From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" joel@joelfernandes.org
In recent tests with IRQ on/off tracepoints, a large performance overhead ~10% is noticed when running hackbench. This is root caused to calls to rcu_irq_enter_irqson and rcu_irq_exit_irqson from the tracepoint code. Following a long discussion on the list [1] about this, we concluded that srcu is a better alternative for use during rcu idle. Although it does involve extra barriers, its lighter than the sched-rcu version which has to do additional RCU calls to notify RCU idle about entry into RCU sections.
In this patch, we change the underlying implementation of the trace_*_rcuidle API to use SRCU. This has shown to improve performance alot for the high frequency irq enable/disable tracepoints.
Test: Tested idle and preempt/irq tracepoints.
Here are some performance numbers:
With a run of the following 30 times on a single core x86 Qemu instance with 1GB memory: hackbench -g 4 -f 2 -l 3000
Completion times in seconds. CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y.
No patches (without this series) Mean: 3.048 Median: 3.025 Std Dev: 0.064
With Lockdep using irq tracepoints with RCU implementation: Mean: 3.451 (-11.66 %) Median: 3.447 (-12.22%) Std Dev: 0.049
With Lockdep using irq tracepoints with SRCU implementation (this series): Mean: 3.020 (I would consider the improvement against the "without this series" case as just noise). Median: 3.013 Std Dev: 0.033
[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10344297/
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) joel@joelfernandes.org --- include/linux/tracepoint.h | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------- kernel/tracepoint.c | 16 ++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/tracepoint.h b/include/linux/tracepoint.h index 19a690b559ca..beeb01e147f8 100644 --- a/include/linux/tracepoint.h +++ b/include/linux/tracepoint.h @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ */
#include <linux/smp.h> +#include <linux/srcu.h> #include <linux/errno.h> #include <linux/types.h> #include <linux/cpumask.h> @@ -33,6 +34,8 @@ struct trace_eval_map {
#define TRACEPOINT_DEFAULT_PRIO 10
+extern struct srcu_struct tracepoint_srcu; + extern int tracepoint_probe_register(struct tracepoint *tp, void *probe, void *data); extern int @@ -75,10 +78,16 @@ int unregister_tracepoint_module_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb) * probe unregistration and the end of module exit to make sure there is no * caller executing a probe when it is freed. */ +#ifdef CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS static inline void tracepoint_synchronize_unregister(void) { + synchronize_srcu(&tracepoint_srcu); synchronize_sched(); } +#else +static inline void tracepoint_synchronize_unregister(void) +{ } +#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS extern int syscall_regfunc(void); @@ -129,18 +138,38 @@ extern void syscall_unregfunc(void); * as "(void *, void)". The DECLARE_TRACE_NOARGS() will pass in just * "void *data", where as the DECLARE_TRACE() will pass in "void *data, proto". */ -#define __DO_TRACE(tp, proto, args, cond, rcucheck) \ +#define __DO_TRACE(tp, proto, args, cond, rcuidle) \ do { \ struct tracepoint_func *it_func_ptr; \ void *it_func; \ void *__data; \ + int __maybe_unused idx = 0; \ \ if (!(cond)) \ return; \ - if (rcucheck) \ - rcu_irq_enter_irqson(); \ - rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace(); \ - it_func_ptr = rcu_dereference_sched((tp)->funcs); \ + \ + /* \ + * For rcuidle callers, use srcu since sched-rcu \ + * doesn't work from the idle path. \ + */ \ + if (rcuidle) { \ + if (in_nmi()) { \ + WARN_ON_ONCE(1); \ + return; /* no srcu from nmi */ \ + } \ + \ + idx = srcu_read_lock_notrace(&tracepoint_srcu); \ + it_func_ptr = \ + srcu_dereference_notrace((tp)->funcs, \ + &tracepoint_srcu); \ + /* To keep it consistent with !rcuidle path */ \ + preempt_disable_notrace(); \ + } else { \ + rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace(); \ + it_func_ptr = \ + rcu_dereference_sched((tp)->funcs); \ + } \ + \ if (it_func_ptr) { \ do { \ it_func = (it_func_ptr)->func; \ @@ -148,9 +177,13 @@ extern void syscall_unregfunc(void); ((void(*)(proto))(it_func))(args); \ } while ((++it_func_ptr)->func); \ } \ - rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace(); \ - if (rcucheck) \ - rcu_irq_exit_irqson(); \ + \ + if (rcuidle) { \ + preempt_enable_notrace(); \ + srcu_read_unlock_notrace(&tracepoint_srcu, idx);\ + } else { \ + rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace(); \ + } \ } while (0)
#ifndef MODULE diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c index 6dc6356c3327..955148d91b74 100644 --- a/kernel/tracepoint.c +++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c @@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ extern struct tracepoint * const __start___tracepoints_ptrs[]; extern struct tracepoint * const __stop___tracepoints_ptrs[];
+DEFINE_SRCU(tracepoint_srcu); +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tracepoint_srcu); + /* Set to 1 to enable tracepoint debug output */ static const int tracepoint_debug;
@@ -67,16 +70,27 @@ static inline void *allocate_probes(int count) return p == NULL ? NULL : p->probes; }
-static void rcu_free_old_probes(struct rcu_head *head) +static void srcu_free_old_probes(struct rcu_head *head) { kfree(container_of(head, struct tp_probes, rcu)); }
+static void rcu_free_old_probes(struct rcu_head *head) +{ + call_srcu(&tracepoint_srcu, head, srcu_free_old_probes); +} + static inline void release_probes(struct tracepoint_func *old) { if (old) { struct tp_probes *tp_probes = container_of(old, struct tp_probes, probes[0]); + /* + * Tracepoint probes are protected by both sched RCU and SRCU, + * by calling the SRCU callback in the sched RCU callback we + * cover both cases. So let us chain the SRCU and sched RCU + * callbacks to wait for both grace periods. + */ call_rcu_sched(&tp_probes->rcu, rcu_free_old_probes); } }