.00%) 15905.96 ( 0.85%)
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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{mutex,rwsem}_spin_on_owner() when owner vCPU is preempted
An over-committed guest with more vCPUs than pCPUs has a heavy overload
in the two spin_on_owner. This blames on the lock holder preemption
issue.
Break out of the loop if the vCPU is preempted: if vcpu_is_preempted(cpu)
is true.
test-case:
perf record -a perf bench sched messaging -g 400 -p && perf report
before patch:
20.68% sched-messaging [kernel.vmlinux] [k] mutex_spin_on_owner
8.45% sched-messaging [kernel.vmlinux] [k] mutex_unlock
4.12% sched-messaging [kernel.vmlinux] [k] system_call
3.01% sched-messaging [kernel.vmlinux] [k] system_call_common
2.83% sched-messaging [kernel.vmlinux] [k] copypage_power7
2.64% sched-messaging [kernel.vmlinux] [k] rwsem_spin_on_owner
2.00% sched-messaging [kernel.vmlinux] [k] osq_lock
after patch:
9.99% sched-messaging [kernel.vmlinux] [k] mutex_unlock
5.28% sched-messaging [unknown] [H] 0xc0000000000768e0
4.27% sched-messaging [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __copy_tofrom_user_power7
3.77% sched-messaging [kernel.vmlinux] [k] copypage_power7
3.24% sched-messaging [kernel.vmlinux] [k] _raw_write_lock_irq
3.02% sched-messaging [kernel.vmlinux] [k] system_call
2.69% sched-messaging [kernel.vmlinux] [k] wait_consider_task
Tested-by: Juergen Gross <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Currently the wake_q data structure is defined by the WAKE_Q() macro.
This macro, however, looks like a function doing something as "wake" is
a verb. Even checkpatch.pl was confused as it reported warnings like
WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations
#548: FILE: kernel/futex.c:3665:
+ int ret;
+ WAKE_Q(wake_q);
This patch renames the WAKE_Q() macro to DEFINE_WAKE_Q() which clarifies
what the macro is doing and eliminates the checkpatch.pl warnings.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
[ Resolved conflict and added missing rename. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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With the s390 special case of a yielding cpu_relax() implementation gone,
we can now remove all users of cpu_relax_lowlatency() and replace them
with cpu_relax().
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <[email protected]>
Cc: Noam Camus <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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This patch makes the waiter that sets the HANDOFF flag start spinning
instead of sleeping until the handoff is complete or the owner
sleeps. Otherwise, the handoff will cause the optimistic spinners to
abort spinning as the handed-off owner may not be running.
Tested-by: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: Ding Tianhong <[email protected]>
Cc: Imre Deak <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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This patch removes some of the redundant ww_mutex code in
__mutex_lock_common().
Tested-by: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: Ding Tianhong <[email protected]>
Cc: Imre Deak <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Doesn't really matter yet, but pull the HANDOFF and trylock out from
under the wait_lock.
The intention is to add an optimistic spin loop here, which requires
we do not hold the wait_lock, so shuffle code around in preparation.
Also clarify the purpose of taking the wait_lock in the wait loop, its
tempting to want to avoid it altogether, but the cancellation cases
need to to avoid losing wakeups.
Suggested-by: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Implement lock handoff to avoid lock starvation.
Lock starvation is possible because mutex_lock() allows lock stealing,
where a running (or optimistic spinning) task beats the woken waiter
to the acquire.
Lock stealing is an important performance optimization because waiting
for a waiter to wake up and get runtime can take a significant time,
during which everyboy would stall on the lock.
The down-side is of course that it allows for starvation.
This patch has the waiter requesting a handoff if it fails to acquire
the lock upon waking. This re-introduces some of the wait time,
because once we do a handoff we have to wait for the waiter to wake up
again.
A future patch will add a round of optimistic spinning to attempt to
alleviate this penalty, but if that turns out to not be enough, we can
add a counter and only request handoff after multiple failed wakeups.
