[PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 1/2] srcu: Allow use of Tiny/Tree SRCU from both process and interrupt context

Paul E. McKenney
2017-06-05T22:09:50Z

From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Linu Cherian reported a WARN in cleanup_srcu_struct when shutting
down a guest that has iperf running on a VFIO assigned device.

This happens because irqfd_wakeup calls srcu_read_lock(&kvm->irq_srcu)
in interrupt context, while a worker thread does the same inside
kvm_set_irq. If the interrupt happens while the worker thread is
executing __srcu_read_lock, lock_count can fall behind.

The docs say you are not supposed to call srcu_read_lock() and
srcu_read_unlock() from irq context, but KVM interrupt injection happens
from (host) interrupt context and it would be nice if SRCU supported the
use case. KVM is using SRCU here not really for the "sleepable" part,
but rather due to its faster detection of grace periods, therefore it
is not possible to switch back to RCU, effectively reverting commit
719d93cd5f5c ("kvm/irqchip: Speed up KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING", 2014-01-16).

However, the docs are painting a worse situation than it actually is.
You can have an SRCU instance only has users in irq context, and you
can mix process and irq context as long as process context users
disable interrupts. In addition, __srcu_read_unlock() actually uses
this_cpu_dec on both srcutree and srcuclassic. For those two
implementations, only srcu_read_lock() is unsafe.

When srcuclassic's __srcu_read_unlock() was changed to use this_cpu_dec(),
in commit 5a41344a3d83 ("srcu: Simplify __srcu_read_unlock() via
this_cpu_dec()", 2012-11-29), __srcu_read_lock() did two increments.
Therefore it kept __this_cpu_inc, with preempt_disable/enable in the
caller. srcutree however only does one increment, so on most
architectures it is more efficient for __srcu_read_lock to use
this_cpu_inc, too.

There would be a slowdown if 1) fast this_cpu_inc is not available and
cannot be implemented (this usually means that atomic_inc has implicit
memory barriers), and 2) local_irq_save/restore is slower than disabling
preemption. The main architecture with these constraints is s390, which
however is already paying the price in __srcu_read_unlock and has not
complained. A valid optimization on s390 would be to skip the smp_mb;
AIUI, this_cpu_inc implies a memory barrier (!) due to its implementation.

Likewise, srcutiny has one increment only in __srcu_read_lock, and a
decrement in__srcu_read_unlock. However, it's not on a percpu variable so
it cannot use this_cpu_inc/dec. This patch changes srcutiny to use
respectively atomic_inc and atomic_dec_return_relaxed. Because srcutiny
is only used for uniprocessor machines, the extra cost of atomic operations
is averted at least on x86, where atomic_inc and atomic_dec_return_relaxed
compile to unlocked inc and xadd instructions respectively.

Fixes: 719d93cd5f5c ("kvm/irqchip: Speed up KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING")
Reported-by: Linu Cherian <linuc.decode@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Linu Cherian <linuc.decode@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
include/linux/srcutiny.h | 2 +-
kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 4 ++--
kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c | 21 ++++++++++-----------
kernel/rcu/srcutree.c | 5 ++---
4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/srcutiny.h b/include/linux/srcutiny.h
index 42311ee0334f..7343e3b03087 100644
--- a/include/linux/srcutiny.h
+++ b/include/linux/srcutiny.h
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
#include <linux/swait.h>

struct srcu_struct {
- int srcu_lock_nesting[2]; /* srcu_read_lock() nesting depth. */
+ atomic_t srcu_lock_nesting[2]; /* srcu_read_lock() nesting depth. */
struct swait_queue_head srcu_wq;
/* Last srcu_read_unlock() wakes GP. */
unsigned long srcu_gp_seq; /* GP seq # for callback tagging. */
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
index ae6e574d4cf5..fa4e3895ab08 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@@ -611,8 +611,8 @@ static void srcu_torture_stats(void)
idx = READ_ONCE(srcu_ctlp->srcu_idx) & 0x1;
pr_alert("%s%s Tiny SRCU per-CPU(idx=%d): (%d,%d)\n",
torture_type, TORTURE_FLAG, idx,
- READ_ONCE(srcu_ctlp->srcu_lock_nesting[!idx]),
- READ_ONCE(srcu_ctlp->srcu_lock_nesting[idx]));
+ atomic_read(&srcu_ctlp->srcu_lock_nesting[!idx]),
+ atomic_read(&srcu_ctlp->srcu_lock_nesting[idx]));
#endif
}

