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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Subject: [for-next][PATCH 13/26] fgraph: Convert ret_stack tasklist scanning to rcu
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 21:24:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200922012451.863339519@goodmis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20200922012414.115238201@goodmis.org

From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>

It seems that alloc_retstack_tasklist() can also take a lockless
approach for scanning the tasklist, instead of using the big global
tasklist_lock. For this we also kill another deprecated and rcu-unsafe
tsk->thread_group user replacing it with for_each_process_thread(),
maintaining semantics.

Here tasklist_lock does not protect anything other than the list
against concurrent fork/exit. And considering that the whole thing
is capped by FTRACE_RETSTACK_ALLOC_SIZE (32), it should not be a
problem to have a pontentially stale, yet stable, list. The task cannot
go away either, so we don't risk racing with ftrace_graph_exit_task()
which clears the retstack.

The tsk->ret_stack management is not protected by tasklist_lock, being
serialized with the corresponding publish/subscribe barriers against
concurrent ftrace_push_return_trace(). In addition this plays nicer
with cachelines by avoiding two atomic ops in the uncontended case.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200907013326.9870-1-dave@stgolabs.net

Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 kernel/trace/fgraph.c | 8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/fgraph.c b/kernel/trace/fgraph.c
index 1af321dec0f1..5658f13037b3 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/fgraph.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/fgraph.c
@@ -387,8 +387,8 @@ static int alloc_retstack_tasklist(struct ftrace_ret_stack **ret_stack_list)
 		}
 	}
 
-	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
-	do_each_thread(g, t) {
+	rcu_read_lock();
+	for_each_process_thread(g, t) {
 		if (start == end) {
 			ret = -EAGAIN;
 			goto unlock;
@@ -403,10 +403,10 @@ static int alloc_retstack_tasklist(struct ftrace_ret_stack **ret_stack_list)
 			smp_wmb();
 			t->ret_stack = ret_stack_list[start++];
 		}
-	} while_each_thread(g, t);
+	}
 
 unlock:
-	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 free:
 	for (i = start; i < end; i++)
 		kfree(ret_stack_list[i]);
-- 
2.28.0



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-22  1:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-22  1:24 [for-next][PATCH 00/26] tracing: Updates for 5.10 Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 01/26] tools/bootconfig: Show bootconfig compact tree from bootconfig file Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 02/26] tools/bootconfig: Add list option Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 03/26] tools/bootconfig: Make all functions static Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 04/26] tools/bootconfig: Add a script to generate ftrace shell-command from bootconfig Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 05/26] tools/bootconfig: Add a script to generates bootconfig from ftrace Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 06/26] tools/bootconfig: Add --init option for bconf2ftrace.sh Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 07/26] tracing: toplevel d_entry already initialized Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 08/26] tracing: make tracing_init_dentry() returns an integer instead of a d_entry pointer Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 09/26] tracing: Delete repeated words in comments Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 10/26] tracing: Use __this_cpu_read() in trace_buffered_event_enable() Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 11/26] kprobes: Use module_name() macro Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 12/26] tracing: remove a pointless assignment Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 14/26] tracing/boot: Add per-instance tracing_on option support Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 15/26] Documentation: tracing: Add tracing_on option to boot-time tracer Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 16/26] tracing/kprobes: Support perf-style return probe Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 17/26] tracing/uprobes: " Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 18/26] Documentation: tracing: Add %return suffix description Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 19/26] Documentation: tracing: boot: Add an example of tracing function-calls Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 20/26] selftests/ftrace: Add %return suffix tests Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 21/26] kprobes: Init kprobes in early_initcall Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 22/26] tracing: Define event fields early stage Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 23/26] tracing: Enable adding dynamic events " Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 24/26] tracing: Enable creating new instance early boot Steven Rostedt
2020-09-23 23:52   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2020-09-24 16:40     ` [PATCH] tracing/boot: Initialize per-instance event list in " Masami Hiramatsu
2020-09-25 19:37       ` Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 25/26] tracing/boot, kprobe, synth: Initialize boot-time tracing earlier Steven Rostedt
2020-09-22  1:24 ` [for-next][PATCH 26/26] Documentation: tracing: Add the startup timing of boot-time tracing Steven Rostedt

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