There are a few tricky implementation details:
- accepting a handoff must only be done in the wait-loop. Since the
handoff condition is owner == current, it can easily cause
recursive locking trouble.
- accepting the handoff must be careful to provide the ACQUIRE
semantics.
- having the HANDOFF bit set on unlock requires care, we must not
clear the owner.
- we must be careful to not leave HANDOFF set after we've acquired
the lock. The tricky scenario is setting the HANDOFF bit on an
unlocked mutex.
Tested-by: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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The current mutex implementation has an atomic lock word and a
non-atomic owner field.
This disparity leads to a number of issues with the current mutex code
as it means that we can have a locked mutex without an explicit owner
(because the owner field has not been set, or already cleared).
This leads to a number of weird corner cases, esp. between the
optimistic spinning and debug code. Where the optimistic spinning
code needs the owner field updated inside the lock region, the debug
code is more relaxed because the whole lock is serialized by the
wait_lock.
Also, the spinning code itself has a few corner cases where we need to
deal with a held lock without an owner field.
Furthermore, it becomes even more of a problem when trying to fix
starvation cases in the current code. We end up stacking special case
on special case.
To solve this rework the basic mutex implementation to be a single
atomic word that contains the owner and uses the low bits for extra
state.
This matches how PI futexes and rt_mutex already work. By having the
owner an integral part of the lock state a lot of the problems
dissapear and we get a better option to deal with starvation cases,
direct owner handoff.
Changing the basic mutex does however invalidate all the arch specific
mutex code; this patch leaves that unused in-place, a later patch will
remove that.
Tested-by: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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None of the code actually wants a thread_info, it all wants a
task_struct, and it's just converting back and forth between the two
("ti->task" to get the task_struct from the thread_info, and
"task_thread_info(task)" to go the other way).
No semantic change.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Recursive locking for ww_mutexes was originally conceived as an
exception. However, it is heavily used by the DRM atomic modesetting
code. Currently, the recursive deadlock is checked after we have queued
up for a busy-spin and as we never release the lock, we spin until
kicked, whereupon the deadlock is discovered and reported.
A simple solution for the now common problem is to move the recursive
deadlock discovery to the first action when taking the ww_mutex.
Suggested-by: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Make use of wake-queues and enable the wakeup to occur after releasing the
wait_lock. This is similar to what we do with rtmutex top waiter,
slightly shortening the critical region and allow other waiters to
acquire the wait_lock sooner. In low contention cases it can also help
the recently woken waiter to find the wait_lock available (fastpath)
when it continues execution.
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Ding Tianhong <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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As of 654672d4ba1 (locking/atomics: Add _{acquire|release|relaxed}()
variants of some atomic operations) and 6d79ef2d30e (locking, asm-generic:
Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for 'atomic_long_t'), weakly
ordered archs can benefit from more relaxed use of barriers when locking
and unlocking, instead of regular full barrier semantics. While currently
only arm64 supports such optimizations, updating corresponding locking
primitives serves for other archs to immediately benefit as well, once the
necessary machinery is implemented of course.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E.McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Similar to what Linus suggested for rwsem_spin_on_owner(), in
mutex_spin_on_owner() instead of having while (true) and
breaking out of the spin loop on lock->owner != owner, we can
have the loop directly check for while (lock->owner == owner) to
improve the readability of the code.
It also shrinks the code a bit:
text data bss dec hex filename
3721 0 0 3721 e89 mutex.o.before
3705 0 0 3705 e79 mutex.o.after
Signed-off-by: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <[email protected]>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
[ Added code generation info. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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With the new standardized functions, we can replace all
ACCESS_ONCE() calls across relevant locking - this includes
lockref and seqlock while at it.
ACCESS_ONCE() does not work reliably on non-scalar types.
