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Dmitry Vyukov 5c9a8750a6 kernel: add kcov code coverage
kcov provides code coverage collection for coverage-guided fuzzing
(randomized testing).  Coverage-guided fuzzing is a testing technique
that uses coverage feedback to determine new interesting inputs to a
system.  A notable user-space example is AFL
(http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).  However, this technique is not
widely used for kernel testing due to missing compiler and kernel
support.

kcov does not aim to collect as much coverage as possible.  It aims to
collect more or less stable coverage that is function of syscall inputs.
To achieve this goal it does not collect coverage in soft/hard
interrupts and instrumentation of some inherently non-deterministic or
non-interesting parts of kernel is disbled (e.g.  scheduler, locking).

Currently there is a single coverage collection mode (tracing), but the
API anticipates additional collection modes.  Initially I also
implemented a second mode which exposes coverage in a fixed-size hash
table of counters (what Quentin used in his original patch).  I've
dropped the second mode for simplicity.

This patch adds the necessary support on kernel side.  The complimentary
compiler support was added in gcc revision 231296.

We've used this support to build syzkaller system call fuzzer, which has
found 90 kernel bugs in just 2 months:

  https://github.com/google/syzkaller/wiki/Found-Bugs

We've also found 30+ bugs in our internal systems with syzkaller.
Another (yet unexplored) direction where kcov coverage would greatly
help is more traditional "blob mutation".  For example, mounting a
random blob as a filesystem, or receiving a random blob over wire.

Why not gcov.  Typical fuzzing loop looks as follows: (1) reset
coverage, (2) execute a bit of code, (3) collect coverage, repeat.  A
typical coverage can be just a dozen of basic blocks (e.g.  an invalid
input).  In such context gcov becomes prohibitively expensive as
reset/collect coverage steps depend on total number of basic
blocks/edges in program (in case of kernel it is about 2M).  Cost of
kcov depends only on number of executed basic blocks/edges.  On top of
that, kernel requires per-thread coverage because there are always
background threads and unrelated processes that also produce coverage.
With inlined gcov instrumentation per-thread coverage is not possible.

kcov exposes kernel PCs and control flow to user-space which is
insecure.  But debugfs should not be mapped as user accessible.

Based on a patch by Quentin Casasnovas.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make task_struct.kcov_mode have type `enum kcov_mode']
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: unbreak allmodconfig]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: follow x86 Makefile layout standards]
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: syzkaller <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Cc: Kostya Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-22 15:36:02 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 25528213fe tags: Fix DEFINE_PER_CPU expansions
$ make tags
  GEN     tags
ctags: Warning: drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c:64: null expansion of name pattern "\1"
ctags: Warning: drivers/xen/events/events_2l.c:41: null expansion of name pattern "\1"
ctags: Warning: kernel/locking/lockdep.c:151: null expansion of name pattern "\1"
ctags: Warning: kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c:133: null expansion of name pattern "\1"
ctags: Warning: kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c:135: null expansion of name pattern "\1"
ctags: Warning: kernel/workqueue.c:323: null expansion of name pattern "\1"
ctags: Warning: net/ipv4/syncookies.c:53: null expansion of name pattern "\1"
ctags: Warning: net/ipv6/syncookies.c:44: null expansion of name pattern "\1"
ctags: Warning: net/rds/page.c:45: null expansion of name pattern "\1"

Which are all the result of the DEFINE_PER_CPU pattern:

  scripts/tags.sh:200:	'/\<DEFINE_PER_CPU([^,]*, *\([[:alnum:]_]*\)/\1/v/'
  scripts/tags.sh:201:	'/\<DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED([^,]*, *\([[:alnum:]_]*\)/\1/v/'

The below cures them. All except the workqueue one are within reasonable
distance of the 80 char limit. TJ do you have any preference on how to
fix the wq one, or shall we just not care its too long?

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
Ingo Molnar 9e4e7554e7 locking/lockdep: Detect chain_key collisions
Add detection for chain_key collision under CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCKDEP.
When a collision is detected the problem is reported and all lock
debugging is turned off.

Tested using liblockdep and the added tests before and after
applying the fix, confirming both that the code added for the
detection correctly reports the problem and that the fix actually
fixes it.

Tested tweaking lockdep to generate false collisions and
verified that the problem is reported and that lock debugging is
turned off.

Also tested with lockdep's test suite after applying the patch:

    [    0.000000] Good, all 253 testcases passed! |

Signed-off-by: Alfredo Alvarez Fernandez <alfredoalvarezernandez@gmail.com>
Cc: Alfredo Alvarez Fernandez <alfredoalvarezfernandez@gmail.com>
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: sasha.levin@oracle.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455864533-7536-4-git-send-email-alfredoalvarezernandez@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-29 10:32:29 +01:00
Alfredo Alvarez Fernandez 5f18ab5c6b locking/lockdep: Prevent chain_key collisions
The chain_key hashing macro iterate_chain_key(key1, key2) does not
generate a new different value if both key1 and key2 are 0. In that
case the generated value is again 0. This can lead to collisions which
can result in lockdep not detecting deadlocks or circular
dependencies.

Avoid the problem by using class_idx (1-based) instead of class id
(0-based) as an input for the hashing macro 'key2' in
iterate_chain_key(key1, key2).

The use of class id created collisions in cases like the following:

1.- Consider an initial state in which no class has been acquired yet.
Under these circumstances an AA deadlock will not be detected by
lockdep:

  lock  [key1,key2]->new key  (key1=old chain_key, key2=id)
  --------------------------
  A     [0,0]->0
  A     [0,0]->0 (collision)

  The newly generated chain_key collides with the one used before and as
  a result the check for a deadlock is skipped

  A simple test using liblockdep and a pthread mutex confirms the
  problem: (omitting stack traces)

    new class 0xe15038: 0x7ffc64950f20
    acquire class [0xe15038] 0x7ffc64950f20
    acquire class [0xe15038] 0x7ffc64950f20
    hash chain already cached, key: 0000000000000000 tail class:
    [0xe15038] 0x7ffc64950f20

2.- Consider an ABBA in 2 different tasks and no class yet acquired.

  T1 [key1,key2]->new key     T2[key1,key2]->new key
  --                          --
  A [0,0]->0

                              B [0,1]->1

  B [0,1]->1  (collision)

                              A

In this case the collision prevents lockdep from creating the new
dependency A->B. This in turn results in lockdep not detecting the
circular dependency when T2 acquires A.

Signed-off-by: Alfredo Alvarez Fernandez <alfredoalvarezernandez@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: sasha.levin@oracle.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455147212-2389-4-git-send-email-alfredoalvarezernandez@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-29 10:32:29 +01:00
Davidlohr Bueso 1329ce6fbb locking/mutex: Allow next waiter lockless wakeup
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 <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hpe.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160125022343.GA3322@linux-uzut.site
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-29 10:02:42 +01:00
Waiman Long 32d62510f9 locking/pvqspinlock: Enable slowpath locking count tracking
This patch enables the tracking of the number of slowpath locking
operations performed. This can be used to compare against the number
of lock stealing operations to see what percentage of locks are stolen
versus acquired via the regular slowpath.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hpe.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hpe.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1449778666-13593-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-29 10:02:42 +01:00
Waiman Long cb037fdad6 locking/qspinlock: Use smp_cond_acquire() in pending code
The newly introduced smp_cond_acquire() was used to replace the
slowpath lock acquisition loop. Similarly, the new function can also
be applied to the pending bit locking loop. This patch uses the new
function in that loop.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hpe.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hpe.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1449778666-13593-1-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-29 10:02:42 +01:00
Waiman Long eaff0e7003 locking/pvqspinlock: Move lock stealing count tracking code into pv_queued_spin_steal_lock()
This patch moves the lock stealing count tracking code into
pv_queued_spin_steal_lock() instead of via a jacket function simplifying
the code.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hpe.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hpe.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1449778666-13593-3-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-29 10:02:41 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 920c720aa5 locking/mcs: Fix mcs_spin_lock() ordering
Similar to commit b4b29f9485 ("locking/osq: Fix ordering of node
initialisation in osq_lock") the use of xchg_acquire() is
fundamentally broken with MCS like constructs.

Furthermore, it turns out we rely on the global transitivity of this
operation because the unlock path observes the pointer with a
READ_ONCE(), not an smp_load_acquire().

This is non-critical because the MCS code isn't actually used and
mostly serves as documentation, a stepping stone to the more complex
things we've build on top of the idea.

Reported-by: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@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>
Fixes: 3552a07a9c ("locking/mcs: Use acquire/release semantics")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-29 10:02:41 +01:00
Andrey Ryabinin 06bea3dbfe locking/lockdep: Eliminate lockdep_init()
Lockdep is initialized at compile time now.  Get rid of lockdep_init().

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Krinkin <krinkin.m.u@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-09 12:03:25 +01:00
Andrew Morton a63f38cc4c locking/lockdep: Convert hash tables to hlists
Mike said:

: CONFIG_UBSAN_ALIGNMENT breaks x86-64 kernel with lockdep enabled, i.e.
: kernel with CONFIG_UBSAN_ALIGNMENT=y fails to load without even any error
: message.
:
: The problem is that ubsan callbacks use spinlocks and might be called
: before lockdep is initialized.  Particularly this line in the
: reserve_ebda_region function causes problem:
:
: lowmem = *(unsigned short *)__va(BIOS_LOWMEM_KILOBYTES);
:
: If i put lockdep_init() before reserve_ebda_region call in
: x86_64_start_reservations kernel loads well.

Fix this ordering issue permanently: change lockdep so that it uses hlists
for the hash tables.  Unlike a list_head, an hlist_head is in its
initialized state when it is all-zeroes, so lockdep is ready for operation
immediately upon boot - lockdep_init() need not have run.

