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Message-ID: <CAP-5=fWEsU3JcaFHE1Mh-R=d=7-_EZevoQeSuULN0ObpaXgivQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 12 Oct 2020 09:17:40 -0700
From:   Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
To:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Peng Fan <fanpeng@...ngson.cn>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf bench: Use condition variables in numa.

On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 2:45 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 09, 2020 at 11:40:56PM -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
> > The existing approach to synchronization between threads in the numa
> > benchmark is unbalanced mutexes. This synchronization causes thread
> > sanitizer to warn of locks being taken twice on a thread without an
> > unlock, as well as unlocks with no corresponding locks.
> > This change replaces the synchronization with more regular condition
> > variables. While this fixes one class of thread sanitizer warnings,
> > there still remain warnings of data races due to threads reading and
> > writing shared memory without any atomics.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>
>
> hi,
> I'm getting:
>
>   BUILD:   Doing 'make -j8' parallel build
> Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h' differs from latest version at 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h'
> diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
>   CC       bench/numa.o
> bench/numa.c: In function ‘init’:
> bench/numa.c:1461:24: error: ‘struct global_info’ has no member named ‘startup_done_mutex’; did you mean ‘startup_mutex’?
>  1461 |  init_global_mutex(&g->startup_done_mutex);
>       |                        ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>       |                        startup_mutex
> bench/numa.c:1462:23: error: ‘struct global_info’ has no member named ‘startup_done_cond’; did you mean ‘startup_cond’?
>  1462 |  init_global_cond(&g->startup_done_cond);
>       |                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>       |                       startup_cond
>
> jirka

Sorry was trying to work with two trees, and thought this had
built/tested obviously not given the typo. Fixed in:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201012161611.366482-1-irogers@google.com/T/#u

