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2019-05-30treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 157Thomas Gleixner1-10/+1
Based on 3 normalized pattern(s): this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at your option any later version this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at your option any later version [author] [kishon] [vijay] [abraham] [i] [kishon]@[ti] [com] this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by the free software foundation either version 2 of the license or at your option any later version [author] [graeme] [gregory] [gg]@[slimlogic] [co] [uk] [author] [kishon] [vijay] [abraham] [i] [kishon]@[ti] [com] [based] [on] [twl6030]_[usb] [c] [author] [hema] [hk] [hemahk]@[ti] [com] this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general public license for more details extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier GPL-2.0-or-later has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 1105 file(s). Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net> Reviewed-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190527070033.202006027@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-04-10locking/qspinlock_stat: Introduce generic lockevent_*() counting APIsWaiman Long1-4/+4
The percpu event counts used by qspinlock code can be useful for other locking code as well. So a new set of lockevent_* counting APIs is introduced with the lock event names extracted out into the new lock_events_list.h header file for easier addition in the future. The existing qstat_inc() calls are replaced by either lockevent_inc() or lockevent_cond_inc() calls. The qstat_hop() call is renamed to lockevent_pv_hop(). The "reset_counters" debugfs file is also renamed to ".reset_counts". Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> 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: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190404174320.22416-8-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-02-28locking/qspinlock: Remove unnecessary BUG_ON() callWaiman Long1-3/+0
With the > 4 nesting levels case handled by the commit: d682b596d993 ("locking/qspinlock: Handle > 4 slowpath nesting levels") the BUG_ON() call in encode_tail() will never actually be triggered. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.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> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1551057253-3231-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-02-04locking/qspinlock_stat: Track the no MCS node available caseWaiman Long1-1/+2
Track the number of slowpath locking operations that are being done without any MCS node available as well renaming lock_index[123] to make them more descriptive. Using these stat counters is one way to find out if a code path is being exercised. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@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: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: SRINIVAS <srinivas.eeda@oracle.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548798828-16156-3-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-02-04locking/qspinlock: Handle > 4 slowpath nesting levelsWaiman Long1-0/+15
Four queue nodes per CPU are allocated to enable up to 4 nesting levels using the per-CPU nodes. Nested NMIs are possible in some architectures. Still it is very unlikely that we will ever hit more than 4 nested levels with contention in the slowpath. When that rare condition happens, however, it is likely that the system will hang or crash shortly after that. It is not good and we need to handle this exception case. This is done by spinning directly on the lock using repeated trylock. This alternative code path should only be used when there is nested NMIs. Assuming that the locks used by those NMI handlers will not be heavily contended, a simple TAS locking should work out. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: SRINIVAS <srinivas.eeda@oracle.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1548798828-16156-2-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-10-17locking/pvqspinlock: Extend node size when pvqspinlock is configuredWaiman Long1-8/+26
The qspinlock code supports up to 4 levels of slowpath nesting using four per-CPU mcs_spinlock structures. For 64-bit architectures, they fit nicely in one 64-byte cacheline. For para-virtualized (PV) qspinlocks it needs to store more information in the per-CPU node structure than there is space for. It uses a trick to use a second cacheline to hold the extra information that it needs. So PV qspinlock needs to access two extra cachelines for its information whereas the native qspinlock code only needs one extra cacheline. Freshly added counter profiling of the qspinlock code, however, revealed that it was very rare to use more than two levels of slowpath nesting. So it doesn't make sense to penalize PV qspinlock code in order to have four mcs_spinlock structures in the same cacheline to optimize for a case in the native qspinlock code that rarely happens. Extend the per-CPU node structure to have two more long words when PV qspinlock locks are configured to hold the extra data that it needs. As a result, the PV qspinlock code will enjoy the same benefit of using just one extra cacheline like the native counterpart, for most cases. [ mingo: Minor changelog edits. ] Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.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: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1539697507-28084-2-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-10-17locking/qspinlock_stat: Count instances of nested lock slowpathsWaiman Long1-0/+5