The patch will also save some memory.

Probably lockdep_init() and lockdep_initialized can be done away with now.

Suggested-by: Mike Krinkin <krinkin.m.u@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Mike Krinkin <krinkin.m.u@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
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: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-09 12:03:25 +01:00
Dmitry Vyukov 8a5fd56431 locking/lockdep: Fix stack trace caching logic
check_prev_add() caches saved stack trace in static trace variable
to avoid duplicate save_trace() calls in dependencies involving trylocks.
But that caching logic contains a bug. We may not save trace on first
iteration due to early return from check_prev_add(). Then on the
second iteration when we actually need the trace we don't save it
because we think that we've already saved it.

Let check_prev_add() itself control when stack is saved.

There is another bug. Trace variable is protected by graph lock.
But we can temporary release graph lock during printing.

Fix this by invalidating cached stack trace when we release graph lock.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
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: glider@google.com
Cc: kcc@google.com
Cc: peter@hurleysoftware.com
Cc: sasha.levin@oracle.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454593240-121647-1-git-send-email-dvyukov@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-09 11:06:08 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner b4abf91047 rtmutex: Make wait_lock irq safe
Sasha reported a lockdep splat about a potential deadlock between RCU boosting
rtmutex and the posix timer it_lock.

CPU0					CPU1

rtmutex_lock(&rcu->rt_mutex)
  spin_lock(&rcu->rt_mutex.wait_lock)
					local_irq_disable()
					spin_lock(&timer->it_lock)
					spin_lock(&rcu->mutex.wait_lock)
--> Interrupt
    spin_lock(&timer->it_lock)

This is caused by the following code sequence on CPU1

     rcu_read_lock()
     x = lookup();
     if (x)
     	spin_lock_irqsave(&x->it_lock);
     rcu_read_unlock();
     return x;

We could fix that in the posix timer code by keeping rcu read locked across
the spinlocked and irq disabled section, but the above sequence is common and
there is no reason not to support it.

Taking rt_mutex.wait_lock irq safe prevents the deadlock.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-01-26 11:08:35 +01:00
Linus Torvalds 24af98c4cf Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "So we have a laundry list of locking subsystem changes:

   - continuing barrier API and code improvements

   - futex enhancements

   - atomics API improvements

   - pvqspinlock enhancements: in particular lock stealing and adaptive
     spinning

   - qspinlock micro-enhancements"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  futex: Allow FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME with FUTEX_WAIT op
  futex: Cleanup the goto confusion in requeue_pi()
  futex: Remove pointless put_pi_state calls in requeue()
  futex: Document pi_state refcounting in requeue code
  futex: Rename free_pi_state() to put_pi_state()
  futex: Drop refcount if requeue_pi() acquired the rtmutex
  locking/barriers, arch: Remove ambiguous statement in the smp_store_mb() documentation
  lcoking/barriers, arch: Use smp barriers in smp_store_release()
  locking/cmpxchg, arch: Remove tas() definitions
  locking/pvqspinlock: Queue node adaptive spinning
  locking/pvqspinlock: Allow limited lock stealing
  locking/pvqspinlock: Collect slowpath lock statistics
  sched/core, locking: Document Program-Order guarantees
  locking, sched: Introduce smp_cond_acquire() and use it
  locking/pvqspinlock, x86: Optimize the PV unlock code path
  locking/qspinlock: Avoid redundant read of next pointer
  locking/qspinlock: Prefetch the next node cacheline
  locking/qspinlock: Use _acquire/_release() versions of cmpxchg() & xchg()
  atomics: Add test for atomic operations with _relaxed variants
2016-01-11 14:18:38 -08:00
Will Deacon b4b29f9485 locking/osq: Fix ordering of node initialisation in osq_lock
The Cavium guys reported a soft lockup on their arm64 machine, caused by
commit c55a6ffa62 ("locking/osq: Relax atomic semantics"):

    mutex_optimistic_spin+0x9c/0x1d0
    __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x44/0x158
    mutex_lock+0x54/0x58
    kernfs_iop_permission+0x38/0x70
    __inode_permission+0x88/0xd8
    inode_permission+0x30/0x6c
    link_path_walk+0x68/0x4d4
    path_openat+0xb4/0x2bc
    do_filp_open+0x74/0xd0
    do_sys_open+0x14c/0x228
    SyS_openat+0x3c/0x48
    el0_svc_naked+0x24/0x28

This is because in osq_lock we initialise the node for the current CPU:

    node->locked = 0;
    node->next = NULL;
    node->cpu = curr;

and then publish the current CPU in the lock tail:

    old = atomic_xchg_acquire(&lock->tail, curr);

Once the update to lock->tail is visible to another CPU, the node is
then live and can be both read and updated by concurrent lockers.

Unfortunately, the ACQUIRE semantics of the xchg operation mean that
there is no guarantee the contents of the node will be visible before
lock tail is updated.  This can lead to lock corruption when, for
example, a concurrent locker races to set the next field.

Fixes: c55a6ffa62 ("locking/osq: Relax atomic semantics"):
Reported-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Reported-by: Andrew Pinski <andrew.pinski@caviumnetworks.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Pinski <andrew.pinski@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1449856001-21177-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-12-17 11:40:29 -08:00
Waiman Long cd0272fab7 locking/pvqspinlock: Queue node adaptive spinning
In an overcommitted guest where some vCPUs have to be halted to make
forward progress in other areas, it is highly likely that a vCPU later
in the spinlock queue will be spinning while the ones earlier in the
queue would have been halted. The spinning in the later vCPUs is then
just a waste of precious CPU cycles because they are not going to
get the lock soon as the earlier ones have to be woken up and take
their turn to get the lock.

This patch implements an adaptive spinning mechanism where the vCPU
will call pv_wait() if the previous vCPU is not running.

Linux kernel builds were run in KVM guest on an 8-socket, 4
cores/socket Westmere-EX system and a 4-socket, 8 cores/socket
Haswell-EX system. Both systems are configured to have 32 physical
CPUs. The kernel build times before and after the patch were:

		    Westmere			Haswell
  Patch		32 vCPUs    48 vCPUs	32 vCPUs    48 vCPUs
  -----		--------    --------    --------    --------
  Before patch   3m02.3s     5m00.2s     1m43.7s     3m03.5s
  After patch    3m03.0s     4m37.5s	 1m43.0s     2m47.2s

For 32 vCPUs, this patch doesn't cause any noticeable change in
performance. For 48 vCPUs (over-committed), there is about 8%
performance improvement.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hpe.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hpe.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447114167-47185-8-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-12-04 11:39:51 +01:00
Waiman Long 1c4941fd53 locking/pvqspinlock: Allow limited lock stealing
This patch allows one attempt for the lock waiter to steal the lock
when entering the PV slowpath. To prevent lock starvation, the pending
bit will be set by the queue head vCPU when it is in the active lock
spinning loop to disable any lock stealing attempt.  This helps to
reduce the performance penalty caused by lock waiter preemption while
not having much of the downsides of a real unfair lock.

The pv_wait_head() function was renamed as pv_wait_head_or_lock()
as it was modified to acquire the lock before returning. This is
necessary because of possible lock stealing attempts from other tasks.

Linux kernel builds were run in KVM guest on an 8-socket, 4
cores/socket Westmere-EX system and a 4-socket, 8 cores/socket
Haswell-EX system. Both systems are configured to have 32 physical
CPUs. The kernel build times before and after the patch were:

                    Westmere                    Haswell
  Patch         32 vCPUs    48 vCPUs    32 vCPUs    48 vCPUs
  -----         --------    --------    --------    --------
  Before patch   3m15.6s    10m56.1s     1m44.1s     5m29.1s
  After patch    3m02.3s     5m00.2s     1m43.7s     3m03.5s

For the overcommited case (48 vCPUs), this patch is able to reduce
kernel build time by more than 54% for Westmere and 44% for Haswell.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hpe.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hpe.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447190336-53317-1-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-12-04 11:39:51 +01:00
Waiman Long 45e898b735 locking/pvqspinlock: Collect slowpath lock statistics
This patch enables the accumulation of kicking and waiting related
PV qspinlock statistics when the new QUEUED_LOCK_STAT configuration
option is selected. It also enables the collection of data which
enable us to calculate the kicking and wakeup latencies which have
a heavy dependency on the CPUs being used.

The statistical counters are per-cpu variables to minimize the
performance overhead in their updates. These counters are exported
via the debugfs filesystem under the qlockstat directory.  When the
corresponding debugfs files are read, summation and computing of the
required data are then performed.

The measured latencies for different CPUs are:

	CPU		Wakeup		Kicking
	---		------		-------
	Haswell-EX	63.6us		 7.4us
	Westmere-EX	67.6us		 9.3us

The measured latencies varied a bit from run-to-run. The wakeup
latency is much higher than the kicking latency.

A sample of statistical counters after system bootup (with vCPU
overcommit) was:

	pv_hash_hops=1.00
	pv_kick_unlock=1148
	pv_kick_wake=1146
	pv_latency_kick=11040
	pv_latency_wake=194840
	pv_spurious_wakeup=7
	pv_wait_again=4
	pv_wait_head=23
	pv_wait_node=1129

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hpe.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hpe.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447114167-47185-6-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-12-04 11:39:50 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra b3e0b1b6d8 locking, sched: Introduce smp_cond_acquire() and use it
Introduce smp_cond_acquire() which combines a control dependency and a
read barrier to form acquire semantics.

This primitive has two benefits:

 - it documents control dependencies,
 - its typically cheaper than using smp_load_acquire() in a loop.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-12-04 10:33:41 +01:00
Waiman Long d78045306c locking/pvqspinlock, x86: Optimize the PV unlock code path
The unlock function in queued spinlocks was optimized for better
performance on bare metal systems at the expense of virtualized guests.