Thanks,
Ian

> > ---
> >  tools/perf/bench/numa.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
> >  1 file changed, 46 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/bench/numa.c b/tools/perf/bench/numa.c
> > index f85bceccc459..d8c5a674203e 100644
> > --- a/tools/perf/bench/numa.c
> > +++ b/tools/perf/bench/numa.c
> > @@ -137,12 +137,13 @@ struct global_info {
> >       u8                      *data;
> >
> >       pthread_mutex_t         startup_mutex;
> > +     pthread_cond_t          startup_cond;
> >       int                     nr_tasks_started;
> >
> > -     pthread_mutex_t         startup_done_mutex;
> > -
> >       pthread_mutex_t         start_work_mutex;
> > +     pthread_cond_t          start_work_cond;
> >       int                     nr_tasks_working;
> > +     bool                    start_work;
> >
> >       pthread_mutex_t         stop_work_mutex;
> >       u64                     bytes_done;
> > @@ -483,6 +484,18 @@ static void init_global_mutex(pthread_mutex_t *mutex)
> >       pthread_mutex_init(mutex, &attr);
> >  }
> >
> > +/*
> > + * Return a process-shared (global) condition variable:
> > + */
> > +static void init_global_cond(pthread_cond_t *cond)
> > +{
> > +     pthread_condattr_t attr;
> > +
> > +     pthread_condattr_init(&attr);
> > +     pthread_condattr_setpshared(&attr, PTHREAD_PROCESS_SHARED);
> > +     pthread_cond_init(cond, &attr);
> > +}
> > +
> >  static int parse_cpu_list(const char *arg)
> >  {
> >       p0.cpu_list_str = strdup(arg);
> > @@ -1136,15 +1149,18 @@ static void *worker_thread(void *__tdata)
> >       if (g->p.serialize_startup) {
> >               pthread_mutex_lock(&g->startup_mutex);
> >               g->nr_tasks_started++;
> > +             /* The last thread wakes the main process. */
> > +             if (g->nr_tasks_started == g->p.nr_tasks)
> > +                     pthread_cond_signal(&g->startup_cond);
> > +
> >               pthread_mutex_unlock(&g->startup_mutex);
> >
> >               /* Here we will wait for the main process to start us all at once: */
> >               pthread_mutex_lock(&g->start_work_mutex);
> > +             g->start_work = false;
> >               g->nr_tasks_working++;
> > -
> > -             /* Last one wake the main process: */
> > -             if (g->nr_tasks_working == g->p.nr_tasks)
> > -                     pthread_mutex_unlock(&g->startup_done_mutex);
> > +             while (!g->start_work)
> > +                     pthread_cond_wait(&g->start_work_cond, &g->start_work_mutex);
> >
> >               pthread_mutex_unlock(&g->start_work_mutex);
> >       }
> > @@ -1441,8 +1457,9 @@ static int init(void)
> >
> >       /* Startup serialization: */
> >       init_global_mutex(&g->start_work_mutex);
> > -     init_global_mutex(&g->startup_mutex);
> > +     init_global_cond(&g->start_work_cond);
> >       init_global_mutex(&g->startup_done_mutex);
> > +     init_global_cond(&g->startup_done_cond);
> >       init_global_mutex(&g->stop_work_mutex);
> >
> >       init_thread_data();
> > @@ -1502,9 +1519,6 @@ static int __bench_numa(const char *name)
> >       pids = zalloc(g->p.nr_proc * sizeof(*pids));
> >       pid = -1;
> >
> > -     /* All threads try to acquire it, this way we can wait for them to start up: */
> > -     pthread_mutex_lock(&g->start_work_mutex);
> > -
> >       if (g->p.serialize_startup) {
> >               tprintf(" #\n");
> >               tprintf(" # Startup synchronization: ..."); fflush(stdout);
> > @@ -1526,22 +1540,29 @@ static int __bench_numa(const char *name)
> >               pids[i] = pid;
> >
> >       }
> > -     /* Wait for all the threads to start up: */
> > -     while (g->nr_tasks_started != g->p.nr_tasks)
> > -             usleep(USEC_PER_MSEC);
> > -
> > -     BUG_ON(g->nr_tasks_started != g->p.nr_tasks);
> >
> >       if (g->p.serialize_startup) {
> > +             bool threads_ready = false;
> >               double startup_sec;
> >
> > -             pthread_mutex_lock(&g->startup_done_mutex);
> > +             /*
> > +              * Wait for all the threads to start up. The last thread will
> > +              * signal this process.
> > +              */
> > +             pthread_mutex_lock(&g->startup_mutex);
> > +             while (g->nr_tasks_started != g->p.nr_tasks)
> > +                     pthread_cond_wait(&g->startup_cond, &g->startup_mutex);
> >
> > -             /* This will start all threads: */
> > -             pthread_mutex_unlock(&g->start_work_mutex);
> > +             pthread_mutex_unlock(&g->startup_mutex);
> >
> > -             /* This mutex is locked - the last started thread will wake us: */
> > -             pthread_mutex_lock(&g->startup_done_mutex);
> > +             /* Wait for all threads to be at the start_work_cond. */
> > +             while (!threads_ready) {
> > +                     pthread_mutex_lock(&g->start_work_mutex);
> > +                     threads_ready = (g->nr_tasks_working == g->p.nr_tasks);
> > +                     pthread_mutex_unlock(&g->start_work_mutex);
> > +                     if (!threads_ready)
> > +                             usleep(1);
> > +             }
> >
> >               gettimeofday(&stop, NULL);
> >
> > @@ -1555,7 +1576,11 @@ static int __bench_numa(const char *name)
> >               tprintf(" #\n");
> >
> >               start = stop;
> > -             pthread_mutex_unlock(&g->startup_done_mutex);
> > +             /* Start all threads running. */
> > +             pthread_mutex_lock(&g->start_work_mutex);
> > +             g->start_work = true;
> > +             pthread_mutex_unlock(&g->start_work_mutex);
> > +             pthread_cond_broadcast(&g->start_work_cond);
> >       } else {
> >               gettimeofday(&start, NULL);
> >       }
> > --
> > 2.28.0.1011.ga647a8990f-goog
> >
>

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