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* [PATCH 0/11] introduce down_write_killable for rw_semaphore v2
@ 2016-04-01 11:04 Michal Hocko
  2016-04-01 11:04 ` [PATCH 01/11] locking, rwsem: get rid of __down_write_nested Michal Hocko
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  0 siblings, 11 replies; 55+ messages in thread
From: Michal Hocko @ 2016-04-01 11:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: LKML
  Cc: Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Thomas Gleixner, H. Peter Anvin,
	David S. Miller, Tony Luck, Andrew Morton, Chris Zankel,
	Max Filippov, x86, linux-alpha, linux-ia64, linux-s390, linux-sh,
	sparclinux, linux-xtensa, linux-arch

Hi,
the following patchset implements a killable variant of write lock
for rw_semaphore. My usecase is to turn as many mmap_sem write users
to use a killable variant which will be helpful for the oom_reaper
merged in 4.6-rc1 (aac453635549 ("mm, oom: introduce oom reaper")) to
asynchronously tear down the oom victim address space which requires
mmap_sem for read. This will reduce a likelihood of OOM livelocks caused
by oom victim being stuck on a lock or other resource which prevents it
to reach its exit path and release the memory. I haven't implemented the
killable variant of the read lock because I do not have any usecase for
this API.

The previous version of this series was posted [1] and the only change
since than was the rebase on top of 4.5 (with a clean merge to 4.6-rc1) and
Patch3 was updated to only check for fatal signals when the caller would
block - aka trylock will get the lock even when signals are pending to
be in sync with mutex implementation as per Peter Zijlstra.

The patchset is organized as follows.
- Patch 1 is a trivial cleanup
- Patch 2, I belive, shouldn't introduce any functional changes as per
  Documentation/memory-barriers.txt.
- Patch 3 is the preparatory work and necessary infrastructure for
  down_write_killable. It implements generic __down_write_killable
  and prepares the write lock slow path to bail out earlier when told so
- Patch 4-1 are implementing arch specific __down_write_killable. One
  patch per architecture.
- finally patch 11 implements down_write_killable and ties everything
  together. I am not really an expert on lockdep so I hope I got it right.

Follow up patches to change mmap_sem write users to killable form is not
part of the series because that will be routed via mmotm tree later on.

I have tested on x86 with OOM situations with high mmap_sem contention
(basically many parallel page faults racing with many parallel mmap/munmap
tight loops) so the waiters for the write locks are routinely interrupted
by SIGKILL.

Thanks!

Shortlog says:
Michal Hocko (11):
      locking, rwsem: get rid of __down_write_nested
      locking, rwsem: drop explicit memory barriers
      locking, rwsem: introduce basis for down_write_killable
      alpha, rwsem: provide __down_write_killable
      ia64, rwsem: provide __down_write_killable
      s390, rwsem: provide __down_write_killable
      sh, rwsem: provide __down_write_killable
      sparc, rwsem: provide __down_write_killable
      xtensa, rwsem: provide __down_write_killable
      x86, rwsem: provide __down_write_killable
      locking, rwsem: provide down_write_killable

And diffstat:
 arch/alpha/include/asm/rwsem.h  | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 arch/ia64/include/asm/rwsem.h   | 22 ++++++++++++++++++---
 arch/s390/include/asm/rwsem.h   | 18 ++++++++++++++----
 arch/sh/include/asm/rwsem.h     | 32 +++++++++++++++----------------
 arch/sparc/include/asm/rwsem.h  | 14 +++++++++++---
 arch/x86/include/asm/rwsem.h    | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 arch/x86/lib/rwsem.S            |  8 ++++++++
 arch/xtensa/include/asm/rwsem.h | 27 ++++++++++++++------------
 include/asm-generic/rwsem.h     | 13 ++++++++++---
 include/linux/lockdep.h         | 15 +++++++++++++++
 include/linux/rwsem-spinlock.h  |  2 +-
 include/linux/rwsem.h           |  3 +++
 kernel/locking/rwsem-spinlock.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
 kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c     | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 kernel/locking/rwsem.c          | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 15 files changed, 213 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)

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[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1456750705-7141-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org

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* [PATCH 0/11] introduce down_write_killable for rw_semaphore
@ 2016-02-29 12:58 Michal Hocko
  2016-02-29 12:58 ` [PATCH 03/11] locking, rwsem: introduce basis for down_write_killable Michal Hocko
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 55+ messages in thread
From: Michal Hocko @ 2016-02-29 12:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: LKML
  Cc: Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Thomas Gleixner, H. Peter Anvin,
	David S. Miller, Tony Luck, Andrew Morton, Chris Zankel,
	Max Filippov, x86, linux-alpha, linux-ia64, linux-s390, linux-sh,
	sparclinux, linux-xtensa, linux-arch

Hi,
I have posted this series [1] and there didn't seem to be any
fundamental objections except for x86 maintainers who preferred the asm
__down_write implementation which I have reworked for this series. Apart
from that I have refreshed on top of the current linux-next and fixed
one unused variable warning which happened to trigger a compilation
failure on ppc.

