Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 4 authors, 2012-04-27

Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] make jump_labels wait while updates are in place

From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Date: 2012-04-27 00:43:12
Also in: cgroups, linux-mm, lkml

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 07:51:05PM -0300, Glauber Costa wrote:
In mem cgroup, we need to guarantee that two concurrent updates
of the jump_label interface wait for each other. IOW, we can't have
other updates returning while the first one is still patching the
kernel around, otherwise we'll race.
But it shouldn't. The code as is should prevent that.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
I believe this is something that can fit well in the static branch
API, without noticeable disadvantages:

* in the common case, it will be a quite simple lock/unlock operation
* Every context that calls static_branch_slow* already expects to be
  in sleeping context because it will mutex_lock the unlikely case.
* static_key_slow_inc is not expected to be called in any fast path,
  otherwise it would be expected to have quite a different name. Therefore
  the mutex + atomic combination instead of just an atomic should not kill
  us.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <redacted>
CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
CC: Li Zefan <redacted>
CC: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <redacted>
CC: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
CC: Michal Hocko <redacted>
CC: Ingo Molnar <redacted>
CC: Jason Baron <redacted>
---
 kernel/jump_label.c |   21 +++++++++++----------
 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/jump_label.c b/kernel/jump_label.c
index 4304919..5d09cb4 100644
--- a/kernel/jump_label.c
+++ b/kernel/jump_label.c
@@ -57,17 +57,16 @@ static void jump_label_update(struct static_key *key, int enable);
 
 void static_key_slow_inc(struct static_key *key)
 {
+	jump_label_lock();
 	if (atomic_inc_not_zero(&key->enabled))
-		return;
If key->enabled is not zero, there's nothing to be done. As the jump
label has already been enabled. Note, the key->enabled doesn't get set
until after the jump label is updated. Thus, if two tasks were to come
in, they both would be locked on the jump_label_lock().

quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+		goto out;
 
-	jump_label_lock();
-	if (atomic_read(&key->enabled) == 0) {
-		if (!jump_label_get_branch_default(key))
-			jump_label_update(key, JUMP_LABEL_ENABLE);
-		else
-			jump_label_update(key, JUMP_LABEL_DISABLE);
-	}
+	if (!jump_label_get_branch_default(key))
+		jump_label_update(key, JUMP_LABEL_ENABLE);
+	else
+		jump_label_update(key, JUMP_LABEL_DISABLE);
 	atomic_inc(&key->enabled);
+out:
 	jump_label_unlock();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(static_key_slow_inc);
@@ -75,10 +74,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(static_key_slow_inc);
 static void __static_key_slow_dec(struct static_key *key,
 		unsigned long rate_limit, struct delayed_work *work)
 {
-	if (!atomic_dec_and_mutex_lock(&key->enabled, &jump_label_mutex)) {
+	jump_label_lock();
+	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&key->enabled)) {
 		WARN(atomic_read(&key->enabled) < 0,
 		     "jump label: negative count!\n");
-		return;
Here, it is similar. If enabled is > 1, it wouldn't need to do anything,
thus it would dec the counter and return. But if it were one, then the
lock would be taken. and set to zero. There shouldn't be a case where
two tasks came in to set it less than zero (then something is
unbalanced).

Are you hitting the WARN_ON?

-- Steve
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
+		goto out;
 	}
 
 	if (rate_limit) {
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ static void __static_key_slow_dec(struct static_key *key,
 		else
 			jump_label_update(key, JUMP_LABEL_ENABLE);
 	}
+out:
 	jump_label_unlock();
 }
 
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