From 71c3ad65fabec9620d3f548b2da948c79c7ad9d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Qi Zheng Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 08:15:18 +0000 Subject: Revert "mm: vmscan: make global slab shrink lockless" This reverts commit f95bdb700bc6bb74e1199b1f5f90c613e152cfa7. Kernel test robot reports -88.8% regression in stress-ng.ramfs.ops_per_sec test case [1], which is caused by commit f95bdb700bc6 ("mm: vmscan: make global slab shrink lockless"). The root cause is that SRCU has to be careful to not frequently check for SRCU read-side critical section exits. Therefore, even if no one is currently in the SRCU read-side critical section, synchronize_srcu() cannot return quickly. That's why unregister_shrinker() has become slower. After discussion, we will try to use the refcount+RCU method [2] proposed by Dave Chinner to continue to re-implement the lockless slab shrink. So revert the shrinker_srcu related changes first. [1]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com/ [2]. https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZIJhou1d55d4H1s0@dread.disaster.area/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230609081518.3039120-8-qi.zheng@linux.dev Reported-by: kernel test robot Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202305230837.db2c233f-yujie.liu@intel.com Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Kirill Tkhai Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Vlastimil Babka Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/vmscan.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index a008d7f2d0fc..5bf98d0a22c9 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ #include #include #include -#include #include #include @@ -191,7 +190,6 @@ int vm_swappiness = 60; LIST_HEAD(shrinker_list); DECLARE_RWSEM(shrinker_rwsem); -DEFINE_SRCU(shrinker_srcu); #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG static int shrinker_nr_max; @@ -742,7 +740,7 @@ void free_prealloced_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker) void register_shrinker_prepared(struct shrinker *shrinker) { down_write(&shrinker_rwsem); - list_add_tail_rcu(&shrinker->list, &shrinker_list); + list_add_tail(&shrinker->list, &shrinker_list); shrinker->flags |= SHRINKER_REGISTERED; shrinker_debugfs_add(shrinker); up_write(&shrinker_rwsem); @@ -797,15 +795,13 @@ void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker) return; down_write(&shrinker_rwsem); - list_del_rcu(&shrinker->list); + list_del(&shrinker->list); shrinker->flags &= ~SHRINKER_REGISTERED; if (shrinker->flags & SHRINKER_MEMCG_AWARE) unregister_memcg_shrinker(shrinker); debugfs_entry = shrinker_debugfs_detach(shrinker, &debugfs_id); up_write(&shrinker_rwsem); - synchronize_srcu(&shrinker_srcu); - shrinker_debugfs_remove(debugfs_entry, debugfs_id); kfree(shrinker->nr_deferred); @@ -825,7 +821,6 @@ void synchronize_shrinkers(void) { down_write(&shrinker_rwsem); up_write(&shrinker_rwsem); - synchronize_srcu(&shrinker_srcu); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(synchronize_shrinkers); @@ -1036,7 +1031,6 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid, { unsigned long ret, freed = 0; struct shrinker *shrinker; - int srcu_idx; /* * The root memcg might be allocated even though memcg is disabled @@ -1048,10 +1042,10 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid, if (!mem_cgroup_disabled() && !mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg)) return shrink_slab_memcg(gfp_mask, nid, memcg, priority); - srcu_idx = srcu_read_lock(&shrinker_srcu); + if (!down_read_trylock(&shrinker_rwsem)) + goto out; - list_for_each_entry_srcu(shrinker, &shrinker_list, list, - srcu_read_lock_held(&shrinker_srcu)) { + list_for_each_entry(shrinker, &shrinker_list, list) { struct shrink_control sc = { .gfp_mask = gfp_mask, .nid = nid, @@ -1062,9 +1056,19 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid, if (ret == SHRINK_EMPTY) ret = 0; freed += ret; + /* + * Bail out if someone want to register a new shrinker to + * prevent the registration from being stalled for long periods + * by parallel ongoing shrinking. + */ + if (rwsem_is_contended(&shrinker_rwsem)) { + freed = freed ? : 1; + break; + } } - srcu_read_unlock(&shrinker_srcu, srcu_idx); + up_read(&shrinker_rwsem); +out: cond_resched(); return freed; } -- cgit v1.2.3