Queued spinlock supports up to 4 levels of lock slowpath nesting - user context, soft IRQ, hard IRQ and NMI. However, we are not sure how often the nesting happens. So add 3 more per-CPU stat counters to track the number of instances where nesting index goes to 1, 2 and 3 respectively. On a dual-socket 64-core 128-thread Zen server, the following were the new stat counter values under different circumstances: State slowpath index1 index2 index3 ----- -------- ------ ------ ------- After bootup 1,012,150 82 0 0 After parallel build + perf-top 125,195,009 82 0 0 So the chance of having more than 2 levels of nesting is extremely low. [ mingo: Minor changelog edits. ] Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.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: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1539697507-28084-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-10-16locking/qspinlock, x86: Provide liveness guaranteePeter Zijlstra1-1/+15
On x86 we cannot do fetch_or() with a single instruction and thus end up using a cmpxchg loop, this reduces determinism. Replace the fetch_or() with a composite operation: tas-pending + load. Using two instructions of course opens a window we previously did not have. Consider the scenario: CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 1) lock trylock -> (0,0,1) 2) lock trylock /* fail */ 3) unlock -> (0,0,0) 4) lock trylock -> (0,0,1) 5) tas-pending -> (0,1,1) load-val <- (0,1,0) from 3 6) clear-pending-set-locked -> (0,0,1) FAIL: _2_ owners where 5) is our new composite operation. When we consider each part of the qspinlock state as a separate variable (as we can when _Q_PENDING_BITS == 8) then the above is entirely possible, because tas-pending will only RmW the pending byte, so the later load is able to observe prior tail and lock state (but not earlier than its own trylock, which operates on the whole word, due to coherence). To avoid this we need 2 things: - the load must come after the tas-pending (obviously, otherwise it can trivially observe prior state). - the tas-pending must be a full word RmW instruction, it cannot be an XCHGB for example, such that we cannot observe other state prior to setting pending. On x86 we can realize this by using "LOCK BTS m32, r32" for tas-pending followed by a regular load. Note that observing later state is not a problem: - if we fail to observe a later unlock, we'll simply spin-wait for that store to become visible. - if we observe a later xchg_tail(), there is no difference from that xchg_tail() having taken place before the tas-pending. Suggested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com Cc: longman@redhat.com Fixes: 59fb586b4a07 ("locking/qspinlock: Remove unbounded cmpxchg() loop from locking slowpath") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181003130957.183726335@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-10-16locking/qspinlock: Rework some commentsPeter Zijlstra1-10/+26
While working my way through the code again; I felt the comments could use help. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com Cc: longman@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181003130257.156322446@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-10-16locking/qspinlock: Re-order codePeter Zijlstra1-29/+27
Flip the branch condition after atomic_fetch_or_acquire(_Q_PENDING_VAL) such that we loose the indent. This also result in a more natural code flow IMO. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com Cc: longman@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181003130257.156322446@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-04-27locking/qspinlock: Add stat tracking for pending vs. slowpathWaiman Long1-3/+11
Currently, the qspinlock_stat code tracks only statistical counts in the PV qspinlock code. However, it may also be useful to track the number of locking operations done via the pending code vs. the MCS lock queue slowpath for the non-PV case. The qspinlock stat code is modified to do that. The stat counter pv_lock_slowpath is renamed to lock_slowpath so that it can be used by both the PV and non-PV cases. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524738868-31318-14-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-04-27locking/qspinlock: Use try_cmpxchg() instead of cmpxchg() when lockingWill Deacon1-10/+9
When reaching the head of an uncontended queue on the qspinlock slow-path, using a try_cmpxchg() instead of a cmpxchg() operation to transition the lock work to _Q_LOCKED_VAL generates slightly better code for x86 and pretty much identical code for arm64. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524738868-31318-13-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-04-27locking/qspinlock: Elide back-to-back RELEASE operations with smp_wmb()Will Deacon1-16/+17
The qspinlock slowpath must ensure that the MCS node is fully initialised before it can be reached by another other CPU. This is currently enforced by using a RELEASE operation when updating the tail and also when linking the node into the waitqueue, since the control dependency off xchg_tail is insufficient to enforce sufficient ordering, see: 95bcade33a8a ("locking/qspinlock: Ensure node is initialised before updating prev->next") Back-to-back RELEASE operations may be expensive on some architectures, particularly those that implement them using fences under the hood. We can replace the two RELEASE operations with a single smp_wmb() fence and use RELAXED operations for the subsequent publishing of the node. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524738868-31318-12-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-04-27locking/qspinlock: Use smp_cond_load_relaxed() to wait for next nodeWill Deacon1-4/+2