For example gcc 4.6 and 4.7 might remove the volatile tag
for such accesses during the SRA (scalar replacement of
aggregates) step:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58145
Update the new calls regardless of if it is a scalar type,
this is cleaner than having three alternatives.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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In order to optimize the spinning step, we need to set the lock
owner as soon as the lock is acquired; after a successful counter
cmpxchg operation, that is. This is particularly useful as rwsems
need to set the owner to nil for readers, so there is a greater
chance of falling out of the spinning. Currently we only set the
owner much later in the game, in the more generic level -- latency
can be specially bad when waiting for a node->next pointer when
releasing the osq in up_write calls.
As such, update the owner inside rwsem_try_write_lock (when the
lock is obtained after blocking) and rwsem_try_write_lock_unqueued
(when the lock is obtained while spinning). This requires creating
a new internal rwsem.h header to share the owner related calls.
Also cleanup some headers for mutex and rwsem.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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As suggested by Davidlohr, we could refactor mutex_spin_on_owner().
Currently, we split up owner_running() with mutex_spin_on_owner().
When the owner changes, we make duplicate owner checks which are not
necessary. It also makes the code a bit obscure as we are using a
second check to figure out why we broke out of the loop.
This patch modifies it such that we remove the owner_running() function
and the mutex_spin_on_owner() loop directly checks for if the owner changes,
if the owner is not running, or if we need to reschedule. If the owner
changes, we break out of the loop and return true. If the owner is not
running or if we need to reschedule, then break out of the loop and return
false.
Suggested-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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In the mutex_spin_on_owner(), we return true only if lock->owner == NULL.
This was beneficial in situations where there were multiple threads
simultaneously spinning for the mutex. If another thread got the lock
while other spinner(s) were also doing mutex_spin_on_owner(), then the
other spinners would stop spinning. This workaround helped reduce the
chance that many spinners were simultaneously spinning for the mutex
which can help reduce contention in highly contended cases.
However, recent changes were made to the optimistic spinning code such
that instead of having all spinners simultaneously spin for the mutex,
we queue the spinners with an MCS lock such that only one thread spins
for the mutex at a time. Furthermore, the OSQ optimizations ensure that
spinners in the queue will stop waiting if it needs to reschedule.
Now, we don't have to worry about multiple threads spinning on owner
at the same time, and if lock->owner is not NULL at this point, it likely
means another thread happens to obtain the lock in the fastpath. In this
case, it would make sense for the spinner to continue spinning as long
as the spinner doesn't need to schedule and the mutex owner is running.
This patch changes this so that mutex_spin_on_owner() returns true when
the lock owner changes, which means a thread will only stop spinning
if it either needs to reschedule or if the lock owner is not running.
We saw up to a 5% performance improvement in the fserver workload with
this patch.
Signed-off-by: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main scheduler changes in this cycle were:
- various sched/deadline fixes and enhancements
- rescheduling latency fixes/cleanups
- rework the rq->clock code to be more consistent and more robust.
- minor micro-optimizations
- ->avg.decay_count fixes
- add a stack overflow check to might_sleep()
- idle-poll handler fix, possibly resulting in power savings
- misc smaller updates and fixes"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/Documentation: Remove unneeded word
sched/wait: Introduce wait_on_bit_timeout()
sched: Pull resched loop to __schedule() callers
sched/deadline: Remove cpu_active_mask from cpudl_find()
sched: Fix hrtick_start() on UP
sched/deadline: Avoid pointless __setscheduler()
sched/deadline: Fix stale yield state
sched/deadline: Fix hrtick for a non-leftmost task
sched/deadline: Modify cpudl::free_cpus to reflect rd->online
sched/idle: Add missing checks to the exit condition of cpu_idle_poll()
sched: Fix missing preemption opportunity
sched/rt: Reduce rq lock contention by eliminating locking of non-feasible target
sched/debug: Print rq->clock_task
sched/core: Rework rq->clock update skips
sched/core: Validate rq_clock*() serialization
sched/core: Remove check of p->sched_class
sched/fair: Fix sched_entity::avg::decay_count initialization
sched/debug: Fix potential call to __ffs(0) in sched_show_task()
sched/debug: Check for stack overflow in ___might_sleep()
sched/fair: Fix the dealing with decay_count in __synchronize_entity_decay()
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By the time we wake up and get the lock after being asleep
in the slowpath, we better be running. As good practice,
be explicit about this and avoid any mischief.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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The second 'mutex' shouldn't be there, it can't be about the mutex,
as the mutex can't be freed, but unlocked, the memory where the
mutex resides however, can be freed.
