linux-kernel - [RFC v2 25/34] mm, slub: detach percpu partial list in unfreeze_partials() using this_cpu

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Message-Id: <20210609113903.1421-26-vbabka@suse.cz>
Date:   Wed,  9 Jun 2021 13:38:54 +0200
From:   Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Cc:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@...hsingularity.net>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Subject: [RFC v2 25/34] mm, slub: detach percpu partial list in unfreeze_partials() using this_cpu_cmpxchg()

Instead of relying on disabled irqs for atomicity when detaching the percpu
partial list, we can use this_cpu_cmpxchg() and detach without irqs disabled.
However, unfreeze_partials() can be also called from another cpu on behalf of
a cpu that is being offlined, so we need to restructure the code accordingly:

- __unfreeze_partials() is the bulk of unfreeze_partials() that processes the
  detached percpu partial list
- unfreeze_partials() uses this_cpu_cmpxchg() to detach list from current cpu
- unfreeze_partials_cpu() is to be called for the offlined cpu so it needs no
  protection, and is called from __flush_cpu_slab()
- flush_cpu_slab() is for the local cpu thus it needs to call
  unfreeze_partials(). So it can't simply call
  __flush_cpu_slab(smp_processor_id()) anymore and we have to open-code it

Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
---
 mm/slub.c | 77 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 3e0ec7211d55..0867801e3086 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -2287,25 +2287,15 @@ static void deactivate_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page,
 	}
 }
 
-/*
- * Unfreeze all the cpu partial slabs.
- *
- * This function must be called with preemption or migration
- * disabled with c local to the cpu.
- */
-static void unfreeze_partials(struct kmem_cache *s,
-		struct kmem_cache_cpu *c)
-{
 #ifdef CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL
+static void __unfreeze_partials(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *partial_page)
+{
 	struct kmem_cache_node *n = NULL, *n2 = NULL;
-	struct page *page, *partial_page, *discard_page = NULL;
+	struct page *page, *discard_page = NULL;
 	unsigned long flags;
 
 	local_irq_save(flags);
 
-	partial_page = slub_percpu_partial(c);
-	c->partial = NULL;
-
 	while (partial_page) {
 		struct page new;
 		struct page old;
@@ -2360,10 +2350,49 @@ static void unfreeze_partials(struct kmem_cache *s,
 		discard_slab(s, page);
 		stat(s, FREE_SLAB);
 	}
+}
 
-#endif	/* CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL */
+/*
+ * Unfreeze all the cpu partial slabs.
+ *
+ * This function must be called with preemption or migration
+ * disabled.
+ */
+static void unfreeze_partials(struct kmem_cache *s)
+{
+	struct page *partial_page;
+
+	do {
+		partial_page = this_cpu_read(s->cpu_slab->partial);
+
+	} while (partial_page &&
+		 this_cpu_cmpxchg(s->cpu_slab->partial, partial_page, NULL)
+				  != partial_page);
+
+	if (partial_page)
+		__unfreeze_partials(s, partial_page);
 }
 
+static void unfreeze_partials_cpu(struct kmem_cache *s,
+				  struct kmem_cache_cpu *c)
+{
+	struct page *partial_page;
+
+	partial_page = slub_percpu_partial(c);
+	c->partial = NULL;
+
+	if (partial_page)
+		__unfreeze_partials(s, partial_page);
+}
+
+#else	/* CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL */
+
+static void unfreeze_partials(struct kmem_cache *s) { }
+static void unfreeze_partials_cpu(struct kmem_cache *s,
+				  struct kmem_cache_cpu *c) { }
+
+#endif	/* CONFIG_SLUB_CPU_PARTIAL */
+
 /*
  * Put a page that was just frozen (in __slab_free|get_partial_node) into a
  * partial page slot if available.
@@ -2392,7 +2421,7 @@ static void put_cpu_partial(struct kmem_cache *s, struct page *page, int drain)
 				 * partial array is full. Move the existing
 				 * set to the per node partial list.
 				 */
-				unfreeze_partials(s, this_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab));
+				unfreeze_partials(s);
 				oldpage = NULL;
 				pobjects = 0;
 				pages = 0;
@@ -2427,11 +2456,6 @@ static inline void flush_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, struct kmem_cache_cpu *c)
 	stat(s, CPUSLAB_FLUSH);
 }
 
-/*
- * Flush cpu slab.
- *
- * Called from IPI handler with interrupts disabled.
- */
 static inline void __flush_cpu_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, int cpu)
 {
 	struct kmem_cache_cpu *c = per_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab, cpu);
@@ -2439,14 +2463,23 @@ static inline void __flush_cpu_slab(struct kmem_cache *s, int cpu)
 	if (c->page)
 		flush_slab(s, c);
 
-	unfreeze_partials(s, c);
+	unfreeze_partials_cpu(s, c);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Flush cpu slab.
+ *
+ * Called from IPI handler with interrupts disabled.
+ */
 static void flush_cpu_slab(void *d)
 {
 	struct kmem_cache *s = d;
+	struct kmem_cache_cpu *c = this_cpu_ptr(s->cpu_slab);
 
-	__flush_cpu_slab(s, smp_processor_id());
+	if (c->page)
+		flush_slab(s, c);
+
+	unfreeze_partials(s);
 }
 
 static bool has_cpu_slab(int cpu, void *info)
-- 
2.31.1