linux-stable/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c
Waiman Long 4b486b535c locking/rwsem: Exit read lock slowpath if queue empty & no writer
It was discovered that a constant stream of readers with occassional
writers pounding on a rwsem may cause many of the readers to enter the
slowpath unnecessarily thus increasing latency and lowering performance.

In the current code, a reader entering the slowpath critical section
will unconditionally set the WAITING_BIAS, if not set yet, and clear
its active count even if no one is in the wait queue and no writer
is present. This causes some incoming readers to observe the presence
of waiters in the wait queue and hence have to go into the slowpath
themselves.

With sufficient numbers of readers and a relatively short lock hold time,
the WAITING_BIAS may be repeatedly turned on and off and a substantial
portion of the readers will go into the slowpath sustaining a rather
long queue in the wait queue spinlock and repeated WAITING_BIAS on/off
cycle until the logjam is broken opportunistically.

To avoid this situation from happening, an additional check is added to
detect the special case that the reader in the critical section is the
only one in the wait queue and no writer is present. When that happens,
it can just exit the slowpath and return immediately as its active count
has already been set in the lock.  Other incoming readers won't observe
the presence of waiters and so will not be forced into the slowpath.

The issue was found in a customer site where they had an application
that pounded on the pread64 syscalls heavily on an XFS filesystem. The
application was run in a recent 4-socket boxes with a lot of CPUs. They
saw significant spinlock contention in the rwsem_down_read_failed() call.
With this patch applied, the system CPU usage went down from 85% to 57%,
and the spinlock contention in the pread64 syscalls was gone.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.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/1532459425-19204-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-09-10 10:16:39 +02:00

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
/* rwsem.c: R/W semaphores: contention handling functions
*
* Written by David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com).
* Derived from arch/i386/kernel/semaphore.c
*
* Writer lock-stealing by Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
* and Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
*
* Optimistic spinning by Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@intel.com>
* and Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>. Based on mutexes.
*/
#include <linux/rwsem.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/sched/signal.h>
#include <linux/sched/rt.h>
#include <linux/sched/wake_q.h>
#include <linux/sched/debug.h>
#include <linux/osq_lock.h>
#include "rwsem.h"
/*
* Guide to the rw_semaphore's count field for common values.
* (32-bit case illustrated, similar for 64-bit)
*
* 0x0000000X (1) X readers active or attempting lock, no writer waiting
* X = #active_readers + #readers attempting to lock
* (X*ACTIVE_BIAS)
*
* 0x00000000 rwsem is unlocked, and no one is waiting for the lock or
* attempting to read lock or write lock.
*
* 0xffff000X (1) X readers active or attempting lock, with waiters for lock
* X = #active readers + # readers attempting lock
* (X*ACTIVE_BIAS + WAITING_BIAS)
* (2) 1 writer attempting lock, no waiters for lock
* X-1 = #active readers + #readers attempting lock
* ((X-1)*ACTIVE_BIAS + ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS)
* (3) 1 writer active, no waiters for lock
* X-1 = #active readers + #readers attempting lock
* ((X-1)*ACTIVE_BIAS + ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS)
*
* 0xffff0001 (1) 1 reader active or attempting lock, waiters for lock
* (WAITING_BIAS + ACTIVE_BIAS)
* (2) 1 writer active or attempting lock, no waiters for lock
* (ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS)
*
* 0xffff0000 (1) There are writers or readers queued but none active
* or in the process of attempting lock.
* (WAITING_BIAS)
* Note: writer can attempt to steal lock for this count by adding
* ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS in cmpxchg and checking the old count
*
* 0xfffe0001 (1) 1 writer active, or attempting lock. Waiters on queue.
* (ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS + WAITING_BIAS)
*
* Note: Readers attempt to lock by adding ACTIVE_BIAS in down_read and checking
* the count becomes more than 0 for successful lock acquisition,
* i.e. the case where there are only readers or nobody has lock.
* (1st and 2nd case above).
*
* Writers attempt to lock by adding ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS in down_write and
* checking the count becomes ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS for successful lock
* acquisition (i.e. nobody else has lock or attempts lock). If
* unsuccessful, in rwsem_down_write_failed, we'll check to see if there
* are only waiters but none active (5th case above), and attempt to
* steal the lock.
