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Date:	Thu, 02 Apr 2015 23:39:04 -0400
From:	Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
CC:	tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com,
	paolo.bonzini@...il.com, konrad.wilk@...cle.com,
	boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	riel@...hat.com, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	raghavendra.kt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, david.vrabel@...rix.com,
	oleg@...hat.com, scott.norton@...com, doug.hatch@...com,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	luto@...capital.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] qspinlock: Generic paravirt support

On 04/02/2015 03:48 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 07:20:57PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>> pv_wait_head():
>>
>> 	pv_hash()
>> 	/* MB as per cmpxchg */
>> 	cmpxchg(&l->locked, _Q_LOCKED_VAL, _Q_SLOW_VAL);
>>
>> VS
>>
>> __pv_queue_spin_unlock():
>>
>> 	if (xchg(&l->locked, 0) != _Q_SLOW_VAL)
>> 		return;
>>
>> 	/* MB as per xchg */
>> 	pv_hash_find(lock);
>>
>>
>
> Something like so.. compile tested only.
>
> I took out the LFSR because that was likely over engineering from my
> side :-)
>
> --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
> +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
> @@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
>   #error "do not include this file"
>   #endif
>
> +#include<linux/hash.h>
> +
>   /*
>    * Implement paravirt qspinlocks; the general idea is to halt the vcpus instead
>    * of spinning them.
> @@ -107,7 +109,84 @@ static void pv_kick_node(struct mcs_spin
>   		pv_kick(pn->cpu);
>   }
>
> -static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct qspinlock *, __pv_lock_wait);
> +/*
> + * Hash table using open addressing with an linear probe sequence.
> + *
> + * Since we should not be holding locks from NMI context (very rare indeed) the
> + * max load factor is 0.75, which is around the point where open adressing
> + * breaks down.
> + *
> + * Instead of probing just the immediate bucket we probe all buckets in the
> + * same cacheline.
> + *
> + * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table#Open_addressing
> + *
> + */
> +
> +struct pv_hash_bucket {
> +	struct qspinlock *lock;
> +	int cpu;
> +};
> +
> +/*
> + * XXX dynamic allocate using nr_cpu_ids instead...
> + */
> +#define PV_LOCK_HASH_BITS	(2 + NR_CPUS_BITS)
> +
> +#if PV_LOCK_HASH_BITS<  6
> +#undef PV_LOCK_HASH_BITS
> +#define PB_LOCK_HASH_BITS	6
> +#endif
> +
> +#define PV_LOCK_HASH_SIZE	(1<<  PV_LOCK_HASH_BITS)
> +
> +static struct pv_hash_bucket __pv_lock_hash[PV_LOCK_HASH_SIZE] ____cacheline_aligned;
> +
> +#define PV_HB_PER_LINE		(SMP_CACHE_BYTES / sizeof(struct pv_hash_bucket))
> +
> +static inline u32 hash_align(u32 hash)
> +{
> +	return hash&  ~(PV_HB_PER_LINE - 1);
> +}
> +
> +#define for_each_hash_bucket(hb, off, hash)					\
> +	for (hash = hash_align(hash), off = 0, hb =&__pv_lock_hash[hash + off];\
> +	    off<  PV_LOCK_HASH_SIZE;						\
> +	    off++, hb =&__pv_lock_hash[(hash + off) % PV_LOCK_HASH_SIZE])
> +
> +static struct pv_hash_bucket *pv_hash_insert(struct qspinlock *lock)
> +{
> +	u32 offset, hash = hash_ptr(lock, PV_LOCK_HASH_BITS);
> +	struct pv_hash_bucket *hb;
> +
> +	for_each_hash_bucket(hb, offset, hash) {
> +		if (!cmpxchg(&hb->lock, NULL, lock)) {
> +			WRITE_ONCE(hb->cpu, smp_processor_id());
> +			return hb;
> +		}
> +	}
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Hard assumes there is an empty bucket somewhere.
> +	 */
> +	BUG();
> +}
> +
> +static struct pv_hash_bucket *pv_hash_find(struct qspinlock *lock)
> +{
