Hi Mathieu,
On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 01:50:35PM -0700, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Add a new MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_SYNC_CORE command to the membarrier
> system call. It allows processes to register their intent to have their
> threads issue core serializing barriers in addition to memory barriers
> whenever a membarrier command is performed.
>
> It is relevant for reclaim of JIT code, which requires to issue core
> serializing barriers on all threads running on behalf of a process
> after ensuring the old code is not visible anymore, before re-using
> memory for new code.
>
> When a processes returns from a MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_SYNC_CORE
> command, it is guaranteed that all following MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED and
> MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED issue core serializing barriers, in
> addition to the memory barriers, on all of its running threads.
>
> * Scheduler Overhead Benchmarks
>
> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz
> taskset 01 ./perf bench sched pipe -T
> Linux v4.13-rc6
>
> Avg. usecs/op Std.Dev. usecs/op
> Before this change: 2.75 0.12
> Non-registered processes: 2.73 0.08
> Registered processes: 3.07 0.02
>
> Changes since v1:
> - Add missing MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_SYNC_CORE header documentation,
> - Add benchmarks to commit message.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com>
> CC: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
> CC: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> CC: Boqun Feng <boqun.f...@gmail.com>
> CC: Andrew Hunter <a...@google.com>
> CC: Maged Michael <maged.mich...@gmail.com>
> CC: gro...@google.com
> CC: Avi Kivity <a...@scylladb.com>
> CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <b...@kernel.crashing.org>
> CC: Paul Mackerras <pau...@samba.org>
> CC: Michael Ellerman <m...@ellerman.id.au>
> CC: Dave Watson <davejwat...@fb.com>
> CC: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
> CC: Will Deacon <will.dea...@arm.com>
> CC: Hans Boehm <hbo...@google.com>
> ---
> fs/exec.c | 1 +
> include/linux/sched.h | 52
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h | 8 +++++++
> kernel/fork.c | 2 ++
> kernel/sched/core.c | 3 +++
> kernel/sched/membarrier.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 6 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
> index 62175cbcc801..a4ab3253bac7 100644
> --- a/fs/exec.c
> +++ b/fs/exec.c
> @@ -1794,6 +1794,7 @@ static int do_execveat_common(int fd, struct filename
> *filename,
> /* execve succeeded */
> current->fs->in_exec = 0;
> current->in_execve = 0;
> + membarrier_execve(current);
> acct_update_integrals(current);
> task_numa_free(current);
> free_bprm(bprm);
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
> index 8337e2db0bb2..b1ecdc4e8b84 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -1086,6 +1086,9 @@ struct task_struct {
> /* Used by LSM modules for access restriction: */
> void *security;
> #endif
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMBARRIER
> + int membarrier_sync_core;
Why put this in task_struct rather than mm_struct? If the reclaim of JIT
code is one of the target users, don't you want to make this as a
attribute of an address space?
Am I missing something subtle here?
Regards,
Boqun
> +#endif
>
> /*
> * New fields for task_struct should be added above here, so that
> @@ -1623,4 +1626,53 @@ extern long sched_getaffinity(pid_t pid, struct
> cpumask *mask);
> #define TASK_SIZE_OF(tsk) TASK_SIZE
> #endif
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMBARRIER
> +static inline void membarrier_fork(struct task_struct *t,
> + unsigned long clone_flags)
> +{
> + /*
> + * Coherence of membarrier_sync_core against thread fork is
> + * protected by siglock. membarrier_fork is called with siglock
> + * held.
> + */
> + t->membarrier_sync_core = current->membarrier_sync_core;
> +}
> +static inline void membarrier_execve(struct task_struct *t)
> +{
> + t->membarrier_sync_core = 0;
> +}
> +static inline void membarrier_sched_out(struct task_struct *t)
> +{
> + /*
> + * Core serialization is performed before the memory barrier
> + * preceding the store to rq->curr.
> + */
> + if (unlikely(READ_ONCE(t->membarrier_sync_core)))
> + sync_core();
> +}
> +static inline void membarrier_sched_in(struct task_struct *t)
> +{
> + /*
> + * Core serialization is performed after the memory barrier
> + * following the store to rq->curr.
