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| | | * | | | | | | | | | rcu: Reduce leaf fanout for strict RCU grace periodsPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because strict RCU grace periods will complete more quickly, they will experience greater lock contention on each leaf rcu_node structure's ->lock. This commit therefore reduces the leaf fanout in order to reduce this lock contention. Note that this also has the effect of reducing the number of CPUs supported to 16 in the case of CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF=2 or 81 in the case of CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF=3. However, greater numbers of CPUs are probably a bad idea when using CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y. Those wishing to live dangerously are free to edit their kernel/rcu/Kconfig files accordingly. Reported-by Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | | rcu: Add Kconfig option for strict RCU grace periodsPaul E. McKenney2020-08-242-0/+17
| | | |/ / / / / / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | People running automated tests have asked for a way to make RCU minimize grace-period duration in order to increase the probability of KASAN detecting a pointer being improperly leaked from an RCU read-side critical section, for example, like this: rcu_read_lock(); p = rcu_dereference(gp); do_something_with(p); // OK rcu_read_unlock(); do_something_else_with(p); // BUG!!! The rcupdate.rcu_expedited boot parameter is a start in this direction, given that it makes calls to synchronize_rcu() instead invoke the faster (and more wasteful) synchronize_rcu_expedited(). However, this does nothing to shorten RCU grace periods that are instead initiated by call_rcu(), and RCU pointer-leak bugs can involve call_rcu() just as surely as they can synchronize_rcu(). This commit therefore adds a RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD Kconfig option that will be used to shorten normal (non-expedited) RCU grace periods. This commit also dumps out a message when this option is in effect. Later commits will actually shorten grace periods. Reported-by Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | * | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'scftorture.2020.08.24a' into HEADPaul E. McKenney2020-09-036-168/+745
| | |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | scftorture.2020.08.24a: Torture tests for smp_call_function() and friends.
| | | * | | | | | | | | | rcuperf: Change rcuperf to rcuscalePaul E. McKenney2020-08-243-167/+167
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit further avoids conflation of rcuperf with the kernel's perf feature by renaming kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c to kernel/rcu/rcuscale.c, and also by similarly renaming the functions and variables inside this file. This has the side effect of changing the names of the kernel boot parameters, so kernel-parameters.txt and ver_functions.sh are also updated. The rcutorture --torture type was also updated from rcuperf to rcuscale. [ paulmck: Fix bugs located by Stephen Rothwell. ] Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | | scftorture: Add cond_resched() to test loopPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Although the test loop does randomly delay, which would provide quiescent states and so forth, it is possible for there to be a series of long smp_call_function*() handler runtimes with no delays, which results in softlockup and RCU CPU stall warning messages. This commit therefore inserts a cond_resched() into the main test loop. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | | scftorture: Adapt memory-ordering test to UP operationPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On uniprocessor systems, smp_call_function() does nothing. This commit therefore avoids complaining about the lack of handler accesses in the single-CPU case where there is no handler. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | | scftorture: Block scftorture_invoker() kthreads for offline CPUsPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-1/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, CPU-hotplug operations might result in all but two of (say) 100 CPUs being offline, which in turn might result in false-positive diagnostics due to overload. This commit therefore causes scftorture_invoker() kthreads for offline CPUs to loop blocking for 200 milliseconds at a time, thus continuously adjusting the number of threads to match the number of online CPUs. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | | scftorture: Check unexpected "switch" statement valuePaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit adds a "default" case to the switch statement in scftorture_invoke_one() which contains a WARN_ON_ONCE() and an assignment to ->scfc_out to suppress knock-on warnings. These knock-on warnings could otherwise cause the user to think that there was a memory-ordering problem in smp_call_function() instead of a bug in scftorture.c itself. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | | scftorture: Make symbol 'scf_torture_rand' staticWei Yongjun2020-08-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The sparse tool complains as follows kernel/scftorture.c:124:1: warning: symbol '__pcpu_scope_scf_torture_rand' was not declared. Should it be static? And this per-CPU variable is not used outside of scftorture.c, so this commit marks it static. Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | | scftorture: Prevent compiler from reducing race probabilitiesPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-2/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Detecting smp_call_function() memory misordering requires close timing, so it is necessary to have the checks immediately before and after the call to the smp_call_function*() function under test. This commit therefore inserts barrier() calls to prevent the compiler from optimizing memory-misordering detection down into the zone of extreme improbability. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | | scftorture: Flag errors in torture-compatible mannerPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-4/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit prints error counts on the statistics line and also adds a "!!!" if any of the counters are non-zero. Allocation failures are (somewhat) forgiven, but all other errors result in a "FAILURE" print at the end of the test. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | | scftorture: Consolidate scftorture_invoke_one() scf_check initializationPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-13/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit hoists much of the initialization of the scf_check structure out of the switch statement, thus saving a few lines of code. The initialization of the ->scfc_in field remains in each leg of the switch statement in order to more heavily stress memory ordering. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | | scftorture: Consolidate scftorture_invoke_one() check and kfree()Paul E. McKenney2020-08-241-18/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit moves checking of the ->scfc_out field and the freeing of the scf_check structure down below the end of switch statement, thus saving a few lines of code. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | | scftorture: Add smp_call_function() memory-ordering checksPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-8/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit adds checks for memory misordering across calls to and returns from smp_call_function() in the case where the caller waits. Misordering results in a splat. Note that in contrast to smp_call_function_single(), this code does not test memory ordering into the handler in the no-wait case because none of the handlers would be able to free the scf_check structure without introducing heavy synchronization to work out which was last. [ paulmck: s/GFP_KERNEL/GFP_ATOMIC/ per kernel test robot feedback. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | | scftorture: Add smp_call_function_many() memory-ordering checksPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-3/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit adds checks for memory misordering across calls to and returns from smp_call_function_many() in the case where the caller waits. Misordering results in a splat. Note that in contrast to smp_call_function_single(), this code does not test memory ordering into the handler in the no-wait case because none of the handlers would be able to free the scf_check structure without introducing heavy synchronization to work out which was last. [ paulmck: s/GFP_KERNEL/GFP_ATOMIC/ per kernel test robot feedback. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | | scftorture: Add smp_call_function_single() memory-ordering checksPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-8/+48
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit adds checks for memory misordering across calls to smp_call_function_single() and also across returns in the case where the caller waits. Misordering results in a splat. [ paulmck: s/GFP_KERNEL/GFP_ATOMIC/ per kernel test robot feedback. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | | scftorture: Summarize per-thread statisticsPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-4/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit summarizes the per-thread statistics, providing counts of the number of single, many, and all calls, both no-wait and wait, and, for the single case, the number where the target CPU was offline. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | | tick-sched: Clarify "NOHZ: local_softirq_pending" warningPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, can_stop_idle_tick() prints "NOHZ: local_softirq_pending HH" (where "HH" is the hexadecimal softirq vector number) when one or more non-RCU softirq handlers are still enabled when checking to stop the scheduler-tick interrupt. This message is not as enlightening as one might hope, so this commit changes it to "NOHZ tick-stop error: Non-RCU local softirq work is pending, handler #HH". Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | | scftorture: Implement weighted primitive selectionPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-27/+155
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit uses the scftorture.weight* kernel parameters to randomly chooses between smp_call_function_single(), smp_call_function_many(), and smp_call_function(). For each variant, it also randomly chooses whether to invoke it synchronously (wait=1) or asynchronously (wait=0). The percentage weighting for each option are dumped to the console log (search for "scf_sel_dump"). This accumulates statistics, which a later commit will dump out at the end of the run. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | | scftorture: Add smp_call_function() torture testPaul E. McKenney2020-08-242-0/+352
| | | |/ / / / / / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit adds an smp_call_function() torture test that repeatedly invokes this function and complains if things go badly awry. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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| | *-. \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge branches 'doc.2020.08.24a', 'fixes.2020.09.03b' and ↵Paul E. McKenney2020-09-0312-107/+117
| | |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | |_|/ / / / / / / / / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'torture.2020.08.24a' into HEAD doc.2020.08.24a: Documentation updates. fixes.2020.09.03b: Miscellaneous fixes. torture.2020.08.24a: Torture-test updates.