> +	u32 offset, hash = hash_ptr(lock, PV_LOCK_HASH_BITS);
> +	struct pv_hash_bucket *hb;
> +
> +	for_each_hash_bucket(hb, offset, hash) {
> +		if (READ_ONCE(hb->lock) == lock)
> +			return hb;
> +	}
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * Hard assumes we _WILL_ find a match.
> +	 */
> +	BUG();
> +}
>
>   /*
>    * Wait for l->locked to become clear; halt the vcpu after a short spin.
> @@ -116,7 +195,9 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct qspinlock *
>   static void pv_wait_head(struct qspinlock *lock)
>   {
>   	struct __qspinlock *l = (void *)lock;
> +	struct pv_hash_bucket *hb = NULL;
>   	int loop;
> +	u8 o;
>
>   	for (;;) {
>   		for (loop = SPIN_THRESHOLD; loop; loop--) {
> @@ -126,29 +207,47 @@ static void pv_wait_head(struct qspinloc
>   			cpu_relax();
>   		}
>
> -		this_cpu_write(__pv_lock_wait, lock);
> -		/*
> -		 * __pv_lock_wait must be set before setting _Q_SLOW_VAL
> -		 *
> -		 * [S] __pv_lock_wait = lock    [RmW] l = l->locked = 0
> -		 *     MB                             MB
> -		 * [S] l->locked = _Q_SLOW_VAL  [L]   __pv_lock_wait
> -		 *
> -		 * Matches the xchg() in pv_queue_spin_unlock().
> -		 */
> -		if (!cmpxchg(&l->locked, _Q_LOCKED_VAL, _Q_SLOW_VAL))
> -			goto done;
> +		if (!hb) {
> +			hb = pv_hash_insert(lock);
> +			/*
> +			 * hb  must be set before setting _Q_SLOW_VAL
> +			 *
> +			 * [S]   hb<- lock               [RmW] l = l->locked = 0
> +			 *       MB                             MB
> +			 * [RmW] l->locked ?= _Q_SLOW_VAL [L]   hb
> +			 *
> +			 * Matches the xchg() in pv_queue_spin_unlock().
> +			 */
> +			o = cmpxchg(&l->locked, _Q_LOCKED_VAL, _Q_SLOW_VAL);
> +			if (!o) {
> +				/*
> +				 * The lock got unlocked before we could set
> +				 * _Q_SLOW_VAL, we must unhash ourselves.
> +				 */
> +				WRITE_ONCE(hb->lock, NULL);
> +				goto done;
> +			}
> +			BUG_ON(o != _Q_LOCKED_VAL);
> +			/*
> +			 * At this point _Q_SLOW_VAL is visible and the unlock
> +			 * will do the lookup. The lookup hard relies on the
> +			 * entry being visible -- which it should be. Unlock
> +			 * will unhash for us.
> +			 */
> +		}
>
>   		pv_wait(&l->locked, _Q_SLOW_VAL);
> +		/*
> +		 * We can get spurious wakeups from interrupts, cycle back.
> +		 */
>   	}
>   done:
> -	this_cpu_write(__pv_lock_wait, NULL);
> -
>   	/*
>   	 * Lock is unlocked now; the caller will acquire it without waiting.
>   	 * As with pv_wait_node() we rely on the caller to do a load-acquire
>   	 * for us.
>   	 */
> +	return;
>   }
>
>   /*
> @@ -158,20 +257,20 @@ static void pv_wait_head(struct qspinloc
>   void __pv_queue_spin_unlock(struct qspinlock *lock)
>   {
>   	struct __qspinlock *l = (void *)lock;
> -	int cpu;
> +	struct pv_hash_bucket *hb;
>
>   	if (xchg(&l->locked, 0) != _Q_SLOW_VAL)
>   		return;
>
>   	/*
>   	 * At this point the memory pointed at by lock can be freed/reused,
> -	 * however we can still use the pointer value to search in our cpu
> -	 * array.
> +	 * however we can still use the pointer value to search in our hash
> +	 * table.
>   	 *
> -	 * XXX: get rid of this loop
> +	 * Also, if we observe _Q_SLOW_VAL we _must_ now observe 'our' hash
> +	 * bucket. See pv_wait_head().
>   	 */
> -	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> -		if (per_cpu(__pv_lock_wait, cpu) == lock)
> -			pv_kick(cpu);
> -	}
> +	hb = pv_hash_find(lock);
> +	pv_kick(hb->cpu);
> +	WRITE_ONCE(hb->lock, NULL); /* unhash */
>   }

Thanks for the code. I am working on my own version, too. Will need to 
run some tests to verify the correctness of the code. Hopefully I have 
something for you to review early next week.

Cheers,
Longman
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