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authorJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>2014-08-07 03:05:06 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-07 05:01:15 +0400
commit474750aba88817c53f39424e5567b8e4acc4b39b (patch)
tree2ca06f782366376c4e7399cc74b3dd394348eec2 /mm/vmalloc.c
parent2cfb3665e864755400dc57b6ceee2ebb6b382910 (diff)
downloadlinux-474750aba88817c53f39424e5567b8e4acc4b39b.tar.xz
vmalloc: use rcu list iterator to reduce vmap_area_lock contention
Richard Yao reported a month ago that his system have a trouble with vmap_area_lock contention during performance analysis by /proc/meminfo. Andrew asked why his analysis checks /proc/meminfo stressfully, but he didn't answer it. https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/10/416 Although I'm not sure that this is right usage or not, there is a solution reducing vmap_area_lock contention with no side-effect. That is just to use rcu list iterator in get_vmalloc_info(). rcu can be used in this function because all RCU protocol is already respected by writers, since Nick Piggin commit db64fe02258f1 ("mm: rewrite vmap layer") back in linux-2.6.28 Specifically : insertions use list_add_rcu(), deletions use list_del_rcu() and kfree_rcu(). Note the rb tree is not used from rcu reader (it would not be safe), only the vmap_area_list has full RCU protection. Note that __purge_vmap_area_lazy() already uses this rcu protection. rcu_read_lock(); list_for_each_entry_rcu(va, &vmap_area_list, list) { if (va->flags & VM_LAZY_FREE) { if (va->va_start < *start) *start = va->va_start; if (va->va_end > *end) *end = va->va_end; nr += (va->va_end - va->va_start) >> PAGE_SHIFT; list_add_tail(&va->purge_list, &valist); va->flags |= VM_LAZY_FREEING; va->flags &= ~VM_LAZY_FREE; } } rcu_read_unlock(); Peter: : While rcu list traversal over the vmap_area_list is safe, this may : arrive at different results than the spinlocked version. The rcu list : traversal version will not be a 'snapshot' of a single, valid instant : of the entire vmap_area_list, but rather a potential amalgam of : different list states. Joonsoo: : Yes, you are right, but I don't think that we should be strict here. : Meminfo is already not a 'snapshot' at specific time. While we try to get : certain stats, the other stats can change. And, although we may arrive at : different results than the spinlocked version, the difference would not be : large and would not make serious side-effect. [edumazet@google.com: add more commit description] Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Reported-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Cc: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei.yes@gmail.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmalloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmalloc.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index f64632b67196..fdbb116ee669 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2690,14 +2690,14 @@ void get_vmalloc_info(struct vmalloc_info *vmi)
prev_end = VMALLOC_START;
- spin_lock(&vmap_area_lock);
+ rcu_read_lock();
if (list_empty(&vmap_area_list)) {
vmi->largest_chunk = VMALLOC_TOTAL;
goto out;
}
- list_for_each_entry(va, &vmap_area_list, list) {
+ list_for_each_entry_rcu(va, &vmap_area_list, list) {
unsigned long addr = va->va_start;
/*
@@ -2724,7 +2724,7 @@ void get_vmalloc_info(struct vmalloc_info *vmi)
vmi->largest_chunk = VMALLOC_END - prev_end;
out:
- spin_unlock(&vmap_area_lock);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
}
#endif