Re: [PATCH] uprobes: Improve scalability by reducing the contention on siglock

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 08/06, Liao, Chang wrote:
>
> You're absolutely right. handle_signlestep() has chance to handle _DENY_SIGANL
> unless it followed by setting TIF_UPROBE in uprobe_deny_signal(). This means
> _DENY_SIGNAL is likey replaced during next uprobe single-stepping.
>
> I believe introducing _DENY_SIGNAL as the immediate state between UTASK_SSTEP
> and UTASK_SSTEP_ACK is still necessary. This allow uprobe_post_sstep_notifier()
> to correctly restore TIF_SIGPENDING upon the completion of single-step.
>
> A revised implementation would look like this:

Still looks "obviously wrong" to me... even the approach itself.

Perhaps I am wrong, yet another day when I can't even read emails on lkml
carefully, sorry.

But can you please send the patch which I could actually apply? This one
looks white-space damaged...

I'll try to reply with more details as soon I convince myself I fully
understand what does your patch actually do, but most probably not tomorrow.

Thanks,

Oleg.

> ------------------%<------------------
> --- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
> @@ -1980,6 +1980,7 @@ bool uprobe_deny_signal(void)
> 
>         if (task_sigpending(t)) {
>                 clear_tsk_thread_flag(t, TIF_SIGPENDING);
> +               utask->state = UTASK_SSTEP_DENY_SIGNAL;
> 
>                 if (__fatal_signal_pending(t) || arch_uprobe_xol_was_trapped(t)) {
>                         utask->state = UTASK_SSTEP_TRAPPED;
> @@ -2276,22 +2277,23 @@ static void handle_singlestep(struct uprobe_task *utask, struct pt_regs *regs)
>         int err = 0;
> 
>         uprobe = utask->active_uprobe;
> -       if (utask->state == UTASK_SSTEP_ACK)
> +       switch (utask->state) {
> +       case UTASK_SSTEP_ACK:
>                 err = arch_uprobe_post_xol(&uprobe->arch, regs);
> -       else if (utask->state == UTASK_SSTEP_TRAPPED)
> +               break;
> +       case UTASK_SSTEP_TRAPPED:
>                 arch_uprobe_abort_xol(&uprobe->arch, regs);
> -       else
> +               set_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING);
> +               break;
> +       default:
>                 WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> +       }
> 
>         put_uprobe(uprobe);
>         utask->active_uprobe = NULL;
>         utask->state = UTASK_RUNNING;
>         xol_free_insn_slot(current);
> 
> -       spin_lock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
> -       recalc_sigpending(); /* see uprobe_deny_signal() */
> -       spin_unlock_irq(&current->sighand->siglock);
> -
>         if (unlikely(err)) {
>                 uprobe_warn(current, "execute the probed insn, sending SIGILL.");
>                 force_sig(SIGILL);
> @@ -2351,6 +2353,8 @@ int uprobe_post_sstep_notifier(struct pt_regs *regs)
>                 /* task is currently not uprobed */
>                 return 0;
> 
> +       if (utask->state == UTASK_SSTEP_DENY_SIGNAL)
> +               set_thread_flag(TIF_SIGPENDING);
>         utask->state = UTASK_SSTEP_ACK;
>         set_thread_flag(TIF_UPROBE);
>         return 1;
> 
> ------------------>%------------------
> 
> > 
> > Oleg.
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> BR
> Liao, Chang
>