[RFC PATCH RESEND 28/28] kernel/fork: throttle call_rcu() calls in vm_area_free
Suren Baghdasaryan
surenb at google.com
Sat Sep 10 02:02:01 AEST 2022
On Fri, Sep 9, 2022 at 8:19 AM Laurent Dufour <ldufour at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Le 01/09/2022 à 19:35, Suren Baghdasaryan a écrit :
> > call_rcu() can take a long time when callback offloading is enabled.
> > Its use in the vm_area_free can cause regressions in the exit path when
> > multiple VMAs are being freed. To minimize that impact, place VMAs into
> > a list and free them in groups using one call_rcu() call per group.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb at google.com>
> > ---
> > include/linux/mm.h | 1 +
> > include/linux/mm_types.h | 11 ++++++-
> > kernel/fork.c | 68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> > mm/init-mm.c | 3 ++
> > mm/mmap.c | 1 +
> > 5 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> > index a3cbaa7b9119..81dff694ac14 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> > @@ -249,6 +249,7 @@ void setup_initial_init_mm(void *start_code, void *end_code,
> > struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_alloc(struct mm_struct *);
> > struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_dup(struct vm_area_struct *);
> > void vm_area_free(struct vm_area_struct *);
> > +void drain_free_vmas(struct mm_struct *mm);
> >
> > #ifndef CONFIG_MMU
> > extern struct rb_root nommu_region_tree;
> > diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> > index 36562e702baf..6f3effc493b1 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> > @@ -412,7 +412,11 @@ struct vm_area_struct {
> > struct vm_area_struct *vm_next, *vm_prev;
> > };
> > #ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
> > - struct rcu_head vm_rcu; /* Used for deferred freeing. */
> > + struct {
> > + struct list_head vm_free_list;
> > + /* Used for deferred freeing. */
> > + struct rcu_head vm_rcu;
> > + };
> > #endif
> > };
> >
> > @@ -573,6 +577,11 @@ struct mm_struct {
> > */
> > #ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
> > int mm_lock_seq;
> > + struct {
> > + struct list_head head;
> > + spinlock_t lock;
> > + int size;
> > + } vma_free_list;
> > #endif
> >
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> > index b443ba3a247a..7c88710aed72 100644
> > --- a/kernel/fork.c
> > +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> > @@ -483,26 +483,75 @@ struct vm_area_struct *vm_area_dup(struct vm_area_struct *orig)
> > }
> >
> > #ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
> > -static void __vm_area_free(struct rcu_head *head)
> > +static inline void __vm_area_free(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > {
> > - struct vm_area_struct *vma = container_of(head, struct vm_area_struct,
> > - vm_rcu);
> > /* The vma should either have no lock holders or be write-locked. */
> > vma_assert_no_reader(vma);
> > kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
> > }
> > -#endif
> > +
> > +static void vma_free_rcu_callback(struct rcu_head *head)
> > +{
> > + struct vm_area_struct *first_vma;
> > + struct vm_area_struct *vma, *vma2;
> > +
> > + first_vma = container_of(head, struct vm_area_struct, vm_rcu);
> > + list_for_each_entry_safe(vma, vma2, &first_vma->vm_free_list, vm_free_list)
>
> Is that safe to walk the list against concurrent calls to
> list_splice_init(), or list_add()?
I think it is. drain_free_vmas() moves the to-be-destroyed and already
isolated VMAs from mm->vma_free_list into to_destroy list and then
passes that list to vma_free_rcu_callback(). At this point the list of
VMAs passed to vma_free_rcu_callback() is not accessible either from
mm (VMAs were isolated before vm_area_free() was called) or from
drain_free_vmas() since they were already removed from
mm->vma_free_list. Does that make sense?
>
> > + __vm_area_free(vma);
> > + __vm_area_free(first_vma);
> > +}
> > +
> > +void drain_free_vmas(struct mm_struct *mm)
> > +{
> > + struct vm_area_struct *first_vma;
> > + LIST_HEAD(to_destroy);
> > +
> > + spin_lock(&mm->vma_free_list.lock);
> > + list_splice_init(&mm->vma_free_list.head, &to_destroy);
> > + mm->vma_free_list.size = 0;
> > + spin_unlock(&mm->vma_free_list.lock);
> > +
> > + if (list_empty(&to_destroy))
> > + return;
> > +
> > + first_vma = list_first_entry(&to_destroy, struct vm_area_struct, vm_free_list);
> > + /* Remove the head which is allocated on the stack */
> > + list_del(&to_destroy);
> > +
> > + call_rcu(&first_vma->vm_rcu, vma_free_rcu_callback);
> > +}
> > +
> > +#define VM_AREA_FREE_LIST_MAX 32
> > +
> > +void vm_area_free(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > +{
> > + struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
> > + bool drain;
> > +
> > + free_anon_vma_name(vma);
> > +
> > + spin_lock(&mm->vma_free_list.lock);
> > + list_add(&vma->vm_free_list, &mm->vma_free_list.head);
> > + mm->vma_free_list.size++;
> > + drain = mm->vma_free_list.size > VM_AREA_FREE_LIST_MAX;
> > + spin_unlock(&mm->vma_free_list.lock);
> > +
> > + if (drain)
> > + drain_free_vmas(mm);
> > +}
> > +
> > +#else /* CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK */
> > +
> > +void drain_free_vmas(struct mm_struct *mm) {}
> >
> > void vm_area_free(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
> > {
> > free_anon_vma_name(vma);
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
> > - call_rcu(&vma->vm_rcu, __vm_area_free);
> > -#else
> > kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
> > -#endif
> > }
> >
> > +#endif /* CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK */
> > +
> > static void account_kernel_stack(struct task_struct *tsk, int account)
> > {
> > if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_VMAP_STACK)) {
> > @@ -1137,6 +1186,9 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p,
> > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mm->mmlist);
> > #ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
> > WRITE_ONCE(mm->mm_lock_seq, 0);
> > + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mm->vma_free_list.head);
> > + spin_lock_init(&mm->vma_free_list.lock);
> > + mm->vma_free_list.size = 0;
> > #endif
> > mm_pgtables_bytes_init(mm);
> > mm->map_count = 0;
> > diff --git a/mm/init-mm.c b/mm/init-mm.c
> > index 8399f90d631c..7b6d2460545f 100644
> > --- a/mm/init-mm.c
> > +++ b/mm/init-mm.c
> > @@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ struct mm_struct init_mm = {
> > .mmlist = LIST_HEAD_INIT(init_mm.mmlist),
> > #ifdef CONFIG_PER_VMA_LOCK
> > .mm_lock_seq = 0,
> > + .vma_free_list.head = LIST_HEAD_INIT(init_mm.vma_free_list.head),
> > + .vma_free_list.lock = __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(init_mm.vma_free_list.lock),
> > + .vma_free_list.size = 0,
> > #endif
> > .user_ns = &init_user_ns,
> > .cpu_bitmap = CPU_BITS_NONE,
> > diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
> > index 1edfcd384f5e..d61b7ef84ba6 100644
> > --- a/mm/mmap.c
> > +++ b/mm/mmap.c
> > @@ -3149,6 +3149,7 @@ void exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
> > }
> > mm->mmap = NULL;
> > mmap_write_unlock(mm);
> > + drain_free_vmas(mm);
> > vm_unacct_memory(nr_accounted);
> > }
> >
>
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