linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 0/4] implement vcpu preempted check

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Date:	Tue, 28 Jun 2016 10:43:07 -0400
From:	Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com, mpe@...erman.id.au,
	paulus@...ba.org, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, waiman.long@....com,
	will.deacon@....com, boqun.feng@...il.com, dave@...olabs.net,
	schwidefsky@...ibm.com, Pan Xinhui <xinhui.pan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/4] implement vcpu preempted check

change fomr v1:
	a simplier definition of default vcpu_is_preempted
	skip mahcine type check on ppc, and add config. remove dedicated macro.
	add one patch to drop overload of rwsem_spin_on_owner and mutex_spin_on_owner. 
	add more comments
	thanks boqun and Peter's suggestion.

This patch set aims to fix lock holder preemption issues.

test-case:
perf record -a perf bench sched messaging -g 400 -p && perf report

18.09%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] osq_lock
12.28%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] rwsem_spin_on_owner
 5.27%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] mutex_unlock
 3.89%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] wait_consider_task
 3.64%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] _raw_write_lock_irq
 3.41%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] mutex_spin_on_owner.is
 2.49%  sched-messaging  [kernel.vmlinux]  [k] system_call

We introduce interface bool vcpu_is_preempted(int cpu) and use it in some spin
loops of osq_lock, rwsem_spin_on_owner and mutex_spin_on_owner.
These spin_on_onwer variant also cause rcu stall before we apply this patch set

Pan Xinhui (4):
  kernel/sched: introduce vcpu preempted check interface
  powerpc/spinlock: support vcpu preempted check
  locking/osq: Drop the overload of osq_lock()
  kernel/locking: Drop the overload of {mutex,rwsem}_spin_on_owner

 arch/powerpc/include/asm/spinlock.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/sched.h               | 12 ++++++++++++
 kernel/locking/mutex.c              | 15 +++++++++++++--
 kernel/locking/osq_lock.c           | 10 +++++++++-
 kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c         | 16 +++++++++++++---
 5 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

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2.4.11