From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, cluster-devel@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: RFC: hold i_rwsem until aio completes
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:24:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200115132428.GA25201@ziepe.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200115065614.GC21219@lst.de>
On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 07:56:14AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 03:27:00PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > I've seen similar locking patterns quite a lot, enough I've thought
> > about having a dedicated locking primitive to do it. It really wants
> > to be a rwsem, but as here the rwsem rules don't allow it.
> >
> > The common pattern I'm looking at looks something like this:
> >
> > 'try begin read'() // aka down_read_trylock()
> >
> > /* The lockdep release hackery you describe,
> > the rwsem remains read locked */
> > 'exit reader'()
> >
> > .. delegate unlock to work queue, timer, irq, etc ..
> >
> > in the new context:
> >
> > 're_enter reader'() // Get our lockdep tracking back
> >
> > 'end reader'() // aka up_read()
> >
> > vs a typical write side:
> >
> > 'begin write'() // aka down_write()
> >
> > /* There is no reason to unlock it before kfree of the rwsem memory.
> > Somehow the user prevents any new down_read_trylock()'s */
> > 'abandon writer'() // The object will be kfree'd with a locked writer
> > kfree()
> >
> > The typical goal is to provide an object destruction path that can
> > serialize and fence all readers wherever they may be before proceeding
> > to some synchronous destruction.
> >
> > Usually this gets open coded with some atomic/kref/refcount and a
> > completion or wait queue. Often implemented wrongly, lacking the write
> > favoring bias in the rwsem, and lacking any lockdep tracking on the
> > naked completion.
> >
> > Not to discourage your patch, but to ask if we can make the solution
> > more broadly applicable?
>
> Your requirement seems a little different, and in fact in many ways
> similar to the percpu_ref primitive.
I was interested because you are talking about allowing the read/write side
of a rw sem to be held across a return to user space/etc, which is the
same basic problem.
precpu refcount looks more like a typical refcount with a release that
is called by whatever context does the final put. The point above is
to basically move the release of a refcount into a synchrnous path by
introducing some barrier to wait for the refcount to go to zero. In
the above the barrier is the down_write() as it is really closer to a
rwsem than a refcount.
Thanks,
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-15 13:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-14 16:12 RFC: hold i_rwsem until aio completes Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 01/12] mm: fix a comment in sys_swapon Christoph Hellwig
2020-02-10 23:29 ` Andrew Morton
2020-02-12 7:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 02/12] locking/rwsem: Exit early when held by an anonymous owner Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 18:17 ` Waiman Long
2020-01-14 18:25 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 18:33 ` Waiman Long
2020-01-14 18:55 ` Waiman Long
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 03/12] xfs: fix IOCB_NOWAIT handling in xfs_file_dio_aio_read Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 04/12] gfs2: move setting current->backing_dev_info Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 05/12] gfs2: fix O_SYNC write handling Christoph Hellwig
2020-02-06 15:31 ` [Cluster-devel] " Andreas Gruenbacher
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 06/12] iomap: pass a flags value to iomap_dio_rw Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 07/12] iomap: allow holding i_rwsem until aio completion Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 08/12] ext4: hold i_rwsem until AIO completes Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 21:50 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2020-01-15 6:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 09/12] gfs2: " Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 10/12] xfs: " Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 11/12] xfs: don't set IOMAP_DIO_SYNCHRONOUS for unaligned I/O Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 16:12 ` [PATCH 12/12] iomap: remove the inode_dio_begin/end calls Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 18:47 ` RFC: hold i_rwsem until aio completes Matthew Wilcox
2020-01-15 6:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-14 19:27 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-01-15 6:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-15 13:24 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2020-01-15 14:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-01-15 14:49 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-01-15 19:03 ` Waiman Long
2020-01-15 19:07 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-18 22:40 ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-01-15 15:36 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-15 16:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-01-16 14:00 ` Jan Kara
2020-02-03 17:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-01-18 9:28 ` Dave Chinner
2020-02-03 17:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-02-03 23:02 ` Dave Chinner
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