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Message-Id: <A2504E20-BD1F-4B8D-9497-26A64659C2D8@amacapital.net>
Date:   Sun, 27 Aug 2017 15:53:44 -0700
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:     Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc:     "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Andrew Hunter <ahh@...gle.com>,
        Maged Michael <maged.michael@...il.com>, gromer@...gle.com,
        Avi Kivity <avi@...lladb.com>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Dave Watson <davejwatson@...com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Hans Boehm <hboehm@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] membarrier: provide register sync core cmd



> On Aug 27, 2017, at 1:50 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com> wrote:
> 
> Add a new MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_SYNC_CORE command to the membarrier
> system call. It allows processes to register their intent to have their
> threads issue core serializing barriers in addition to memory barriers
> whenever a membarrier command is performed.
> 

Why is this stateful?  That is, why not just have a new membarrier command to sync every thread's icache?

> It is relevant for reclaim of JIT code, which requires to issue core
> serializing barriers on all threads running on behalf of a process
> after ensuring the old code is not visible anymore, before re-using
> memory for new code.
> 
> When a processes returns from a MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_SYNC_CORE
> command, it is guaranteed that all following MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED and
> MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED issue core serializing barriers, in
> addition to the memory barriers, on all of its running threads.
> 
> * Scheduler Overhead Benchmarks
> 
> Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz
> taskset 01 ./perf bench sched pipe -T
> Linux v4.13-rc6
> 
>                       Avg. usecs/op         Std.Dev. usecs/op
> Before this change:         2.75                   0.12
> Non-registered processes:   2.73                   0.08
> Registered processes:       3.07                   0.02
> 
> Changes since v1:
> - Add missing MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_SYNC_CORE header documentation,
> - Add benchmarks to commit message.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> CC: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
> CC: Andrew Hunter <ahh@...gle.com>
> CC: Maged Michael <maged.michael@...il.com>
> CC: gromer@...gle.com
> CC: Avi Kivity <avi@...lladb.com>
> CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> CC: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
> CC: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
> CC: Dave Watson <davejwatson@...com>
> CC: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
> CC: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> CC: Hans Boehm <hboehm@...gle.com>
> ---
> fs/exec.c                       |  1 +
> include/linux/sched.h           | 52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h |  8 +++++++
> kernel/fork.c                   |  2 ++
> kernel/sched/core.c             |  3 +++
> kernel/sched/membarrier.c       | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> 6 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
> index 62175cbcc801..a4ab3253bac7 100644
> --- a/fs/exec.c
> +++ b/fs/exec.c
> @@ -1794,6 +1794,7 @@ static int do_execveat_common(int fd, struct filename *filename,
>    /* execve succeeded */
>    current->fs->in_exec = 0;
>    current->in_execve = 0;
> +    membarrier_execve(current);
>    acct_update_integrals(current);
>    task_numa_free(current);
>    free_bprm(bprm);
> diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
> index 8337e2db0bb2..b1ecdc4e8b84 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -1086,6 +1086,9 @@ struct task_struct {
>    /* Used by LSM modules for access restriction: */
>    void                *security;
> #endif
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMBARRIER
> +    int membarrier_sync_core;
> +#endif
> 
>    /*
>     * New fields for task_struct should be added above here, so that
> @@ -1623,4 +1626,53 @@ extern long sched_getaffinity(pid_t pid, struct cpumask *mask);
> #define TASK_SIZE_OF(tsk)    TASK_SIZE
> #endif
> 
> +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMBARRIER
> +static inline void membarrier_fork(struct task_struct *t,
> +        unsigned long clone_flags)
> +{
> +    /*
> +     * Coherence of membarrier_sync_core against thread fork is
> +     * protected by siglock. membarrier_fork is called with siglock
> +     * held.
> +     */
> +    t->membarrier_sync_core = current->membarrier_sync_core;
> +}
> +static inline void membarrier_execve(struct task_struct *t)
> +{
> +    t->membarrier_sync_core = 0;
> +}
> +static inline void membarrier_sched_out(struct task_struct *t)
> +{
> +    /*
> +     * Core serialization is performed before the memory barrier
> +     * preceding the store to rq->curr.
> +     */
> +    if (unlikely(READ_ONCE(t->membarrier_sync_core)))
> +        sync_core();
> +}
> +static inline void membarrier_sched_in(struct task_struct *t)
> +{
> +    /*
> +     * Core serialization is performed after the memory barrier
> +     * following the store to rq->curr.
> +     */
> +    if (unlikely(READ_ONCE(t->membarrier_sync_core)))
> +        sync_core();
> +}
> +#else
> +static inline void membarrier_fork(struct task_struct *t,