*
*/
/*
* Initialize an rwsem:
*/
void __init_rwsem(struct rw_semaphore *sem, const char *name,
struct lock_class_key *key)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
/*
* Make sure we are not reinitializing a held semaphore:
*/
debug_check_no_locks_freed((void *)sem, sizeof(*sem));
lockdep_init_map(&sem->dep_map, name, key, 0);
#endif
atomic_long_set(&sem->count, RWSEM_UNLOCKED_VALUE);
raw_spin_lock_init(&sem->wait_lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sem->wait_list);
#ifdef CONFIG_RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
sem->owner = NULL;
osq_lock_init(&sem->osq);
#endif
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__init_rwsem);
enum rwsem_waiter_type {
RWSEM_WAITING_FOR_WRITE,
RWSEM_WAITING_FOR_READ
};
struct rwsem_waiter {
struct list_head list;
struct task_struct *task;
enum rwsem_waiter_type type;
};
enum rwsem_wake_type {
RWSEM_WAKE_ANY, /* Wake whatever's at head of wait list */
RWSEM_WAKE_READERS, /* Wake readers only */
RWSEM_WAKE_READ_OWNED /* Waker thread holds the read lock */
};
/*
* handle the lock release when processes blocked on it that can now run
* - if we come here from up_xxxx(), then:
* - the 'active part' of count (&0x0000ffff) reached 0 (but may have changed)
* - the 'waiting part' of count (&0xffff0000) is -ve (and will still be so)
* - there must be someone on the queue
* - the wait_lock must be held by the caller
* - tasks are marked for wakeup, the caller must later invoke wake_up_q()
* to actually wakeup the blocked task(s) and drop the reference count,
* preferably when the wait_lock is released
* - woken process blocks are discarded from the list after having task zeroed
* - writers are only marked woken if downgrading is false
*/
static void __rwsem_mark_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem,
enum rwsem_wake_type wake_type,
struct wake_q_head *wake_q)
{
struct rwsem_waiter *waiter, *tmp;
long oldcount, woken = 0, adjustment = 0;
/*
* Take a peek at the queue head waiter such that we can determine
* the wakeup(s) to perform.
*/
waiter = list_first_entry(&sem->wait_list, struct rwsem_waiter, list);
if (waiter->type == RWSEM_WAITING_FOR_WRITE) {
if (wake_type == RWSEM_WAKE_ANY) {
/*
* Mark writer at the front of the queue for wakeup.
* Until the task is actually later awoken later by
* the caller, other writers are able to steal it.
* Readers, on the other hand, will block as they
* will notice the queued writer.
*/
wake_q_add(wake_q, waiter->task);
}
return;
}
/*
* Writers might steal the lock before we grant it to the next reader.
* We prefer to do the first reader grant before counting readers
* so we can bail out early if a writer stole the lock.
*/
if (wake_type != RWSEM_WAKE_READ_OWNED) {
adjustment = RWSEM_ACTIVE_READ_BIAS;
try_reader_grant:
oldcount = atomic_long_fetch_add(adjustment, &sem->count);
if (unlikely(oldcount < RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS)) {
/*
* If the count is still less than RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS
* after removing the adjustment, it is assumed that
* a writer has stolen the lock. We have to undo our
* reader grant.
*/
if (atomic_long_add_return(-adjustment, &sem->count) <
RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS)
return;
/* Last active locker left. Retry waking readers. */
goto try_reader_grant;
}
/*
* It is not really necessary to set it to reader-owned here,
* but it gives the spinners an early indication that the
* readers now have the lock.
*/
rwsem_set_reader_owned(sem);
}
/*
* Grant an infinite number of read locks to the readers at the front
* of the queue. We know that woken will be at least 1 as we accounted
* for above. Note we increment the 'active part' of the count by the
* number of readers before waking any processes up.
*/
list_for_each_entry_safe(waiter, tmp, &sem->wait_list, list) {
struct task_struct *tsk;
if (waiter->type == RWSEM_WAITING_FOR_WRITE)
break;
woken++;
tsk = waiter->task;
wake_q_add(wake_q, tsk);
list_del(&waiter->list);
/*
* Ensure that the last operation is setting the reader
* waiter to nil such that rwsem_down_read_failed() cannot
* race with do_exit() by always holding a reference count
* to the task to wakeup.