| | | | * | | | | | | | | rcutorture: Allow pointer leaks to test diagnostic codePaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit adds an rcutorture.leakpointer module parameter that intentionally leaks an RCU-protected pointer out of the RCU read-side critical section and checks to see if the corresponding grace period has elapsed, emitting a WARN_ON_ONCE() if so. This module parameter can be used to test facilities like CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD that end grace periods quickly. While in the area, also document rcutorture.irqreader, which was previously left out. Reported-by Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | | * | | | | | | | | rcutorture: Hoist OOM registry up one levelPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, registering and unregistering the OOM notifier is done right before and after the test, respectively. This will not work well for multi-threaded tests, so this commit hoists this registering and unregistering up into the rcu_torture_fwd_prog_init() and rcu_torture_fwd_prog_cleanup() functions. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | | * | | | | | | | | refperf: Avoid null pointer dereference when buf fails to allocateColin Ian King2020-08-241-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently in the unlikely event that buf fails to be allocated it is dereferenced a few times. Use the errexit flag to determine if buf should be written to to avoid the null pointer dereferences. Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference after null check") Fixes: f518f154ecef ("refperf: Dynamically allocate experiment-summary output buffer") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | | * | | | | | | | | rcutorture: Properly synchronize with OOM notifierPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-1/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current rcutorture forward-progress code assumes that it is the only cause of out-of-memory (OOM) events. For script-based rcutorture testing, this assumption is in fact correct. However, testing based on modprobe/rmmod might well encounter external OOM events, which could happen at any time. This commit therefore properly synchronizes the interaction between rcutorture's forward-progress testing and its OOM notifier by adding a global mutex. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | | * | | | | | | | | rcutorture: Properly set rcu_fwds for OOM handlingPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-1/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The conversion of rcu_fwds to dynamic allocation failed to actually allocate the required structure. This commit therefore allocates it, frees it, and updates rcu_fwds accordingly. While in the area, it abstracts the cleanup actions into rcu_torture_fwd_prog_cleanup(). Fixes: 5155be9994e5 ("rcutorture: Dynamically allocate rcu_fwds structure") Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | | * | | | | | | | | locktorture: Make function torture_percpu_rwsem_init() staticWei Yongjun2020-08-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The sparse tool complains as follows: kernel/locking/locktorture.c:569:6: warning: symbol 'torture_percpu_rwsem_init' was not declared. Should it be static? And this function is not used outside of locktorture.c, so this commit marks it static. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | | * | | | | | | | | rcutorture: Output number of elapsed grace periodsJoel Fernandes (Google)2020-08-241-2/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit adds code to print the grace-period number at the start of the test along with both the grace-period number and the number of elapsed grace periods at the end of the test. Note that variants of RCU)without the notion of a grace-period number (for example, Tiny RCU) just print zeroes. [ paulmck: Adjust commit log. ] Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | | * | | | | | | | | rcutorture: Remove KCSAN stubsPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-13/+0
| | | |/ / / / / / / / / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | KCSAN is now in mainline, so this commit removes the stubs for the data_race(), ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_WRITER(), and ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_ACCESS() macros. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | rcu: Shrink each possible cpu krcpZqiang2020-09-031-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | CPUs can go offline shortly after kfree_call_rcu() has been invoked, which can leave memory stranded until those CPUs come back online. This commit therefore drains the kcrp of each CPU, not just the ones that happen to be online. Acked-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | rcu/segcblist: Prevent useless GP start if no CBs to accelerateJoel Fernandes (Google)2020-09-031-1/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The rcu_segcblist_accelerate() function returns true iff it is necessary to request another grace period. A tracing session showed that this function unnecessarily requests grace periods. For example, consider the following sequence of events: 1. Callbacks are queued only on the NEXT segment of CPU A's callback list. 2. CPU A runs RCU_SOFTIRQ, accelerating these callbacks from NEXT to WAIT. 3. Thus rcu_segcblist_accelerate() returns true, requesting grace period N. 4. RCU's grace-period kthread wakes up on CPU B and starts grace period N. 4. CPU A notices the new grace period and invokes RCU_SOFTIRQ. 