For x86-64 systems, the unlock call needs to go through a
PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK() which saves and restores 8 64-bit
registers before calling the real __pv_queued_spin_unlock()
function. The thunk code may also be in a separate cacheline from
__pv_queued_spin_unlock().

This patch optimizes the PV unlock code path by:

 1) Moving the unlock slowpath code from the fastpath into a separate
    __pv_queued_spin_unlock_slowpath() function to make the fastpath
    as simple as possible..

 2) For x86-64, hand-coded an assembly function to combine the register
    saving thunk code with the fastpath code. Only registers that
    are used in the fastpath will be saved and restored. If the
    fastpath fails, the slowpath function will be called via another
    PV_CALLEE_SAVE_REGS_THUNK(). For 32-bit, it falls back to the C
    __pv_queued_spin_unlock() code as the thunk saves and restores
    only one 32-bit register.

With a microbenchmark of 5M lock-unlock loop, the table below shows
the execution times before and after the patch with different number
of threads in a VM running on a 32-core Westmere-EX box with x86-64
4.2-rc1 based kernels:

  Threads	Before patch	After patch	% Change
  -------	------------	-----------	--------
     1		   134.1 ms	  119.3 ms	  -11%
     2		   1286  ms	   953  ms	  -26%
     3		   3715  ms	  3480  ms	  -6.3%
     4		   4092  ms	  3764  ms	  -8.0%

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hpe.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hpe.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447114167-47185-5-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-11-23 10:02:02 +01:00
Waiman Long aa68744f80 locking/qspinlock: Avoid redundant read of next pointer
With optimistic prefetch of the next node cacheline, the next pointer
may have been properly inititalized. As a result, the reading
of node->next in the contended path may be redundant. This patch
eliminates the redundant read if the next pointer value is not NULL.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hpe.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hpe.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447114167-47185-4-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-11-23 10:02:00 +01:00
Waiman Long 81b5598665 locking/qspinlock: Prefetch the next node cacheline
A queue head CPU, after acquiring the lock, will have to notify
the next CPU in the wait queue that it has became the new queue
head. This involves loading a new cacheline from the MCS node of the
next CPU. That operation can be expensive and add to the latency of
locking operation.

This patch addes code to optmistically prefetch the next MCS node
cacheline if the next pointer is defined and it has been spinning
for the MCS lock for a while. This reduces the locking latency and
improves the system throughput.

The performance change will depend on whether the prefetch overhead
can be hidden within the latency of the lock spin loop. On really
short critical section, there may not be performance gain at all. With
longer critical section, however, it was found to have a performance
boost of 5-10% over a range of different queue depths with a spinlock
loop microbenchmark.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hpe.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hpe.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447114167-47185-3-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-11-23 10:01:59 +01:00
Waiman Long 64d816cba0 locking/qspinlock: Use _acquire/_release() versions of cmpxchg() & xchg()
This patch replaces the cmpxchg() and xchg() calls in the native
qspinlock code with the more relaxed _acquire or _release versions of
those calls to enable other architectures to adopt queued spinlocks
with less memory barrier performance overhead.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hpe.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hpe.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1447114167-47185-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-11-23 10:01:58 +01:00
Peter Zijlstra 90eec103b9 treewide: Remove old email address
There were still a number of references to my old Red Hat email
address in the kernel source. Remove these while keeping the
Red Hat copyright notices intact.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-11-23 09:44:58 +01:00
Mel Gorman d0164adc89 mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd
__GFP_WAIT has been used to identify atomic context in callers that hold
spinlocks or are in interrupts.  They are expected to be high priority and
have access one of two watermarks lower than "min" which can be referred
to as the "atomic reserve".  __GFP_HIGH users get access to the first
lower watermark and can be called the "high priority reserve".

Over time, callers had a requirement to not block when fallback options
were available.  Some have abused __GFP_WAIT leading to a situation where
an optimisitic allocation with a fallback option can access atomic
reserves.

This patch uses __GFP_ATOMIC to identify callers that are truely atomic,
cannot sleep and have no alternative.  High priority users continue to use
__GFP_HIGH.  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM identifies callers that can sleep and
are willing to enter direct reclaim.  __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to identify
callers that want to wake kswapd for background reclaim.  __GFP_WAIT is
redefined as a caller that is willing to enter direct reclaim and wake
kswapd for background reclaim.

This patch then converts a number of sites

o __GFP_ATOMIC is used by callers that are high priority and have memory
  pools for those requests. GFP_ATOMIC uses this flag.

o Callers that have a limited mempool to guarantee forward progress clear
  __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM but keep __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. bio allocations fall
  into this category where kswapd will still be woken but atomic reserves
  are not used as there is a one-entry mempool to guarantee progress.

o Callers that are checking if they are non-blocking should use the
  helper gfpflags_allow_blocking() where possible. This is because
  checking for __GFP_WAIT as was done historically now can trigger false
  positives. Some exceptions like dm-crypt.c exist where the code intent
  is clearer if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is used instead of the helper due to
  flag manipulations.

o Callers that built their own GFP flags instead of starting with GFP_KERNEL
  and friends now also need to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.

The first key hazard to watch out for is callers that removed __GFP_WAIT
and was depending on access to atomic reserves for inconspicuous reasons.
In some cases it may be appropriate for them to use __GFP_HIGH.

The second key hazard is callers that assembled their own combination of
GFP flags instead of starting with something like GFP_KERNEL.  They may
now wish to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.  It's almost certainly harmless
if it's missed in most cases as other activity will wake kswapd.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 53528695ff Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - sched/fair load tracking fixes and cleanups (Byungchul Park)

   - Make load tracking frequency scale invariant (Dietmar Eggemann)

   - sched/deadline updates (Juri Lelli)

   - stop machine fixes, cleanups and enhancements for bugs triggered by
     CPU hotplug stress testing (Oleg Nesterov)

   - scheduler preemption code rework: remove PREEMPT_ACTIVE and related
     cleanups (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Rework the sched_info::run_delay code to fix races (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Optimize per entity utilization tracking (Peter Zijlstra)

   - ... misc other fixes, cleanups and smaller updates"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (57 commits)
  sched: Don't scan all-offline ->cpus_allowed twice if !CONFIG_CPUSETS
  sched: Move cpu_active() tests from stop_two_cpus() into migrate_swap_stop()
  sched: Start stopper early
  stop_machine: Kill cpu_stop_threads->setup() and cpu_stop_unpark()
  stop_machine: Kill smp_hotplug_thread->pre_unpark, introduce stop_machine_unpark()
  stop_machine: Change cpu_stop_queue_two_works() to rely on stopper->enabled
  stop_machine: Introduce __cpu_stop_queue_work() and cpu_stop_queue_two_works()
  stop_machine: Ensure that a queued callback will be called before cpu_stop_park()
  sched/x86: Fix typo in __switch_to() comments
  sched/core: Remove a parameter in the migrate_task_rq() function
  sched/core: Drop unlikely behind BUG_ON()
  sched/core: Fix task and run queue sched_info::run_delay inconsistencies
  sched/numa: Fix task_tick_fair() from disabling numa_balancing
  sched/core: Add preempt_count invariant check
  sched/core: More notrace annotations
  sched/core: Kill PREEMPT_ACTIVE
  sched/core, sched/x86: Kill thread_info::saved_preempt_count
  sched/core: Simplify preempt_count tests
  sched/core: Robustify preemption leak checks
  sched/core: Stop setting PREEMPT_ACTIVE
  ...
2015-11-03 18:03:50 -08:00
Linus Torvalds d63a978865 Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - More gradual enhancements to atomic ops: new atomic*_read_ctrl()
     ops, synchronize atomic_{read,set}() ordering requirements between
     architectures, add atomic_long_t bitops.  (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for inc/dec atomics and
     use them in various locking primitives: mutex, rtmutex, mcs, rwsem.
     This enables weakly ordered architectures (such as arm64) to make
     use of more locking related optimizations.  (Davidlohr Bueso)

   - Implement atomic[64]_{inc,dec}_relaxed() on ARM.  (Will Deacon)

   - Futex kernel data cache footprint micro-optimization.  (Rasmus
     Villemoes)

   - pvqspinlock runtime overhead micro-optimization.  (Waiman Long)

   - misc smaller fixlets"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  ARM, locking/atomics: Implement _relaxed variants of atomic[64]_{inc,dec}
  locking/rwsem: Use acquire/release semantics
  locking/mcs: Use acquire/release semantics
  locking/rtmutex: Use acquire/release semantics
  locking/mutex: Use acquire/release semantics
  locking/asm-generic: Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for inc/dec atomics
  atomic: Implement atomic_read_ctrl()
  atomic, arch: Audit atomic_{read,set}()
  atomic: Add atomic_long_t bitops
  futex: Force hot variables into a single cache line
  locking/pvqspinlock: Kick the PV CPU unconditionally when _Q_SLOW_VAL
  locking/osq: Relax atomic semantics
  locking/qrwlock: Rename ->lock to ->wait_lock
  locking/Documentation/lockstat: Fix typo - lokcing -> locking
  locking/atomics, cmpxchg: Privatize the inclusion of asm/cmpxchg.h
2015-11-03 16:10:43 -08:00
Ingo Molnar c13dc31adb Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney:

  - Miscellaneous fixes. (Paul E. McKenney, Boqun Feng, Oleg Nesterov, Patrick Marlier)

  - Improvements to expedited grace periods. (Paul E. McKenney)

  - Performance improvements to and locktorture tests for percpu-rwsem.
    (Oleg Nesterov, Paul E. McKenney)

  - Torture-test changes. (Paul E. McKenney, Davidlohr Bueso)

  - Documentation updates. (Paul E. McKenney)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-10-19 10:09:54 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney 39cd2dd39a Merge branches 'doc.2015.10.06a', 'percpu-rwsem.2015.10.06a' and 'torture.2015.10.06a' into HEAD
doc.2015.10.06a:  Documentation updates.
percpu-rwsem.2015.10.06a:  Optimization of per-CPU reader-writer semaphores.
torture.2015.10.06a:  Torture-test updates.
2015-10-07 16:06:25 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney a36a99618b locktorture: Fix module unwind when bad torture_type specified
The locktorture module has a list of torture types, and specifying
a type not on this list is supposed to cleanly fail the module load.
Unfortunately, the "fail" happens without the "cleanly".  This commit
therefore adds the needed clean-up after an incorrect torture_type.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-10-06 11:28:44 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov cc5f730b41 locking/percpu-rwsem: Clean up the lockdep annotations in percpu_down_read()
Based on Peter Zijlstra's earlier patch.

