Re: page_waitqueue() considered harmful
From: Mel Gorman <hidden>
Date: 2016-09-28 10:45:03
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 04:34:26PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 09:31:04AM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote:quoted
page_waitqueue() has been a hazard for years. I think the last attempt to fix it was back in 2014 http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg73207.html The patch is heavily derived from work by Nick Piggin who noticed the years before that. I think that was the last version I posted and the changelog includes profile data. I don't have an exact reference why it was rejected but a consistent piece of feedback was that it was very complex for the level of impact it had.Right, I never really liked that patch. In any case, the below seems to boot, although the lock_page_wait() thing did get my brain in a bit of a twist. Doing explicit loops with PG_contended inside wq->lock would be more obvious but results in much more code. We could muck about with PG_contended naming/placement if any of this shows benefit. It does boot on my x86_64 and builds a kernel, so it must be perfect ;-)
Heh. tldr: Other than 32-bit vs 64-bit, I could not find anything obviously wrong.
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--- include/linux/page-flags.h | 2 ++ include/linux/pagemap.h | 21 +++++++++---- include/linux/wait.h | 2 +- include/trace/events/mmflags.h | 1 + kernel/sched/wait.c | 17 ++++++---- mm/filemap.c | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 6 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h index 74e4dda..0ed3900 100644 --- a/include/linux/page-flags.h +++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ */ enum pageflags { PG_locked, /* Page is locked. Don't touch. */ + PG_contended, /* Page lock is contended. */ PG_error, PG_referenced, PG_uptodate,
Naming has been covered by Nick. You may run into the same problem with 32-bit and available page flags. I didn't work out the remaining number of flags but did you check 32-bit is ok? If not, you may need to take a similar approach that I did that says "there are always waiters and use the slow path on 32-bit".
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@@ -253,6 +254,7 @@ static inline int TestClearPage##uname(struct page *page) { return 0; } TESTSETFLAG_FALSE(uname) TESTCLEARFLAG_FALSE(uname) __PAGEFLAG(Locked, locked, PF_NO_TAIL) +PAGEFLAG(Contended, contended, PF_NO_TAIL) PAGEFLAG(Error, error, PF_NO_COMPOUND) TESTCLEARFLAG(Error, error, PF_NO_COMPOUND) PAGEFLAG(Referenced, referenced, PF_HEAD) TESTCLEARFLAG(Referenced, referenced, PF_HEAD)diff --git a/include/linux/pagemap.h b/include/linux/pagemap.h index 66a1260..3b38a96 100644 --- a/include/linux/pagemap.h +++ b/include/linux/pagemap.h@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ extern void __lock_page(struct page *page); extern int __lock_page_killable(struct page *page); extern int __lock_page_or_retry(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned int flags); -extern void unlock_page(struct page *page); +extern void __unlock_page(struct page *page); static inline int trylock_page(struct page *page) {@@ -448,6 +448,16 @@ static inline int lock_page_killable(struct page *page) return 0; } +static inline void unlock_page(struct page *page) +{ + page = compound_head(page); + VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page); + clear_bit_unlock(PG_locked, &page->flags); + smp_mb__after_atomic(); + if (PageContended(page)) + __unlock_page(page); +} +
The main race to be concerned with is PageContended being set after the page is unlocked and missing a wakeup here. While you explain the protocol later, it's worth referencing it here.
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/* * lock_page_or_retry - Lock the page, unless this would block and the * caller indicated that it can handle a retry.@@ -472,11 +482,11 @@ extern int wait_on_page_bit_killable(struct page *page, int bit_nr); extern int wait_on_page_bit_killable_timeout(struct page *page, int bit_nr, unsigned long timeout); +extern int wait_on_page_lock(struct page *page, int mode); + static inline int wait_on_page_locked_killable(struct page *page) { - if (!PageLocked(page)) - return 0; - return wait_on_page_bit_killable(compound_head(page), PG_locked); + return wait_on_page_lock(page, TASK_KILLABLE); }
Ok, I raised an eyebrow at compound_head but it's covered in the helper.