5. CPU A's RCU_SOFTIRQ again invokes rcu_segcblist_accelerate(), but there are no new callbacks. However, rcu_segcblist_accelerate() nevertheless (uselessly) requests a new grace period N+1. This extra grace period results in additional lock contention and also additional wakeups, all for no good reason. This commit therefore adds a check to rcu_segcblist_accelerate() that prevents the return of true when there are no new callbacks. This change reduces the number of grace periods (GPs) and wakeups in each of eleven five-second rcutorture runs as follows: +----+-------------------+-------------------+ | # | Number of GPs | Number of Wakeups | +====+=========+=========+=========+=========+ | 1 | With | Without | With | Without | +----+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | 2 | 75 | 89 | 113 | 119 | +----+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | 3 | 62 | 91 | 105 | 123 | +----+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | 4 | 60 | 79 | 98 | 110 | +----+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | 5 | 63 | 79 | 99 | 112 | +----+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | 6 | 57 | 89 | 96 | 123 | +----+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | 7 | 64 | 85 | 97 | 118 | +----+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | 8 | 58 | 83 | 98 | 113 | +----+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | 9 | 57 | 77 | 89 | 104 | +----+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | 10 | 66 | 82 | 98 | 119 | +----+---------+---------+---------+---------+ | 11 | 52 | 82 | 83 | 117 | +----+---------+---------+---------+---------+ The reduction in the number of wakeups ranges from 5% to 40%. Cc: urezki@gmail.com [ paulmck: Rework commit log and comment. ] Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | rcu: Remove unused __rcu_is_watching() functionPaul E. McKenney2020-08-242-6/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The x86/entry work removed all uses of __rcu_is_watching(), therefore this commit removes it entirely. Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <x86@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | rcu: Make FQS more aggressive in complaining about offline CPUsJoel Fernandes (Google)2020-08-241-4/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The RCU grace-period kthread's force-quiescent state (FQS) loop should never see an offline CPU that has not yet reported a quiescent state. After all, the offline CPU should have reported a quiescent state during the CPU-offline process, or, failing that, by rcu_gp_init() if it ran concurrently with either the CPU going offline or the last task on a leaf rcu_node structure exiting its RCU read-side critical section while all CPUs corresponding to that structure are offline. The FQS loop should therefore complain if it does see an offline CPU that has not yet reported a quiescent state. And it does, but only once the grace period has been in force for a full second. This commit therefore makes this warning more aggressive, so that it will trigger as soon as the condition makes its appearance. Light testing with TREE03 and hotplug shows no warnings. This commit also converts the warning to WARN_ON_ONCE() in order to stave off possible log spam. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | rcu: Clarify comments about FQS loop reporting quiescent statesJoel Fernandes (Google)2020-08-241-4/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since at least v4.19, the FQS loop no longer reports quiescent states for offline CPUs except in emergency situations. This commit therefore fixes the comment in rcu_gp_init() to match the current code. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | rcu/nocb: Add a warning for non-GP kthread running GP codePaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit increases RCU's ability to defend itself by emitting a warning if one of the nocb CB kthreads invokes the GP kthread's wait function. This warning augments a similar check that is carried out at the end of rcutorture testing and when RCU CPU stall warnings are emitted. The problem with those checks is that the miscreants have long since departed and disposed of any and all evidence. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | rcu: Move rcu_cpu_started per-CPU variable to rcu_dataPaul E. McKenney2020-08-242-7/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When the rcu_cpu_started per-CPU variable was added by commit f64c6013a202 ("rcu/x86: Provide early rcu_cpu_starting() callback"), there were multiple sets of per-CPU rcu_data structures. Therefore, the rcu_cpu_started flag was added as a separate per-CPU variable. But now there is only one set of per-CPU rcu_data structures, so this commit moves rcu_cpu_started to a new ->cpu_started field in that structure. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | rcu: Add READ_ONCE() to rcu_do_batch() access to rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dumpPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Given that sysfs can change the value of rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump at any time, this commit adds a READ_ONCE() to the accesses to that variable. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | rcu: Add READ_ONCE() to rcu_do_batch() access to rcu_kick_kthreadsPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Given that sysfs can change the value of rcu_kick_kthreads at any time, this commit adds a READ_ONCE() to the sole access to that variable. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | rcu: Add READ_ONCE() to rcu_do_batch() access to rcu_resched_nsPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-2/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Given that sysfs can change the value of rcu_resched_ns at any time, this commit adds a READ_ONCE() to the sole access to that variable. While in the area, this commit also adds bounds checking, clamping the value to at least a millisecond, but no longer than a second. