linux-kernel - [PATCHv4] psi: fix possible trigger missing in the window

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Date:   Tue, 25 Jan 2022 14:56:58 +0800
From:   Huangzhaoyang <huangzhaoyang@...il.com>
To:     Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@...soc.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCHv4] psi: fix possible trigger missing in the window

From: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@...soc.com>

When a new threshold breaching stall happens after a psi event was
generated and within the window duration, the new event is not
generated because the events are rate-limited to one per window. If
after that no new stall is recorded then the event will not be
generated even after rate-limiting duration has passed. This is
happening because with no new stall, window_update will not be called
even though threshold was previously breached. To fix this, record
threshold breaching occurrence and generate the event once window
duration is passed.

Suggested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@...soc.com>
---
v2: modify the logic according to Suren's suggestion
v3: update commit message
v4: update variable name and comments
---
---
 include/linux/psi_types.h |  3 +++
 kernel/sched/psi.c        | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 2 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/psi_types.h b/include/linux/psi_types.h
index 0a23300..e0ec129 100644
--- a/include/linux/psi_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/psi_types.h
@@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ struct psi_trigger {
 
 	/* Refcounting to prevent premature destruction */
 	struct kref refcount;
+
+	/* Deferred event(s) from previous ratelimit window */
+	bool pending_event;
 };
 
 struct psi_group {
diff --git a/kernel/sched/psi.c b/kernel/sched/psi.c
index 1652f2b..dd80bd2 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/psi.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/psi.c
@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ static void init_triggers(struct psi_group *group, u64 now)
 static u64 update_triggers(struct psi_group *group, u64 now)
 {
 	struct psi_trigger *t;
-	bool new_stall = false;
+	bool update_total = false;
 	u64 *total = group->total[PSI_POLL];
 
 	/*
@@ -524,24 +524,35 @@ static u64 update_triggers(struct psi_group *group, u64 now)
 	 */
 	list_for_each_entry(t, &group->triggers, node) {
 		u64 growth;
+		bool new_stall;
 
-		/* Check for stall activity */
-		if (group->polling_total[t->state] == total[t->state])
-			continue;
+		new_stall = group->polling_total[t->state] != total[t->state];
 
+		/* Check for stall activity or a previous threshold breach */
+		if (!new_stall && !t->pending_event)
+			continue;
 		/*
-		 * Multiple triggers might be looking at the same state,
-		 * remember to update group->polling_total[] once we've
-		 * been through all of them. Also remember to extend the
-		 * polling time if we see new stall activity.
+		 * Check for new stall activity, as well as deferred
+		 * events that occurred in the last window after the
+		 * trigger had already fired (we want to ratelimit
+		 * events without dropping any).
 		 */
-		new_stall = true;
-
-		/* Calculate growth since last update */
-		growth = window_update(&t->win, now, total[t->state]);
-		if (growth < t->threshold)
-			continue;
-
+		if (new_stall) {
+			/*
+			 * Multiple triggers might be looking at the same state,
+			 * remember to update group->polling_total[] once we've
+			 * been through all of them. Also remember to extend the
+			 * polling time if we see new stall activity.
+			 */
+			update_total = true;
+
+			/* Calculate growth since last update */
+			growth = window_update(&t->win, now, total[t->state]);
+			if (growth < t->threshold)
+				continue;
+
+			t->pending_event = true;
+		}
 		/* Limit event signaling to once per window */
 		if (now < t->last_event_time + t->win.size)
 			continue;
@@ -550,9 +561,11 @@ static u64 update_triggers(struct psi_group *group, u64 now)
 		if (cmpxchg(&t->event, 0, 1) == 0)
 			wake_up_interruptible(&t->event_wait);
 		t->last_event_time = now;
+		/* Reset threshold breach flag once event got generated */
+		t->pending_event = false;
 	}
 
-	if (new_stall)
+	if (update_total)
 		memcpy(group->polling_total, total,
 				sizeof(group->polling_total));
 
@@ -1152,6 +1165,7 @@ struct psi_trigger *psi_trigger_create(struct psi_group *group,
 	t->last_event_time = 0;
 	init_waitqueue_head(&t->event_wait);
 	kref_init(&t->refcount);
+	t->pending_event = false;
 
 	mutex_lock(&group->trigger_lock);
 
-- 
1.9.1