time, signal: Protect resource use statistics with seqlock

Both times() and clock_gettime(CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID) have scalability
issues on large systems, due to both functions being serialized with a
lock.

The lock protects against reporting a wrong value, due to a thread in the
task group exiting, its statistics reporting up to the signal struct, and
that exited task's statistics being counted twice (or not at all).

Protecting that with a lock results in times() and clock_gettime() being
completely serialized on large systems.

This can be fixed by using a seqlock around the events that gather and
propagate statistics. As an additional benefit, the protection code can
be moved into thread_group_cputime(), slightly simplifying the calling
functions.

In the case of posix_cpu_clock_get_task() things can be simplified a
lot, because the calling function already ensures that the task sticks
around, and the rest is now taken care of in thread_group_cputime().

This way the statistics reporting code can run lockless.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alex Thorlton <athorlton@sgi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Guillaume Morin <guillaume@morinfr.org>
Cc: Ionut Alexa <ionut.m.alexa@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com
Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com
Cc: srao@redhat.com
Cc: lwoodman@redhat.com
Cc: atheurer@redhat.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140816134010.26a9b572@annuminas.surriel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/exit.c b/kernel/exit.c
index b93d46d..fa09b86 100644
--- a/kernel/exit.c
+++ b/kernel/exit.c
@@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
 	 * the signal_struct.
 	 */
 	task_cputime(tsk, &utime, &stime);
+	write_seqlock(&sig->stats_lock);
 	sig->utime += utime;
 	sig->stime += stime;
 	sig->gtime += task_gtime(tsk);
@@ -140,6 +141,7 @@ static void __exit_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
 	sig->sum_sched_runtime += tsk->se.sum_exec_runtime;
 	sig->nr_threads--;
 	__unhash_process(tsk, group_dead);
+	write_sequnlock(&sig->stats_lock);
 
 	/*
 	 * Do this under ->siglock, we can race with another thread
@@ -1042,6 +1044,7 @@ static int wait_task_zombie(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p)
 		spin_lock_irq(&p->real_parent->sighand->siglock);
 		psig = p->real_parent->signal;
 		sig = p->signal;
+		write_seqlock(&psig->stats_lock);
 		psig->cutime += tgutime + sig->cutime;
 		psig->cstime += tgstime + sig->cstime;
 		psig->cgtime += task_gtime(p) + sig->gtime + sig->cgtime;
@@ -1064,6 +1067,7 @@ static int wait_task_zombie(struct wait_opts *wo, struct task_struct *p)
 			psig->cmaxrss = maxrss;
 		task_io_accounting_add(&psig->ioac, &p->ioac);
 		task_io_accounting_add(&psig->ioac, &sig->ioac);
+		write_sequnlock(&psig->stats_lock);
 		spin_unlock_irq(&p->real_parent->sighand->siglock);
 	}