On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 02:01:39AM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > + * - A delayed freeing and RCU-like quiescing sequence based on > + * mm switching to avoid IPIs completely.
That one's interesting too. so basically you want to count switch_mm() invocations on each CPU. Then, periodically snapshot the counter on each CPU, and when they've all changed, increment a global counter. Then, you snapshot the global counter and wait for it to increment (twice I think, the first increment might already be in progress). The only question here is what should drive this machinery.. the tick probably. This shouldn't be too hard to do I think. Something a little like so perhaps? diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index 41404afb7f4c..27b64a60a468 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -4525,6 +4525,7 @@ context_switch(struct rq *rq, struct task_struct *prev, * finish_task_switch()'s mmdrop(). */ switch_mm_irqs_off(prev->active_mm, next->mm, next); + rq->nr_mm_switches++; if (!prev->mm) { // from kernel /* will mmdrop() in finish_task_switch(). */ @@ -4739,6 +4740,80 @@ unsigned long long task_sched_runtime(struct task_struct *p) return ns; } +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned long[2], mm_switches); + +static struct { + unsigned long __percpu *switches[2]; + unsigned long generation; + atomic_t complete; + struct wait_queue_dead wait; +} mm_foo = { + .switches = &mm_switches, + .generation = 0, + .complete = -1, // XXX bootstrap, hotplug + .wait = __WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD_INITIALIZER(mm_foo.wait), +}; + +static void mm_gen_tick(int cpu, struct rq *rq) +{ + unsigned long prev, curr, switches = rq->nr_mm_switches; + int idx = READ_ONCE(mm_foo.generation) & 1; + + /* DATA-DEP on mm_foo.generation */ + + prev = __this_cpu_read(mm_foo.switches[idx^1]); + curr = __this_cpu_read(mm_foo.switches[idx]); + + /* we haven't switched since the last generation */ + if (prev == switches) + return false; + + __this_cpu_write(mm_foo.switches[idx], switches); + + /* + * If @curr is less than @prev, this is the first update of + * this generation, per the above, switches has also increased since, + * so mark out CPU complete. + */ + if ((long)(curr - prev) < 0 && atomic_dec_and_test(&mm_foo.complete)) { + /* + * All CPUs are complete, IOW they all switched at least once + * since the last generation. Reset the completion counter and + * increment the generation. + */ + atomic_set(&mm_foo.complete, nr_online_cpus()); + /* + * Matches the address dependency above: + * + * idx = gen & 1 complete = nr_cpus + * <DATA-DEP> <WMB> + * curr = sw[idx] generation++; + * prev = sw[idx^1] + * if (curr < prev) + * complete-- + * + * If we don't observe the new generation; we'll not decrement. If we + * do see the new generation, we must also see the new completion count. + */ + smp_wmb(); + mm_foo.generation++; + return true; + } + + return false; +} + +static void mm_gen_wake(void) +{ + wake_up_all(&mm_foo.wait); +} + +static void mm_gen_wait(void) +{ + unsigned int gen = READ_ONCE(mm_foo.generation); + wait_event(&mm_foo.wait, READ_ONCE(mm_foo.generation) - gen > 1); +} + /* * This function gets called by the timer code, with HZ frequency. * We call it with interrupts disabled. @@ -4750,6 +4825,7 @@ void scheduler_tick(void) struct task_struct *curr = rq->curr; struct rq_flags rf; unsigned long thermal_pressure; + bool wake_mm_gen; arch_scale_freq_tick(); sched_clock_tick(); @@ -4763,8 +4839,13 @@ void scheduler_tick(void) calc_global_load_tick(rq); psi_task_tick(rq); + wake_mm_gen = mm_gen_tick(cpu, rq); + rq_unlock(rq, &rf); + if (wake_mm_gen) + mm_gen_wake(); + perf_event_task_tick(); #ifdef CONFIG_SMP diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h index bf9d8da7d35e..62fb685db8d0 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h @@ -927,6 +927,7 @@ struct rq { unsigned int ttwu_pending; #endif u64 nr_switches; + u64 nr_mm_switches; #ifdef CONFIG_UCLAMP_TASK /* Utilization clamp values based on CPU's RUNNABLE tasks */