Change percpu_down_read() to use __down_read(), this way we can
do rwsem_acquire_read() unconditionally at the start to make this
code more symmetric and clean.

Originally-From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-10-06 11:25:40 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov f324a76324 locking/percpu-rwsem: Fix the comments outdated by rcu_sync
Update the comments broken by the previous change.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-10-06 11:25:36 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 001dac627f locking/percpu-rwsem: Make use of the rcu_sync infrastructure
Currently down_write/up_write calls synchronize_sched_expedited()
twice, which is evil.  Change this code to rely on rcu-sync primitives.
This avoids the _expedited "big hammer", and this can be faster in
the contended case or even in the case when a single thread does
down_write/up_write in a loop.

Of course, a single down_write() will take more time, but otoh it
will be much more friendly to the whole system.

To simplify the review this patch doesn't update the comments, fixed
by the next change.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-10-06 11:25:31 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 95b19f684c locking/percpu-rwsem: Make percpu_free_rwsem() after kzalloc() safe
This is the temporary ugly hack which will be reverted later. We only
need it to ensure that the next patch will not break "change sb_writers
to use percpu_rw_semaphore" patches routed via the VFS tree.

The alloc_super()->destroy_super() error path assumes that it is safe
to call percpu_free_rwsem() after kzalloc() without percpu_init_rwsem(),
so let's not disappoint it.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-10-06 11:25:26 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 617783dd99 locktorture: Add torture tests for percpu_rwsem
This commit adds percpu_rwsem tests based on the earlier rwsem tests.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-10-06 11:24:56 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 302707fd7c locking/percpu-rwsem: Export symbols for locktorture
This commit exports percpu_down_read(), percpu_down_write(),
__percpu_init_rwsem(), percpu_up_read(), and percpu_up_write() to allow
locktorture to test them when built as a module.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-10-06 11:24:51 -07:00
Davidlohr Bueso 095777c417 locktorture: Support rtmutex torturing
Real time mutexes is one of the few general primitives
that we do not have in locktorture. Address this -- a few
considerations:

o To spice things up, enable competing thread(s) to become
rt, such that we can stress different prio boosting paths
in the rtmutex code. Introduce a ->task_boost callback,
only used by rtmutex-torturer. Tasks will boost/deboost
around every 50k (arbitrarily) lock/unlock operations.

o Hold times are similar to what we have for other locks:
only occasionally having longer hold times (per ~200k ops).
So we roughly do two full rt boost+deboosting ops with
short hold times.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-10-06 11:24:40 -07:00
Davidlohr Bueso 00eb4bab69 locking/rwsem: Use acquire/release semantics
As of 654672d4ba (locking/atomics: Add _{acquire|release|relaxed}()
variants of some atomic operations) and 6d79ef2d30 (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 <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E.McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443643395-17016-6-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-10-06 17:28:24 +02:00
Davidlohr Bueso 3552a07a9c locking/mcs: Use acquire/release semantics
As of 654672d4ba (locking/atomics: Add _{acquire|release|relaxed}()
variants of some atomic operations) and 6d79ef2d30 (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 <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E.McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443643395-17016-5-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-10-06 17:28:23 +02:00
Davidlohr Bueso 700318d1d7 locking/rtmutex: Use acquire/release semantics
As of 654672d4ba (locking/atomics: Add _{acquire|release|relaxed}()
variants of some atomic operations) and 6d79ef2d30 (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 <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E.McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443643395-17016-4-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-10-06 17:28:22 +02:00
Davidlohr Bueso 81a43adae3 locking/mutex: Use acquire/release semantics
As of 654672d4ba (locking/atomics: Add _{acquire|release|relaxed}()
variants of some atomic operations) and 6d79ef2d30 (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 <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E.McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443643395-17016-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-10-06 17:28:20 +02:00
Ingo Molnar fe19159225 Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core, to pick up fixes before applying new changes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-10-06 17:05:36 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 4bbffe718f Merge branch 'locking/urgent' into locking/core, to pick up fixes before applying new changes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-09-23 09:52:03 +02:00
Juri Lelli f52405757e sched/deadline, locking/rtmutex: Fix open coded check in rt_mutex_waiter_less()
rt_mutex_waiter_less() check of task deadlines is open coded. Since this
is subject to wraparound bugs, make it use the correct helper.

Reported-by: Luca Abeni <luca.abeni@unitn.it>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441188096-23021-4-git-send-email-juri.lelli@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-09-23 09:51:25 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 21199f27b4 locking/lockdep: Fix hlock->pin_count reset on lock stack rebuilds
Various people reported hitting the "unpinning an unpinned lock"
warning. As it turns out there are 2 places where we take a lock out
of the middle of a stack, and in those cases it would fail to preserve
the pin_count when rebuilding the lock stack.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Tim Spriggs <tspriggs@apple.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@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@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: davej@codemonkey.org.uk
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150916141040.GA11639@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-09-23 09:48:53 +02:00
Waiman Long 93edc8bd77 locking/pvqspinlock: Kick the PV CPU unconditionally when _Q_SLOW_VAL
If _Q_SLOW_VAL has been set, the vCPU state must have been vcpu_hashed.
The extra check at the end of __pv_queued_spin_unlock() is unnecessary
and can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441996658-62854-3-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hpe.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-09-18 09:27:29 +02:00
Davidlohr Bueso c55a6ffa62 locking/osq: Relax atomic semantics
... by using acquire/release for ops around the lock->tail. As such,
weakly ordered archs can benefit from more relaxed use of barriers
when issuing atomics.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
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: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1442216244-4409-3-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-09-18 09:27:29 +02:00
Davidlohr Bueso 6e1e519697 locking/qrwlock: Rename ->lock to ->wait_lock
... trivial, but reads a little nicer when we name our
actual primitive 'lock'.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
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: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hpe.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1442216244-4409-1-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-09-18 09:27:29 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 9786cff38a Merge branch 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Spinlock performance regression fix, plus documentation fixes"

* 'locking-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  locking/static_keys: Fix up the static keys documentation
  locking/qspinlock/x86: Only emit the test-and-set fallback when building guest support
  locking/qspinlock/x86: Fix performance regression under unaccelerated VMs
  locking/static_keys: Fix a silly typo
2015-09-17 08:45:23 -07:00
Ingo Molnar c7ef92cea9 Linux 4.3-rc1
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Merge tag 'v4.3-rc1' into locking/core, to refresh the tree

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-09-13 10:01:24 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 43b3f02899 locking/qspinlock/x86: Fix performance regression under unaccelerated VMs
Dave ran into horrible performance on a VM without PARAVIRT_SPINLOCKS
set and Linus noted that the test-and-set implementation was retarded.

One should spin on the variable with a load, not a RMW.

While there, remove 'queued' from the name, as the lock isn't queued
at all, but a simple test-and-set.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Tested-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150904152523.GR18673@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-09-11 07:49:42 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 7d9071a095 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "In this one:

   - d_move fixes (Eric Biederman)

   - UFS fixes (me; locking is mostly sane now, a bunch of bugs in error
     handling ought to be fixed)

   - switch of sb_writers to percpu rwsem (Oleg Nesterov)

   - superblock scalability (Josef Bacik and Dave Chinner)

   - swapon(2) race fix (Hugh Dickins)"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (65 commits)
  vfs: Test for and handle paths that are unreachable from their mnt_root
  dcache: Reduce the scope of i_lock in d_splice_alias
  dcache: Handle escaped paths in prepend_path
  mm: fix potential data race in SyS_swapon
  inode: don't softlockup when evicting inodes
  inode: rename i_wb_list to i_io_list
  sync: serialise per-superblock sync operations
  inode: convert inode_sb_list_lock to per-sb
  inode: add hlist_fake to avoid the inode hash lock in evict
  writeback: plug writeback at a high level
  change sb_writers to use percpu_rw_semaphore
  shift percpu_counter_destroy() into destroy_super_work()
  percpu-rwsem: kill CONFIG_PERCPU_RWSEM
  percpu-rwsem: introduce percpu_rwsem_release() and percpu_rwsem_acquire()
  percpu-rwsem: introduce percpu_down_read_trylock()
  document rwsem_release() in sb_wait_write()
  fix the broken lockdep logic in __sb_start_write()
  introduce __sb_writers_{acquired,release}() helpers
  ufs_inode_get{frag,block}(): get rid of 'phys' argument
  ufs_getfrag_block(): tidy up a bit
  ...
2015-09-05 20:34:28 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov bf3eac84c4 percpu-rwsem: kill CONFIG_PERCPU_RWSEM
Remove CONFIG_PERCPU_RWSEM, the next patch adds the unconditional
user of percpu_rw_semaphore.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2015-08-15 13:52:11 +02:00
Oleg Nesterov 9287f6925a percpu-rwsem: introduce percpu_down_read_trylock()
Add percpu_down_read_trylock(), it will have the user soon.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2015-08-15 13:52:10 +02:00
Will Deacon 77e430e3e4 locking/qrwlock: Make use of _{acquire|release|relaxed}() atomics
The qrwlock implementation is slightly heavy in its use of memory
barriers, mainly through the use of _cmpxchg() and _return() atomics, which
imply full barrier semantics.

