Date:	Sat, 16 Jul 2016 09:16:57 +0800
From:	Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	Pan Xinhui <xinhui@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@....com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Scott J Norton <scott.norton@....com>,
	Douglas Hatch <doug.hatch@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] locking/pvqspinlock: Fix missed PV wakeup problem

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 06:35:56PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 12:07:03PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > So if we are kicked by the unlock_slowpath, and the lock is stealed by
> > > someone else,  we need hash its node again and set l->locked to
> > > _Q_SLOW_VAL, then enter pv_wait.
> > 
> > Right, let me go think about this a bit.
> 
> Urgh, brain hurt.
> 
> So I _think_ the below does for it but I could easily have missed yet
> another case.
> 
> Waiman's patch has the problem that it can have two pv_hash() calls for
> the same lock in progress and I'm thinking that means we can hit the
> BUG() in pv_hash() due to that.
> 

I think Waiman's patch does have the problem of two pv_hash() calls for
the same lock in progress. As I mentioned in the first version:

http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20160527074331.GB8096@insomnia

And he tried to address this in the patch #3 of this series. However,
I think what is proper here is either to reorder patch 2 and 3 or to
merge patch 2 and 3, otherwise, we are introducing a bug in the middle
of this series.

Thoughts, Waiman?

That said, I found Peter's way is much simpler and easier to understand
;-)

> If we can't, it still has a problem because its not telling us either.
> 
> 
> 
> --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
> +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h
> @@ -20,7 +20,8 @@
>   * native_queued_spin_unlock().
>   */
>  
> -#define _Q_SLOW_VAL	(3U << _Q_LOCKED_OFFSET)
> +#define _Q_HASH_VAL	(3U << _Q_LOCKED_OFFSET)
> +#define _Q_SLOW_VAL	(7U << _Q_LOCKED_OFFSET)
>  
>  /*
>   * Queue Node Adaptive Spinning
> @@ -36,14 +37,11 @@
>   */
>  #define PV_PREV_CHECK_MASK	0xff
>  
> -/*
> - * Queue node uses: vcpu_running & vcpu_halted.
> - * Queue head uses: vcpu_running & vcpu_hashed.
> - */
>  enum vcpu_state {
> -	vcpu_running = 0,
> -	vcpu_halted,		/* Used only in pv_wait_node */
> -	vcpu_hashed,		/* = pv_hash'ed + vcpu_halted */
> +	vcpu_node_running = 0,
> +	vcpu_node_halted,
> +	vcpu_head_running,

We actually don't need this extra running state, right? Because nobody
cares about the difference between two running states right now.

