From: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
To: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
rcu@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, fweisbec@gmail.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 03/17] rcu/tree: Skip entry into the page allocator for PREEMPT_RT
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2020 20:48:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200708184834.GA3141@pc636> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200707184531.GC233429@google.com>
On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 02:45:31PM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 07:34:41PM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 02:06:45PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 10:19:08PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > > > On 2020-07-02 09:48:26 [-0700], Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 04:12:16PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > > > > > On 2020-06-30 11:35:34 [-0700], Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > > > > > This is not going to work together with the "wait context validator"
> > > > > > > > (CONFIG_PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING). As of -rc3 it should complain about
> > > > > > > > printk() which is why it is still disabled by default.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Fixing that should be "interesting". In particular, RCU CPU stall
> > > > > > > warnings rely on the raw spin lock to reduce false positives due
> > > > > > > to race conditions. Some thought will be required here.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I don't get this part. Can you explain/give me an example where to look
> > > > > > at?
> > > > >
> > > > > Starting from the scheduler-clock interrupt's call into RCU,
> > > > > we have rcu_sched_clock_irq() which calls rcu_pending() which
> > > > > calls check_cpu_stall() which calls either print_cpu_stall() or
> > > > > print_other_cpu_stall(), depending on whether the stall is happening on
> > > > > the current CPU or on some other CPU, respectively.
> > > > >
> > > > > Both of these last functions acquire the rcu_node structure's raw ->lock
> > > > > and expect to do printk()s while holding it.
> > > >
> > > > …
> > > > > Thoughts?
> > > >
> > > > Okay. So in the RT queue there is a printk() rewrite which fixes this
> > > > kind of things. Upstream the printk() interface is still broken in this
> > > > regard and therefore CONFIG_PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING is disabled.
> > > > [Earlier the workqueue would also trigger a warning but this has been
> > > > fixed as of v5.8-rc1.]
> > > > This was just me explaining why this bad, what debug function would
> > > > report it and why it is not enabled by default.
> > >
> > > Whew!!! ;-)
> > >
> > > > > > > > So assume that this is fixed and enabled then on !PREEMPT_RT it will
> > > > > > > > complain that you have a raw_spinlock_t acquired (the one from patch
> > > > > > > > 02/17) and attempt to acquire a spinlock_t in the memory allocator.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Given that the slab allocator doesn't acquire any locks until it gets
> > > > > > > a fair way in, wouldn't it make sense to allow a "shallow" allocation
> > > > > > > while a raw spinlock is held? This would require yet another GFP_ flag,
> > > > > > > but that won't make all that much of a difference in the total. ;-)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > That would be one way of dealing with. But we could go back to
> > > > > > spinlock_t and keep the memory allocation even for RT as is. I don't see
> > > > > > a downside of this. And we would worry about kfree_rcu() from real
> > > > > > IRQ-off region once we get to it.
> > > > >
> > > > > Once we get to it, your thought would be to do per-CPU queuing of
> > > > > memory from IRQ-off kfree_rcu(), and have IRQ work or some such clean
> > > > > up after it? Or did you have some other trick in mind?
> > > >
> > > > So for now I would very much like to revert the raw_spinlock_t back to
> > > > the spinlock_t and add a migrate_disable() just avoid the tiny
> > > > possible migration between obtaining the CPU-ptr and acquiring the lock
> > > > (I think Joel was afraid of performance hit).
> > >
> > > Performance is indeed a concern here.
> > >
> > > > Should we get to a *real* use case where someone must invoke kfree_rcu()
> > > > from a hard-IRQ-off region then we can think what makes sense. per-CPU
> > > > queues and IRQ-work would be one way of dealing with it.
> > >
> > > It looks like workqueues can also be used, at least in their current
> > > form. And timers.
> > >
> > > Vlad, Joel, thoughts?