*/
smp_store_release(&waiter->task, NULL);
}
adjustment = woken * RWSEM_ACTIVE_READ_BIAS - adjustment;
if (list_empty(&sem->wait_list)) {
/* hit end of list above */
adjustment -= RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS;
}
if (adjustment)
atomic_long_add(adjustment, &sem->count);
}
/*
* Wait for the read lock to be granted
*/
static inline struct rw_semaphore __sched *
__rwsem_down_read_failed_common(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int state)
{
long count, adjustment = -RWSEM_ACTIVE_READ_BIAS;
struct rwsem_waiter waiter;
DEFINE_WAKE_Q(wake_q);
waiter.task = current;
waiter.type = RWSEM_WAITING_FOR_READ;
raw_spin_lock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
if (list_empty(&sem->wait_list)) {
/*
* In case the wait queue is empty and the lock isn't owned
* by a writer, this reader can exit the slowpath and return
* immediately as its RWSEM_ACTIVE_READ_BIAS has already
* been set in the count.
*/
if (atomic_long_read(&sem->count) >= 0) {
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
return sem;
}
adjustment += RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS;
}
list_add_tail(&waiter.list, &sem->wait_list);
/* we're now waiting on the lock, but no longer actively locking */
count = atomic_long_add_return(adjustment, &sem->count);
/*
* If there are no active locks, wake the front queued process(es).
*
* If there are no writers and we are first in the queue,
* wake our own waiter to join the existing active readers !
*/
if (count == RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS ||
(count > RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS &&
adjustment != -RWSEM_ACTIVE_READ_BIAS))
__rwsem_mark_wake(sem, RWSEM_WAKE_ANY, &wake_q);
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
wake_up_q(&wake_q);
/* wait to be given the lock */
while (true) {
set_current_state(state);
if (!waiter.task)
break;
if (signal_pending_state(state, current)) {
raw_spin_lock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
if (waiter.task)
goto out_nolock;
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
break;
}
schedule();
}
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
return sem;
out_nolock:
list_del(&waiter.list);
if (list_empty(&sem->wait_list))
atomic_long_add(-RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS, &sem->count);
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
return ERR_PTR(-EINTR);
}
__visible struct rw_semaphore * __sched
rwsem_down_read_failed(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
return __rwsem_down_read_failed_common(sem, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(rwsem_down_read_failed);
__visible struct rw_semaphore * __sched
rwsem_down_read_failed_killable(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
return __rwsem_down_read_failed_common(sem, TASK_KILLABLE);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(rwsem_down_read_failed_killable);
/*
* This function must be called with the sem->wait_lock held to prevent
* race conditions between checking the rwsem wait list and setting the
* sem->count accordingly.
*/
static inline bool rwsem_try_write_lock(long count, struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
/*
* Avoid trying to acquire write lock if count isn't RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS.
*/
if (count != RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS)
return false;
/*
* Acquire the lock by trying to set it to ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS. If there
* are other tasks on the wait list, we need to add on WAITING_BIAS.
*/
count = list_is_singular(&sem->wait_list) ?
RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS :
RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS + RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS;
if (atomic_long_cmpxchg_acquire(&sem->count, RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS, count)
== RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS) {
rwsem_set_owner(sem);
return true;
}
return false;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
/*
* Try to acquire write lock before the writer has been put on wait queue.
*/
static inline bool rwsem_try_write_lock_unqueued(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
long old, count = atomic_long_read(&sem->count);
while (true) {
if (!(count == 0 || count == RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS))
return false;
old = atomic_long_cmpxchg_acquire(&sem->count, count,
count + RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS);
if (old == count) {
rwsem_set_owner(sem);
return true;
}
count = old;
}
}
static inline bool owner_on_cpu(struct task_struct *owner)
{
/*
* As lock holder preemption issue, we both skip spinning if
* task is not on cpu or its cpu is preempted
*/
return owner->on_cpu && !vcpu_is_preempted(task_cpu(owner));
}
static inline bool rwsem_can_spin_on_owner(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
struct task_struct *owner;
bool ret = true;
BUILD_BUG_ON(!rwsem_has_anonymous_owner(RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN));
if (need_resched())
return false;
rcu_read_lock();
owner = READ_ONCE(sem->owner);
if (owner) {
ret = is_rwsem_owner_spinnable(owner) &&
owner_on_cpu(owner);
}
rcu_read_unlock();
return ret;
}
/*
* Return true only if we can still spin on the owner field of the rwsem.
