linux-kernel - [PATCH RFC UGLY] x86,mm,sched: make lazy TLB mode even lazier

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Date:   Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:04:59 -0400
From:   Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
To:     serebrin@...gle.com
Cc:     mingo@...nel.org, peterz@...radead.org, hpa@...or.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, luto@...nel.org, bp@...e.de,
        mgorman@...e.de, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: [PATCH RFC UGLY] x86,mm,sched: make lazy TLB mode even lazier

Subject: x86,mm,sched: make lazy TLB mode even lazier

Lazy TLB mode can result in an idle CPU being woken up for a TLB
flush, when all it really needed to do was flush %cr3 before the
next context switch.

This is mostly fine on bare metal, though sub-optimal from a power
saving point of view, and deeper C states could make TLB flushes
take a little longer than desired.

On virtual machines, the pain can be much worse, especially if a
currently non-running VCPU is woken up for a TLB invalidation
IPI, on a CPU that is busy running another task. It could take
a while before that IPI is handled, leading to performance issues.

This patch is still ugly, and the sched.h include needs to be cleaned
up a lot (how would the scheduler people like to see the context switch
blocking abstracted?)

This patch deals with the issue by introducing a third tlb state,
TLBSTATE_FLUSH, which causes %cr3 to be flushed at the next
context switch. A CPU is transitioned from TLBSTATE_LAZY to
TLBSTATE_FLUSH with the rq lock held, to prevent context switches.

Nothing is done for a CPU that is already in TLBSTATE_FLUH mode.

This patch is totally untested, because I am at a conference right
now, and Benjamin has the test case :)

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Reported-by: Benjamin Serebrin <serebrin@...gle.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h |  1 +
 arch/x86/mm/tlb.c               | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
index 4e5be94e079a..5ae8e4b174f8 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -310,6 +310,7 @@ void native_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
 
 #define TLBSTATE_OK	1
 #define TLBSTATE_LAZY	2
+#define TLBSTATE_FLUSH	3
 
 static inline void reset_lazy_tlbstate(void)
 {
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
index 5643fd0b1a7d..5b4cda49ac0c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/tlb.c
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 #include <linux/interrupt.h>
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
+#include "../../../kernel/sched/sched.h"
 
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 #include <asm/mmu_context.h>
@@ -140,10 +141,12 @@ void switch_mm_irqs_off(struct mm_struct *prev, struct mm_struct *next,
 	}
 #ifdef CONFIG_SMP
 	  else {
+		int oldstate = this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.state);
 		this_cpu_write(cpu_tlbstate.state, TLBSTATE_OK);
 		BUG_ON(this_cpu_read(cpu_tlbstate.active_mm) != next);
 
-		if (!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next))) {
+		if (oldstate == TLBSTATE_FLUSH ||
+				!cpumask_test_cpu(cpu, mm_cpumask(next))) {
 			/*
 			 * On established mms, the mm_cpumask is only changed
 			 * from irq context, from ptep_clear_flush() while in
@@ -242,11 +245,29 @@ static void flush_tlb_func(void *info)
 
 }
 
+/*
+ * This function moves a CPU from TLBSTATE_LAZY to TLBSTATE_FLUSH, which
+ * will force it to flush %cr3 at the next context switch, effectively
+ * doing a delayed TLB flush for a CPU in lazy TLB mode.
+ * This takes the runqueue lock to protect against the race condition
+ * of the target CPU rescheduling while we change its TLB state.
+ * Do nothing if the TLB state is already set to TLBSTATE_FLUSH.
+ */
+static void set_lazy_tlbstate_flush(int cpu) {
+	if (per_cpu(cpu_tlbstate.state, cpu) == TLBSTATE_LAZY) {
+		raw_spin_lock(&cpu_rq(cpu)->lock);
+		if (per_cpu(cpu_tlbstate.state, cpu) == TLBSTATE_LAZY)
+			per_cpu(cpu_tlbstate.state, cpu) = TLBSTATE_FLUSH;
+		raw_spin_unlock(&cpu_rq(cpu)->lock);
+	}
+}
+
 void native_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
 				 struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long start,
 				 unsigned long end)
 {
 	struct flush_tlb_info info;
+	unsigned int cpu;
 
 	if (end == 0)
 		end = start + PAGE_SIZE;
@@ -262,8 +283,6 @@ void native_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
 				(end - start) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
 
 	if (is_uv_system()) {
-		unsigned int cpu;
-
 		cpu = smp_processor_id();
 		cpumask = uv_flush_tlb_others(cpumask, mm, start, end, cpu);
 		if (cpumask)
@@ -271,6 +290,19 @@ void native_flush_tlb_others(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
 								&info, 1);
 		return;
 	}
+
+	/*
+	 * Instead of sending IPIs to CPUs in lazy TLB mode, move that
+	 * CPUs TLB state to TLBSTATE_FLUSH, causing the TLB to be flushed
+	 * at the next context switch.
+	 */
+	for_each_cpu(cpu, cpumask) {
+		if (per_cpu(cpu_tlbstate.state, cpu) != TLBSTATE_OK) {
+			set_lazy_tlbstate_flush(cpu);
+			cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, (struct cpumask *)cpumask);
+		}
+	}
+
 	smp_call_function_many(cpumask, flush_tlb_func, &info, 1);
 }