This patch modifies the qrwlock code to use the more relaxed atomic
routines so that we can reduce the unnecessary barrier overhead on
weakly-ordered architectures.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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@hp.com
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438880084-18856-7-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-12 11:59:06 +02:00
Waiman Long 75d2270280 locking/pvqspinlock: Only kick CPU at unlock time
For an over-committed guest with more vCPUs than physical CPUs
available, it is possible that a vCPU may be kicked twice before
getting the lock - once before it becomes queue head and once again
before it gets the lock. All these CPU kicking and halting (VMEXIT)
can be expensive and slow down system performance.

This patch adds a new vCPU state (vcpu_hashed) which enables the code
to delay CPU kicking until at unlock time. Once this state is set,
the new lock holder will set _Q_SLOW_VAL and fill in the hash table
on behalf of the halted queue head vCPU. The original vcpu_halted
state will be used by pv_wait_node() only to differentiate other
queue nodes from the qeue head.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436647018-49734-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-03 10:57:11 +02:00
Waiman Long ffffeaf318 locking/qrwlock: Reduce reader/writer to reader lock transfer latency
Currently, a reader will check first to make sure that the writer mode
byte is cleared before incrementing the reader count. That waiting is
not really necessary. It increases the latency in the reader/writer
to reader transition and reduces readers performance.

This patch eliminates that waiting. It also has the side effect
of reducing the chance of writer lock stealing and improving the
fairness of the lock. Using a locking microbenchmark, a 10-threads 5M
locking loop of mostly readers (RW ratio = 10,000:1) has the following
performance numbers in a Haswell-EX box:

        Kernel          Locking Rate (Kops/s)
        ------          ---------------------
        4.1.1               15,063,081
        4.1.1+patch         17,241,552  (+14.4%)

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436459543-29126-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-03 10:57:10 +02:00
Will Deacon 3b3fdf10a8 locking/pvqspinlock: Order pv_unhash() after cmpxchg() on unlock slowpath
When we unlock in __pv_queued_spin_unlock(), a failed cmpxchg() on the lock
value indicates that we need to take the slow-path and unhash the
corresponding node blocked on the lock.

Since a failed cmpxchg() does not provide any memory-ordering guarantees,
it is possible that the node data could be read before the cmpxchg() on
weakly-ordered architectures and therefore return a stale value, leading
to hash corruption and/or a BUG().

This patch adds an smb_rmb() following the failed cmpxchg operation, so
that the unhashing is ordered after the lock has been checked.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
[ Added more comments]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by:  Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steve Capper <Steve.Capper@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150713155830.GL2632@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-03 10:57:09 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra 0b792bf519 locking: Clean up pvqspinlock warning
- Rename the on-stack variable to match the datastructure variable,

 - place the cmpxchg back under the comment that explains it,

 - clean up the WARN() statement to avoid superfluous conditionals
   and line-breaks.

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: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-03 10:57:08 +02:00
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Merge branch 'locking/urgent', tag 'v4.2-rc5' into locking/core, to pick up fixes before applying new changes

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-03 10:52:25 +02:00
Waiman Long cba77f03f2 locking/pvqspinlock: Fix kernel panic in locking-selftest
Enabling locking-selftest in a VM guest may cause the following
kernel panic:

  kernel BUG at .../kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h:137!

This is due to the fact that the pvqspinlock unlock function is
expecting either a _Q_LOCKED_VAL or _Q_SLOW_VAL in the lock
byte. This patch prevents that bug report by ignoring it when
debug_locks_silent is set. Otherwise, a warning will be printed
if it contains an unexpected value.

With this patch applied, the kernel locking-selftest completed
without any noise.

Tested-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1436663959-53092-1-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-21 10:18:07 +02:00
Davidlohr Bueso 1b0b7c1762 rtmutex: Delete scriptable tester
No one uses this anymore, and this is not the first time the
idea of replacing it with a (now possible) userspace side.
Lock stealing logic was removed long ago in when the lock
was granted to the highest prio.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435782588-4177-2-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-07-20 11:45:45 +02:00
Waiman Long 0e06e5be70 locking/qrwlock: Better optimization for interrupt context readers
The qrwlock is fair in the process context, but becoming unfair when
in the interrupt context to support use cases like the tasklist_lock.

The current code isn't that well-documented on what happens when
in the interrupt context. The rspin_until_writer_unlock() will only
spin if the writer has gotten the lock. If the writer is still in the
waiting state, the increment in the reader count will cause the writer
to remain in the waiting state and the new interrupt context reader
will get the lock and return immediately. The current code, however,
does an additional read of the lock value which is not necessary as
the information has already been there in the fast path. This may
sometime cause an additional cacheline transfer when the lock is
highly contended.

This patch passes the lock value information gotten in the fast path
to the slow path to eliminate the additional read. It also documents
the action for the interrupt context readers more clearly.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434729002-57724-3-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-06 14:11:28 +02:00
Waiman Long f7d71f2052 locking/qrwlock: Rename functions to queued_*()
To sync up with the naming convention used in qspinlock, all the
qrwlock functions were renamed to started with "queued" instead of
"queue".

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1434729002-57724-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-06 14:11:27 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 98ec21a018 Merge branch 'sched-hrtimers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This series of scheduler updates depends on sched/core and timers/core
  branches, which are already in your tree:

   - Scheduler balancing overhaul to plug a hard to trigger race which
     causes an oops in the balancer (Peter Zijlstra)

   - Lockdep updates which are related to the balancing updates (Peter
     Zijlstra)"

* 'sched-hrtimers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched,lockdep: Employ lock pinning
  lockdep: Implement lock pinning
  lockdep: Simplify lock_release()
  sched: Streamline the task migration locking a little
  sched: Move code around
  sched,dl: Fix sched class hopping CBS hole
  sched, dl: Convert switched_{from, to}_dl() / prio_changed_dl() to balance callbacks
  sched,dl: Remove return value from pull_dl_task()
  sched, rt: Convert switched_{from, to}_rt() / prio_changed_rt() to balance callbacks
  sched,rt: Remove return value from pull_rt_task()
  sched: Allow balance callbacks for check_class_changed()
  sched: Use replace normalize_task() with __sched_setscheduler()
  sched: Replace post_schedule with a balance callback list
2015-06-24 15:09:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds a262948335 Merge branch 'sched-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "These locking updates depend on the alreay merged sched/core branch:

   - Lockless top waiter wakeup for rtmutex (Davidlohr)

   - Reduce hash bucket lock contention for PI futexes (Sebastian)

   - Documentation update (Davidlohr)"

* 'sched-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  locking/rtmutex: Update stale plist comments
  futex: Lower the lock contention on the HB lock during wake up
  locking/rtmutex: Implement lockless top-waiter wakeup
2015-06-24 14:46:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 43224b96af Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A rather largish update for everything time and timer related:

   - Cache footprint optimizations for both hrtimers and timer wheel

   - Lower the NOHZ impact on systems which have NOHZ or timer migration
     disabled at runtime.

   - Optimize run time overhead of hrtimer interrupt by making the clock
     offset updates smarter

   - hrtimer cleanups and removal of restrictions to tackle some
     problems in sched/perf

   - Some more leap second tweaks

   - Another round of changes addressing the 2038 problem

   - First step to change the internals of clock event devices by
     introducing the necessary infrastructure

   - Allow constant folding for usecs/msecs_to_jiffies()

   - The usual pile of clockevent/clocksource driver updates

  The hrtimer changes contain updates to sched, perf and x86 as they
  depend on them plus changes all over the tree to cleanup API changes
  and redundant code, which got copied all over the place.  The y2038
  changes touch s390 to remove the last non 2038 safe code related to
  boot/persistant clock"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (114 commits)
  clocksource: Increase dependencies of timer-stm32 to limit build wreckage
  timer: Minimize nohz off overhead
  timer: Reduce timer migration overhead if disabled
  timer: Stats: Simplify the flags handling
  timer: Replace timer base by a cpu index
  timer: Use hlist for the timer wheel hash buckets
  timer: Remove FIFO "guarantee"
  timers: Sanitize catchup_timer_jiffies() usage
  hrtimer: Allow hrtimer::function() to free the timer
  seqcount: Introduce raw_write_seqcount_barrier()
  seqcount: Rename write_seqcount_barrier()
  hrtimer: Fix hrtimer_is_queued() hole
  hrtimer: Remove HRTIMER_STATE_MIGRATE
  selftest: Timers: Avoid signal deadlock in leap-a-day
  timekeeping: Copy the shadow-timekeeper over the real timekeeper last
  clockevents: Check state instead of mode in suspend/resume path
  selftests: timers: Add leap-second timer edge testing to leap-a-day.c
  ntp: Do leapsecond adjustment in adjtimex read path
  time: Prevent early expiry of hrtimers[CLOCK_REALTIME] at the leap second edge
  ntp: Introduce and use SECS_PER_DAY macro instead of 86400
  ...
2015-06-22 18:57:44 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 23b7776290 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes are:

   - lockless wakeup support for futexes and IPC message queues
     (Davidlohr Bueso, Peter Zijlstra)

   - Replace spinlocks with atomics in thread_group_cputimer(), to
     improve scalability (Jason Low)

   - NUMA balancing improvements (Rik van Riel)

   - SCHED_DEADLINE improvements (Wanpeng Li)

   - clean up and reorganize preemption helpers (Frederic Weisbecker)

   - decouple page fault disabling machinery from the preemption
     counter, to improve debuggability and robustness (David
     Hildenbrand)

