From: Peter Newman <peternewman@google.com>
To: reinette.chatre@intel.com, fenghua.yu@intel.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de, derkling@google.com, eranian@google.com,
hpa@zytor.com, james.morse@arm.com, jannh@google.com,
kpsingh@google.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
mingo@redhat.com, tglx@linutronix.de, x86@kernel.org,
Peter Newman <peternewman@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 1/1] x86/resctrl: Fix task CLOSID/RMID update race
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 12:44:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221214114447.1935755-2-peternewman@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221214114447.1935755-1-peternewman@google.com>
When the user moves a running task to a new rdtgroup using the tasks
file interface or by deleting its rdtgroup, the resulting change in
CLOSID/RMID must be immediately propagated to the PQR_ASSOC MSR on the
task(s) CPUs.
x86 allows reordering loads with prior stores, so if the task starts
running between a task_curr() check that the CPU hoisted before the
stores in the CLOSID/RMID update then it can start running with the old
CLOSID/RMID until it is switched again because __rdtgroup_move_task()
failed to determine that it needs to be interrupted to obtain the new
CLOSID/RMID.
Refer to the diagram below:
CPU 0 CPU 1
----- -----
__rdtgroup_move_task():
curr <- t1->cpu->rq->curr
__schedule():
rq->curr <- t1
resctrl_sched_in():
t1->{closid,rmid} -> {1,1}
t1->{closid,rmid} <- {2,2}
if (curr == t1) // false
IPI(t1->cpu)
A similar race impacts rdt_move_group_tasks(), which updates tasks in a
deleted rdtgroup.
In both cases, use smp_mb() to order the task_struct::{closid,rmid}
stores before the loads in task_curr(). In particular, in the
rdt_move_group_tasks() case, simply execute an smp_mb() on every
iteration with a matching task.
It is possible to use a single smp_mb() in rdt_move_group_tasks(), but
this would require two passes and a means of remembering which
task_structs were updated in the first loop. However, benchmarking
results below showed too little performance impact in the simple
approach to justify implementing the two-pass approach.
Times below were collected using `perf stat` to measure the time to
remove a group containing a 1600-task, parallel workload.
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Platinum P-8136 CPU @ 2.00GHz (112 threads)
# mkdir /sys/fs/resctrl/test
# echo $$ > /sys/fs/resctrl/test/tasks
# perf bench sched messaging -g 40 -l 100000
task-clock time ranges collected using:
# perf stat rmdir /sys/fs/resctrl/test
Baseline: 1.54 - 1.60 ms
smp_mb() every matching task: 1.57 - 1.67 ms
Signed-off-by: Peter Newman <peternewman@google.com>
---
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
index e5a48f05e787..5993da21d822 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl/rdtgroup.c
@@ -580,8 +580,10 @@ static int __rdtgroup_move_task(struct task_struct *tsk,
/*
* Ensure the task's closid and rmid are written before determining if
* the task is current that will decide if it will be interrupted.
+ * This pairs with the full barrier between the rq->curr update and
+ * resctrl_sched_in() during context switch.
*/
- barrier();
+ smp_mb();
/*
* By now, the task's closid and rmid are set. If the task is current
@@ -2401,6 +2403,14 @@ static void rdt_move_group_tasks(struct rdtgroup *from, struct rdtgroup *to,
WRITE_ONCE(t->closid, to->closid);
WRITE_ONCE(t->rmid, to->mon.rmid);
+ /*
+ * Order the closid/rmid stores above before the loads
+ * in task_curr(). This pairs with the full barrier
+ * between the rq->curr update and resctrl_sched_in()
+ * during context switch.
+ */
+ smp_mb();
+
/*
* If the task is on a CPU, set the CPU in the mask.
* The detection is inaccurate as tasks might move or
--
2.39.0.rc1.256.g54fd8350bd-goog
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-14 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-14 11:44 [PATCH v5 0/1] Subject: x86/resctrl: Fix task CLOSID update race Peter Newman
2022-12-14 11:44 ` Peter Newman [this message]
2022-12-15 23:51 ` [PATCH v5 1/1] x86/resctrl: Fix task CLOSID/RMID " Reinette Chatre
2022-12-16 10:26 ` Peter Newman
2022-12-16 19:36 ` Reinette Chatre
2022-12-19 10:22 ` Peter Newman
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