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extern wait_queue_head_t *page_waitqueue(struct page *page);@@ -494,8 +504,7 @@ static inline void wake_up_page(struct page *page, int bit) */ static inline void wait_on_page_locked(struct page *page) { - if (PageLocked(page)) - wait_on_page_bit(compound_head(page), PG_locked); + wait_on_page_lock(page, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE); } /*diff --git a/include/linux/wait.h b/include/linux/wait.h index c3ff74d..524cd54 100644 --- a/include/linux/wait.h +++ b/include/linux/wait.h@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ __remove_wait_queue(wait_queue_head_t *head, wait_queue_t *old) typedef int wait_bit_action_f(struct wait_bit_key *, int mode); void __wake_up(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode, int nr, void *key); -void __wake_up_locked_key(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode, void *key); +int __wake_up_locked_key(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode, void *key); void __wake_up_sync_key(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode, int nr, void *key); void __wake_up_locked(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode, int nr); void __wake_up_sync(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode, int nr);diff --git a/include/trace/events/mmflags.h b/include/trace/events/mmflags.h index 5a81ab4..18b8398 100644 --- a/include/trace/events/mmflags.h +++ b/include/trace/events/mmflags.h@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ #define __def_pageflag_names \ {1UL << PG_locked, "locked" }, \ + {1UL << PG_contended, "contended" }, \ {1UL << PG_error, "error" }, \ {1UL << PG_referenced, "referenced" }, \ {1UL << PG_uptodate, "uptodate" }, \diff --git a/kernel/sched/wait.c b/kernel/sched/wait.c index f15d6b6..46dcc42 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/wait.c +++ b/kernel/sched/wait.c@@ -62,18 +62,23 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(remove_wait_queue); * started to run but is not in state TASK_RUNNING. try_to_wake_up() returns * zero in this (rare) case, and we handle it by continuing to scan the queue. */ -static void __wake_up_common(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode, +static int __wake_up_common(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode, int nr_exclusive, int wake_flags, void *key) { wait_queue_t *curr, *next; + int woken = 0; list_for_each_entry_safe(curr, next, &q->task_list, task_list) { unsigned flags = curr->flags; - if (curr->func(curr, mode, wake_flags, key) && - (flags & WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE) && !--nr_exclusive) - break; + if (curr->func(curr, mode, wake_flags, key)) { + woken++; + if ((flags & WQ_FLAG_EXCLUSIVE) && !--nr_exclusive) + break; + } } + + return woken; }
ok.
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/**@@ -106,9 +111,9 @@ void __wake_up_locked(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode, int nr) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__wake_up_locked); -void __wake_up_locked_key(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode, void *key) +int __wake_up_locked_key(wait_queue_head_t *q, unsigned int mode, void *key) { - __wake_up_common(q, mode, 1, 0, key); + return __wake_up_common(q, mode, 1, 0, key); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__wake_up_locked_key);diff --git a/mm/filemap.c b/mm/filemap.c index 8a287df..d3e3203 100644 --- a/mm/filemap.c +++ b/mm/filemap.c@@ -847,15 +847,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(add_page_wait_queue); * The mb is necessary to enforce ordering between the clear_bit and the read * of the waitqueue (to avoid SMP races with a parallel wait_on_page_locked()). */ -void unlock_page(struct page *page) +void __unlock_page(struct page *page) { - page = compound_head(page); - VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageLocked(page), page); - clear_bit_unlock(PG_locked, &page->flags); - smp_mb__after_atomic(); - wake_up_page(page, PG_locked); + struct wait_bit_key key = __WAIT_BIT_KEY_INITIALIZER(&page->flags, PG_locked); + wait_queue_head_t *wq = page_waitqueue(page); + unsigned long flags; + + spin_lock_irqsave(&wq->lock, flags); + if (!__wake_up_locked_key(wq, TASK_NORMAL, &key)) + ClearPageContended(page); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wq->lock, flags); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL(unlock_page); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__unlock_page);
The function name is questionable. It used to unlock_page but now it's handling the wakeup of waiters. That aside, the wq->lock in itself does not protect the PageContended bit but I couldn't see a case where we lost a wakeup in the following sequence either. unlock_page lock_page prepare_wait lock_wq wake ClearPageContended unlock_wq SetPageContended Otherwise the page_waitqueue deferrals to the slowpath look ok. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>