   - SCHED_DEADLINE documentation updates (Luca Abeni)

   - topology CPU masks cleanups (Bartosz Golaszewski)

   - /proc/sched_debug improvements (Srikar Dronamraju)"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (79 commits)
  sched/deadline: Remove needless parameter in dl_runtime_exceeded()
  sched: Remove superfluous resetting of the p->dl_throttled flag
  sched/deadline: Drop duplicate init_sched_dl_class() declaration
  sched/deadline: Reduce rq lock contention by eliminating locking of non-feasible target
  sched/deadline: Make init_sched_dl_class() __init
  sched/deadline: Optimize pull_dl_task()
  sched/preempt: Add static_key() to preempt_notifiers
  sched/preempt: Fix preempt notifiers documentation about hlist_del() within unsafe iteration
  sched/stop_machine: Fix deadlock between multiple stop_two_cpus()
  sched/debug: Add sum_sleep_runtime to /proc/<pid>/sched
  sched/debug: Replace vruntime with wait_sum in /proc/sched_debug
  sched/debug: Properly format runnable tasks in /proc/sched_debug
  sched/numa: Only consider less busy nodes as numa balancing destinations
  Revert 095bebf61a ("sched/numa: Do not move past the balance point if unbalanced")
  sched/fair: Prevent throttling in early pick_next_task_fair()
  preempt: Reorganize the notrace definitions a bit
  preempt: Use preempt_schedule_context() as the official tracing preemption point
  sched: Make preempt_schedule_context() function-tracing safe
  x86: Remove cpu_sibling_mask() and cpu_core_mask()
  x86: Replace cpu_**_mask() with topology_**_cpumask()
  ...
2015-06-22 15:52:04 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 1bf7067c6e Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes are:

   - 'qspinlock' support, enabled on x86: queued spinlocks - these are
     now the spinlock variant used by x86 as they outperform ticket
     spinlocks in every category.  (Waiman Long)

   - 'pvqspinlock' support on x86: paravirtualized variant of queued
     spinlocks.  (Waiman Long, Peter Zijlstra)

   - 'qrwlock' support, enabled on x86: queued rwlocks.  Similar to
     queued spinlocks, they are now the variant used by x86:

       CONFIG_ARCH_USE_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS=y
       CONFIG_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS=y
       CONFIG_ARCH_USE_QUEUED_RWLOCKS=y
       CONFIG_QUEUED_RWLOCKS=y

   - various lockdep fixlets

   - various locking primitives cleanups, further WRITE_ONCE()
     propagation"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
  locking/lockdep: Remove hard coded array size dependency
  locking/qrwlock: Don't contend with readers when setting _QW_WAITING
  lockdep: Do not break user-visible string
  locking/arch: Rename set_mb() to smp_store_mb()
  locking/arch: Add WRITE_ONCE() to set_mb()
  rtmutex: Warn if trylock is called from hard/softirq context
  arch: Remove __ARCH_HAVE_CMPXCHG
  locking/rtmutex: Drop usage of __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG
  locking/qrwlock: Rename QUEUE_RWLOCK to QUEUED_RWLOCKS
  locking/pvqspinlock: Rename QUEUED_SPINLOCK to QUEUED_SPINLOCKS
  locking/pvqspinlock: Replace xchg() by the more descriptive set_mb()
  locking/pvqspinlock, x86: Enable PV qspinlock for Xen
  locking/pvqspinlock, x86: Enable PV qspinlock for KVM
  locking/pvqspinlock, x86: Implement the paravirt qspinlock call patching
  locking/pvqspinlock: Implement simple paravirt support for the qspinlock
  locking/qspinlock: Revert to test-and-set on hypervisors
  locking/qspinlock: Use a simple write to grab the lock
  locking/qspinlock: Optimize for smaller NR_CPUS
  locking/qspinlock: Extract out code snippets for the next patch
  locking/qspinlock: Add pending bit
  ...
2015-06-22 14:54:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds fc934d4017 Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:

 - Continued initialization/Kconfig updates: hide most Kconfig options
   from unsuspecting users.

   There's now a single high level configuration option:

        *
        * RCU Subsystem
        *
        Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration (RCU_EXPERT) [N/y/?] (NEW)

   Which if answered in the negative, leaves us with a single
   interactive configuration option:

        Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs (RCU_NOCB_CPU) [N/y/?] (NEW)

   All the rest of the RCU options are configured automatically.  Later
   on we'll remove this single leftover configuration option as well.

 - Remove all uses of RCU-protected array indexes: replace the
   rcu_[access|dereference]_index_check() APIs with READ_ONCE() and
   rcu_lockdep_assert()

 - RCU CPU-hotplug cleanups

 - Updates to Tiny RCU: a race fix and further code shrinkage.

 - RCU torture-testing updates: fixes, speedups, cleanups and
   documentation updates.

 - Miscellaneous fixes

 - Documentation updates

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (60 commits)
  rcutorture: Allow repetition factors in Kconfig-fragment lists
  rcutorture: Display "make oldconfig" errors
  rcutorture: Update TREE_RCU-kconfig.txt
  rcutorture: Make rcutorture scripts force RCU_EXPERT
  rcutorture: Update configuration fragments for rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact
  rcutorture: TASKS_RCU set directly, so don't explicitly set it
  rcutorture: Test SRCU cleanup code path
  rcutorture: Replace barriers with smp_store_release() and smp_load_acquire()
  locktorture: Change longdelay_us to longdelay_ms
  rcutorture: Allow negative values of nreaders to oversubscribe
  rcutorture: Exchange TREE03 and TREE08 NR_CPUS, speed up CPU hotplug
  rcutorture: Exchange TREE03 and TREE04 geometries
  locktorture: fix deadlock in 'rw_lock_irq' type
  rcu: Correctly handle non-empty Tiny RCU callback list with none ready
  rcutorture: Test both RCU-sched and RCU-bh for Tiny RCU
  rcu: Further shrink Tiny RCU by making empty functions static inlines
  rcu: Conditionally compile RCU's eqs warnings
  rcu: Remove prompt for RCU implementation
  rcu: Make RCU able to tolerate undefined CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
  rcu: Make RCU able to tolerate undefined CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
  ...
2015-06-22 14:01:01 -07:00
Davidlohr Bueso 9f40a51a35 locking/rtmutex: Update stale plist comments
... as of fb00aca474 (rtmutex: Turn the plist into an rb-tree) we
no longer use plists for queuing any waiters. Update stale comments.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432056298-18738-4-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-06-19 21:27:21 +02:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior 802ab58da7 futex: Lower the lock contention on the HB lock during wake up
wake_futex_pi() wakes the task before releasing the hash bucket lock
(HB). The first thing the woken up task usually does is to acquire the
lock which requires the HB lock. On SMP Systems this leads to blocking
on the HB lock which is released by the owner shortly after.
This patch rearranges the unlock path by first releasing the HB lock and
then waking up the task.

[ tglx: Fixed up the rtmutex unlock path ]

Originally-from: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150617083350.GA2433@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-06-19 21:26:38 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra b17718d02f sched/stop_machine: Fix deadlock between multiple stop_two_cpus()
Jiri reported a machine stuck in multi_cpu_stop() with
migrate_swap_stop() as function and with the following src,dst cpu
pairs: {11,  4} {13, 11} { 4, 13}

                        4       11      13

cpuM: queue(4 ,13)
                        *Ma
cpuN: queue(13,11)
                                *N      Na
                        *M              Mb
cpuO: queue(11, 4)
                        *O      Oa
                                *Nb
                        *Ob

Where *X denotes the cpu running the queueing of cpu-X and X[ab] denotes
the first/second queued work.

You'll observe the top of the workqueue for each cpu: 4,11,13 to be work
from cpus: M, O, N resp. IOW. deadlock.

Do away with the queueing trickery and introduce lg_double_lock() to
lock both CPUs and fully serialize the stop_two_cpus() callers instead
of the partial (and buggy) serialization we have now.

Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150605153023.GH19282@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-19 10:03:12 +02:00
Waiman Long 405963b6a5 locking/qrwlock: Don't contend with readers when setting _QW_WAITING
The current cmpxchg() loop in setting the _QW_WAITING flag for writers
in queue_write_lock_slowpath() will contend with incoming readers
causing possibly extra cmpxchg() operations that are wasteful. This
patch changes the code to do a byte cmpxchg() to eliminate contention
with new readers.

A multithreaded microbenchmark running 5M read_lock/write_lock loop
on a 8-socket 80-core Westmere-EX machine running 4.0 based kernel
with the qspinlock patch have the following execution times (in ms)
with and without the patch:

With R:W ratio = 5:1

	Threads	   w/o patch	with patch	% change
	-------	   ---------	----------	--------
	   2	     990	    895		  -9.6%
	   3	    2136	   1912		 -10.5%
	   4	    3166	   2830		 -10.6%
	   5	    3953	   3629		  -8.2%
	   6	    4628	   4405		  -4.8%
	   7	    5344	   5197		  -2.8%
	   8	    6065	   6004		  -1.0%
	   9	    6826	   6811		  -0.2%
	  10	    7599	   7599		   0.0%
	  15	    9757	   9766		  +0.1%
	  20	   13767	  13817		  +0.4%

With small number of contending threads, this patch can improve
locking performance by up to 10%. With more contending threads,
however, the gain diminishes.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433863153-30722-3-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-19 09:45:38 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra a24fc60d63 lockdep: Implement lock pinning
Add a lockdep annotation that WARNs if you 'accidentially' unlock a
lock.

This is especially helpful for code with callbacks, where the upper
layer assumes a lock remains taken but a lower layer thinks it maybe
can drop and reacquire the lock.

By unwittingly breaking up the lock, races can be introduced.

