linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] workqueue: Improve scalability of workqueue watchdog touch

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2024 08:42:22 -0400
From: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
To: Hillf Danton <hdanton@...a.com>, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] workqueue: Improve scalability of workqueue watchdog
 touch

On 6/27/24 08:16, Hillf Danton wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 09:42:45PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>> On a ~2000 CPU powerpc system, hard lockups have been observed in the
>> workqueue code when stop_machine runs (in this case due to CPU hotplug).
>> This is due to lots of CPUs spinning in multi_cpu_stop, calling
>> touch_nmi_watchdog() which ends up calling wq_watchdog_touch().
>> wq_watchdog_touch() writes to the global variable wq_watchdog_touched,
>> and that can find itself in the same cacheline as other important
>> workqueue data, which slows down operations to the point of lockups.
>>
>> In the case of the following abridged trace, worker_pool_idr was in
>> the hot line, causing the lockups to always appear at idr_find.
>>
> Wonder if the MCS lock does not help in this case.

This patch just tries to avoid polluting the shared cacheline leading to 
excessive cacheline bouncing. No locking is involved. I am not sure what 
you are thinking about using MCS lock for.

Regards,
Longman

>>    watchdog: CPU 1125 self-detected hard LOCKUP @ idr_find
>>    Call Trace:
>>    get_work_pool
>>    __queue_work
>>    call_timer_fn
>>    run_timer_softirq
>>    __do_softirq
>>    do_softirq_own_stack
>>    irq_exit
>>    timer_interrupt
>>    decrementer_common_virt
>>    * interrupt: 900 (timer) at multi_cpu_stop
>>    multi_cpu_stop
>>    cpu_stopper_thread
>>    smpboot_thread_fn
>>    kthread
>>