> +        unsigned long clone_flags)
> +{
> +}
> +static inline void membarrier_execve(struct task_struct *t)
> +{
> +}
> +static inline void membarrier_sched_out(struct task_struct *t)
> +{
> +}
> +static inline void membarrier_sched_in(struct task_struct *t)
> +{
> +}
> +#endif
> +
> #endif
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h b/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h
> index 6d47b3249d8a..933c35ebcc10 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/membarrier.h
> @@ -56,6 +56,13 @@
>  *                          complete faster than the non-expedited ones,
>  *                          they never block, but have the downside of
>  *                          causing extra overhead.
> + * @MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_SYNC_CORE:
> + *                          Register the caller process so all of its
> + *                          threads will issue core serialization
> + *                          barriers in addition to memory barriers upon
> + *                          SHARED and PRIVATE barriers targeting
> + *                          its threads issued after this registration
> + *                          returns.
>  *
>  * Command to be passed to the membarrier system call. The commands need to
>  * be a single bit each, except for MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY which is assigned to
> @@ -67,6 +74,7 @@ enum membarrier_cmd {
>    /* reserved for MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED_EXPEDITED (1 << 1) */
>    /* reserved for MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE (1 << 2) */
>    MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED    = (1 << 3),
> +    MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_SYNC_CORE    = (1 << 4),
> };
> 
> #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_MEMBARRIER_H */
> diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> index 17921b0390b4..713b3c932671 100644
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -1840,6 +1840,8 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
>     */
>    copy_seccomp(p);
> 
> +    membarrier_fork(p, clone_flags);
> +
>    /*
>     * Process group and session signals need to be delivered to just the
>     * parent before the fork or both the parent and the child after the
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
> index 0e36d9960d91..3ca27d066950 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
> @@ -3292,6 +3292,8 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(bool preempt)
>    local_irq_disable();
>    rcu_note_context_switch(preempt);
> 
> +    membarrier_sched_out(prev);
> +
>    /*
>     * Make sure that signal_pending_state()->signal_pending() below
>     * can't be reordered with __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE)
> @@ -3364,6 +3366,7 @@ static void __sched notrace __schedule(bool preempt)
> 
>        /* Also unlocks the rq: */
>        rq = context_switch(rq, prev, next, &rf);
> +        membarrier_sched_in(next);
>    } else {
>        rq->clock_update_flags &= ~(RQCF_ACT_SKIP|RQCF_REQ_SKIP);
>        rq_unlock_irq(rq, &rf);
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
> index 7eec6914d2d2..f128caf64b49 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/membarrier.c
> @@ -25,12 +25,16 @@
>  * Bitmask made from a "or" of all commands within enum membarrier_cmd,
>  * except MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY.
>  */
> -#define MEMBARRIER_CMD_BITMASK    \
> -    (MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED | MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED)
> +#define MEMBARRIER_CMD_BITMASK            \
> +    (MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED            \
> +    | MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED    \
> +    | MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_SYNC_CORE)
> 
> static void ipi_mb(void *info)
> {
> -    smp_mb();    /* IPIs should be serializing but paranoid. */
> +    /* IPIs should be serializing but paranoid. */
> +    smp_mb();
> +    sync_core();
> }
> 
> static void membarrier_private_expedited(void)
> @@ -96,6 +100,30 @@ static void membarrier_private_expedited(void)
>    smp_mb();    /* exit from system call is not a mb */
> }
> 
> +static void membarrier_register_sync_core(void)
> +{
> +    struct task_struct *p = current, *t;
> +
> +    if (get_nr_threads(p) == 1) {
> +        p->membarrier_sync_core = 1;
> +        return;
> +    }
> +
> +    /*
> +     * Coherence of membarrier_sync_core against thread fork is
> +     * protected by siglock.
> +     */
> +    spin_lock(&p->sighand->siglock);
> +    for_each_thread(p, t)
> +        WRITE_ONCE(t->membarrier_sync_core, 1);
> +    spin_unlock(&p->sighand->siglock);
> +    /*
> +     * Ensure all future scheduler execution will observe the new
> +     * membarrier_sync_core state for this process.
> +     */
> +    synchronize_sched();
> +}
> +
> /**
>  * sys_membarrier - issue memory barriers on a set of threads
>  * @cmd:   Takes command values defined in enum membarrier_cmd.
> @@ -146,6 +174,9 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(membarrier, int, cmd, int, flags)
>    case MEMBARRIER_CMD_PRIVATE_EXPEDITED:
>        membarrier_private_expedited();
>        return 0;
> +    case MEMBARRIER_CMD_REGISTER_SYNC_CORE:
> +        membarrier_register_sync_core();
> +        return 0;
>    default:
>        return -EINVAL;
>    }
> -- 
> 2.11.0
> 

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