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | rcu: Add READ_ONCE() to rcu_do_batch() access to rcu_divisorPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Given that sysfs can change the value of rcu_divisor at any time, this commit adds a READ_ONCE to the sole access to that variable. While in the area, this commit also adds bounds checking, clamping the value to a shift that makes sense for a signed long. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | nocb: Remove show_rcu_nocb_state() false positive printoutPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-3/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The rcu_data structure's ->nocb_timer field is used to defer wakeups of the corresponding no-CBs CPU's grace-period kthread ("rcuog*"), and that structure's ->nocb_defer_wakeup field is used to track such deferral. This means that the show_rcu_nocb_state() printing an error when those fields are set for a CPU not corresponding to a no-CBs grace-period kthread is erroneous. This commit therefore switches the check from ->nocb_timer to ->nocb_bypass_timer and removes the check of ->nocb_defer_wakeup. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | rcu/tree: Remove CONFIG_PREMPT_RCU check in force_qs_rnp()Neeraj Upadhyay2020-08-241-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Originally, the call to rcu_preempt_blocked_readers_cgp() from force_qs_rnp() had to be conditioned on CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y, as in commit a77da14ce9af ("rcu: Yet another fix for preemption and CPU hotplug"). However, there is now a CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=n definition of rcu_preempt_blocked_readers_cgp() that unconditionally returns zero, so invoking it is now safe. In addition, the CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=n definition of rcu_initiate_boost() simply releases the rcu_node structure's ->lock, which is what happens when the "if" condition evaluates to false. This commit therefore drops the IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU) check, so that rcu_initiate_boost() is called only in CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y kernels when there are readers blocking the current grace period. This does not change the behavior, but reduces code-reader confusion by eliminating non-CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y calls to rcu_initiate_boost(). Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | rcu/tree: Force quiescent state on callback overloadNeeraj Upadhyay2020-08-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On callback overload, it is necessary to quickly detect idle CPUs, and rcu_gp_fqs_check_wake() checks for this condition. Unfortunately, the code following the call to this function does not repeat this check, which means that in reality no actual quiescent-state forcing, instead only a couple of quick and pointless wakeups at the beginning of the grace period. This commit therefore adds a check for the RCU_GP_FLAG_OVLD flag in the post-wakeup "if" statement in rcu_gp_fqs_loop(). Fixes: 1fca4d12f4637 ("rcu: Expedite first two FQS scans under callback-overload conditions") Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | nocb: Clarify RCU nocb CPU error messagePaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A message of the form "rcu: !!! lDTs ." can be tracked down, but doing so is not trivial. This commit therefore eases this process by adding text so that this error message now reads as follows: "rcu: nocb GP activity on CB-only CPU!!! lDTs ." Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | rcu/trace: Use gp_seq_req in acceleration's rcu_grace_period tracepointJoel Fernandes (Google)2020-08-241-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | During acceleration of CB, the rsp's gp_seq is rcu_seq_snap'd. This is the value used for acceleration - it is the value of gp_seq at which it is safe the execute all callbacks in the callback list. The rdp's gp_seq is not very useful for this scenario. Make rcu_grace_period report the gp_seq_req instead as it allows one to reason about how the acceleration works. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | rcu: Initialize at declaration time in rcu_exp_handler()Paul E. McKenney2020-08-241-4/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit moves the initialization of the CONFIG_PREEMPT=n version of the rcu_exp_handler() function's rdp and rnp local variables into their respective declarations to save a couple lines of code. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | srcu: Remove KCSAN stubsPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-13/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | KCSAN is now in mainline, so this commit removes the stubs for the data_race(), ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_WRITER(), and ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_ACCESS() macros. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | rcu: Remove KCSAN stubs from update.cPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-13/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | KCSAN is now in mainline, so this commit removes the stubs for the data_race(), ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_WRITER(), and ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_ACCESS() macros. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
| | | * | | | | | | | | rcu: Remove KCSAN stubsPaul E. McKenney2020-08-241-13/+0
| | |/ / / / / / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | KCSAN is now in mainline, so this commit removes the stubs for the data_race(), ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_WRITER(), and ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_ACCESS() macros. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