> +	vcpu_head_halted,
>  };
>  
>  struct pv_node {
> @@ -263,7 +261,7 @@ pv_wait_early(struct pv_node *prev, int
>  	if ((loop & PV_PREV_CHECK_MASK) != 0)
>  		return false;
>  
> -	return READ_ONCE(prev->state) != vcpu_running;
> +	return READ_ONCE(prev->state) & 1;
>  }
>  
>  /*
> @@ -311,20 +309,19 @@ static void pv_wait_node(struct mcs_spin
>  		 *
>  		 * Matches the cmpxchg() from pv_kick_node().
>  		 */
> -		smp_store_mb(pn->state, vcpu_halted);
> +		smp_store_mb(pn->state, vcpu_node_halted);
>  
> -		if (!READ_ONCE(node->locked)) {
> -			qstat_inc(qstat_pv_wait_node, true);
> -			qstat_inc(qstat_pv_wait_early, wait_early);
> -			pv_wait(&pn->state, vcpu_halted);
> -		}
> +		if (READ_ONCE(node->locked))
> +			return;
> +
> +		qstat_inc(qstat_pv_wait_node, true);
> +		qstat_inc(qstat_pv_wait_early, wait_early);
> +		pv_wait(&pn->state, vcpu_node_halted);
>  
>  		/*
> -		 * If pv_kick_node() changed us to vcpu_hashed, retain that
> -		 * value so that pv_wait_head_or_lock() knows to not also try
> -		 * to hash this lock.
> +		 * If pv_kick_node() advanced us, retain that state.
>  		 */
> -		cmpxchg(&pn->state, vcpu_halted, vcpu_running);
> +		cmpxchg(&pn->state, vcpu_node_halted, vcpu_node_running);
>  
>  		/*
>  		 * If the locked flag is still not set after wakeup, it is a
> @@ -362,18 +359,17 @@ static void pv_kick_node(struct qspinloc
>  	 *
>  	 * Matches with smp_store_mb() and cmpxchg() in pv_wait_node()
>  	 */
> -	if (cmpxchg(&pn->state, vcpu_halted, vcpu_hashed) != vcpu_halted)
> +	if (cmpxchg(&pn->state, vcpu_node_halted, vcpu_head_running) != vcpu_node_halted)
>  		return;
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * Put the lock into the hash table and set the _Q_SLOW_VAL.
> -	 *
> -	 * As this is the same vCPU that will check the _Q_SLOW_VAL value and
> -	 * the hash table later on at unlock time, no atomic instruction is
> -	 * needed.
> +	 * See pv_wait_head_or_lock(). We have to hash and force the unlock
> +	 * into the slow path to deliver the actual kick for waking.
>  	 */
> -	WRITE_ONCE(l->locked, _Q_SLOW_VAL);
> -	(void)pv_hash(lock, pn);
> +	if (cmpxchg(&l->locked, _Q_LOCKED_VAL, _Q_HASH_VAL) == _Q_LOCKED_VAL) {
> +		(void)pv_hash(lock, pn);
> +		smp_store_release(&l->locked, _Q_SLOW_VAL);
> +	}
>  }
>  
>  /*
> @@ -388,28 +384,22 @@ pv_wait_head_or_lock(struct qspinlock *l
>  {
>  	struct pv_node *pn = (struct pv_node *)node;
>  	struct __qspinlock *l = (void *)lock;
> -	struct qspinlock **lp = NULL;
>  	int waitcnt = 0;
>  	int loop;
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * If pv_kick_node() already advanced our state, we don't need to
> -	 * insert ourselves into the hash table anymore.
> -	 */
> -	if (READ_ONCE(pn->state) == vcpu_hashed)
> -		lp = (struct qspinlock **)1;
> -
> -	/*
>  	 * Tracking # of slowpath locking operations
>  	 */
>  	qstat_inc(qstat_pv_lock_slowpath, true);
>  
>  	for (;; waitcnt++) {
> +		u8 locked;
> +
>  		/*
>  		 * Set correct vCPU state to be used by queue node wait-early
>  		 * mechanism.
>  		 */
> -		WRITE_ONCE(pn->state, vcpu_running);
> +		WRITE_ONCE(pn->state, vcpu_head_running);
>  
>  		/*
>  		 * Set the pending bit in the active lock spinning loop to
> @@ -423,33 +413,38 @@ pv_wait_head_or_lock(struct qspinlock *l
>  		}
>  		clear_pending(lock);
>  
> +		/*
> +		 * We want to go sleep; ensure we're hashed so that
> +		 * __pv_queued_spin_unlock_slow() can find us for a wakeup.
> +		 */
> +		locked = cmpxchg(&l->locked, _Q_LOCKED_VAL, _Q_HASH_VAL);
> +		switch (locked) {
> +		/*
> +		 * We're not hashed yet, either we're fresh from pv_wait_node()
> +		 * or __pv_queued_spin_unlock_slow() unhashed us but we lost
> +		 * the trylock to a steal and have to re-hash.
> +		 */
> +		case _Q_LOCKED_VAL:
> +			(void)pv_hash(lock, pn);
> +			smp_store_release(&l->locked, _Q_SLOW_VAL);
> +			break;
>  
> -		if (!lp) { /* ONCE */
> -			lp = pv_hash(lock, pn);
> +		/*
> +		 * pv_kick_node() is hashing us, wait for it.
> +		 */
> +		case _Q_HASH_VAL:
> +			while (READ_ONCE(l->locked) == _Q_HASH_VAL)
> +				cpu_relax();
> +			break;
>  
> -			/*
> -			 * We must hash before setting _Q_SLOW_VAL, such that
> -			 * when we observe _Q_SLOW_VAL in __pv_queued_spin_unlock()
> -			 * we'll be sure to be able to observe our hash entry.
> -			 *
> -			 *   [S] <hash>                 [Rmw] l->locked == _Q_SLOW_VAL
> -			 *       MB                           RMB
> -			 * [RmW] l->locked = _Q_SLOW_VAL  [L] <unhash>
> -			 *
> -			 * Matches the smp_rmb() in __pv_queued_spin_unlock().
> -			 */
> -			if (xchg(&l->locked, _Q_SLOW_VAL) == 0) {
> -				/*
> -				 * The lock was free and now we own the lock.
> -				 * Change the lock value back to _Q_LOCKED_VAL
> -				 * and unhash the table.
> -				 */
> -				WRITE_ONCE(l->locked, _Q_LOCKED_VAL);
> -				WRITE_ONCE(*lp, NULL);
> -				goto gotlock;
> -			}
> +		/*
> +		 * Ooh, unlocked, try and grab it.
> +		 */
> +		case 0:
> +			continue;
>  		}
> -		WRITE_ONCE(pn->state, vcpu_hashed);
> +
> +		WRITE_ONCE(pn->state, vcpu_head_halted);
>  		qstat_inc(qstat_pv_wait_head, true);
>  		qstat_inc(qstat_pv_wait_again, waitcnt);
>  		pv_wait(&l->locked, _Q_SLOW_VAL);
> @@ -480,7 +475,7 @@ __pv_queued_spin_unlock_slowpath(struct
>  	struct __qspinlock *l = (void *)lock;
>  	struct pv_node *node;
>  
> -	if (unlikely(locked != _Q_SLOW_VAL)) {
> +	if (unlikely(locked != _Q_SLOW_VAL && locked != _Q_HASH_VAL)) {
>  		WARN(!debug_locks_silent,
>  		     "pvqspinlock: lock 0x%lx has corrupted value 0x%x!\n",
>  		     (unsigned long)lock, atomic_read(&lock->val));
> @@ -488,18 +483,17 @@ __pv_queued_spin_unlock_slowpath(struct
>  	}
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * A failed cmpxchg doesn't provide any memory-ordering guarantees,
> -	 * so we need a barrier to order the read of the node data in
> -	 * pv_unhash *after* we've read the lock being _Q_SLOW_VAL.
> -	 *
> -	 * Matches the cmpxchg() in pv_wait_head_or_lock() setting _Q_SLOW_VAL.
> +	 * Wait until the hash-bucket is complete.
>  	 */
> -	smp_rmb();
> +	while (READ_ONCE(l->locked) == _Q_HASH_VAL)
> +		cpu_relax();
>  

