linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH v3 3/9] futex: Allow automatic allocation of process wide futex hash.

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Message-ID: <20241115172035.795842-4-bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 17:58:44 +0100
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: André Almeida <andrealmeid@...lia.com>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>,
	Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Subject: [RFC PATCH v3 3/9] futex: Allow automatic allocation of process wide futex hash.

Allocate a default futex hash if a task forks its first thread.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
---
 kernel/fork.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index a83cf4d87ae57..2929e236a3801 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -2109,6 +2109,17 @@ static void rv_task_fork(struct task_struct *p)
 #define rv_task_fork(p) do {} while (0)
 #endif
 
+static bool need_futex_hash_allocate_default(u64 clone_flags)
+{
+	if ((clone_flags & (CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_VM)) != (CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_VM))
+		return false;
+	if (!thread_group_empty(current))
+		return false;
+	if (current->mm->futex_hash_bucket)
+		return false;
+	return true;
+}
+
 /*
  * This creates a new process as a copy of the old one,
  * but does not actually start it yet.
@@ -2486,6 +2497,21 @@ __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
 	if (retval)
 		goto bad_fork_cancel_cgroup;
 
+	/*
+	 * Allocate a default futex hash for the user process once the first
+	 * thread spawns.
+	 */
+	if (need_futex_hash_allocate_default(clone_flags)) {
+		retval = futex_hash_allocate_default();
+		if (retval)
+			goto bad_fork_core_free;
+		/*
+		 * If we fail beyond this point we don't free the allocated
+		 * futex hash map. We assume that another thread will created
+		 * and makes use of it The hash map will be freed once the main
+		 * thread terminates.
+		 */
+	}
 	/*
 	 * From this point on we must avoid any synchronous user-space
 	 * communication until we take the tasklist-lock. In particular, we do
-- 
2.45.2