linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 0/3 v0.2] RFC: sched/UMCG

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Date:   Thu,  8 Jul 2021 12:46:35 -0700
From:   Peter Oskolkov <posk@...k.io>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>, Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>,
        Peter Oskolkov <posk@...gle.com>,
        Peter Oskolkov <posk@...k.io>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Andrei Vagin <avagin@...gle.com>,
        Jim Newsome <jnewsome@...project.org>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 0/3 v0.2] RFC: sched/UMCG

This is another attempt at implementing UMCG, based on
discussion in https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/cover/1433967/

Most of the "why" is covered here (some details are obsolete):
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/cover/1433967/#1632328

At a high level, UMCG servers/workers provide the foundation
for an M:N threading library, as described in the link above.

In addition, servers without workers can be used as "basic"
UMCG tasks if wait/wake/context-switch are the only desired
operations.

Joel Fernandes has also once mentioned that he had a use case
for a wake+bring-the-wakee-to-the-current-CPU operation,
so this is now also supported via UMCG_WF_CURRENT_CPU flag
(patch 3).

Patch 1: add WF_CURRENT_CPU and tweak ttwu - same as last time
Patch 2: add X86_64 helpers to work atomically with userspace values
Patch 3: implement UMCG kernel-side

In this version of the patchset I used only userspace/TLS
data, as suggested by Peter Zijlstra. With the exception
of one issue (see patch 3 commit message) everything seems
to be working great.

This TLS-only approach makes the userspace code a bit more
involved, so I'm not posting libumcg/selftests with this
patchset to focus on the kernel side only.


TODO:
  - put atomic helpers from patch 2 into their proper place (unless
    keeping them in kernel/sched/umcg.h is OK)
  - fix the wake server issue in preempt disable block (see patch 3)
  - implement timeout handling
  - imlement worker preemption
  - more testing
  - manpages, docs, and similar
  - attach libumbc and selftest patches


Peter Oskolkov (3):
  sched: add WF_CURRENT_CPU and externise ttwu
  sched/umcg: RFC: add userspace atomic helpers
  sched/umcg: RFC: implement UMCG syscalls

 arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl |   2 +
 include/linux/sched.h                  |   6 +
 include/linux/syscalls.h               |   4 +
 include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h      |   8 +-
 include/uapi/linux/umcg.h              | 246 +++++++++++++
 init/Kconfig                           |  10 +
 kernel/exit.c                          |   7 +
 kernel/sched/Makefile                  |   1 +
 kernel/sched/core.c                    |  20 +-
 kernel/sched/fair.c                    |   4 +
 kernel/sched/sched.h                   |  15 +-
 kernel/sched/umcg.c                    | 481 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/sched/umcg.h                    | 271 ++++++++++++++
 kernel/sys_ni.c                        |   4 +
 14 files changed, 1068 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/umcg.h
 create mode 100644 kernel/sched/umcg.c
 create mode 100644 kernel/sched/umcg.h

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