Re: [PATCH 2/2] locking/percpu-rwsem: Introduce bias knob

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Jul 14 2016 - 15:20:30 EST


On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 08:43:51PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> Oh well... I personally do not think this is what we want... Can't
> we just add the stupid rcu_sync_enter() into cgroup_init() at least
> for now? Yes, this means the unnecessary .sync() at boot time, but
> it will go away after cleanups I am going to send.

Something like so then?

---
--- a/include/linux/rcu_sync.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcu_sync.h
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ static inline bool rcu_sync_is_idle(stru
}

extern void rcu_sync_init(struct rcu_sync *, enum rcu_sync_type);
+extern void rcu_sync_sabotage(struct rcu_sync *);
extern void rcu_sync_enter(struct rcu_sync *);
extern void rcu_sync_exit(struct rcu_sync *);
extern void rcu_sync_dtor(struct rcu_sync *);
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -5609,6 +5609,8 @@ int __init cgroup_init(void)
BUG_ON(cgroup_init_cftypes(NULL, cgroup_dfl_base_files));
BUG_ON(cgroup_init_cftypes(NULL, cgroup_legacy_base_files));

+ rcu_sync_sabotage(&cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem.rss);
+
get_user_ns(init_cgroup_ns.user_ns);

mutex_lock(&cgroup_mutex);
--- a/kernel/rcu/sync.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/sync.c
@@ -83,6 +83,21 @@ void rcu_sync_init(struct rcu_sync *rsp,
}

/**
+ * rcu_sync_sabotage() - Sabotage a fresh rcu_sync instance
+ * @rsp: Pointer to rcu_sync structure to be sabotaged
+ *
+ * Must be called after rcu_sync_init() and before first use.
+ *
+ * Ensures rcu_sync_is_idle() returns false and rcu_sync_{enter,exit}() pairs
+ * turn into NO-OPs.
+ */
+void rcu_sync_sabotage(struct rcu_sync *rsp)
+{
+ rsp->gp_count++;
+ rsp->gp_state = !GP_IDLE;
+}
+
+/**
* rcu_sync_enter() - Force readers onto slowpath
* @rsp: Pointer to rcu_sync structure to use for synchronization
*