linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH rcu/dev -fixes 2/4] rcu/tree: Skip entry into the page allocator for PREEMPT

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Message-ID: <20200422114506.GA17108@pc636>
Date:   Wed, 22 Apr 2020 13:45:06 +0200
From:   Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>
To:     "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Cc:     "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>, rcu@...r.kernel.org,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rcu/dev -fixes 2/4] rcu/tree: Skip entry into the page
 allocator for PREEMPT_RT

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:35:36PM +0200, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:38:35AM -0400, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> > To keep kfree_rcu() path working on raw non-preemptible sections,
> > prevent the optional entry into the allocator as it uses sleeping locks.
> > In fact, even if the caller of kfree_rcu() is preemptible, this path
> > still is not, as krcp->lock is a raw spinlock as done in previous
> > patches. With additional page pre-allocation in the works, hitting this
> > return is going to be much less likely soon so just prevent it for now
> > so that PREEMPT_RT does not break. Note that page allocation here is an
> > optimization and skipping it still makes kfree_rcu() work.
> > 
> > Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
> > Co-developed-by: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
> > ---
> >  kernel/rcu/tree.c | 12 ++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > index cf68d3d9f5b81..cd61649e1b001 100644
> > --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > @@ -3092,6 +3092,18 @@ kfree_call_rcu_add_ptr_to_bulk(struct kfree_rcu_cpu *krcp,
> >  		if (!bnode) {
> >  			WARN_ON_ONCE(sizeof(struct kfree_rcu_bulk_data) > PAGE_SIZE);
> >  
> > +			/*
> > +			 * To keep this path working on raw non-preemptible
> > +			 * sections, prevent the optional entry into the
> > +			 * allocator as it uses sleeping locks. In fact, even
> > +			 * if the caller of kfree_rcu() is preemptible, this
> > +			 * path still is not, as krcp->lock is a raw spinlock.
> > +			 * With additional page pre-allocation in the works,
> > +			 * hitting this return is going to be much less likely.
> > +			 */
> > +			if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT))
> > +				return false;
> > +
> >  			bnode = (struct kfree_rcu_bulk_data *)
> >  				__get_free_page(GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN);
> >  		}
> This will not be correctly working by just reverting everything to the
> "rcu_head path" for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT kernel. We need to preallocate at
> least once. I can add caching on top of this series to address it.
> 
Forgot to add: Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@...il.com>

Caching should be added as separate patch.

--
Vlad Rezki