Lock pinning is a lockdep annotation that helps with this, when you
lockdep_pin_lock() a held lock, any unlock without a
lockdep_unpin_lock() will produce a WARN. Think of this as a relative
of lockdep_assert_held(), except you don't only assert its held now,
but ensure it stays held until you release your assertion.

RFC: a possible alternative API would be something like:

  int cookie = lockdep_pin_lock(&foo);
  ...
  lockdep_unpin_lock(&foo, cookie);

Where we pick a random number for the pin_count; this makes it
impossible to sneak a lock break in without also passing the right
cookie along.

I've not done this because it ends up generating code for !LOCKDEP,
esp. if you need to pass the cookie around for some reason.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: ktkhai@parallels.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com
Cc: pang.xunlei@linaro.org
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150611124743.906731065@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-06-19 00:25:27 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra e0f56fd706 lockdep: Simplify lock_release()
lock_release() takes this nested argument that's mostly pointless
these days, remove the implementation but leave the argument a
rudiment for now.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: ktkhai@parallels.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: juri.lelli@gmail.com
Cc: pang.xunlei@linaro.org
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: wanpeng.li@linux.intel.com
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150611124743.840411606@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-06-19 00:25:27 +02:00
Davidlohr Bueso 45ab4effc3 locking/rtmutex: Implement lockless top-waiter wakeup
Mark the task for later wakeup after the wait_lock has been released.
This way, once the next task is awoken, it will have a better chance
to of finding the wait_lock free when continuing executing in
__rt_mutex_slowlock() when trying to acquire the rtmutex, calling
try_to_take_rt_mutex(). Upon contended scenarios, other tasks attempting
take the lock may acquire it first, right after the wait_lock is released,
but (a) this can also occur with the current code, as it relies on the
spinlock fairness, and (b) we are dealing with the top-waiter anyway,
so it will always take the lock next.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432056298-18738-2-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-06-18 22:27:46 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra cee34d88ca lockdep: Fix a race between /proc/lock_stat and module unload
The lock_class iteration of /proc/lock_stat is not serialized against
the lockdep_free_key_range() call from module unload.

Therefore it can happen that we find a class of which ->name/->key are
no longer valid.

There is a further bug in zap_class() that left ->name dangling. Cure
this. Use RCU_INIT_POINTER() because NULL.

Since lockdep_free_key_range() is rcu_sched serialized, we can read
both ->name and ->key under rcu_read_lock_sched() (preempt-disable)
and be assured that if we observe a !NULL value it stays safe to use
for as long as we hold that lock.

If we observe both NULL, skip the entry.

Reported-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150602105013.GS3644@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-07 15:46:30 +02:00
Borislav Petkov 92ae18371c lockdep: Do not break user-visible string
Remove the line-break in the user-visible string and add the
missing space in this error message:

  WARNING: lockdep init error! lock-(console_sem).lock was acquiredbefore lockdep_init

Also:

  - don't yell, it's just a debug warning

  - denote references to function calls with '()'

  - standardize the lock name quoting

  - and finish the sentence.

The result:

  WARNING: lockdep init error: lock '(console_sem).lock' was acquired before lockdep_init().

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
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 <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150602133827.GD19887@pd.tnic
[ Added a few more stylistic tweaks to the error message. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-03 10:07:09 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 085c789783 Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU changes from Paul E. McKenney:

  - Initialization/Kconfig updates: hide most Kconfig options from unsuspecting users.
    There's now a single high level configuration option:

      *
      * RCU Subsystem
      *
      Make expert-level adjustments to RCU configuration (RCU_EXPERT) [N/y/?] (NEW)

    Which if answered in the negative, leaves us with a single interactive
    configuration option:

      Offload RCU callback processing from boot-selected CPUs (RCU_NOCB_CPU) [N/y/?] (NEW)

    All the rest of the RCU options are configured automatically.

  - Remove all uses of RCU-protected array indexes: replace the
    rcu_[access|dereference]_index_check() APIs with READ_ONCE() and rcu_lockdep_assert().

  - RCU CPU-hotplug cleanups.

  - Updates to Tiny RCU: a race fix and further code shrinkage.

  - RCU torture-testing updates: fixes, speedups, cleanups and
    documentation updates.

  - Miscellaneous fixes.

  - Documentation updates.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-06-02 08:18:34 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney 61d49d2f98 locktorture: Change longdelay_us to longdelay_ms
The locktorture long delays are in milliseconds rather than microseconds,
so this commit changes the name of the corresponding variable from
longdelay_us to longdelay_ms.

Reported-by: Ben Goodwyn <bgoodwyn@softnas.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-05-27 12:59:57 -07:00
Alexey Kodanev f548d99ef4 locktorture: fix deadlock in 'rw_lock_irq' type
torture_rwlock_read_unlock_irq() must use read_unlock_irqrestore()
instead of write_unlock_irqrestore().

Use read_unlock_irqrestore() instead of write_unlock_irqrestore().

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kodanev <alexey.kodanev@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-05-27 12:59:56 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner c3b5d3cea5 Merge branch 'linus' into timers/core
Make sure the upstream fixes are applied before adding further
modifications.
2015-05-19 16:12:32 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra b92b8b35a2 locking/arch: Rename set_mb() to smp_store_mb()
Since set_mb() is really about an smp_mb() -- not a IO/DMA barrier
like mb() rename it to match the recent smp_load_acquire() and
smp_store_release().

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-19 08:32:00 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 6ce47fd961 rtmutex: Warn if trylock is called from hard/softirq context
rt_mutex_trylock() must be called from thread context. It can be
called from atomic regions (preemption or interrupts disabled), but
not from hard/softirq/nmi context. Add a warning to alert abusers.

The reasons for this are:

    1) There is a potential deadlock in the slowpath

    2) Another cpu which blocks on the rtmutex will boost the task
       which allegedly locked the rtmutex, but that cannot work
       because the hard/softirq context borrows the task context.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
2015-05-13 22:49:12 +02:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior cede88418b locking/rtmutex: Drop usage of __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG
The rtmutex code is the only user of __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG and we have a few
other user of cmpxchg() which do not care about __HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG. This
define was first introduced in 23f78d4a0 ("[PATCH] pi-futex: rt mutex core")
which is v2.6.18. The generic cmpxchg was introduced later in 068fbad288
("Add cmpxchg_local to asm-generic for per cpu atomic operations") which is
v2.6.25.
Back then something was required to get rtmutex working with the fast
path on architectures without cmpxchg and this seems to be the result.

It popped up recently on rt-users because ARM (v6+) does not define
__HAVE_ARCH_CMPXCHG (even that it implements it) which results in slower
locking performance in the fast path.
To put some numbers on it: preempt -RT, am335x, 10 loops of
100000 invocations of rt_spin_lock() + rt_spin_unlock() (time "total" is
the average of the 10 loops for the 100000 invocations, "loop" is
"total / 100000 * 1000"):

     cmpxchg |    slowpath used  ||    cmpxchg used
             |   total   | loop  ||   total    | loop
     --------|-----------|-------||------------|-------
     ARMv6   | 9129.4 us | 91 ns ||  3311.9 us |  33 ns
     generic | 9360.2 us | 94 ns || 10834.6 us | 108 ns
     ----------------------------||--------------------

Forcing it to generic cmpxchg() made things worse for the slowpath and
even worse in cmpxchg() path. It boils down to 14ns more per lock+unlock
in a cache hot loop so it might not be that much in real world.
The last test was a substitute for pre ARMv6 machine but then I was able
to perform the comparison on imx28 which is ARMv5 and therefore is
always is using the generic cmpxchg implementation. And the numbers:

              |   total     | loop
     -------- |-----------  |--------
     slowpath | 263937.2 us | 2639 ns
     cmpxchg  |  16934.2 us |  169 ns
     --------------------------------

The numbers are larger since the machine is slower in general. However,
letting rtmutex use cmpxchg() instead the slowpath seem to improve things.

Since from the ARM (tested on am335x + imx28) point of view always
using cmpxchg() in rt_mutex_lock() + rt_mutex_unlock() makes sense I
would drop the define.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150225175613.GE6823@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-05-13 10:51:28 +02:00
Waiman Long c7114b4e6c locking/qrwlock: Rename QUEUE_RWLOCK to QUEUED_RWLOCKS
To be consistent with the queued spinlocks which use
CONFIG_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS config parameter, the one for the queued
rwlocks is now renamed to CONFIG_QUEUED_RWLOCKS.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431367031-36697-1-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-12 09:46:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 62c7a1e9ae locking/pvqspinlock: Rename QUEUED_SPINLOCK to QUEUED_SPINLOCKS
Valentin Rothberg reported that we use CONFIG_QUEUED_SPINLOCKS
in arch/x86/kernel/paravirt_patch_32.c, while the symbol is
called CONFIG_QUEUED_SPINLOCK. (Note the extra 'S')

But the typo was natural: the proper English term for such
a generic object would be 'queued spinlocks' - so rename
this and related symbols accordingly to the plural form.

Reported-by: Valentin Rothberg <valentinrothberg@gmail.com>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-11 09:52:09 +02:00
Waiman Long 52c9d2badd locking/pvqspinlock: Replace xchg() by the more descriptive set_mb()
The xchg() function was used in pv_wait_node() to set a certain
value and provide a memory barrier which is what the set_mb()
function is for.  This patch replaces the xchg() call by
set_mb().

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-11 09:51:52 +02:00
Waiman Long a23db284fe locking/pvqspinlock: Implement simple paravirt support for the qspinlock
Provide a separate (second) version of the spin_lock_slowpath for
paravirt along with a special unlock path.

The second slowpath is generated by adding a few pv hooks to the
normal slowpath, but where those will compile away for the native
case, they expand into special wait/wake code for the pv version.