> + */
> + if (unlikely(READ_ONCE(t->membarrier_sync_core)))
> + sync_core();
> +}
> +#else
> +static inline void membarrier_fork(struct task_struct *t,
> + unsigned long clone_flags)
> +{
> +}
> +static inline void membarrier_execve(struct task_struct *t)
> +{
> +}
> +static inline void membarrier_sched_out(struct task_struct *t)
> +{
> +}
> +static inline void membarrier_sched_in(struct task_struct *t)
> +{
> +}
> +#endif
> +
> #endif
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h b/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h
> index 6d47b3249d8a..933c35ebcc10 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h
> @@ -56,6 +56,13 @@
> * complete faster than the non-expedited ones,
> * they never block, but have the downside of
> * causing extra overhead.
> + * @MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_SYNC_CORE:
> + * Register the caller process so all of its
> + * threads will issue core serialization
> + * barriers in addition to memory barriers upon
> + * SHARED and PRIVATE barriers targeting
> + * its threads issued after this registration
> + * returns.
> *
> * Command to be passed to the membarrier system call. The commands need to
> * be a single bit each, except for MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY which is assigned to
> @@ -67,6 +74,7 @@ enum membarrier_cmd {
> /* reserved for MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED_EXPEDITED (1 << 1) */
> /* reserved for MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE (1 << 2) */
> MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED = (1 << 3),
> + MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_SYNC_CORE = (1 << 4),
> };
>
> #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_MEMBARRIER_H */
> diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> index 17921b0390b4..713b3c932671 100644
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -1840,6 +1840,8 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct
> *copy_process(
> */
> copy_seccomp(p);
>
> + membarrier_fork(p, clone_flags);
> +
> /*
> * Process group and session signals need to be delivered to just the
> * parent before the fork or both the parent and the child after the
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 0e36d9960d91..3ca27d066950 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -3292,6 +3292,8 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(bool preempt)
> local_irq_disable();
> rcu_note_context_switch(preempt);
>
> + membarrier_sched_out(prev);
> +
> /*
> * Make sure that signal_pending_state()->signal_pending() below
> * can't be reordered with __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE)
> @@ -3364,6 +3366,7 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(bool preempt)
>
> /* Also unlocks the rq: */
> rq = context_switch(rq, prev, next, &rf);
> + membarrier_sched_in(next);
> } else {
> rq->clock_update_flags &= ~(RQCF_ACT_SKIP|RQCF_REQ_SKIP);
> rq_unlock_irq(rq, &rf);
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
> index 7eec6914d2d2..f128caf64b49 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
> @@ -25,12 +25,16 @@
> * Bitmask made from a "or" of all commands within enum membarrier_cmd,
> * except MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY.
> */
> -#define MEMBARRIER_CMD_BITMASK \
> - (MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED | MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED)
> +#define MEMBARRIER_CMD_BITMASK \
> + (MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED \
> + | MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED \
> + | MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_SYNC_CORE)
>
> static void ipi_mb(void *info)
> {
> - smp_mb(); /* IPIs should be serializing but paranoid. */
> + /* IPIs should be serializing but paranoid. */
> + smp_mb();
> + sync_core();
> }
>
> static void membarrier_private_expedited(void)
> @@ -96,6 +100,30 @@ static void membarrier_private_expedited(void)
> smp_mb(); /* exit from system call is not a mb */
> }
>
> +static void membarrier_register_sync_core(void)
> +{
> + struct task_struct *p = current, *t;
> +
> + if (get_nr_threads(p) == 1) {
> + p->membarrier_sync_core = 1;
> + return;
> + }
> +
> + /*
> + * Coherence of membarrier_sync_core against thread fork is
> + * protected by siglock.
> + */
> + spin_lock(&p->sighand->siglock);
> + for_each_thread(p, t)
> + WRITE_ONCE(t->membarrier_sync_core, 1);
> + spin_unlock(&p->sighand->siglock);
> + /*
> + * Ensure all future scheduler execution will observe the new
> + * membarrier_sync_core state for this process.
> + */
> + synchronize_sched();
> +}
> +
> /**
> * sys_membarrier - issue memory barriers on a set of threads
> * @cmd: Takes command values defined in enum membarrier_cmd.
> @@ -146,6 +174,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(membarrier, int, cmd, int, flags)
> case MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED:
> membarrier_private_expedited();
> return 0;
> + case MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_SYNC_CORE:
> + membarrier_register_sync_core();
> + return 0;
> default:
> return -EINVAL;
> }
> --
> 2.11.0
>
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