Signed-off-by: Sharon Dvir <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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... which is equivalent to the fastpath counter part.
This mainly allows getting some WW specific code out
of generic mutex paths.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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It serves much better if the comments are right before the osq_lock() call.
Also delete a useless comment.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Mark it so by renaming __mutex_lock_check_stamp().
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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We're going to make might_sleep() test for TASK_RUNNING, because
blocking without TASK_RUNNING will destroy the task state by setting
it to TASK_RUNNING.
There are a few occasions where its 'valid' to call blocking
primitives (and mutex_lock in particular) and not have TASK_RUNNING,
typically such cases are right before we set TASK_RUNNING anyhow.
Robustify the code by not assuming this; this has the beneficial side
effect of allowing optional code emission for fixing the above
might_sleep() false positives.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Specifically:
Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt
Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
Documentation/locking/mutex-design.txt
Documentation/locking/rt-mutex-design.txt
Documentation/locking/rt-mutex.txt
Documentation/locking/spinlocks.txt
Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Mason <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Streetman <[email protected]>
Cc: David Airlie <[email protected]>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Cc: Josef Bacik <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Lubomir Rintel <[email protected]>
Cc: Masanari Iida <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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When we fail to acquire the mutex in the fastpath, we end up calling
__mutex_lock_common(). A *lot* goes on in this function. Move out the
optimistic spinning code into mutex_optimistic_spin() and simplify
the former a bit. Furthermore, this is similar to what we have in
rwsems. No logical changes.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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When unlocking, we always want to reach the slowpath with the lock's counter
indicating it is unlocked. -- as returned by the asm fastpath call or by
explicitly setting it. While doing so, at least in theory, we can optimize
and allow faster lock stealing.
When unlocking, we always want to reach the slowpath with the lock's counter
indicating it is unlocked. -- as returned by the asm fastpath call or by
explicitly setting it. While doing so, at least in theory, we can optimize
and allow faster lock stealing.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Just how the locking-end behaves, when unlocking, go ahead and
obtain the proper data structure immediately after the previous
(asm-end) call exits and there are (probably) pending waiters.
This simplifies a bit some of the layering.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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The arch_mutex_cpu_relax() function, introduced by 34b133f, is
hacky and ugly. It was added a few years ago to address the fact
that common cpu_relax() calls include yielding on s390, and thus
impact the optimistic spinning functionality of mutexes. Nowadays
we use this function well beyond mutexes: rwsem, qrwlock, mcs and
lockref. Since the macro that defines the call is in the mutex header,
any users must include mutex.h and the naming is misleading as well.
