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Tsirkin" To: Jason Wang Cc: syzbot , aarcange@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, christian@brauner.io, davem@davemloft.net, ebiederm@xmission.com, elena.reshetova@intel.com, guro@fb.com, hch@infradead.org, james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, jglisse@redhat.com, keescook@chromium.org, ldv@altlinux.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, luto@amacapital.net, mhocko@suse.com, mingo@kernel.org, namit@vmware.com, peterz@infradead.org, syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, wad@chromium.org Subject: Re: WARNING in __mmdrop Message-ID: <20190726094353-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20190725012149-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <55e8930c-2695-365f-a07b-3ad169654d28@redhat.com> <20190725042651-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <84bb2e31-0606-adff-cf2a-e1878225a847@redhat.com> <20190725092332-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <11802a8a-ce41-f427-63d5-b6a4cf96bb3f@redhat.com> <20190726074644-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <5cc94f15-b229-a290-55f3-8295266edb2b@redhat.com> <20190726082837-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-parisc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 08:53:18PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > On 2019/7/26 下午8:38, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 08:00:58PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > > On 2019/7/26 下午7:49, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 10:25:25PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > > > > On 2019/7/25 下午9:26, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > > > > Exactly, and that's the reason actually I use synchronize_rcu() there. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > So the concern is still the possible synchronize_expedited()? > > > > > > I think synchronize_srcu_expedited. > > > > > > > > > > > > synchronize_expedited sends lots of IPI and is bad for realtime VMs. > > > > > > > > > > > > > Can I do this > > > > > > > on through another series on top of the incoming V2? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > > > > > The question is this: is this still a gain if we switch to the > > > > > > more expensive srcu? If yes then we can keep the feature on, > > > > > I think we only care about the cost on srcu_read_lock() which looks pretty > > > > > tiny form my point of view. Which is basically a READ_ONCE() + WRITE_ONCE(). > > > > > > > > > > Of course I can benchmark to see the difference. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > if not we'll put it off until next release and think > > > > > > of better solutions. rcu->srcu is just a find and replace, > > > > > > don't see why we need to defer that. can be a separate patch > > > > > > for sure, but we need to know how well it works. > > > > > I think I get here, let me try to do that in V2 and let's see the numbers. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > It looks to me for tree rcu, its srcu_read_lock() have a mb() which is too > > > expensive for us. > > I will try to ponder using vq lock in some way. > > Maybe with trylock somehow ... > > > Ok, let me retry if necessary (but I do remember I end up with deadlocks > last try). > > > > > > > > > If we just worry about the IPI, > > With synchronize_rcu what I would worry about is that guest is stalled > > > Can this synchronize_rcu() be triggered by guest? If yes, there are several > other MMU notifiers that can block. Is vhost something special here? Sorry, let me explain: guests (and tasks in general) can trigger activity that will make synchronize_rcu take a long time. Thus blocking an mmu notifier until synchronize_rcu finishes is a bad idea. > > > because system is busy because of other guests. > > With expedited it's the IPIs... > > > > The current synchronize_rcu()  can force a expedited grace period: > > void synchronize_rcu(void) > { >         ... >         if (rcu_blocking_is_gp()) > return; >         if (rcu_gp_is_expedited()) > synchronize_rcu_expedited(); > else > wait_rcu_gp(call_rcu); > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(synchronize_rcu); An admin can force rcu to finish faster, trading interrupts for responsiveness. > > > > can we do something like in > > > vhost_invalidate_vq_start()? > > > > > >         if (map) { > > >                 /* In order to avoid possible IPIs with > > >                  * synchronize_rcu_expedited() we use call_rcu() + > > >                  * completion. > > > */ > > > init_completion(&c.completion); > > >                 call_rcu(&c.rcu_head, vhost_finish_vq_invalidation); > > > wait_for_completion(&c.completion); > > >                 vhost_set_map_dirty(vq, map, index); > > > vhost_map_unprefetch(map); > > >         } > > > > > > ? > > Why would that be faster than synchronize_rcu? > > > No faster but no IPI. > Sorry I still don't see the point. synchronize_rcu doesn't normally do an IPI either. > > > > > > > > There's one other thing that bothers me, and that is that > > > > for large rings which are not physically contiguous > > > > we don't implement the optimization. > > > > > > > > For sure, that can wait, but I think eventually we should > > > > vmap large rings. > > > > > > Yes, worth to try. But using direct map has its own advantage: it can use > > > hugepage that vmap can't > > > > > > Thanks > > Sure, so we can do that for small rings. > > > Yes, that's possible but should be done on top. > > Thanks Absolutely. Need to fix up the bugs first. -- MST