* | | | | | | | | | | mm/madvise: introduce process_madvise() syscall: an external memory hinting APIMinchan Kim2020-10-181-0/+1
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| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is usecase that System Management Software(SMS) want to give a memory hint like MADV_[COLD|PAGEEOUT] to other processes and in the case of Android, it is the ActivityManagerService. The information required to make the reclaim decision is not known to the app. Instead, it is known to the centralized userspace daemon(ActivityManagerService), and that daemon must be able to initiate reclaim on its own without any app involvement. To solve the issue, this patch introduces a new syscall process_madvise(2). It uses pidfd of an external process to give the hint. It also supports vector address range because Android app has thousands of vmas due to zygote so it's totally waste of CPU and power if we should call the syscall one by one for each vma.(With testing 2000-vma syscall vs 1-vector syscall, it showed 15% performance improvement. I think it would be bigger in real practice because the testing ran very cache friendly environment). Another potential use case for the vector range is to amortize the cost ofTLB shootdowns for multiple ranges when using MADV_DONTNEED; this could benefit users like TCP receive zerocopy and malloc implementations. In future, we could find more usecases for other advises so let's make it happens as API since we introduce a new syscall at this moment. With that, existing madvise(2) user could replace it with process_madvise(2) with their own pid if they want to have batch address ranges support feature. ince it could affect other process's address range, only privileged process(PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS) or something else(e.g., being the same UID) gives it the right to ptrace the process could use it successfully. The flag argument is reserved for future use if we need to extend the API. I think supporting all hints madvise has/will supported/support to process_madvise is rather risky. Because we are not sure all hints make sense from external process and implementation for the hint may rely on the caller being in the current context so it could be error-prone. Thus, I just limited hints as MADV_[COLD|PAGEOUT] in this patch. If someone want to add other hints, we could hear the usecase and review it for each hint. It's safer for maintenance rather than introducing a buggy syscall but hard to fix it later. So finally, the API is as follows, ssize_t process_madvise(int pidfd, const struct iovec *iovec, unsigned long vlen, int advice, unsigned int flags); DESCRIPTION The process_madvise() system call is used to give advice or directions to the kernel about the address ranges from external process as well as local process. It provides the advice to address ranges of process described by iovec and vlen. The goal of such advice is to improve system or application performance. The pidfd selects the process referred to by the PID file descriptor specified in pidfd. (See pidofd_open(2) for further information) The pointer iovec points to an array of iovec structures, defined in <sys/uio.h> as: struct iovec { void *iov_base; /* starting address */ size_t iov_len; /* number of bytes to be advised */ }; The iovec describes address ranges beginning at address(iov_base) and with size length of bytes(iov_len). The vlen represents the number of elements in iovec. The advice is indicated in the advice argument, which is one of the following at this moment if the target process specified by pidfd is external. MADV_COLD MADV_PAGEOUT Permission to provide a hint to external process is governed by a ptrace access mode PTRACE_MODE_ATTACH_FSCREDS check; see ptrace(2). The process_madvise supports every advice madvise(2) has if target process is in same thread group with calling process so user could use process_madvise(2) to extend existing madvise(2) to support vector address ranges. RETURN VALUE On success, process_madvise() returns the number of bytes advised. This return value may be less than the total number of requested bytes, if an error occurred. The caller should check return value to determine whether a partial advice occurred. FAQ: Q.1 - Why does any external entity have better knowledge? Quote from Sandeep "For Android, every application (including the special SystemServer) are forked from Zygote. The reason of course is to share as many libraries and classes between the two as possible to benefit from the preloading during boot. After applications start, (almost) all of the APIs end up calling into this SystemServer process over IPC (binder) and back to the application. In a fully running system, the SystemServer monitors every single process periodically to calculate their PSS / RSS and also decides which process is "important" to the user for interactivity. So, because of how these processes start _and_ the fact that the SystemServer is looping to monitor each process, it does tend to *know* which address range of the application is not used / useful. Besides, we can never rely on applications to clean things up themselves. We've had the "hey app1, the system is low on memory, please trim your memory usage down" notifications for a long time[1]. They rely on applications honoring the broadcasts and very few do. So, if we want to avoid the inevitable killing of the application and restarting it, some way to be able to tell the OS about unimportant memory in these applications will be useful. - ssp Q.2 - How to guarantee the race(i.e., object validation) between when giving a hint from an external process and get the hint from the target process? process_madvise operates on the target process's address space as it exists at the instant that process_madvise is called. If the space target process