The following patchset implements a killable variant of write lock for
rw_semaphore. My usecase is to turn as many mmap_sem write users to use
a killable variant which will be helpful for the oom_reaper [2] to
asynchronously tear down the oom victim address space which requires
mmap_sem for read. This will reduce a likelihood of OOM livelocks caused
by oom victim being stuck on a lock or other resource which prevents it
to reach its exit path and release the memory. I haven't implemented
the killable variant of the read lock because I do not have any usecase
for this API.

The patchset is organized as follows.
- Patch 1 is a trivial cleanup
- Patch 2, I belive, shouldn't introduce any functional changes as per
  Documentation/memory-barriers.txt.
- Patch 3 is the preparatory work and necessary infrastructure for
  down_write_killable. It implements generic __down_write_killable
  and prepares the write lock slow path to bail out earlier when told so
- Patch 4-1- are implementing arch specific __down_write_killable. One
  patch per architecture.
- finally patch 11 implements down_write_killable and ties everything
  together. I am not really an expert on lockdep so I hope I got it right.

Many of arch specific patches are basically same and I can squash them
into one patch if this is preferred but I thought that one patch per
arch is preferable.

My patch to change mmap_sem write users to killable form is not part of
the series because it is a larger change and I would like to prevent
from spamming people too much. I will post the series shortly.

I have tested on x86 with OOM situations with high mmap_sem contention
(basically many parallel page faults racing with many parallel mmap/munmap
tight loops) so the waiters for the write locks are routinely interrupted
by SIGKILL.

Patches should apply cleanly on both Linus and next tree.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454444369-2146-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
[2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1452094975-551-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org

Any feedback is highly appreciated.

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2016-04-01 11:04 [PATCH 0/11] introduce down_write_killable for rw_semaphore v2 Michal Hocko
2016-04-01 11:04 ` [PATCH 01/11] locking, rwsem: get rid of __down_write_nested Michal Hocko
2016-04-02  0:28   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-04-01 11:04 ` [PATCH 02/11] locking, rwsem: drop explicit memory barriers Michal Hocko
2016-04-02  1:17   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-04-04  9:03     ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-04  9:06       ` [PATCH 1/2] xtensa, rwsem: drop superfluous arch specific implementation Michal Hocko
2016-04-04  9:06         ` [PATCH 2/2] sh, " Michal Hocko
2016-04-06  9:26           ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-06  9:50             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-04-06 10:27               ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-04 10:23         ` [PATCH 1/2] xtensa, " Max Filippov
2016-04-06  9:06     ` [PATCH] sparc, " Michal Hocko
2016-04-01 11:04 ` [PATCH 03/11] locking, rwsem: introduce basis for down_write_killable Michal Hocko
2016-04-02  4:41   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-04-04  9:17     ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-04  9:21       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-07  6:58       ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-04-07  7:38         ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-10 10:43   ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-05-10 11:53     ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-10 12:38       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-10 13:57         ` Tetsuo Handa
2016-05-11  7:23         ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-11  8:28           ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-11  8:44             ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-11  9:04               ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-11  9:17                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-11  9:31                   ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-11  9:41                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-11 13:59                       ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-11 18:03                         ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-12 11:57                           ` [PATCH] locking, rwsem: Fix down_write_killable() Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-12 12:15                             ` [tip:locking/rwsem] locking/rwsem: " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-12 16:59                             ` [PATCH] locking, rwsem: " Michal Hocko
2016-05-15 20:57                             ` [tip:locking/rwsem] locking/rwsem: " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-12 12:12                           ` [PATCH 03/11] locking, rwsem: introduce basis for down_write_killable Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-12 12:19                             ` Michal Hocko
2016-05-12 13:58                               ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-12 19:42                               ` Waiman Long
2016-05-11  8:35           ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-05-11  9:02             ` Michal Hocko
2016-04-01 11:04 ` [PATCH 04/11] alpha, rwsem: provide __down_write_killable Michal Hocko
2016-04-01 11:04 ` [PATCH 05/11] ia64, " Michal Hocko
2016-04-01 11:04 ` [PATCH 06/11] s390, " Michal Hocko
2016-04-01 11:04 ` [PATCH 07/11] sh, " Michal Hocko
2016-04-01 11:04 ` [PATCH 08/11] sparc, " Michal Hocko
2016-04-01 11:04 ` [PATCH 09/11] xtensa, " Michal Hocko
2016-04-01 11:04 ` [PATCH 10/11] x86, " Michal Hocko
2016-04-06 18:31   ` Peter Zijlstra
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2016-02-29 12:58 ` [PATCH 03/11] locking, rwsem: introduce basis for down_write_killable Michal Hocko
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