*/
static noinline bool rwsem_spin_on_owner(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
struct task_struct *owner = READ_ONCE(sem->owner);
if (!is_rwsem_owner_spinnable(owner))
return false;
rcu_read_lock();
while (owner && (READ_ONCE(sem->owner) == owner)) {
/*
* Ensure we emit the owner->on_cpu, dereference _after_
* checking sem->owner still matches owner, if that fails,
* owner might point to free()d memory, if it still matches,
* the rcu_read_lock() ensures the memory stays valid.
*/
barrier();
/*
* abort spinning when need_resched or owner is not running or
* owner's cpu is preempted.
*/
if (need_resched() || !owner_on_cpu(owner)) {
rcu_read_unlock();
return false;
}
cpu_relax();
}
rcu_read_unlock();
/*
* If there is a new owner or the owner is not set, we continue
* spinning.
*/
return is_rwsem_owner_spinnable(READ_ONCE(sem->owner));
}
static bool rwsem_optimistic_spin(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
bool taken = false;
preempt_disable();
/* sem->wait_lock should not be held when doing optimistic spinning */
if (!rwsem_can_spin_on_owner(sem))
goto done;
if (!osq_lock(&sem->osq))
goto done;
/*
* Optimistically spin on the owner field and attempt to acquire the
* lock whenever the owner changes. Spinning will be stopped when:
* 1) the owning writer isn't running; or
* 2) readers own the lock as we can't determine if they are
* actively running or not.
*/
while (rwsem_spin_on_owner(sem)) {
/*
* Try to acquire the lock
*/
if (rwsem_try_write_lock_unqueued(sem)) {
taken = true;
break;
}
/*
* When there's no owner, we might have preempted between the
* owner acquiring the lock and setting the owner field. If
* we're an RT task that will live-lock because we won't let
* the owner complete.
*/
if (!sem->owner && (need_resched() || rt_task(current)))
break;
/*
* The cpu_relax() call is a compiler barrier which forces
* everything in this loop to be re-loaded. We don't need
* memory barriers as we'll eventually observe the right
* values at the cost of a few extra spins.
*/
cpu_relax();
}
osq_unlock(&sem->osq);
done:
preempt_enable();
return taken;
}
/*
* Return true if the rwsem has active spinner
*/
static inline bool rwsem_has_spinner(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
return osq_is_locked(&sem->osq);
}
#else
static bool rwsem_optimistic_spin(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
return false;
}
static inline bool rwsem_has_spinner(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
return false;
}
#endif
/*
* Wait until we successfully acquire the write lock
*/
static inline struct rw_semaphore *
__rwsem_down_write_failed_common(struct rw_semaphore *sem, int state)
{
long count;
bool waiting = true; /* any queued threads before us */
struct rwsem_waiter waiter;
struct rw_semaphore *ret = sem;
DEFINE_WAKE_Q(wake_q);
/* undo write bias from down_write operation, stop active locking */
count = atomic_long_sub_return(RWSEM_ACTIVE_WRITE_BIAS, &sem->count);
/* do optimistic spinning and steal lock if possible */
if (rwsem_optimistic_spin(sem))
return sem;
/*
* Optimistic spinning failed, proceed to the slowpath
* and block until we can acquire the sem.
*/
waiter.task = current;
waiter.type = RWSEM_WAITING_FOR_WRITE;
raw_spin_lock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
/* account for this before adding a new element to the list */
if (list_empty(&sem->wait_list))
waiting = false;
list_add_tail(&waiter.list, &sem->wait_list);
/* we're now waiting on the lock, but no longer actively locking */
if (waiting) {
count = atomic_long_read(&sem->count);
/*
* If there were already threads queued before us and there are
* no active writers, the lock must be read owned; so we try to
* wake any read locks that were queued ahead of us.
*/
if (count > RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS) {
__rwsem_mark_wake(sem, RWSEM_WAKE_READERS, &wake_q);
/*
* The wakeup is normally called _after_ the wait_lock
* is released, but given that we are proactively waking
* readers we can deal with the wake_q overhead as it is
* similar to releasing and taking the wait_lock again
* for attempting rwsem_try_write_lock().
*/
wake_up_q(&wake_q);
/*
* Reinitialize wake_q after use.