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c b/kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c
index 36e1f82faed1..681bf6bc04a5 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@

static int init_srcu_struct_fields(struct srcu_struct *sp)
{
- sp->srcu_lock_nesting[0] = 0;
- sp->srcu_lock_nesting[1] = 0;
+ atomic_set(&sp->srcu_lock_nesting[0], 0);
+ atomic_set(&sp->srcu_lock_nesting[1], 0);
init_swait_queue_head(&sp->srcu_wq);
sp->srcu_gp_seq = 0;
rcu_segcblist_init(&sp->srcu_cblist);
@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_srcu_struct);
*/
void cleanup_srcu_struct(struct srcu_struct *sp)
{
- WARN_ON(sp->srcu_lock_nesting[0] || sp->srcu_lock_nesting[1]);
+ WARN_ON(atomic_read(&sp->srcu_lock_nesting[0]) ||
+ atomic_read(&sp->srcu_lock_nesting[1]));
flush_work(&sp->srcu_work);
WARN_ON(rcu_seq_state(sp->srcu_gp_seq));
WARN_ON(sp->srcu_gp_running);
@@ -97,7 +98,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cleanup_srcu_struct);

/*
* Counts the new reader in the appropriate per-CPU element of the
- * srcu_struct. Must be called from process context.
+ * srcu_struct.
* Returns an index that must be passed to the matching srcu_read_unlock().
*/
int __srcu_read_lock(struct srcu_struct *sp)
@@ -105,21 +106,19 @@ int __srcu_read_lock(struct srcu_struct *sp)
int idx;

idx = READ_ONCE(sp->srcu_idx);
- WRITE_ONCE(sp->srcu_lock_nesting[idx], sp->srcu_lock_nesting[idx] + 1);
+ atomic_inc(&sp->srcu_lock_nesting[idx]);
return idx;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__srcu_read_lock);

/*
* Removes the count for the old reader from the appropriate element of
- * the srcu_struct. Must be called from process context.
+ * the srcu_struct.
*/
void __srcu_read_unlock(struct srcu_struct *sp, int idx)
{
- int newval = sp->srcu_lock_nesting[idx] - 1;
-
- WRITE_ONCE(sp->srcu_lock_nesting[idx], newval);
- if (!newval && READ_ONCE(sp->srcu_gp_waiting))
+ if (atomic_dec_return_relaxed(&sp->srcu_lock_nesting[idx]) == 0 &&
+ READ_ONCE(sp->srcu_gp_waiting))
swake_up(&sp->srcu_wq);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__srcu_read_unlock);
@@ -148,7 +147,7 @@ void srcu_drive_gp(struct work_struct *wp)
idx = sp->srcu_idx;
WRITE_ONCE(sp->srcu_idx, !sp->srcu_idx);
WRITE_ONCE(sp->srcu_gp_waiting, true); /* srcu_read_unlock() wakes! */
- swait_event(sp->srcu_wq, !READ_ONCE(sp->srcu_lock_nesting[idx]));
+ swait_event(sp->srcu_wq, !atomic_read(&sp->srcu_lock_nesting[idx]));
WRITE_ONCE(sp->srcu_gp_waiting, false); /* srcu_read_unlock() cheap. */
rcu_seq_end(&sp->srcu_gp_seq);

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
index 3ae8474557df..157654fa436a 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cleanup_srcu_struct);

/*
* Counts the new reader in the appropriate per-CPU element of the
- * srcu_struct. Must be called from process context.
+ * srcu_struct.
* Returns an index that must be passed to the matching srcu_read_unlock().
*/
int __srcu_read_lock(struct srcu_struct *sp)
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ int __srcu_read_lock(struct srcu_struct *sp)
int idx;

idx = READ_ONCE(sp->srcu_idx) & 0x1;
- __this_cpu_inc(sp->sda->srcu_lock_count[idx]);
+ this_cpu_inc(sp->sda->srcu_lock_count[idx]);
smp_mb(); /* B */ /* Avoid leaking the critical section. */
return idx;
}
@@ -375,7 +375,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__srcu_read_lock);
* Removes the count for the old reader from the appropriate per-CPU
* element of the srcu_struct. Note that this may well be a different
* CPU than that which was incremented by the corresponding srcu_read_lock().
- * Must be called from process context.
*/
void __srcu_read_unlock(struct srcu_struct *sp, int idx)
{
--
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