> > >
> > Some high level thoughts:
> >
> > Currently everything is done in workqueue context, it means all freeing
> > happens there. For RT kernel we can invoke a page allocator only for single
> > kfree_rcu() argument(though we skip it). As for double one, it is impossible,
> > that is why a simple path is used by linking rcu_head among each other for
> > further reclaim in wq context. As of now, for RT, everything is already
> > deferred.
> >
> > If we revert to spinlock_t then calling of kfree_rcu() from hard IRQ
> > context is broken, even though we think that for RT kernel it will
> > never happen. Therefore i do not see a clear motivation and benefits
> > why we should revert to spinlock_t.
> >
> > IMHO, if we can avoid of such drawback i would go with that way, i.e.
> > i would not like to think what to do with that when it becomes broken.
>
> I am also of Vlad's opinion. It seems to me that doing the migrate_disable()
> before dropping the raw spinlock should suffice.
>
> Note that in the future, we may have other users of this path such as
> a potential kmem_cache_free_rcu(). It seems burdensome to make these all
> callable only from sleepable-context.
>
> Is there a drawback of doing migrate_disable before dropping the raw internal
> lock, that I'm missing?
>
I used migrate_disable() just to underline that we want to stay on the
same CPU. We can go with preempt_enable()/preempt_disable() what is
exactly the same as migrate_disable() for regular kernel.
--
Vlad Rezki
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-08 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-24 20:12 [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/17] kfree_rcu updates for v5.9 Paul E. McKenney
2020-06-24 20:12 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 01/17] rcu: Fix a kernel-doc warnings for "count" paulmck
2020-06-24 20:12 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 02/17] rcu/tree: Keep kfree_rcu() awake during lock contention paulmck
2020-06-24 20:12 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 03/17] rcu/tree: Skip entry into the page allocator for PREEMPT_RT paulmck
2020-06-30 16:45 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-06-30 18:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-07-02 14:12 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-07-02 16:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-07-02 20:19 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-07-06 21:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-07-07 17:34 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-07-07 18:45 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-07-08 18:48 ` Uladzislau Rezki [this message]
2020-07-02 19:45 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-07-06 19:42 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-07-06 19:55 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-07-06 20:29 ` Joel Fernandes
2020-07-07 9:27 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-07-15 13:38 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-07-15 14:16 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2020-07-15 14:20 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-06-24 20:12 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/17] rcu/tree: Repeat the monitor if any free channel is busy paulmck
2020-06-24 20:12 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 05/17] rcu/tree: Make debug_objects logic independent of rcu_head paulmck
2020-06-24 20:12 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 06/17] rcu/tree: Simplify KFREE_BULK_MAX_ENTR macro paulmck
2020-06-24 20:12 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 07/17] rcu/tree: Move kfree_rcu_cpu locking/unlocking to separate functions paulmck
2020-06-24 20:12 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 08/17] rcu/tree: Use static initializer for krc.lock paulmck
2020-06-24 20:12 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 09/17] rcu/tree: cache specified number of objects paulmck
2020-06-24 20:12 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 10/17] rcu/tree: Maintain separate array for vmalloc ptrs paulmck
2020-06-24 20:12 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 11/17] rcu/tiny: support vmalloc in tiny-RCU paulmck
2020-06-24 20:12 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 12/17] rcu: Rename *_kfree_callback/*_kfree_rcu_offset/kfree_call_* paulmck
2020-06-24 20:12 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 13/17] mm/list_lru.c: Rename kvfree_rcu() to local variant paulmck
2020-06-24 20:12 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 14/17] rcu: Introduce 2 arg kvfree_rcu() interface paulmck
2020-06-24 20:12 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 15/17] rcu: Support reclaim for head-less object paulmck
2020-06-24 20:12 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 16/17] rcu: Introduce single argument kvfree_rcu() interface paulmck
2020-06-24 20:12 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 17/17] lib/test_vmalloc.c: Add test cases for kvfree_rcu() paulmck
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