When a locker reaches the head of the queue and takes the lock, a concurrent locker may enqueue and force the lock holder to spin whilst its node->next field is initialised. Rather than open-code a READ_ONCE/cpu_relax() loop, this can be implemented using smp_cond_load_relaxed() instead. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524738868-31318-10-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-04-27locking/qspinlock: Use atomic_cond_read_acquire()Will Deacon1-6/+6
Rather than dig into the counter field of the atomic_t inside the qspinlock structure so that we can call smp_cond_load_acquire(), use atomic_cond_read_acquire() instead, which operates on the atomic_t directly. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524738868-31318-8-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-04-27locking/qspinlock: Kill cmpxchg() loop when claiming lock from head of queueWill Deacon1-11/+8
When a queued locker reaches the head of the queue, it claims the lock by setting _Q_LOCKED_VAL in the lockword. If there isn't contention, it must also clear the tail as part of this operation so that subsequent lockers can avoid taking the slowpath altogether. Currently this is expressed as a cmpxchg() loop that practically only runs up to two iterations. This is confusing to the reader and unhelpful to the compiler. Rewrite the cmpxchg() loop without the loop, so that a failed cmpxchg() implies that there is contention and we just need to write to _Q_LOCKED_VAL without considering the rest of the lockword. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524738868-31318-7-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-04-27locking/qspinlock: Remove unbounded cmpxchg() loop from locking slowpathWill Deacon1-44/+58
The qspinlock locking slowpath utilises a "pending" bit as a simple form of an embedded test-and-set lock that can avoid the overhead of explicit queuing in cases where the lock is held but uncontended. This bit is managed using a cmpxchg() loop which tries to transition the uncontended lock word from (0,0,0) -> (0,0,1) or (0,0,1) -> (0,1,1). Unfortunately, the cmpxchg() loop is unbounded and lockers can be starved indefinitely if the lock word is seen to oscillate between unlocked (0,0,0) and locked (0,0,1). This could happen if concurrent lockers are able to take the lock in the cmpxchg() loop without queuing and pass it around amongst themselves. This patch fixes the problem by unconditionally setting _Q_PENDING_VAL using atomic_fetch_or, and then inspecting the old value to see whether we need to spin on the current lock owner, or whether we now effectively hold the lock. The tricky scenario is when concurrent lockers end up queuing on the lock and the lock becomes available, causing us to see a lockword of (n,0,0). With pending now set, simply queuing could lead to deadlock as the head of the queue may not have observed the pending flag being cleared. Conversely, if the head of the queue did observe pending being cleared, then it could transition the lock from (n,0,0) -> (0,0,1) meaning that any attempt to "undo" our setting of the pending bit could race with a concurrent locker trying to set it. We handle this race by preserving the pending bit when taking the lock after reaching the head of the queue and leaving the tail entry intact if we saw pending set, because we know that the tail is going to be updated shortly. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524738868-31318-6-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-04-27locking/qspinlock: Bound spinning on pending->locked transition in slowpathWill Deacon1-3/+17
If a locker taking the qspinlock slowpath reads a lock value indicating that only the pending bit is set, then it will spin whilst the concurrent pending->locked transition takes effect. Unfortunately, there is no guarantee that such a transition will ever be observed since concurrent lockers could continuously set pending and hand over the lock amongst themselves, leading to starvation. Whilst this would probably resolve in practice, it means that it is not possible to prove liveness properties about the lock and means that lock acquisition time is unbounded. Rather than removing the pending->locked spinning from the slowpath altogether (which has been shown to heavily penalise a 2-threaded locking stress test on x86), this patch replaces the explicit spinning with a call to atomic_cond_read_relaxed and allows the architecture to provide a bound on the number of spins. For architectures that can respond to changes in cacheline state in their smp_cond_load implementation, it should be sufficient to use the default bound of 1. Suggested-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524738868-31318-4-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-04-27locking/qspinlock: Merge 'struct __qspinlock' into 'struct qspinlock'Will Deacon1-43/+3