can run between the time the process_madvise process inspects the target process address space and the time that process_madvise is actually called, process_madvise may operate on memory regions that the calling process does not expect. It's the responsibility of the process calling process_madvise to close this race condition. For example, the calling process can suspend the target process with ptrace, SIGSTOP, or the freezer cgroup so that it doesn't have an opportunity to change its own address space before process_madvise is called. Another option is to operate on memory regions that the caller knows a priori will be unchanged in the target process. Yet another option is to accept the race for certain process_madvise calls after reasoning that mistargeting will do no harm. The suggested API itself does not provide synchronization. It also apply other APIs like move_pages, process_vm_write. The race isn't really a problem though. Why is it so wrong to require that callers do their own synchronization in some manner? Nobody objects to write(2) merely because it's possible for two processes to open the same file and clobber each other's writes --- instead, we tell people to use flock or something. Think about mmap. It never guarantees newly allocated address space is still valid when the user tries to access it because other threads could unmap the memory right before. That's where we need synchronization by using other API or design from userside. It shouldn't be part of API itself. If someone needs more fine-grained synchronization rather than process level, there were two ideas suggested - cookie[2] and anon-fd[3]. Both are applicable via using last reserved argument of the API but I don't think it's necessary right now since we have already ways to prevent the race so don't want to add additional complexity with more fine-grained optimization model. To make the API extend, it reserved an unsigned long as last argument so we could support it in future if someone really needs it. Q.3 - Why doesn't ptrace work? Injecting an madvise in the target process using ptrace would not work for us because such injected madvise would have to be executed by the target process, which means that process would have to be runnable and that creates the risk of the abovementioned race and hinting a wrong VMA. Furthermore, we want to act the hint in caller's context, not the callee's, because the callee is usually limited in cpuset/cgroups or even freezed state so they can't act by themselves quick enough, which causes more thrashing/kill. It doesn't work if the target process are ptraced(e.g., strace, debugger, minidump) because a process can have at most one ptracer. [1] https://developer.android.com/topic/performance/memory" [2] process_getinfo for getting the cookie which is updated whenever vma of process address layout are changed - Daniel Colascione - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190520035254.57579-1-minchan@kernel.org/T/#m7694416fd179b2066a2c62b5b139b14e3894e224 [3] anonymous fd which is used for the object(i.e., address range) validation - Michal Hocko - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200120112722.GY18451@dhcp22.suse.cz/ [minchan@kernel.org: fix process_madvise build break for arm64] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200303145756.GA219683@google.com [minchan@kernel.org: fix build error for mips of process_madvise] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200508052517.GA197378@google.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix patch ordering issue] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arm64 whoops] [minchan@kernel.org: make process_madvise() vlen arg have type size_t, per Florian] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix i386 build] [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fix syscall numbering] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200905142639.49fc3f1a@canb.auug.org.au [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: madvise.c needs compat.h] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200908204547.285646b4@canb.auug.org.au [minchan@kernel.org: fix mips build] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200909173655.GC2435453@google.com [yuehaibing@huawei.com: remove duplicate header which is included twice] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200915121550.30584-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com [minchan@kernel.org: do not use helper functions for process_madvise] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200921175539.GB387368@google.com [akpm@linux-foundation.org: pidfd_get_pid() gained an argument] [sfr@canb.auug.org.au: fix up for "iov_iter: transparently handle compat iovecs in import_iovec"] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200928212542.468e1fef@canb.auug.org.au Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@linux.intel.com> Cc: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io> Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: John Dias <joaodias@google.com> Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@redhat.com> Cc: Sandeep Patil <sspatil@google.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Cc: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Cc: Sonny Rao <sonnyrao@google.com> Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com> Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> Cc: <linux-man@vger.kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200302193630.68771-3-minchan@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200508183320.GA125527@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200622192900.22757-4-minchan@kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200901000633.1920247-4-minchan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>