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Date:   Thu, 18 Jun 2020 15:17:33 -0700
From:   Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@...cle.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     adobriyan@...il.com, Matthew Wilcox <matthew.wilcox@...cle.com>,
        Srinivas Eeda <SRINIVAS.EEDA@...cle.com>,
        "joe.jin@...cle.com" <joe.jin@...cle.com>
Subject: severe proc dentry lock contention

Hi,

When debugging some performance issue, i found that thousands of threads 
exit around same time could cause a severe spin lock contention on proc 
dentry "/proc/$parent_process_pid/task/", that's because threads needs 
to clean up their pid file from that dir when exit. Check the following 
standalone test case that simulated the case and perf top result on v5.7 
kernel. Any idea on how to fix this?


    PerfTop:   48891 irqs/sec  kernel:95.6%  exact: 100.0% lost: 0/0 
drop: 0/0 [4000Hz cycles],  (all, 72 CPUs)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 


     66.10%  [kernel]                               [k] 
native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath
      1.13%  [kernel]                               [k] _raw_spin_lock
      0.84%  [kernel]                               [k] clear_page_erms
      0.82%  [kernel]                               [k] 
queued_write_lock_slowpath
      0.64%  [kernel]                               [k] proc_task_readdir
      0.61%  [kernel]                               [k] 
find_idlest_group.isra.95
      0.61%  [kernel]                               [k] 
syscall_return_via_sysret
      0.55%  [kernel]                               [k] entry_SYSCALL_64
      0.49%  [kernel]                               [k] memcpy_erms
      0.46%  [kernel]                               [k] update_cfs_group
      0.41%  [kernel]                               [k] get_pid_task
      0.39%  [kernel]                               [k] 
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave
      0.37%  [kernel]                               [k] 
__list_del_entry_valid
      0.34%  [kernel]                               [k] 
get_page_from_freelist
      0.34%  [kernel]                               [k] __d_lookup
      0.32%  [kernel]                               [k] update_load_avg
      0.31%  libc-2.17.so                           [.] get_next_seq
      0.27%  [kernel]                               [k] avc_has_perm_noaudit
      0.26%  [kernel]                               [k] __sched_text_start
      0.25%  [kernel]                               [k] 
selinux_inode_permission
      0.25%  [kernel]                               [k] __slab_free
      0.24%  [kernel]                               [k] detach_entity_cfs_rq
      0.23%  [kernel]                               [k] zap_pte_range
      0.22%  [kernel]                               [k] 
_find_next_bit.constprop.1
      0.22%  libc-2.17.so                           [.] vfprintf
      0.20%  libc-2.17.so                           [.] _int_malloc
      0.19%  [kernel]                               [k] _raw_spin_lock_irq
      0.18%  [kernel]                               [k] rb_erase
      0.18%  [kernel]                               [k] pid_revalidate
      0.18%  [kernel]                               [k] lockref_get_not_dead
      0.18%  [kernel]                               [k] 
__alloc_pages_nodemask
      0.17%  [kernel]                               [k] set_task_cpu
      0.17%  libc-2.17.so                           [.] __strcoll_l
      0.17%  [kernel]                               [k] do_syscall_64
      0.17%  [kernel]                               [k] __vmalloc_node_range
      0.17%  libc-2.17.so                           [.] _IO_vfscanf
      0.17%  [kernel]                               [k] refcount_dec_not_one
      0.15%  [kernel]                               [k] __task_pid_nr_ns
      0.15%  [kernel]                               [k] 
native_irq_return_iret
      0.15%  [kernel]                               [k] free_pcppages_bulk
      0.14%  [kernel]                               [k] kmem_cache_alloc
      0.14%  [kernel]                               [k] link_path_walk
      0.14%  libc-2.17.so                           [.] _int_free
      0.14%  [kernel]                               [k] 
__update_load_avg_cfs_rq
      0.14%  perf.5.7.0-master.20200601.ol7.x86_64  [.] 0x00000000000eac29
      0.13%  [kernel]                               [k] kmem_cache_free
      0.13%  [kernel]                               [k] number
      0.13%  [kernel]                               [k] memset_erms
      0.12%  [kernel]                               [k] proc_pid_status
      0.12%  [kernel]                               [k] __d_lookup_rcu


=========== runme.sh ==========

#!/bin/bash

threads=${1:-10000}
prog=proc_race
while [ 1 ]; do ./$prog $threads; done &

while [ 1 ]; do
     pid=`ps aux | grep $prog | grep -v grep| awk '{print $2}'`
     if [ -z $pid ]; then continue; fi
     threadnum=`ls -l /proc/$pid/task | wc -l`
     if [ $threadnum -gt $threads ]; then
         echo kill $pid
         kill -9 $pid
     fi
done


===========proc_race.c=========


#include <pthread.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <ctype.h>

#define handle_error_en(en, msg) \
     do { errno = en; perror(msg); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } while (0)

#define handle_error(msg) \
     do { perror(msg); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } while (0)

struct thread_info {
     pthread_t thread_id;
     int       thread_num;
};

static void *child_thread()
{
     int i;

     while (1) { if (!(i++ % 1000000)) sleep(1);}
     return NULL;
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
     int s, tnum, opt, num_threads;
     struct thread_info *tinfo;
     void *res;

     if (argc == 2)
         num_threads = atoi(argv[1]);
     else
         num_threads = 10000;

     tinfo = calloc(num_threads, sizeof(struct thread_info));
     if (tinfo == NULL)
         handle_error("calloc");


     for (tnum = 0; tnum < num_threads; tnum++) {
         tinfo[tnum].thread_num = tnum + 1;

         s = pthread_create(&tinfo[tnum].thread_id, NULL,
                 &child_thread, NULL);
         if (s != 0)
             handle_error_en(s, "pthread_create");
     }

     for (tnum = 0; tnum < num_threads; tnum++) {
         s = pthread_join(tinfo[tnum].thread_id, &res);
         if (s != 0)
             handle_error_en(s, "pthread_join");

         free(res);
     }

     free(tinfo);
     exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}

==========

Thanks,

Junxiao.

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