This patch (i) renames the call to cpu_relax_lowlatency ("relax, but
only if you can do it with very low latency") and (ii) defines it in
each arch's asm/processor.h local header, just like for regular cpu_relax
functions. On all archs, except s390, cpu_relax_lowlatency is simply cpu_relax,
and thus we can take it out of mutex.h. While this can seem redundant,
I believe it is a good choice as it allows us to move out arch specific
logic from generic locking primitives and enables future(?) archs to
transparently define it, similarly to System Z.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <[email protected]>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>
Cc: Bharat Bhushan <[email protected]>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]>
Cc: Chen Liqin <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <[email protected]>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Zankel <[email protected]>
Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>
Cc: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Deepthi Dharwar <[email protected]>
Cc: Dominik Dingel <[email protected]>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <[email protected]>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <[email protected]>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <[email protected]>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Helge Deller <[email protected]>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <[email protected]>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <[email protected]>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <[email protected]>
Cc: James Hogan <[email protected]>
Cc: Jason Wang <[email protected]>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <[email protected]>
Cc: Joseph Myers <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <[email protected]>
Cc: Lennox Wu <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Salter <[email protected]>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <[email protected]>
Cc: Matt Turner <[email protected]>
Cc: Max Filippov <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Neuling <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Simek <[email protected]>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <[email protected]>
Cc: Nicolas Pitre <[email protected]>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Burton <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Qais Yousef <[email protected]>
Cc: Qiaowei Ren <[email protected]>
Cc: Rafael Wysocki <[email protected]>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>
Cc: Richard Kuo <[email protected]>
Cc: Russell King <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Miao <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Stratos Karafotis <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: Tony Luck <[email protected]>
Cc: Vasily Kulikov <[email protected]>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <[email protected]>
Cc: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Cc: Will Deacon <[email protected]>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
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Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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changes and to refresh the branch with fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Currently, we initialize the osq lock by directly setting the lock's values. It
would be preferable if we use an init macro to do the initialization like we do
with other locks.
This patch introduces and uses a macro and function for initializing the osq lock.
Signed-off-by: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Scott Norton <[email protected]>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
Cc: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Mason <[email protected]>
Cc: Josef Bacik <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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The cancellable MCS spinlock is currently used to queue threads that are
doing optimistic spinning. It uses per-cpu nodes, where a thread obtaining
the lock would access and queue the local node corresponding to the CPU that
it's running on. Currently, the cancellable MCS lock is implemented by using
pointers to these nodes.
In this patch, instead of operating on pointers to the per-cpu nodes, we
store the CPU numbers in which the per-cpu nodes correspond to in atomic_t.
A similar concept is used with the qspinlock.
By operating on the CPU # of the nodes using atomic_t instead of pointers
to those nodes, this can reduce the overhead of the cancellable MCS spinlock
by 32 bits (on 64 bit systems).
Signed-off-by: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Scott Norton <[email protected]>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>
Cc: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <[email protected]>
Cc: Tim Chen <[email protected]>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <[email protected]>
Cc: Aswin Chandramouleeswaran <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Chris Mason <[email protected]>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Cc: Josef Bacik <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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The mutex_trylock() function calls into __mutex_trylock_fastpath() when
trying to obtain the mutex. On 32 bit x86, in the !__HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG
case, __mutex_trylock_fastpath() calls directly into __mutex_trylock_slowpath()
regardless of whether or not the mutex is locked.
In __mutex_trylock_slowpath(), we then acquire the wait_lock spinlock, xchg()
lock->count with -1, then set lock->count back to 0 if there are no waiters,
and return true if the prev lock count was 1.
However, if the mutex is already locked, then there isn't much point
in attempting all of the above expensive operations. In this patch, we only
attempt the above trylock operations if the mutex is unlocked.
Signed-off-by: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Upon entering the slowpath in __mutex_lock_common(), we try once more to
acquire the mutex. We only try to acquire if (lock->count >= 0). However,
what we actually want here is to try to acquire if the mutex is unlocked
(lock->count == 1).
This patch changes it so that we only try-acquire the mutex upon entering
the slowpath if it is unlocked, rather than if the lock count is non-negative.
This helps further reduce unnecessary atomic xchg() operations.
Furthermore, this patch uses !mutex_is_locked(lock) to do the initial
checks for if the lock is free rather than directly calling atomic_read()
on the lock->count, in order to improve readability.
Signed-off-by: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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MUTEX_SHOW_NO_WAITER() is a macro which checks for if there are
"no waiters" on a mutex by checking if the lock count is non-negative.
Based on feedback from the discussion in the earlier version of this
patchset, the macro is not very readable.