*/
wake_q_init(&wake_q);
}
} else
count = atomic_long_add_return(RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS, &sem->count);
/* wait until we successfully acquire the lock */
set_current_state(state);
while (true) {
if (rwsem_try_write_lock(count, sem))
break;
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
/* Block until there are no active lockers. */
do {
if (signal_pending_state(state, current))
goto out_nolock;
schedule();
set_current_state(state);
} while ((count = atomic_long_read(&sem->count)) & RWSEM_ACTIVE_MASK);
raw_spin_lock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
}
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
list_del(&waiter.list);
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
return ret;
out_nolock:
__set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
raw_spin_lock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
list_del(&waiter.list);
if (list_empty(&sem->wait_list))
atomic_long_add(-RWSEM_WAITING_BIAS, &sem->count);
else
__rwsem_mark_wake(sem, RWSEM_WAKE_ANY, &wake_q);
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&sem->wait_lock);
wake_up_q(&wake_q);
return ERR_PTR(-EINTR);
}
__visible struct rw_semaphore * __sched
rwsem_down_write_failed(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
return __rwsem_down_write_failed_common(sem, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(rwsem_down_write_failed);
__visible struct rw_semaphore * __sched
rwsem_down_write_failed_killable(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
return __rwsem_down_write_failed_common(sem, TASK_KILLABLE);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(rwsem_down_write_failed_killable);
/*
* handle waking up a waiter on the semaphore
* - up_read/up_write has decremented the active part of count if we come here
*/
__visible
struct rw_semaphore *rwsem_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
unsigned long flags;
DEFINE_WAKE_Q(wake_q);
/*
* __rwsem_down_write_failed_common(sem)
* rwsem_optimistic_spin(sem)
* osq_unlock(sem->osq)
* ...
* atomic_long_add_return(&sem->count)
*
* - VS -
*
* __up_write()
* if (atomic_long_sub_return_release(&sem->count) < 0)
* rwsem_wake(sem)
* osq_is_locked(&sem->osq)
*
* And __up_write() must observe !osq_is_locked() when it observes the
* atomic_long_add_return() in order to not miss a wakeup.
*
* This boils down to:
*
* [S.rel] X = 1 [RmW] r0 = (Y += 0)
* MB RMB
* [RmW] Y += 1 [L] r1 = X
*
* exists (r0=1 /\ r1=0)
*/
smp_rmb();
/*
* If a spinner is present, it is not necessary to do the wakeup.
* Try to do wakeup only if the trylock succeeds to minimize
* spinlock contention which may introduce too much delay in the
* unlock operation.
*
* spinning writer up_write/up_read caller
* --------------- -----------------------
* [S] osq_unlock() [L] osq
* MB RMB
* [RmW] rwsem_try_write_lock() [RmW] spin_trylock(wait_lock)
*
* Here, it is important to make sure that there won't be a missed
* wakeup while the rwsem is free and the only spinning writer goes
* to sleep without taking the rwsem. Even when the spinning writer
* is just going to break out of the waiting loop, it will still do
* a trylock in rwsem_down_write_failed() before sleeping. IOW, if
* rwsem_has_spinner() is true, it will guarantee at least one
* trylock attempt on the rwsem later on.
*/
if (rwsem_has_spinner(sem)) {
/*
* The smp_rmb() here is to make sure that the spinner
* state is consulted before reading the wait_lock.
*/
smp_rmb();
if (!raw_spin_trylock_irqsave(&sem->wait_lock, flags))
return sem;
goto locked;
}
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&sem->wait_lock, flags);
locked:
if (!list_empty(&sem->wait_list))
__rwsem_mark_wake(sem, RWSEM_WAKE_ANY, &wake_q);
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sem->wait_lock, flags);
wake_up_q(&wake_q);
return sem;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(rwsem_wake);
/*
* downgrade a write lock into a read lock
* - caller incremented waiting part of count and discovered it still negative
* - just wake up any readers at the front of the queue
*/
__visible
struct rw_semaphore *rwsem_downgrade_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
{
unsigned long flags;
DEFINE_WAKE_Q(wake_q);
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&sem->wait_lock, flags);
if (!list_empty(&sem->wait_list))
__rwsem_mark_wake(sem, RWSEM_WAKE_READ_OWNED, &wake_q);
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sem->wait_lock, flags);
wake_up_q(&wake_q);
return sem;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(rwsem_downgrade_wake);