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Message-Id: <1442903021-3893-6-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:23:35 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
Waiman Long <waiman.long@...com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH 05/11] mm: Introduce arch_pgd_init_late()
Add a late PGD init callback to places that allocate a new MM
with a new PGD: copy_process() and exec().
The purpose of this callback is to allow architectures to implement
lockless initialization of task PGDs, to remove the scalability
limit of pgd_list/pgd_lock.
Architectures can opt in to this callback via the ARCH_HAS_PGD_INIT_LATE
Kconfig flag. There's zero overhead on architectures that are not using it.
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@...com>
Cc: linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@...ck.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
arch/Kconfig | 9 ++++++++
arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 12 +++++++++++
arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
fs/exec.c | 3 +++
include/linux/mm.h | 6 ++++++
kernel/fork.c | 16 ++++++++++++++
7 files changed, 106 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig
index 4e949e58b192..671810ce6fe0 100644
--- a/arch/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/Kconfig
@@ -503,6 +503,15 @@ config PGTABLE_LEVELS
int
default 2
+config ARCH_HAS_PGD_INIT_LATE
+ bool
+ help
+ Architectures that want a late PGD initialization can define
+ the arch_pgd_init_late() callback and it will be called
+ by the generic new task (fork()) code after a new task has
+ been made visible on the task list, but before it has been
+ first scheduled.
+
config ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
bool
help
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 328c8352480c..3e97b6cfdb60 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ config X86
select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
select ARCH_HAS_FAST_MULTIPLIER
select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
+ select ARCH_HAS_PGD_INIT_LATE
select ARCH_HAS_PMEM_API if X86_64
select ARCH_HAS_MMIO_FLUSH
select ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
index 467c4f66ded9..429362f8d6ca 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
@@ -177,6 +177,18 @@ void sync_global_pgds(unsigned long start, unsigned long end)
continue;
rcu_read_lock(); /* Task list walk */
+
+ /*
+ * Since this is x86, this spin_lock() is also a full memory barrier that
+ * is required for correct operation of the lockless reading of PGDs
+ * in arch_pgd_init_late(). If you ever move this code to another
+ * architecture or to generic code you need to make sure this is
+ * an:
+ *
+ * smp_mb();
+ *
+ * before looking at PGDs in the loop below.
+ */
spin_lock(&pgd_lock);
for_each_process(g) {
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
index fb0a9dd1d6e4..c7038b6e51bf 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -391,6 +391,65 @@ pgd_t *pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm)
return NULL;
}
+/*
+ * Initialize the kernel portion of the PGD.
+ *
+ * This is done separately, because pgd_alloc() happens when
+ * the task is not on the task list yet - and PGD updates
+ * happen by walking the task list.
+ *
+ * No locking is needed here, as we just copy over the reference
+ * PGD. The reference PGD (pgtable_init) is only ever expanded
+ * at the highest, PGD level. Thus any other task extending it
+ * will first update the reference PGD, then modify the task PGDs.
+ */
+void arch_pgd_init_late(struct mm_struct *mm)
+{
+ /*
+ * This function is called after a new MM has been made visible
+ * in fork() or exec() via:
+ *
+ * tsk->mm = mm;
+ *
+ * This barrier makes sure the MM is visible to new RCU
+ * walkers before we read and initialize the pagetables below,
+ * so that we don't miss updates:
+ */
+ smp_mb();
+
+ /*
+ * If the pgd points to a shared pagetable level (either the
+ * ptes in non-PAE, or shared PMD in PAE), then just copy the
+ * references from swapper_pg_dir:
+ */
+ if ( CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS == 2 ||
+ (CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS == 3 && SHARED_KERNEL_PMD) ||
+ CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS == 4) {
+
+ pgd_t *pgd_src = swapper_pg_dir + KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY;
+ pgd_t *pgd_dst = mm->pgd + KERNEL_PGD_BOUNDARY;
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < KERNEL_PGD_PTRS; i++, pgd_src++, pgd_dst++) {
+ /*
+ * This is lock-less, so it can race with PGD updates
+ * coming from vmalloc() or CPA methods, but it's safe,
+ * because:
+ *
+ * 1) this PGD is not in use yet, we have still not
+ * scheduled this task.
+ * 2) we only ever extend PGD entries
+ *
+ * So if we observe a non-zero PGD entry we can copy it,
+ * it won't change from under us. Parallel updates (new
+ * allocations) will modify our (already visible) PGD:
+ */
+ if (!pgd_none(*pgd_src))
+ set_pgd(pgd_dst, *pgd_src);
+ }
+ }
+}
+
void pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd)
{
pgd_mop_up_pmds(mm, pgd);
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index b06623a9347f..0a77a6991d0e 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -866,7 +866,10 @@ static int exec_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm)
}
task_lock(tsk);
active_mm = tsk->active_mm;
+
tsk->mm = mm;
+ arch_pgd_init_late(mm);
+
tsk->active_mm = mm;
activate_mm(active_mm, mm);
tsk->mm->vmacache_seqnum = 0;
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 91c08f6f0dc9..8d008dfa9d73 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -1152,6 +1152,12 @@ int follow_phys(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
int generic_access_phys(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
void *buf, int len, int write);
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_PGD_INIT_LATE
+void arch_pgd_init_late(struct mm_struct *mm);
+#else
+static inline void arch_pgd_init_late(struct mm_struct *mm) { }
+#endif
+
static inline void unmap_shared_mapping_range(struct address_space *mapping,
loff_t const holebegin, loff_t const holelen)
{
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 7d5f0f118a63..4668f8902b19 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1606,6 +1606,22 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process(unsigned long clone_flags,
syscall_tracepoint_update(p);
write_unlock_irq(&tasklist_lock);
+ /*
+ * If we have a new PGD then initialize it:
+ *
+ * This method is called after a task has been made visible
+ * on the task list already.
+ *
+ * Architectures that manage per task kernel pagetables
+ * might use this callback to initialize them after they
+ * are already visible to new updates.
+ *
+ * NOTE: any user-space parts of the PGD are already initialized
+ * and must not be clobbered.
+ */
+ if (!(clone_flags & CLONE_VM))
+ arch_pgd_init_late(p->mm);
+
proc_fork_connector(p);
cgroup_post_fork(p, cgrp_ss_priv);
if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD)
--
2.1.4
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