The actual MCS queue can use extra storage in the mcs_nodes[] array to
keep track of state and therefore uses directed wakeups.

The head contender has no such storage directly visible to the
unlocker.  So the unlocker searches a hash table with open addressing
using a simple binary Galois linear feedback shift register.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429901803-29771-9-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 12:37:05 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 2aa79af642 locking/qspinlock: Revert to test-and-set on hypervisors
When we detect a hypervisor (!paravirt, see qspinlock paravirt support
patches), revert to a simple test-and-set lock to avoid the horrors
of queue preemption.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429901803-29771-8-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 12:36:58 +02:00
Waiman Long 2c83e8e949 locking/qspinlock: Use a simple write to grab the lock
Currently, atomic_cmpxchg() is used to get the lock. However, this
is not really necessary if there is more than one task in the queue
and the queue head don't need to reset the tail code. For that case,
a simple write to set the lock bit is enough as the queue head will
be the only one eligible to get the lock as long as it checks that
both the lock and pending bits are not set. The current pending bit
waiting code will ensure that the bit will not be set as soon as the
tail code in the lock is set.

With that change, the are some slight improvement in the performance
of the queued spinlock in the 5M loop micro-benchmark run on a 4-socket
Westere-EX machine as shown in the tables below.

		[Standalone/Embedded - same node]
  # of tasks	Before patch	After patch	%Change
  ----------	-----------	----------	-------
       3	 2324/2321	2248/2265	 -3%/-2%
       4	 2890/2896	2819/2831	 -2%/-2%
       5	 3611/3595	3522/3512	 -2%/-2%
       6	 4281/4276	4173/4160	 -3%/-3%
       7	 5018/5001	4875/4861	 -3%/-3%
       8	 5759/5750	5563/5568	 -3%/-3%

		[Standalone/Embedded - different nodes]
  # of tasks	Before patch	After patch	%Change
  ----------	-----------	----------	-------
       3	12242/12237	12087/12093	 -1%/-1%
       4	10688/10696	10507/10521	 -2%/-2%

It was also found that this change produced a much bigger performance
improvement in the newer IvyBridge-EX chip and was essentially to close
the performance gap between the ticket spinlock and queued spinlock.

The disk workload of the AIM7 benchmark was run on a 4-socket
Westmere-EX machine with both ext4 and xfs RAM disks at 3000 users
on a 3.14 based kernel. The results of the test runs were:

                AIM7 XFS Disk Test
  kernel                 JPM    Real Time   Sys Time    Usr Time
  -----                  ---    ---------   --------    --------
  ticketlock            5678233    3.17       96.61       5.81
  qspinlock             5750799    3.13       94.83       5.97

                AIM7 EXT4 Disk Test
  kernel                 JPM    Real Time   Sys Time    Usr Time
  -----                  ---    ---------   --------    --------
  ticketlock            1114551   16.15      509.72       7.11
  qspinlock             2184466    8.24      232.99       6.01

The ext4 filesystem run had a much higher spinlock contention than
the xfs filesystem run.

The "ebizzy -m" test was also run with the following results:

  kernel               records/s  Real Time   Sys Time    Usr Time
  -----                ---------  ---------   --------    --------
  ticketlock             2075       10.00      216.35       3.49
  qspinlock              3023       10.00      198.20       4.80

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429901803-29771-7-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 12:36:55 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 69f9cae909 locking/qspinlock: Optimize for smaller NR_CPUS
When we allow for a max NR_CPUS < 2^14 we can optimize the pending
wait-acquire and the xchg_tail() operations.

By growing the pending bit to a byte, we reduce the tail to 16bit.
This means we can use xchg16 for the tail part and do away with all
the repeated compxchg() operations.

This in turn allows us to unconditionally acquire; the locked state
as observed by the wait loops cannot change. And because both locked
and pending are now a full byte we can use simple stores for the
state transition, obviating one atomic operation entirely.

This optimization is needed to make the qspinlock achieve performance
parity with ticket spinlock at light load.

All this is horribly broken on Alpha pre EV56 (and any other arch that
cannot do single-copy atomic byte stores).

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429901803-29771-6-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 12:36:48 +02:00
Waiman Long 6403bd7d0e locking/qspinlock: Extract out code snippets for the next patch
This is a preparatory patch that extracts out the following 2 code
snippets to prepare for the next performance optimization patch.

 1) the logic for the exchange of new and previous tail code words
    into a new xchg_tail() function.
 2) the logic for clearing the pending bit and setting the locked bit
    into a new clear_pending_set_locked() function.

This patch also simplifies the trylock operation before queuing by
calling queued_spin_trylock() directly.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429901803-29771-5-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 12:36:41 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra (Intel) c1fb159db9 locking/qspinlock: Add pending bit
Because the qspinlock needs to touch a second cacheline (the per-cpu
mcs_nodes[]); add a pending bit and allow a single in-word spinner
before we punt to the second cacheline.

It is possible so observe the pending bit without the locked bit when
the last owner has just released but the pending owner has not yet
taken ownership.

In this case we would normally queue -- because the pending bit is
already taken. However, in this case the pending bit is guaranteed
to be released 'soon', therefore wait for it and avoid queueing.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429901803-29771-4-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 12:36:32 +02:00
Waiman Long a33fda35e3 locking/qspinlock: Introduce a simple generic 4-byte queued spinlock
This patch introduces a new generic queued spinlock implementation that
can serve as an alternative to the default ticket spinlock. Compared
with the ticket spinlock, this queued spinlock should be almost as fair
as the ticket spinlock. It has about the same speed in single-thread
and it can be much faster in high contention situations especially when
the spinlock is embedded within the data structure to be protected.

Only in light to moderate contention where the average queue depth
is around 1-3 will this queued spinlock be potentially a bit slower
due to the higher slowpath overhead.

This queued spinlock is especially suit to NUMA machines with a large
number of cores as the chance of spinlock contention is much higher
in those machines. The cost of contention is also higher because of
slower inter-node memory traffic.

Due to the fact that spinlocks are acquired with preemption disabled,
the process will not be migrated to another CPU while it is trying
to get a spinlock. Ignoring interrupt handling, a CPU can only be
contending in one spinlock at any one time. Counting soft IRQ, hard
IRQ and NMI, a CPU can only have a maximum of 4 concurrent lock waiting
activities.  By allocating a set of per-cpu queue nodes and used them
to form a waiting queue, we can encode the queue node address into a
much smaller 24-bit size (including CPU number and queue node index)
leaving one byte for the lock.

Please note that the queue node is only needed when waiting for the
lock. Once the lock is acquired, the queue node can be released to
be used later.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>
Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Raghavendra K T <raghavendra.kt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429901803-29771-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 12:36:25 +02:00
Waiman Long 59aabfc7e9 locking/rwsem: Reduce spinlock contention in wakeup after up_read()/up_write()
In up_write()/up_read(), rwsem_wake() will be called whenever it
detects that some writers/readers are waiting. The rwsem_wake()
function will take the wait_lock and call __rwsem_do_wake() to do the
real wakeup.  For a heavily contended rwsem, doing a spin_lock() on
wait_lock will cause further contention on the heavily contended rwsem
cacheline resulting in delay in the completion of the up_read/up_write
operations.

This patch makes the wait_lock taking and the call to __rwsem_do_wake()
optional if at least one spinning writer is present. The spinning
writer will be able to take the rwsem and call rwsem_wake() later
when it calls up_write(). With the presence of a spinning writer,
rwsem_wake() will now try to acquire the lock using trylock. If that
fails, it will just quit.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Acked-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@hp.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Scott J Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430428337-16802-2-git-send-email-Waiman.Long@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 12:27:59 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner 0782e63bc6 sched: Handle priority boosted tasks proper in setscheduler()
Ronny reported that the following scenario is not handled correctly:

	T1 (prio = 10)
	   lock(rtmutex);

	T2 (prio = 20)
	   lock(rtmutex)
	      boost T1

	T1 (prio = 20)
	   sys_set_scheduler(prio = 30)
	   T1 prio = 30
	   ....
	   sys_set_scheduler(prio = 10)
	   T1 prio = 30

The last step is wrong as T1 should now be back at prio 20.

Commit c365c292d0 ("sched: Consider pi boosting in setscheduler()")
only handles the case where a boosted tasks tries to lower its
priority.

Fix it by taking the new effective priority into account for the
decision whether a change of the priority is required.

Reported-by: Ronny Meeus <ronny.meeus@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Fixes: c365c292d0 ("sched: Consider pi boosting in setscheduler()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1505051806060.4225@nanos
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-05-08 11:53:55 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner ccdd92c17e rtmutex: Remove bogus hrtimer_active() check
The check for hrtimer_active() after starting the timer is
pointless. If the timer is inactive it has expired already and
therefor the task pointer is already NULL.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203503.081830481@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-04-22 17:06:51 +02:00
Peter Zijlstra d7bc3197b4 lockdep: Make print_lock() robust against concurrent release
During sysrq's show-held-locks command it is possible that
hlock_class() returns NULL for a given lock. The result is then (after
the warning):

	|BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000001c
	|IP: [<c1088145>] get_usage_chars+0x5/0x100
	|Call Trace:
	| [<c1088263>] print_lock_name+0x23/0x60
	| [<c1576b57>] print_lock+0x5d/0x7e
	| [<c1088314>] lockdep_print_held_locks+0x74/0xe0
	| [<c1088652>] debug_show_all_locks+0x132/0x1b0
	| [<c1315c48>] sysrq_handle_showlocks+0x8/0x10

This *might* happen because the thread on the other CPU drops the lock
after we are looking ->lockdep_depth and ->held_locks points no longer
to a lock that is held.

The fix here is to simply ignore it and continue.

Reported-by: Andreas Messerschmid <andreas@linutronix.de>
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: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-04-17 09:42:14 +02:00