Furthermore, checking lock->count isn't always the correct way to
determine if there are "no waiters" on a mutex. For example, a negative
count on a mutex really only means that there "potentially" are
waiters. Likewise, there can be waiters on the mutex even if the count is
non-negative. Thus, "MUTEX_SHOW_NO_WAITER" doesn't always do what the name
of the macro suggests.
So this patch deletes the MUTEX_SHOW_NO_WAITERS() macro, directly
use atomic_read() instead of the macro, and adds comments which
elaborate on how the extra atomic_read() checks can help reduce
unnecessary xchg() operations.
Signed-off-by: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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The mutex optimistic spinning documentation states that we spin for
acquisition when we find that there are no pending waiters. However,
in actuality, whether or not there are waiters for the mutex doesn't
determine if we will spin for it.
This patch removes that statement and also adds a comment which
mentions that we spin for the mutex while we don't need to reschedule.
Signed-off-by: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 LTO changes from Peter Anvin:
"More infrastructure work in preparation for link-time optimization
(LTO). Most of these changes is to make sure symbols accessed from
assembly code are properly marked as visible so the linker doesn't
remove them.
My understanding is that the changes to support LTO are still not
upstream in binutils, but are on the way there. This patchset should
conclude the x86-specific changes, and remaining patches to actually
enable LTO will be fed through the Kbuild tree (other than keeping up
with changes to the x86 code base, of course), although not
necessarily in this merge window"
* 'x86-asmlinkage-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (25 commits)
Kbuild, lto: Handle basic LTO in modpost
Kbuild, lto: Disable LTO for asm-offsets.c
Kbuild, lto: Add a gcc-ld script to let run gcc as ld
Kbuild, lto: add ld-version and ld-ifversion macros
Kbuild, lto: Drop .number postfixes in modpost
Kbuild, lto, workaround: Don't warn for initcall_reference in modpost
lto: Disable LTO for sys_ni
lto: Handle LTO common symbols in module loader
lto, workaround: Add workaround for initcall reordering
lto: Make asmlinkage __visible
x86, lto: Disable LTO for the x86 VDSO
initconst, x86: Fix initconst mistake in ts5500 code
initconst: Fix initconst mistake in dcdbas
asmlinkage: Make trace_hardirqs_on/off_caller visible
asmlinkage, x86: Fix 32bit memcpy for LTO
asmlinkage Make __stack_chk_failed and memcmp visible
asmlinkage: Mark rwsem functions that can be called from assembler asmlinkage
asmlinkage: Make main_extable_sort_needed visible
asmlinkage, mutex: Mark __visible
asmlinkage: Make trace_hardirq visible
...
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OK, so commit:
1d8fe7dc8078 ("locking/mutexes: Unlock the mutex without the wait_lock")
generates this boot warning when CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 139 at /usr/src/linux-2.6/kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c:82 debug_mutex_unlock+0x155/0x180() DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(lock->owner != current)
And that makes sense, because as soon as we release the lock a
new owner can come in...
One would think that !__mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock()
implementations suffer the same, but for DEBUG we fall back to
mutex-null.h which has an unconditional 1 for that.
The mutex debug code requires the mutex to be unlocked after
doing the debug checks, otherwise it can find inconsistent
state.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Add in an extra reschedule in an attempt to avoid getting reschedule
the moment we've acquired the lock.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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Since we want a task waiting for a mutex_lock() to go to sleep and
reschedule on need_resched() we must be able to abort the
mcs_spin_lock() around the adaptive spin.
Therefore implement a cancelable mcs lock.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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When running workloads that have high contention in mutexes on an 8 socket
machine, mutex spinners would often spin for a long time with no lock owner.
The main reason why this is occuring is in __mutex_unlock_common_slowpath(),
if __mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock(), then the owner needs to acquire the
mutex->wait_lock before releasing the mutex (setting lock->count to 1). When
the wait_lock is contended, this delays the mutex from being released.
We should be able to release the mutex without holding the wait_lock.
Signed-off-by: Jason Low <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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