locking/rwsem: Make owner store task pointer of last owning reader

Currently, when a reader acquires a lock, it only sets the
RWSEM_READER_OWNED bit in the owner field. The other bits are simply
not used. When debugging hanging cases involving rwsems and readers,
the owner value does not provide much useful information at all.

This patch modifies the current behavior to always store the task_struct
pointer of the last rwsem-acquiring reader in a reader-owned rwsem. This
may be useful in debugging rwsem hanging cases especially if only one
reader is involved. However, the task in the owner field may not the
real owner or one of the real owners at all when the owner value is
examined, for example, in a crash dump. So it is just an additional
hint about the past history.

If CONFIG_DEBUG_RWSEMS=y is enabled, the owner field will be checked at
unlock time too to make sure the task pointer value is valid. That does
have a slight performance cost and so is only enabled as part of that
debug option.

From the performance point of view, it is expected that the changes
shouldn't have any noticeable performance impact. A rwsem microbenchmark
(with 48 worker threads and 1:1 reader/writer ratio) was ran on a
2-socket 24-core 48-thread Haswell system.  The locking rates on a
4.19-rc1 based kernel were as follows:

  1) Unpatched kernel:				543.3 kops/s
  2) Patched kernel:				549.2 kops/s
  3) Patched kernel (CONFIG_DEBUG_RWSEMS on):	546.6 kops/s

There was actually a slight increase in performance (1.1%) in this
particular case. Maybe it was caused by the elimination of a branch or
just a testing noise. Turning on the CONFIG_DEBUG_RWSEMS option also
had less than the expected impact on performance.

The least significant 2 bits of the owner value are now used to designate
the rwsem is readers owned and the owners are anonymous.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1536265114-10842-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/rwsem.h b/include/linux/rwsem.h
index ab93b6eae696..67dbb57508b1 100644
--- a/include/linux/rwsem.h
+++ b/include/linux/rwsem.h
@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@ struct rw_semaphore {
 };
 
 /*
- * Setting bit 0 of the owner field with other non-zero bits will indicate
+ * Setting bit 1 of the owner field but not bit 0 will indicate
  * that the rwsem is writer-owned with an unknown owner.
  */
-#define RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN	((struct task_struct *)-1L)
+#define RWSEM_OWNER_UNKNOWN	((struct task_struct *)-2L)
 
 extern struct rw_semaphore *rwsem_down_read_failed(struct rw_semaphore *sem);
 extern struct rw_semaphore *rwsem_down_read_failed_killable(struct rw_semaphore *sem);