'struct __qspinlock' provides a handy union of fields so that subcomponents of the lockword can be accessed by name, without having to manage shifts and masks explicitly and take endianness into account. This is useful in qspinlock.h and also potentially in arch headers, so move the 'struct __qspinlock' into 'struct qspinlock' and kill the extra definition. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524738868-31318-3-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-02-13locking/qspinlock: Ensure node->count is updated before initialising nodeWill Deacon1-0/+8
When queuing on the qspinlock, the count field for the current CPU's head node is incremented. This needn't be atomic because locking in e.g. IRQ context is balanced and so an IRQ will return with node->count as it found it. However, the compiler could in theory reorder the initialisation of node[idx] before the increment of the head node->count, causing an IRQ to overwrite the initialised node and potentially corrupt the lock state. Avoid the potential for this harmful compiler reordering by placing a barrier() between the increment of the head node->count and the subsequent node initialisation. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518528177-19169-3-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-02-13locking/qspinlock: Ensure node is initialised before updating prev->nextWill Deacon1-6/+7
When a locker ends up queuing on the qspinlock locking slowpath, we initialise the relevant mcs node and publish it indirectly by updating the tail portion of the lock word using xchg_tail. If we find that there was a pre-existing locker in the queue, we subsequently update their ->next field to point at our node so that we are notified when it's our turn to take the lock. This can be roughly illustrated as follows: /* Initialise the fields in node and encode a pointer to node in tail */ tail = initialise_node(node); /* * Exchange tail into the lockword using an atomic read-modify-write * operation with release semantics */ old = xchg_tail(lock, tail); /* If there was a pre-existing waiter ... */ if (old & _Q_TAIL_MASK) { prev = decode_tail(old); smp_read_barrier_depends(); /* ... then update their ->next field to point to node. WRITE_ONCE(prev->next, node); } The conditional update of prev->next therefore relies on the address dependency from the result of xchg_tail ensuring order against the prior initialisation of node. However, since the release semantics of the xchg_tail operation apply only to the write portion of the RmW, then this ordering is not guaranteed and it is possible for the CPU to return old before the writes to node have been published, consequently allowing us to point prev->next to an uninitialised node. This patch fixes the problem by making the update of prev->next a RELEASE operation, which also removes the reliance on dependency ordering. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518528177-19169-2-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-12-04locking: Remove smp_read_barrier_depends() from queued_spin_lock_slowpath()Paul E. McKenney1-7/+5
Queued spinlocks are not used by DEC Alpha, and furthermore operations such as READ_ONCE() and release/relaxed RMW atomics are being changed to imply smp_read_barrier_depends(). This commit therefore removes the now-redundant smp_read_barrier_depends() from queued_spin_lock_slowpath(), and adjusts the comments accordingly. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
2017-08-17locking: Remove spin_unlock_wait() generic definitionsPaul E. McKenney1-117/+0
There is no agreed-upon definition of spin_unlock_wait()'s semantics, and it appears that all callers could do just as well with a lock/unlock pair. This commit therefore removes spin_unlock_wait() and related definitions from core code. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Andrea Parri <parri.andrea@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-07-08locking/qspinlock: Explicitly include asm/prefetch.hStafford Horne1-0/+1
In architectures that use qspinlock, like x86, prefetch is loaded indirectly via the asm/qspinlock.h include. On other architectures, like OpenRISC, which may want to use asm-generic/qspinlock.h the built will fail without the asm/prefetch.h include. Fix this by including directly. Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.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> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170707195658.23840-1-shorne@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-06-27locking/qspinlock: Use __this_cpu_dec() instead of full-blown this_cpu_dec()Pan Xinhui1-1/+1
queued_spin_lock_slowpath() should not worry about another queued_spin_lock_slowpath() running in interrupt context and changing node->count by accident, because node->count keeps the same value every time we enter/leave queued_spin_lock_slowpath(). On some architectures this_cpu_dec() will save/restore irq flags, which has high overhead. Use the much cheaper __this_cpu_dec() instead. Signed-off-by: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.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> Cc: Waiman.Long@hpe.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1465886247-3773-1-git-send-email-xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com [ Rewrote changelog. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-06-14locking/barriers: Introduce smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep()Peter Zijlstra1-1/+1
Introduce smp_acquire__after_ctrl_dep(), this construct is not uncommon, but the lack of this barrier is. Use it to better express smp_rmb() uses in WRITE_ONCE(), the IPC semaphore code and the qspinlock code. 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: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-06-14locking/barriers: Replace smp_cond_acquire() with smp_cond_load_acquire()Peter Zijlstra1-6/+6