This does give a chance to let the lock waiter block the lock holder,
right? Considering a lock queue head's vcpu is preempted before it could
set the lock to _Q_SLOW_VAL.

Could we do something like this here:

	if (unlikely(cmpxchg(l->locked, _Q_HASH_VAL, 0) == _Q_HASH_VAL))
		return;
		
And in pv_wait_head_or_lock()

	locked = cmpxchg(&l->locked, _Q_LOCKED_VAL, _Q_HASH_VAL);
	switch(locked) {
		case _Q_LOCKED_VAL:
			(void)pv_hash(lock, pn);
			locked = cmpxchg_release(&l->locked, _Q_HASH_VAL, _Q_SLOW_VAL);

			/*
			 * Only the holder will change the ->locked from
			 * _Q_HASH_VAL to another value, if this
			 * happens, the holder has already released the
			 * lock without trying to wake the head, in this
			 * case, we need to unhash ourselves and there
			 * is a great chance we can get the locke.
			 */
			if (unlikely(locked != _Q_HASH_VAL)) {
				pv_unhash(lock, pn);
				if (!cmpxchg_relaxed(&l->locked, 0, _Q_LOCKED_VAL)
					goto gotlock;
			}
			break;



Wrote those in my mailbox, may miss something.

Thoughts?

Regards,
Boqun

>  	/*
> -	 * Since the above failed to release, this must be the SLOW path.
> -	 * Therefore start by looking up the blocked node and unhashing it.
> +	 * Must first observe _Q_SLOW_VAL in order to observe
> +	 * consistent hash bucket.
>  	 */
> +	smp_rmb();
> +
>  	node = pv_unhash(lock);
>  
>  	/*

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