This new form allows using hardware assisted waiting. Some hardware (ARM64 and x86) allow monitoring an address for changes, so by providing a pointer we can use this to replace the cpu_relax() with hardware optimized methods in the future. Requested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 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>
2016-06-08locking/qspinlock: Add commentsPeter Zijlstra1-0/+57
I figured we need to document the spin_is_locked() and spin_unlock_wait() constraints somwehere. Ideally 'someone' would rewrite Documentation/atomic_ops.txt and we could find a place in there. But currently that document is stale to the point of hardly being useful. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 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> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-06-08locking/qspinlock: Clarify xchg_tail() orderingPeter Zijlstra1-2/+13
While going over the code I noticed that xchg_tail() is a RELEASE but had no obvious pairing commented. It pairs with a somewhat unique address dependency through decode_tail(). So the store-release of xchg_tail() is paired by the address dependency of the load of xchg_tail followed by the dereference from the pointer computed from that load. The @old -> @prev transformation itself is pure, and therefore does not depend on external state, so that is immaterial wrt. ordering. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 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> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-06-08locking/qspinlock: Fix spin_unlock_wait() some morePeter Zijlstra1-0/+60
While this prior commit: 54cf809b9512 ("locking,qspinlock: Fix spin_is_locked() and spin_unlock_wait()") ... fixes spin_is_locked() and spin_unlock_wait() for the usage in ipc/sem and netfilter, it does not in fact work right for the usage in task_work and futex. So while the 2 locks crossed problem: spin_lock(A) spin_lock(B) if (!spin_is_locked(B)) spin_unlock_wait(A) foo() foo(); ... works with the smp_mb() injected by both spin_is_locked() and spin_unlock_wait(), this is not sufficient for: flag = 1; smp_mb(); spin_lock() spin_unlock_wait() if (!flag) // add to lockless list // iterate lockless list ... because in this scenario, the store from spin_lock() can be delayed past the load of flag, uncrossing the variables and loosing the guarantee. This patch reworks spin_is_locked() and spin_unlock_wait() to work in both cases by exploiting the observation that while the lock byte store can be delayed, the contender must have registered itself visibly in other state contained in the word. It also allows for architectures to override both functions, as PPC and ARM64 have an additional issue for which we currently have no generic solution. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Giovanni Gherdovich <ggherdovich@suse.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 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> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2 and later Fixes: 54cf809b9512 ("locking,qspinlock: Fix spin_is_locked() and spin_unlock_wait()") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-29locking/qspinlock: Use smp_cond_acquire() in pending codeWaiman Long1-4/+3
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>
2015-12-04locking/pvqspinlock: Queue node adaptive spinningWaiman Long1-2/+3
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>
2015-12-04locking/pvqspinlock: Allow limited lock stealingWaiman Long1-6/+20
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>
2015-12-04locking, sched: Introduce smp_cond_acquire() and use itPeter Zijlstra1-2/+1
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>
2015-11-23locking/qspinlock: Avoid redundant read of next pointerWaiman Long1-3/+6
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>
2015-11-23locking/qspinlock: Prefetch the next node cachelineWaiman Long1-0/+10
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>
2015-11-23locking/qspinlock: Use _acquire/_release() versions of cmpxchg() & xchg()Waiman Long1-5/+24
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>
2015-09-11locking/qspinlock/x86: Fix performance regression under unaccelerated VMsPeter Zijlstra1-1/+1
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>
2015-08-03locking/pvqspinlock: Only kick CPU at unlock timeWaiman Long1-3/+3
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>
2015-05-08locking/pvqspinlock: Implement simple paravirt support for the qspinlockWaiman Long1-1/+67
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>
2015-05-08locking/qspinlock: Revert to test-and-set on hypervisorsPeter Zijlstra (Intel)1-0/+3
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>
2015-05-08locking/qspinlock: Use a simple write to grab the lockWaiman Long1-16/+50
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>
2015-05-08locking/qspinlock: Optimize for smaller NR_CPUSPeter Zijlstra (Intel)1-1/+68
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>
2015-05-08locking/qspinlock: Extract out code snippets for the next patchWaiman Long1-31/+48
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>
2015-05-08locking/qspinlock: Add pending bitPeter Zijlstra (Intel)1-21/+98
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>
2015-05-08locking/qspinlock: Introduce a simple generic 4-byte queued spinlockWaiman Long1-0/+209
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>